Pikachu Visits Apple Park, Meets Tim Cook and John Ternus

[Squidiey]

Perhaps Ternus wants to put Apple on a different path. Tim lives in a different universe than most. Hospital decor is probably more exciting than Tim's mansion.

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Your flicking AI slop bores me.

 

[gleepskip]

Your flicking AI slop bores me.

Mission accomplished

 

[PandaPunch]

Sometimes it's the smallest things that trigger people and remind them of their current state. It could be a Pikachu costume, it could be a bowl of French fries, it could be a T-Shirt at Target.

That may be true, but I don't think that really applies here.

And where it does apply, it only applies to people who seem to think every questionable decision that is made by companies or studios is done to mildly annoy them or make fun of them or anything else like that.

Otherwise, imo, that sounds like someone possibly heading to a crisis. And that's not the same thing as simply taking something light-hearted so seriously.

 

[JohnWick1954]

So when is Apple buying Nintendo?

Never

 

[ricketysquire]

Never

I guess my fanfiction of Valve buying the rights to Halo will never occur then.

 

[Naraxus]

A CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world, that employs people in questionable (probably) work conditions, tweeting about how Pikachu came to visit. Feels like a 12yr old coming home from school, all excited.

My God, Apple can be soooooo cringeworthy.

Who pissed in your coffee?

 

[Ted_Appleseed]

Pikachu, use THUNDERBOLT 5 on my Mac

 

[boswald]

A new game coming to Apple Arcade? A new watch band and/or face? What could it be?

 

[jonaspottie]

Subtle announcement the new foldable iPhone will feature a Pokédex app?

 

[OGdrknight]

Pikachu walking the green mile! Pika Pika No!

 

[timshundo]

Subtle announcement the new foldable iPhone will feature a Pokédex app?

That's actually a good guess. People are making Pokédex themes for their Foldable 8. Imagine if it were a real app.

 

[Brother Cavil]

I wanted to mostly make light-hearted comments on this story but...

While all of that is true, I don't think it justifies the overly irritated and rant-filled comments over what is a fairly harmless event. And I don't think complaining on an online forum about said event is all that productive in actually solving these issues.

Can you really say that someone is solving any of these problems getting angry over someone else in a Pikachu costume?

As far as someone not liking Pokemon, they've had about 30 years to make peace with the series's existence, that's kinda sad if they're that upset over a Pikachu that they take this seriously.

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying. Even if the moderators put me in jail again. The Cook hate boils down to homophobia. It’s pretty obvious. Cook is arguably the most successful CEO in corporate history yet certain people attack him every chance they get. Apple, under Cook’s leadership, has produced record sales quarter after quarter for years. The public obviously love their Apple products yet certain people refuse to give Cook any credit for anything. Homophobia.

 

[PandaPunch]

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying. Even if the moderators put me in jail again. The Cook hate boils down to homophobia. It’s pretty obvious. Cook is arguably the most successful CEO in corporate history yet certain people attack him every chance they get. Apple, under Cook’s leadership, has produced record sales quarter after quarter for years. The public obviously love their Apple products yet certain people refuse to give Cook any credit for anything. Homophobia.

I believe that too, honestly. It's a mix of that and the Internet is often where productive discussion goes to die.

Sometimes I'll just avoid certain threads because they're not really talks but a room of people ruminating very loudly over really petty things. Can't really talk about anything with someone who is blaming any problem on the CEO as if they're the dictator on everything in the company.

 

[Brother Cavil]

I believe that too, honestly. It's a mix of that and the Internet is often where productive discussion goes to die.

Sometimes I'll just avoid certain threads because they're not really talks but a room of people ruminating very loudly over really petty things. Can't really talk about anything with someone who is blaming any problem on the CEO as if they're the dictator on everything in the company.

Yeah, it’s ridiculous. So many personal attacks on Cook. And when you challenge the haters to give specific examples of all the terrible things he’s done for Apple, they NEVER reply. Cowardly and homophobic.