US oligarchs are friends with regime?

I recently switched from Motorola to a Pixel 9 and I'm very happy! Absolutely hated the 5 minutes that the Pixel was running stock Android tho (they remapped the Off button to an AI button and I couldn't figure out how to power down the phone), but once that crap was gone and GrapheneOS was installed I stayed 100% content. I'm not even a particularly security focused person, but Graphene's dedication to keeping bloatware and unnecessary dumb shit off the OS has been very appreciated

This almost makes me wish I still used Apple products so that I could boycott them.

Ive been Apple free for 20 years though.

I doubt many here would refuse to do this for massive bag.

Market cap isn’t everything.

Meta by itself has a bigger cultural impact globally

That’s not how companies are measured against each other though. How are you even quantifying the cultural impact? You could have said many companies are bigger than Apple because they have a bigger physical footprint, bigger customer base, larger number of staff, bigger area of operation, larger mass of product or many other things but the fact is when we compare the “size” of companies, we are referring to their market cap.

Tim is smart. This is exactly how to survive your shit president, America. Bend him over and kiss his ass, and you’ll survive.

i wonder what trump will ise that for

Or we can fight back and not lay down for the dictator as he destroys the entire country around us

Steve was a c off the old unt block but he sure would've told trump he could only have a gift with FUCKWITNET engraved all over it

I'm of the opinion that Apple hasn't produced a good consumer friendly product since like the Apple II or the original Macintosh (debatable). Hell even the Lisa.

now people will say oh the original imac, ipod, and iphone were revolutionary and sure they were but they were by no means consumer friendly. They broke, and still do, easily. constant cord replacements, and computers you can't upgrade unless you were on like a G8 or PowerMac and even then your options for upgrades were limited. Add to the fact you're primarily paying for the name Apple more than anything else.

Add to the fact anything you buy from Apple is guaranteed to be obsolete, per the company, within a year or less. hell at one point they even treated their OS post X the same way.

And they've always been like this ever since Jobs was ORIGINALLY running the show. Remember the Macintosh required a special tool just to open it up, a tool only available to certain developers on the Macintosh team. For a guy that lived his life as a hippie he sure did love tossing electronics away willy nilly.

They just made an assessment what it costs to fight vs what it costs to just kiss his ass and hope it will pass. The outcome is obvious.

He is kissing his as so gently.

Tim Apple has turned into such a disappointing bootlicker.

Such precision at such small scale.

it's fascism, all CEOs bend down.

no person with principles against fascism would never become a CEO, basic human decency is bad for the investors

an army of them is what we need.

real big yet you participate in society energy

There was once a time when a small company built out of passion could elevate a normal guy into CEO, so as recently as 30-40 years ago you could still have some decency at the top. As the barriers to entry have shot upward, today to become a C-level you get an MBA and carefully scrape out your soul as part of your "leadership" education which has nothing to do with the widgets your company will produce, and everything to do with fellating the shareholders.

It's sad because I grew up in an era when a guy could still get ahead by being sharp and having good ideas, but now it's only by Playing The Game. So those of us with morals are stuck with low earning potential because of it.

I hate how this community has become mostly politics lately. Its understandable since technology and politics are connected but still.