Or perhaps the man who admitted to sexual assault is a bit of a shady character who does shady things.
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Or perhaps the man who admitted to sexual assault is a bit of a shady character who does shady things.
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
Fail to deal with Donald Trump and get tariffs slapped on Apple products (and maybe face other retaliatory measures) - people mock Apple for not knowing how to navigate the political landscape, and cackle with glee at the though of Apple's profits being impacted. And then you will complain when iPhones get more expensive, and argue that Tim Cook is not doing enough in this regard.
Remember how many of you laughed when Tim refused to travel to Saudi Arabia, and subsequently received tariffs on the iPhone (which now appear to have been reversed). He's clear on what his KPI is for the next 3.5 years. Ever since Tim Cook donated $1 million to Trump, it was "in for a penny, in for a pound". He doesn't work for the approval of random Internet forum users, and anyone here who thinks he would act differently would likely not even be elected to the board either way.
As I said, Apple does not exist to fight your political and ideological battles for you. The news cycle in the last couple of years has been dominated with Apple seemingly being besieged by one lawsuit after another. I remember when the Biden administration pretty much left Apple to fight back against the DMA on its own, and was even thinking of adapting parts of the DMA to apply to Apple on local soil. After all this talk of wanting to regulate big tech more, I don't blame said companies for getting closer to Donald Trump.
My key takeaway here is that this type of "standing up for its own attitude" from Washington is a phenomenon that has largely been missing in recent years. It’s a development that I will continue to look out and pay more attention to, given the Trump administration's seemingly haphazard, zigzag approach to geopolitical issues such as tariffs and regulation (for example, Singapore got slapped with 10% tariffs despite having a trade surplus with the US). And if there are any benefits to be had by Apple here, I see no reason for them not to take advantage of them.
Let's see how these legal cases against Apple pan out over the next couple of years. Next one - the US anti-steering injunction (I believe a decision is expected later this year?).
Well yes of course he can make a moral stand, but in a public company as large as Apple the shareholders can just replace him with someone who will do the same thing. The financial impact to Apple from the tariffs would be huge.
That feels overly optimistic. Do you really think the shareholders of all those publicly traded companies will just let the CEOs make a moral stand in return for a huge cut in dividends?
You know what other impact will be huge? Every big company tech or otherwise and media conglomerate bending the knee to a nascent fascist autocracy.
Sadly, 47 could be easily defeated if most of the tech companies stood up to him.
Fair comment and observation.
While this does seem very cringeworthy and another example of people bowing to tr*mp, I’ve seen several people point out that this is an epic troll of tr*mp by Cook - effectively that “gift” is a cheap piece of junk - just a shiny object tr*mp thinks is another trophy he can add to his collection while Apple gets let off a bunch of tariffs.
If you think of it that way, its kind of an epic move.
Case in point why the Democratic Party is bleeding voters.
Tim Cook and all these other leaders from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel are placing bribes to a want to be king. To remain in good favor.
What a disgrace of our government, business leaders, and so many others. Our country is a total mockery.
What a disgrace of our government, business leaders, and so many others. Our country is a total mockery.
You can call it whatever he wants, but that was some kangaroo court. It’s such a mockery of the law and that everyone that practices it. The people that dared to that should be ashamed and be disbarred. Not a single lawyer, judge or any kind of person that takes the law seriously would agree with what happened there. It was just politics.
Except I’m not a criminal, I’m a lawyer that takes law seriously because it’s my craft. I can’t believe what those guys did just for playing politics. They should all be ashamed and disbarred.
Are we discussing trumps trial or the deportation of people without due process?
I understood that lawyers were the unique people in society, who reason on what side of an argument a plaintiff fell on, and whether it was legal. Seems the politics has an influencing factor.
Lawyers act for either side and argue one way or the other.
I’m not sure what that has to do with anything.
In a functioning society judges decide what is an isn’t legal with regards to written law and precedent, that’s not really what’s happening in the US and politics is clearly playing a huge role.
“A President is immune from prosecution for official acts” is a far greater mockery.
No, I'd buy an Android. Only it's hard to see how they'd escape also being $2000 (seeing as they're essentially made in the same factories).
I doubt the American public would stand for mobile phones doubling or tripling in price, so in practice it's not something any president could realistically allow to happen, whatever their bluster.
Funny how Apple is so progressive and woke with homosexual CEO, how they protested during BLM by turning off services people paid for.
And then the CEO is donating money to Trump, couldn’t make this up lmao.
And then the CEO is donating money to Trump, couldn’t make this up lmao.
The thing is what exactly is he supposed to do? He has a duty to the shareholders and that isn’t dependant on his sex life.
Trump and MAGA are busy shouting about all the wins they’re having but it’s all shortsighted, countries bending the knee are just trying to keep the wheels from falling off until they work out what comes next.
You can’t negotiate with a toddler armed with flick knife and that’s the situation everyone finds themselves in.
Not show up with a gold and glass statue.
Not be recorded saying "thank you" over and over again to the mad wannabe king at a dinner he shouldn't have been at.
Again he has a duty to the shareholders and that’s what’s expected. I’m not saying this is a good situation just that it is the situation. I don’t believe Cook enjoyed any sort of it, just as there’s a lot of my job I don’t enjoy.