Apple Honors Jimmy Carter With Homepage Tribute

[MacRumors]

Apple today updated its homepage to honor former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who passed away yesterday at the age of 100.

The longest-lived president in U.S. history, Carter served in the position from 1977 to 1981 and was known for redefining the post-presidency with his focus on human rights and diplomacy through the Carter Center, for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Carter was also a prominent advocate for and participant in the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook also honored Carter in a tweet on Sunday.

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[firstcitazen]

RIP

 

[citysnaps]

One of the very best US Presidents. And a very selfless and kind man who has helped many people less fortunate.

 

[csnwbd2251]

Raise your glass to Jimmy for helping to legalize home-brewing !

Jimmy Carter: American homebrew hero?

As crazy as it may seem now, homebrewing used to be illegal and Jimmy Carter actually played a part in changing that, contributing to the craft beer revolution. But that’s just one unexpected facet in the story of how our current beer industry came to be.

americanhistory.si.edu

 

[WarmWinterHat]

He's history's greatest monster!

Just kidding! RIP Jimmy Carter...heralding back to a day when politicians were more polite and spoke with respect instead making fun, insults and punching down. He was an amazing person!

 

[spartan1967]

Quite the reception in heaven that must have been!

 

[CapitalIdea]

When The Carter Center began leading the international campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease in 1986, there were an estimated 3.5 million cases in at least 21 countries in Africa and Asia. Today, that number has been reduced by more than 99.99%. In 2024 so far there have been 7 cases.

The people we have in charge today are so much weaker than Carter was, yet some of them still have the audacity to say bad things about him.

 

[turbineseaplane]

A great man
RIP

 

[bigheaddoug]

He was the first president that I remember from my childhood. He always struck me as a kind and decent person, a true servant leader. The world is poorer without him in it.

 

[Naraxus]

A completely horrible President

 

[hieranonymous]

One of the few genuinely decent human beings ever to hold that office.

 

[Bustycat]

People in Taiwan can't forget.

 

[Attirex]

If he had championed a modular Mac tower with six Firewire 800 ports and the ability to run Linux, he would have been a better president.

 

[jz0309]

Great humanitarian!
RIP

 

[2761216]

@Kylo83 What’s your problem?

 

[DocMultimedia]

A completely horrible President

Explain your reasoning.

 

[Kylo83]

Explain your reasoning.

This isn’t a political post so we can’t say what we would like because of the MR rules

 

[Naraxus]

Explain your reasoning.

I'd be more than happy to were this in the Political section but as it's not I'm not risking a message from @Weaselboy

 

[WarmWinterHat]

A completely horrible President

No, he wasn't a great politician, but was a better person that every president after him, combined.

I'll personally take a better, honest and more polite person over anything else.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'm sure we can all quibble about the Presidential actions of every single President

I have no idea how anyone could think he wasn't a great man, husband, father and just "person"

He probably did more humanitarian work than all other Presidents combined

US President is a job that is messy
I personally find it necessary to compartmentalize feelings about the person vs their presidency

 

[Mousse]

One of the very best US Presidents.

Revisionist historian are we? Jimmy was a great man and humanitarian, but he was out of his element as President. You can read your history books to see all the missteps he took as President. A lot of us greybeards lived through it.
The man was a square peg in a round hole.

And a very selfless and kind man who has helped many people less fortunate.

Very true. One of the greatest human to ever lived.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

No, he wasn't a great politician, but was a better person that every president after him, combined.

I'll personally take a better, honest and more polite person over anything else.

This sums it up nicely..

 

[I7guy]

RIP Jimmy Carter.

 

[gugy]

No, he wasn't a great politician, but was a better person that every president after him, combined.

I'll personally take a better, honest and more polite person over anything else.

I would agree. His term wasn't great at all however instead of ca$hing in after as most presidents do, he took a different approach and gave his time, effort and money to noble causes. Maybe it was a way to atone for the blunders of his administration. Either way, he deserves the praise for that. Better late than never. RIP.

 

[Naraxus]

Post-Presidency, yes he did do some wonderful things, H4H being perhaps chief among them, and I give him full credit for that.

During his administration, he was absolutely horrible