It also somewhat destroys the image apple has worked so hard to create. We'll see on the long run if Cook was right.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Featured in Latest South Park Episode
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Actually this is generally an educated forum. Hence opposed to Trump.
There is no difference between Apple, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft etc., when it comes to cozying up to an American autocratic dictator. Remember that the next time the media mentions Huawei, DJI, BYD and CATL being Beijing stooges. If they also heap praises and give tRUMP a tacky trinket, there will be no ban or tariffs.
He’s a convicted felon. To deny it is a such a mockery of the facts.
Unfortunately yes, sicko Trump did win the popular vote by getting the most votes of any single candidate, even though he got less votes than the combined total of other candidates.
‘I’m sorry Mr. President, it seems our schedules conflict. I’ll have my people call your people.’
Biden and Kamala were relatively unremarkable. Felon Trump however is dramatically disabling much of our government in all kinds of ways, setting the USA back decades. And Trump Corp's ongoing corruption boggles the mind. So yes, "Orange man bad" and South Park should skewer him repeatedly.
So Cook gave Trump a huge bar of gold with a chunk of plastic on top. It looks to me like Apple wanted to show the bribe in plain sight.
I never was a fan of Tim Cook. Always found him dull and uninspired. A guy for the shareholders first and customers a distant second. Now it turns out he's spineless too.
The day he steps down will be a day too late.
It would be hilarious to have a cameo with drooling Biden not having a clue what he did for the last 4 years. Hit every side, I say!
As is the case with every election. If you don't vote don't complain, you get no voice.
Dude....If you actually look at the charges against Trump they are completely ridiculous and they were never, EVER, a felony at any time before. They were upgraded to a felony only because it was Trump. It was purely to try and keep him from running again and it backfired spectacularly. If you walk around and ask people if Trump is a felon they will say "YES!" If you ask him what his crime was, 99% of the people would just look at you because they don't know and just parrot the "Felon" line that they've been fed.
I honestly thought Steve Jobs' handpicked guy might be a little more like him, but alas.
Your math gymnastics are wild. Trump won the most votes. That's all that needs to be said. They mental gymnastics that liberals do to try and somehow lessen the fact that he won more votes than Harris is truly laughable.
Our country should not be a business. It feels so sad to me to see reactions like this.
Siiiigh. Name one positive thing, that has affected people's (who aren't rich) lives, that he has done. One thing.
Neither of those people caused even a quarter of the harm your guy is.
Not sure if it’s just me, but the Trump administration, for all its flaws, appears willing to go after governments and entities who pose threats to US big tech. The numerous lawsuits that Apple were facing previously seem to be slowly turning around.
First, the EU has agreed to accept Apple’s latest revision of the DMA, even though it doesn’t really seem that different from previous incarnations.
Now, we have the UK backing off on wanting Apple to install a back door in their OS. IIRC, the previous president elected not to do anything about it at all.
The next one to look out for is the recent injunction by that Judge Yvonne which forced Apple to allow third party payments in the US App Store.
At the end of the day, Tim Cook has a job to do. He’s not here to fight any of your political or ideological battles for you. And if that just means more heckles and ridicule from people here, then so be it.
Yes Trump got more votes than Harris and Trump now is POTUS. But there were multiple candidates and less than half the voters wanted Trump to win. Simple math., not mental gymnastics that liberals do.
Folks like me [not a Dem] who consider having lifetime-corrupt DJT as POTUS truly horrible do try to do mental gymnastics to somehow make sense of the fact that our fellow citizens elected such a truly bad man. When everyone knew how bad ("I just grab 'em by the p*ssy") Trump was even before he was elected the first time.
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I'm not a liberal, thanks, though. What I am, though, is someone who doesn't think that business should be messing with, or influencing, the affairs of the government nor should they be donating to politicians or parties. They don't vote, and they aren't citizens.
It's not mental gymnastics, and I didn't even like Harris. The fact is he didn't even win half the votes, simple. Yes he won, that how the system works.
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