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My company develops for Apple's ecosystem, and a lot of my colleagues get excited for new product announcements and watch them live. I tease them about it. It's always "the fastest/best" iteration of a product introduced a decade or more ago. Their products are still very good, but not innovative.

unsurprisingly curious how Tim Cook's ENTHUSIASTIC coddling of global authoritarians was either downplayed or missing from this last week's tech press goodbye party

HURRAY. God, that WaPo editorial was stupid (now a tautology).

Looks like everything is now enshittified. Apple Maps does indeed show 'Lake America.' It's not even legal, much less right.

100%

Thank you, Karl. Tim Cook is not a good person.

Thank you.

I have been in such frustrated despair over Apple's enshittification that I was actually _hopeful_ that Trump's bonkers tariffs would hurt its hardware production. And that this would force the company to focus on software and customer service improvements. Because the software situation is _bad_.

I saw a write up titled about how he made Apple into a great company but didn't bother reading pointless propaganda. He's been riding Steve's coattails and I say that as a person who didn't like Jobs at all.

Oh, that makes the bootlicking ok then. Good save.

The very bright path is them not being able to roll out an AI of their own, and going all fox with the grapes. Just like when "privacy" meant that the features of their maps were light years behind Google's, so you might as well rebrand it as a feature. And FWIW even microsoft transitioned to arm.

I'll always remember him as the one that presented dumpy with his golden pedo prize.

Thank you for this.

Cook is very much, the toady. An example showing...that coming from modest means, having an ever-present 'minority' label affixed to him...did not guide his decision making for the betterment of democracy or humanity.

Not pulling any punches. A+ 🙌

I wonder if we just can’t call him Tim Apple. Trump should do that. You know, for MAGA and all that.

That “rainbow” is fucked up

Tim Cook is Silver to Jobs’ Stern

You would think this example, a company created around new technology and enthusiasm with the product or services they would provide to humanity while legitmately rewarding themselves only to appoint the usual CEO parasite to "take the company into the next stage" (profit for CEO) was clear by now.

You mean that the company with the most authoritarian OS on the planet likes to lick boots? How could it happen!

HE is dull and spineless. Ipso facto!

I think Jobs would've just not cared. He made it pretty clear that his ideology was him and apple above all else and others. He likely wouldn't have kowtowed to trump, but he probably wouldn't have tried to stop trumpisim either unless it hurt apple directly.

Nuance and all that! 😂 As someone who younger in life was a self proclaimed Apple Fanboy, I’ve since matured. I’d place less emphasis on dull hardware than their relentless squeeze on the services side. Their services side makes it MUCH clearer that they’re no Different™️ than the rest.

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But wait, there's more!

I see that you liked the 80's Apples. Well...

His legacy includes losing those of us who have used Apple products since the 80s. When my devices die this time, they will not be replaced with Apple products.

"There's no place to hide..."

“…presumably to be replaced with younger white men similarly incapable of standing up to fascism despite no limit of "fuck you money" 🎯🎯🎯

Welp.

Like the old bumper sticker used to say to hitchhikers: "Ass, grass, or gas -- nobody rides for free."

Um, present company excluded, of course . . .

Sad

there is more to life than financial success, surprisingly enough

Woz was unhappy to see the Apple II abandoned prematurely, in his view .... 2/

Sure he supported authoritarian regimes, but he also regularly released new pride wallpapers…so that evens it out.

But he did find camaraderie in the Log Cabin Republicans 🤷

Unfortunately the same is true for many of our university presidents. They have made money hand over fist and now are among the oligarchs.

Tim Apple