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[Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation (karlbode.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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[–] 47 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Jobs was a narcissist and a raging asshole, but something tells me he wouldn't have acquiesced that easily to a Trump regime.

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  • [–] 1 point 58 minutes ago

    Is giving a shitty mocking “gift” to someone who can destroy your company and put every one of your employees out of work “acquiescing”?

    Exactly like saying you shouldn’t kiss the ring of the mob boss who will be beating your family with pipe wrenches if you don’t.

    That’s victim blaming that’s easy to do when you were never in that position and I have no time for that kind of jackassery.

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  • [–] 23 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Exactly. Jobs being an asshole meant he would have the foresight to see the Trump regime was statistically likely to be a boat of turds powered by old time racist bigotry that wouldn’t age well as a legacy.

    Cook is one of those guys who sinks the ship with complacency, cowardice and is only waiting to cash out and retire with someone who doesn’t really respect him. A true bottom.

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  • [–] 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 child)

    Tbf I liked how Cook gifted Trump a piece of garbage on a gold-plated slab of play-doh. Even a janitor at Apple would probably see how ugly and tasteless that thing is.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    It's obsequious to the extreme, but you'd be hard-pressed to argue that he didn't understand exactly what makes Trump tick.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago*

    Of course Cook knew, Trump isn't a complicated man. That's why the gift looks even more like a joke at Trump's expense, and a wink to everyone else. Cook could've gifted him a diamond-encrusted iPhone or some shit like that, but instead it was a custom useless piece of junk that seemed like a parody of both Apple's aesthetic and Trump's taste. Cook even awkwardly put the disc onto the base before reverently displaying it on the table. You can see in Trump's face that even he might've questioned what the fuck was offered to him — or he was holding in a huge fart, no way to know.

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago* (1 child)

    Jobs aside, Cook did what a CEO is supposed to do in that situation. Political change ironically doesn’t come from a CEO taking a stand and jeopardising hundreds of thousands of workers, product lines and tariffs.

    The time to take a stand was any time after Jan 6 on any level. None of it happened and then Elon helped him hack the voting machines by his own admission.

    That said, Cook was fairly spineless. If you look at the cash he burned on R&D and what little he has to show for it, it’s a bit tragic. The phones, pads and macs are all in a really good place so those products (with serious setbacks) are finally really mature, but the Vision goggles and the Car were really missed opportunities, not to mention the rest of the iceberg we don’t know about.

    Hopefully Ternus will turn us around hey

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  • [–] 5 points 14 hours ago

    Elon helped him hack the voting machines by his own admission.

    More like by his own narcissistic self-mythologisation. Elon Musk the visionary technogenius who defeats the Woke Mind Virus with his 1337 hax0r skillz and then has time to reinvent subways only with apartheid is just the act he puts on to manipulate markets and be idolised by legions of guys self-defined by their lack of girlfriends. In reality, he uses Windows like any other C-suite executive and pays people to level up his characters in games. If he “hacked” the voting machines, it would have been with his checkbook.

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