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Apple CEO Tim Cook Attends White House Dinner With Saudi Crown Prince
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So Cook went to that dinner for business purpose. You can always find excuses. Ethics comes after business, Cook isn’t better than any other.
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It’s not so much support for their actions (he doesn’t care) as it is support for his family making business deals with them. That’s all he cares about. Hard to believe we’re seeing this level of open blatant corruption but here we are.
Not to mention that there are reports linking Saudi Arabia to the genocide in Sudan.
It must be weird for Cook going from Trump 1 to Biden to Trump 2. As a CEO of an American multinational multibillion company you cannot escape the graft and corruption, if you stand up you hurt your company financially and aren’t doing your job, but asa person that HAS to be filled with weird moments, cringe moments and bizarre insights. And while I think that Musk,by his very upbringing, can embrace the fascist aspects of all this, Cook comes from a more liberal background,the Apple/Benetton idea of a company actively making the world more creative and better. Even through the deals with China you probably can uphold a shred of that, telling yourself that a tight cooperation might bring democratic values as trickle down to the People’s Republic.
But at the current neon bright hunger games caricature of autocracy… I would love to hear what tales Cook tells his closest friends of the things he sees and hears. And I wonder how he feels about it.
It must be weird for Cook going from Trump 1 to Biden to Trump 2. As a CEO of an American multinational multibillion company you cannot escape the graft and corruption, if you stand up you hurt your company financially and aren’t doing your job, but asa person that HAS to be filled with weird moments, cringe moments and bizarre insights. And while I think that Musk,by his very upbringing, can embrace the fascist aspects of all this, Cook comes from a more liberal background,the Apple/Benetton idea of a company actively making the world more creative and better. Even through the deals with China you probably can uphold a shred of that, telling yourself that a tight cooperation might bring democratic values as trickle down to the People’s Republic.
But at the current neon bright hunger games caricature of autocracy… I would love to hear what tales Cook tells his closest friends of the things he sees and hears. And I wonder how he feels about it.
What's best for his company seems to have suddenly changed to suit the moment. For years Apple's been standing on its eco image, its privacy image, its accessibility and its diversity image. And now their image is "let's just make money and not care who gets cut up into chunks, or abducted off the street"? If they want us to judge them on their morals we will. The backlash here is completely justified and Cook as CEO absolutely should be held to account for how he chooses to balance Apple's priorities.
There is not a single ounce of class in Musk is there?
So many disgusting people in your photos.
There is not a single ounce of class in Musk is there?
never has been dot gif
They need him to stay until Trump is gone. Otherwise, his successor will wind up having to go to the White House and bend the knee in order to keep Apple from suffering Trump's petulant wrath. That would taint the next guy from the start.
Did he gift MBS a gold Apple Edition iBoneSaw?
I guess he'd visit an Epstein girls party if it added anything to shareholder value... feeling that's what "free market late stage capitalism" has become (not to mention a multi-trillion dollar Ponzi scheme grift)... and remember morals have nothing to do with profits.
I guess he'd visit an Epstein girls party if it added anything to shareholder value... feeling that's what "free market late stage capitalism" has become (not to mention a multi-trillion dollar Ponzi scheme grift)... and remember morals have nothing to do with profits.
What exactly is it you like about murdering journalists who criticise you?
A few thoughts……I don’t give a damn about share prices. And Apple is a rock in that regard so a few points here or there only affects those who day play the market. I do give a big damn about a moral compass and standing up for what you preach. Tim has neither attribute. This is a poker game that all the tech creeps folded in before the first draw. Pathetic. Yes I would love to have an alternative to Apple products….even this issue. But there isn’t one right now. However that does not relieve my utter disappointment at him sucking up to Trump at every opportunity.
Two (or more) things can be wrong at once. If it is comprehensible to you, of course.
And they still are.
the above hyperbole is not remotely true.
I don’t know who “us” is, but I’m not judging anybody. But others are.
Sure. Most people don’t care about the “backlash. “ Apple doesn’t care about MR backlash nor does Tim Cook. If people want to stop buying Apple products because of this, they should. Put their money where their mouths are.
Genuinely surprised that rainbow behind Tim Apple isn't gold with orange grease stains yet.