Tim Cook is the latest tech CEO to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago (www.theverge.com)
from some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to technology@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 03:55
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/26411865

I used to like him. I worked for the company when he took over. On the first day in the driver’s seat, he sent an email to all employees stating that the policy on company-matched donations to charities was being expanded. I can’t remember the details, but it was something about adding charities that SJ considered too political or something (SJ liked to keep the brand away from controversy, which is why you’ve never been able to get a porn app in the App Store).

I thought it was a classy way of signaling to everyone, “I’m in charge now.” I really had a lot of respect for Tim Apple as a result.

The way he’s fucked things around for third party developers with the App Store tax and locking down what developers can build has been so tone-deaf in the last however many years that Apple released a breakthrough hardware device (Vision Pro) and it’s basically useless because no one wants to build for it. I know that he’s sucking up to ensure that the admin favors his company’s needs wrt manufacturing in China, but it’s still a feckless move. Fuck Tim Apple. He’s part of the problem now. Not like Ol’ Lonnie or Zuck, but still a problem.

I remember when I liked him better when I liked him better.

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dtrain@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 04:01 next collapse

Typo in article….CEO is Tim Apple

djsp@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 04:59 next collapse

For anyone else who, like me, didn’t know: Trump once referred to Tim Cook as “Tim Apple”, as described in the Wikipedia article on Tim Cook:

In a meeting for the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board with President Donald Trump in March 2019, Trump referred to Cook as “Tim Apple”.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 12:32 collapse

Two take aways from that. One, Trump does not understand why any company would not be named after its founder. Two, Trump has never created a successful company that he ever stepped down from or been trusted enough to take over someone else’s company. Well, he torpedoed the USFL, which wasn’t named after him.

djsp@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 20:21 collapse

Intelligent analysis I concur with and thank you for. I sometimes wonder what myths our flawed present may pass down to our uncertain future. Who knows? After two millennia, our descendants might think of Trump the way we conceive of Narcissus while they recall the new flood myths we are delivering them.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 14 Dec 05:37 next collapse

Ha! Writer was probably hungry and just thought of food when apple came to mind and then remembered he needed to cook something. The brain is a crazy thing.

Tim Apple is really proving to be a follower and not a leader. Pretty lame move Mr. Apple.

Can you imagine being that rich and still having to suck dick?

Deceptichum@quokk.au on 14 Dec 06:09 collapse

Tim Apple is gay, so he’s probably fine with sucking dick at any networth. Not sure that’s the insult you intended it to be.

Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 07:20 next collapse

Depends, he might not be a giver!

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 14 Dec 12:56 collapse

Not really an insult so much as a commentary. Wasn’t really literal. BTW you know any gay people that want to suck Trump’s dick? I sure don’t.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 08:14 collapse

I was wondering why a cook would meet with trump.

intensely_human@lemm.ee on 18 Dec 00:36 collapse

Perhaps they’re planning something with a cobbler

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 14 Dec 04:06 next collapse

This year provided a great primer for all of us asleep in the industry on what our leadership’s objectives really are. It cut through the bullshit like a razor. We should remember it for the years to come. I sincerely hope it’s taken millions of heads out of asses.

Orbituary@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 04:34 next collapse

Everyone forgets by spring. Don’t hold your breath.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 14 Dec 04:57 next collapse

I self-hosted Wiki.js to keep receipts for myself. 🥹

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org on 14 Dec 09:38 collapse

Yeah, the smart ones knew all along. The dumb ones don’t care or will forget.

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 14 Dec 19:18 collapse

The smart ones are moving to blue states or out of the US

drmoose@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 05:29 collapse

It’s funny how all of these “silicon valley tech is running the world” conspiracy nuts are all silent now 😬

kameecoding@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 12:33 collapse

Fucking Bezos and Gates invading Ukraine, smh

LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe on 14 Dec 04:10 next collapse

I, for one, am looking forward to our soon to be corporate hellscape.

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 04:29 next collapse

(crying on the inside but not showing it)

Orbituary@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 04:35 collapse

Tell me how to cry on the inside and show it?

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 04:42 collapse

What?

Orbituary@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 04:45 collapse

Do I need to type it again? Crying on the inside is, by definition, not “showing it.”

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 04:56 collapse

Ok. Did you just randomly pick a comment and say to yourself “I’m going to be as annoying as possible while completely missing the point?”

underwire212@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 10:15 collapse

I swear some people here just need to argue and be upset with something.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 08:16 next collapse

…why?

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org on 14 Dec 09:38 collapse

Implying it isn’t one already?

underwire212@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 10:14 collapse

It can always get worse! 🥰

Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 04:21 next collapse

“Tim who?”

“Cook.”

“Uh,”

“Apple, sir.”

“No thanks.”

kautau@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 07:29 collapse

“Apple, sir.”

hisses, his body rejecting the idea of fresh fruit

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 08:16 collapse

That’s the opposite of how Steve Jobbs died.

kautau@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 08:19 next collapse

Lol the duality of man

jlh@lemmy.jlh.name on 14 Dec 09:01 collapse

It’s so sad that Steve Jobs died of ligma

kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com on 15 Dec 10:30 collapse

thought he died of pc

jlh@lemmy.jlh.name on 16 Dec 03:32 collapse

ligma balls

kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com on 16 Dec 04:00 collapse

pancreatic cancer???/

jlh@lemmy.jlh.name on 16 Dec 12:56 collapse

NOOOOOOO

intensely_human@lemm.ee on 18 Dec 00:39 collapse

what’s pc?

Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jan 05:44 collapse

Main competitor to the Mac.

LodeMike@lemmy.today on 14 Dec 04:42 next collapse

Are they referring to his dick or something?

DogPeePoo@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 04:45 next collapse

<gluk, gluk, gluk, gluk, chortle, slurp>, said Tim

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 08:17 collapse

Why was he drinking a bowl of spaghetti?

BigMacHole@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 06:52 next collapse

ANOTHER Billionaire CEO visiting Trump at Mar A Lago now that he’s President Elect? I can SMELL the Fresh Flowers growing in that Former Swamp because OBVIOUSLY this ISNT Corrupt at all!

SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 08:30 collapse

The equivalent of dukes, barons and other modern nobility need to pay tribute to the new king. It’s a tradition as old as humanity itself.

Those goes back to the concept of anacyclosis, or social cycle theory. After democracy comes ochlocracy, concentration of wealth and demagogues, what turns into a form of monarchy.

jlh@lemmy.jlh.name on 14 Dec 09:00 collapse

In an ideal world, CEOs would have no more access to politicians than the average citizen.

intensely_human@lemm.ee on 18 Dec 00:37 collapse

In an ideal world we wouldn’t have to breathe

kayazere@feddit.nl on 14 Dec 10:07 next collapse

Remember when Tim Cook told someone’s mom to just by an iPhone in order to access iMessage. True colors coming out there, total douche bag.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 14 Dec 18:41 collapse

No, I don’t, and I pay attention to Apple stuff. Got a link?

techwithjake@lemm.ee on 15 Dec 03:07 collapse

theverge.com/…/tim-cook-apple-rcs-imessage-androi…

This was before the EU forced them to implement RCS.

kayazere@feddit.nl on 15 Dec 08:22 collapse

The EU actually didn’t force them to implement RCS. Apple did it themselves to try and avoid an regulatory/antitrust scrutiny.

At the moment I think having RCS on iPhone is worse than if Apple was forced to open up iMessage to other platforms. RCS on Android is basically controlled by Google and you can’t use it on custom roms. Google also runs the RCS backend that most carriers rely on (rather than implementing their own). So if you are trying to avoid Google’s spyware, you can’t use RCS to message iPhone users.

avieshek@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 10:31 next collapse

We call this the #TeamCrook era aka today’s Apple.

el_bhm@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 10:40 next collapse

We need a Luigi.

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Dec 12:52 collapse

third time the charm, and they can’t forget the other guy too, or we’re you talking about tim cook?

Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 12:18 next collapse

“Don’t bite the anus that feeds you”

intensely_human@lemm.ee on 18 Dec 00:40 collapse

It’s hard to bite an anus

Jackthelad@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 13:02 next collapse

I’m not sure why anyone is shocked and/or outraged by CEOs of American companies paying a visit to the guy who is going to be running the country.

CEOs of various companies meet the President all the time.

Grangle1@lemm.ee on 14 Dec 17:55 next collapse

Bingo. This gives no indication of what they discussed or what said CEOs actually think of him. Basically just routine politics to ensure they don’t get on his bad side regardless.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 14 Dec 18:39 next collapse

SJ was said to have been asked by Obama how to bring back production and answered that it wasn’t coming back. But I honestly believe that was more about a president bringing business leaders to a meeting to try to gather information and this is absolutely just kissing the ring. They aren’t the same because Trump is different from every other president we’ve ever had.

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 14 Dec 19:18 collapse

He also said Obama would be a one term president

And then he died

affiliate@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 22:01 collapse

i think it’s because none of the CEOs really wanted to play ball with him last time. but this time they are way more afraid of him

IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Dec 16:55 next collapse

Let me guess, discussing the implementation of this? But this time instead of concerts, its at peaceful protests…

(Its an apple patent that allows iPhone cameras to be remotely disabled upon detection of a signal)

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 03:43 collapse

Couldn’t you just put a filter on for that spectrum and it would never trigger the sensor?

Still terrible and should never happen, but it seems like it’d be easy to bypass and would be ripe with 3rd party vendors.

IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 03:58 collapse

If they are actually doing this, it wouldn’t be with IR lights, it’d be a radio signal. And they would also make the “airplane mode” be not really turn off the radio, but it would still be listening for signals passively, but emitting no signals (so you can’t detect that fact its listening passively). Then cops can turn on a radio broadcast to nearby phones with a “Disable Camera and Microphone functions” message. Any phone that pick it up will disable those functions.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 05:50 collapse

Ah that does make more sense.

Time to make a Faraday cage bag that can expose the camera without exposing the radio. If that’s even possible. A cage with a big hole seems… not a cage lol.

IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 05:58 collapse

Or just… buy a camera?

Cameras have no radios, as far as I know. (Just watch, they are gonna start making “Smart Cameras” with phoning home to a NSA server)

robocall@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 03:26 next collapse

Tim Apple*

Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de on 15 Dec 04:07 next collapse

I’m sure he had to dig deep to endure the smell of urine and feces as is popularly described.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 04:45 next collapse

who the fuck is Tim Cook? that’s Tim Apple in the picture.

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca on 15 Dec 04:59 next collapse

All the oligarchs need to kiss the ring in order to get favorable rulings.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 08:31 collapse

Bend the knee little bitch. Bend that knee.