Lol Tim Apple. You terrible human. May you never have a peaceful day in your life
Not that this makes it any better, but a lot of other tech companies are also doing this, and it shouldn’t go unnoticed
not samsung :)
Bending the knee in the hope that he escapes the purges. Pathetic.
The Tim Apple doesn’t fall far from the golden goose.
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I love that this community calls out Apple’s BS.
I mean, all the Apple communities are shitting on this. Go look at the comment threads on the article and other Mac enthusiast blogs.
Well, not the ultimate Apple circlejerk, r/apple.
That’s more a reflection of the mods. The mods are locking and or deleting Apple - Trump posts. Try posting and see for yourself.
Oh yes I’ve seen it millions of times over the last 15 years.
Yeah, the mods of that sub are pretty bad. They remove everything, even mundane stuff that all other Apple communities report on. They often remove posts that are not in violation of the established community rules.
It rubs off on the users too. Anything not absolutely fellating Tim Apple is downvoted to oblivion.
I generally find that community basically downvotes almost everything. They’d downvote a picture of their own mom because they already know what she looks like. Getting any story out of /new is hard in that place. There are a lot of angry people there.
One thing that I do like about Lemmy is even the Apple community is somewhat critical. While this particular case seems to be more of an exception, you’ll get massively downvotes if you critique the standard PR narrative that “Apple cares about digital privacy” or point out how Apple removed content critical of China and AI tech from their streaming service.
The reddit apple sub claims it isn’t affiliated with apple corp. cough
Most apple forems are full of “line must go up” APPL share holders, and will down vote/dislike anything negative aimed at apple.
It’s a personal donation from Tim Cook
Tim Cook is Apple’s CEO and is very transparently doing this with the goal of favorable treatment toward Apple by the Trump administration. You’d have to be deluded to think this “personal donation” isn’t a bribe on behalf of Apple.
This legal bribery is disgusting
You’re mistaking paying “protection fees” for bribery.
Trump is 100% gonna shake down and threaten those who don’t pay him off. Legalized extortion that dumbass Americans elected.
No. It’s a tip. Thanks to the supreme court, it’s not illegal if it’s a tip!
You can’t give someone a million dollars to bulldoze that orphanage. That’s a bribe.
But it’s totally legal to give them a million dollars after bulldozing the orphanage, as a tip!
This is also why I am gradually untying myself from the Apple ecosystem, and all of propriety/big tech; especially US based.
When push comes to shove capitalism will not resist fascism. They will ignore all stated virtue signals and choose profits.
Tim Cooks pro-trans statements are falling pretty flat now.
Those were always a virtue signal. Every C suite, board member, and senior executive of every multinational are anointed by the plutocracy. Probably for every billion dollar company. They know how to play ball and the only allegiance they hold is to the almighty dollar. It’s a big club, and we ain’t in it.
Pathetic
His name is actuality Tim Apple, l common mistake.
iCommonMistake is actually an Erik Tesla product, simple error
reasons why i have samsung
That’s not relevant.
How’s it not? It’s apples direct competitor. Possibly naive, but certainly relevant.
Complaining about cell phones when the CEO is paying the next president of the US a million dollars is nowhere near the same ballpark.
Did anyone suggest it was?
And for that matter, did anyone complain about a cell phone?
Honestly, if you don’t understand what’s going on why are you in the discussion?
Yeah I’m sure you’d rather just sound vague and haughty for a few more turns here, but I’m going to ask you to explain what you think that means. Because to most people I think they read that and see in no way a complaint about cell phones, nor do they see cell phones being directly compared to a million dollar donation. I think what normal people would see there is someone saying I don’t like what a company’s doing so I’m going to do business with their competitor. Which is again entirely relevant to the topic.
But please spell it out for me as plainly as you can how you are interpreting that line. Cuz it’s a mystery to me. One I’m sure you’re capable of explaining satisfactorily.
Are you daft? Me and multiple other people have already criticized compairing cellphones to bribing a president of the united states of America. Literally everyone in this post except for the two of you understand what’s going on.
If you can’t figure that out, I’m sorry. I can not help you. Im not an ELI5 machine. You should be able to understand context.
I have a feeling you’re white knighting and that’s even dumber. Have a good night.
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Samsung isn’t an innocent company either, and I love their phones.
Yeah, IIRC Samsung are doing the same thing but in Korea
What a fucking coward. Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but he would likely never had done this. So much for think different.
Lost all respect for Tim.
In bed with the fascist in chief
So gross. It shouldn’t be a surprise anymore, but it’s still depressing.
What’s with the 1m value and why are all tech companies doing it?
Protection racket, just a nice round number to show fealty.
But why not 2 mil for twice the love from trump?
Maybe they’re colluding so that none of the donors pushes the donation amount higher.
There is no protection from fascism. It’s bribery, and the dumbest part is MAGAzis will still throw them all under the bus depending which way the wind blows on any given day.
Yeah, it’s “protection” like the mafia. “It’d be a real shame if something jammed up your company, we should all just cooperate. You can start with $1M big ones into the account. We’ll be best friends.”
if something jammed up your company
Notice how this only started being a possibility (woth everyone complying in advance) once they took over all 3 branches of power. Nobody was complying in advance^iirc during the 1st Trump presidency
Likely tacit acknowledgment that the US is becoming more authoritarian/run by a mob boss. For example, if you don’t pay the local mafia, you can expect them to show up and do bad things to you. However if you pay a bribe and kiss the ring, you may receive protection instead
So Tim Cook is a trump supporter then
What’s not to like? Tax cuts and h1bs. Billionaires wet dream
Regime whores will always work with other regime whores to eanr profit at expense of pedon class.
Kissing the ketchup covered fingers of his lord.
That brown on his lips isn’t ketchup.
