reasons why i have samsung
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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.
Upvoted. I wish I had a straight forward alternative to IOS but Android is not the one for me.
Samsung isn’t an innocent company either, and I love their phones.
Yeah, IIRC Samsung are doing the same thing but in Korea
Pathetic
I love that this community calls out Apple’s BS.
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.
Most apple forems are full of “line must go up” APPL share holders, and will down vote/dislike anything negative aimed at apple.
The reddit apple sub claims it isn’t affiliated with apple corp. cough
It’s a personal donation from Tim Cook
Tim Cook is Apple’s CEO and is very transparently doing this with the goal of getting 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.
I mean, all the Apple communities are shitting on this. Go look at the comment threads on the article and other Mac enthusiast blogs.
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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.
They often remove posts that are not in violation of the established community rules.
This is normal on reddit. Want to get banned? Ask a mod what rule you broke. They won’t even reply.
I honestly think that the mods of that subreddit are employees. r/lego is another one where I think that the mod team is all owned by the company
This legal bribery is disgusting
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!
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.
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.
The alternative is Google which is way worse if you ask me. At least Apple doesn’t touch your data, Google will absolutely record every bit of activity on your phone and use it with extreme prejudice to feed you ads and sell you shit you don’t need.
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.
The Tim Apple doesn’t fall far from the golden goose.
Hopefully close to the golden noose.
Donating to a 34-times convicted felon, a rapist, a failed businessman, and an insurrection leader who’s been impeached twice. Incredible
Electing him as president was more incredible, now nobody can ignore him. Like it or not.
Yes it is poor people fault again
If you say so.
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?
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
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
Consider it an indulgence by a tech company to buy its way out of purgatory.
Lol Tim Apple. You terrible human. May you never have a peaceful day in your life
Kissing the ketchup covered fingers of his lord.
That brown on his lips isn’t ketchup.
Short fingers
Et tu, Brute
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 :)
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.
This asshole will just claim it’s a personal donation and not a corporate one. It’s not wrong, just an asshole move with bad optics.
