Oh yeah. Don't blame all the German companies that used slave labor in concentration camps either. Unhinged capitalism is a mind disease that only ends up in fascism.
Right, because showing up for a photo opp and kissing up to the person in charge is the same as genocide.
See Godwin’s law.
This is the country that the people wanted and the demographics who voted for it are going to be hurt the most. It’s like if the Jews voted for Hitler if you want to use that analogy.
No, I think it's an appropriate "slippery slope" comparison.
Hacker News has insisted, for years, vehemently, that Apple is not abusing monopoly power. You can search every single DMA/DOJ threads comment history and end up with the same conclusion. They were "the good guys" even when they were explaining away the Butterfly keyboard, CPU throttling, on-device scanning or arbitrarily blocking competition. In the face of absolute madness, Hacker News was unable to admit they bet on the wrong horse.
So here we are, watching Apple execs lie under oath. And Hacker News is still jumping up to "uhm aktually, shareholders really like crony capitalism" to once again defend Apple now that they've become indefensible.
This is the tech industry's volkssturm. An unwinnable fight in hopeless conditions, sabotaged solely by poor leadership.
Absolutely no one gave Apple a pass for the butterfly keyboard. You can look back at Jason Snell’s “Apple report card” where he sends surveys to 40+ people in the Apple punditry ecosystem during those years and Apple was derided by everyone.
No one gave Apple a pass for on device scanning or the piss poor Johnny Ive inspired thin laptops that removed ports and that over heated during the latter x86 days.
Everyone was glad to see Apple walk back some of his bad decisions during the last generation of x86 laptops. People were complaining in real time.
It’s not just shareholders. None of the 70% of iPhone users or 30% of Android users would be happy to see their phones go up in price by hundreds of dollars because of 145% tariffs (not exaggeration).
And it’s an appropriate “slippery slope” that Apple is going to go from kissing up to Trump to mass genocide?
Yet it is. People like you insisted "it's not that bad yet" at every step of the awkward path; but you're still unable to admit Apple fully walked back their bad decisions. They deliberately built a business dependent on anti-competitive abuse and a halo effect solicited through propaganda. They repeatedly manufactured cover for their misdeeds because they knew they were wrong. And now they've been caught in the act of base and cowardly perjury in defense of those exploits.
Tim Cook is not a stupid man. He knows why the world wants his head on a platter, but he exhibits the willpower to exploit injustice anyways. Not because it makes the world a better place, but because it's immensely lucrative. Your supposed logic - that anyone "voted" for this - is pants-on-head moronic, verging on gallows humor. The "vote" justified Reichswerke Hermann Göring, up until the founder was sentenced to execution a decade later. Corruption isn't a democratic process, period. I don't care how apathetic you are as an American, ignorance of the law is a famously invalid defense.
What do you mean I can’t admit they walked backed there bad decision? I explicitly said they walked back their Johnnie Ive designed laptops during the final generation x86 laptops.
Their business is not built on the App Store. People looked at Android at least in the US and 70% of them avoid it like the plague. Before that, people decided they like the iPod even though it had “less space than the Nomad and no wireless”.
And anyone who voted for this knew exactly what they were getting. Trump was in office for four years prior and “rural America” who depends on Medicaid, the Muslims who refused to support Kamala because they thought Trump would be better for Palestine, the poor and working class who are going to be hurt by increased prices and other policies, red states that depend on government support more than blue states, businesses abs farmers who supported him and even the unions that he is now trying to kill all are demographics that voted for him and supported him. Now they are in the “find out” part of FAFO. I have no sympathy for them.
The halo effect wasn’t because of “propaganda”. Poor little Google, Microsoft and Intel couldn’t compete with a company that was almost bankrupt a little over 29 years ago and was still small in 2007.
If non Christian Germans were dumb enough to vote for the Nazi party (they weren’t), I would have said the same thing. This country deserves exactly what’s happening to it because of its own poor choices. I’m not saying this out of pride and happiness.
I’m sad about it. But this is always “who we have been” despite what Michelle Obama says. We’ve been since Columbus, through slavery, through Jim Crow (that my still living parents grew up in) and now.
Trump was fairly elected. I’m not “apathetic”. What is in my control is that my wife and I have been seriously talking about establishing residency in Costa Rica upon retirement. We are going back next year to talk to a real estate agent to see about getting a place there. We might rent or we might buy. If this is the country that Americans want, Americans can have it. I’m not saying I’m leaving tomorrow. But we are investigating, I’m working on getting to be a better Spanish speaker and my wife is learning.
I have a friend who was working on his Italian citizenship and it got shut down. He found another path through his significant other, and the [official I'm exlcuding] literally said to come back after we resolves the trump problem.
The world is not going to absorb the exodus of Americans who just want to walk away.
But I totally get it. So like I said, get moving quickly if you're serious.
