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Apple Executives Won't Be Appearing at This Year's WWDC Episode of The Talk Show Live
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They are all an embarrassment so I am not sure what they would have talked about anyway as they would have just danced around any tricky questions.
How most of them are still in jobs is the biggest mystery. Should all be chucked out the company for incompetence & negligence.
This is a bad look. The moment he becomes critical of Apple they drop him.
This is a win for Gruber, he can finally prove he is not a sycophant.
This is a win for Gruber, he can finally prove he is not a sycophant.
Plenty of media outlets that have been critical of Apple will attend WWDC. Hell, even Nilay Patel and Joanna Stern might get to talk to top Apple executives, and both have been pretty honest in how Apple has bungled its AI rollout. They get the interview because neither foolishly tweeted that the CEO of the company had Trump’s balls in his mouth like Gruber did. There’s a way journalists criticize and hold people accountable, and Gruber lost the high ground to do so to the faces of the company execs when he sent that out.
Well because he subsequently wrote the Rotten in Cupertino article, now Apple is too cowardly to join Gruber on the talk show.
Stopped reading Gruber years ago when he veered way off course from Apple commentary, and into the wasteland of hyper-liberal political diatribe, injecting it every chance he got.
Read the room buddy. We don't care about your barely veiled yearnings for political (and physical) violence.
Apple has every right to distance themselves from someone with so much vitriol towards the current administration. Gruber's nerd show is a spec of dust compared to whats on the line.
Read the room buddy. We don't care about your barely veiled yearnings for political (and physical) violence.
Apple has every right to distance themselves from someone with so much vitriol towards the current administration. Gruber's nerd show is a spec of dust compared to whats on the line.
Yes sir, I understand the no-show. It would’ve been like watching the Battle of Little Bighorn play out. 🐴—🏹
This will probably be the case until Apple loses a class action over Apple Intelligence marketing hype to market failure.
Too bad the company can’t come clean, issue a mea culpa, pay a settlement, and fix the rottenness.
Instead it is punishing Gruber for its own (at best) hubristic incompetence.
Rottenness continues.
Too bad the company can’t come clean, issue a mea culpa, pay a settlement, and fix the rottenness.
Instead it is punishing Gruber for its own (at best) hubristic incompetence.
Rottenness continues.
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One of the best ways to do that, and show cultural change is coming back on track, is to meet with high profile critics.
the company is repairing self inflicted reputational damage.
One of the best ways to do that, and show cultural change is coming back on track, is to meet with high profile critics.
I gave Gruber a lot of credit for putting that piece out. I’m sure he knew full well something like this would probably happen. It’s rare we get real journalistic integrity these days.
Absolutely.
...and not wanting to pinned down with tough questions about Apple AI.
But Cook has no idea what to do now. And his current lackeys don't have a clue because they don't know when, in the next 30 seconds, Cook will change the strategy or pull the money.
Besides Jobs was a master tech leader and, while not perfect, he could read the writing on the wall when needed. Cook is still looking for Jobs magic wall.
Maybe if he left his office and actually attended an in person WWDC event with actual developers he would at least get some clues.
All relationships run their course and being in such a cushy position makes one lazy. That all being said, Apple Intelligence is a synonym for stupidity, unfinished, incompetence, amongst other inspiring descriptors.
Downright embarrassing for Apple. A great leader gets out in front of criticism and faces it head on, not hide.
From the ones I've seen it was a bit of an old-man gathering and not terribly interesting anyway
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Let’s not act like John hasn’t been carrying their water for over a decade.
Oh Apple is certainly petty enough to do that.
But if I had to guess, because Gruber is pretty much free PR, for the most part, my guess is that they're trying to protect the executives from making statements that can be used against Apple once the Apple AI stuff gets litigated.