What a way to launch John Crapple.
Corporations do not stand up to the government. Remember this. Drop any expectation that the coporate world would save you from a bad government.
Corporations control the government in the US. The government is bad because of corporations and neither are going to save you from either.
Exactly right. Dare I say the very right for working people to vote was won by organized labour, so even popular democracy is downstream from labour power. That’s the only real power we have against corporations.
Except Costco. They did stand up against the DEI bullshit and recently have expressly said they won’t buy and distributed the imported beef. I assume there’s more between those two points in time, I’m just not aware. One of the few out there doing good stuff.
There’s exceptions for sure. I should have said it’s a tendency.
They get pretty aggressive at any talk of regulation
Okay
I actually think this is funny. And alarming, but not the way I hear people talk about this. I feel like Apple was really smart here, offering a fairly measly, cheap, pointless trinket to continue making money hand over fist in the US. Tim was smart here, ROI must have been MASSIVE for that with the tariffs and such.
However the real reason I think this is interesting is that it shows publicly and blatantly just how easily Trump can be paid off and placated and should have been be a huge wake up call for ANY of his supporters and peers. Between this and the FIFA trinket, no one in government should be so easily bought/paid off. I never got why people didn’t go after Trump legally and in the news for even thinking of accepting something like this.
I made a lot of money in Apple stock over this event. I bought in after the verbal assault, and sold after the gifting.
So it definitely worked.
I was going to say what’s changed from that day? Did those employees not see the news?
Meanwhile at Alphabet there’s not a soul who can speak
This is the battle they are willing to fight? Your country picks an insane shit head for president and he wants to legally change the name of a lake and you throw a fit? What about fighting to allow ICE detection apps on the App store or standing up to assure your ai is honest and revealing about Trump administration atrocities?
It’s not their problem until it affects them.
Democracy is for the people, but the people vote intentional ignorance.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
Gee what’s it called when corporations and the government are welded together in a power block that controls everything about the nation? Help me out here guys I forget.
‘How about Corporatism’ - Mussolini
What did you expect from a Trillion dollar corporation, that gifted Trump a 24k gold and glass statue, made a $100B commitment to US manufacturing, and being among the “donors” of the White House ballroom? But changing the name of a lake? Too far…
The “24k gold base” was likely a thin layer, but whatever, yeah they gave him ~10-100k in gold and implied unwarranted praise in exchange for points. They also committed $600 billion ($100 billion more than before trump won, thanks a lot everybody) to build manufacturing in the US, which, if someone’s mad about that - sorry.
The ballroom is worse, but this is even worse yet, yes. I don’t have to look at his participation trophy, i don’t ever expect to see the Epstein Ballroom and Bunker Boys Club built, but everyone in the world can see this idiotic “renaming”. That’s not strategic, that’s not hedging, that’s just pathetic.
I’m not saying it isn’t pathetic, but Apple has a track record of gobbling Trump’s marbles for business, so it should be expected they aren’t risking anything over the name of a lake in their mapping service.
made a $100B commitment to US manufacturing
Why is that bad though?
It’s Apple buying goodwill, for both itself and the Trump administration, while only marginally benefiting the average US citizen, if at all.
CoMaps is Apple/Google app store, open source, privacy centric Map app with turn by turn, lots of customization, and also has desktop clients for Linux and iOS.
I switched this when Apple announced ads were coming to maps and have been very happy, some places don’t exist but with an OSM account you can contribute to a better map which is nice
Canadians, it’s time to vote with your wallets and push back against the arrogance of Trump and his camp
Were these people working from a remote cave or island for the past year and half?
It’s not like Apple playing friend with Trump started yesterday! Apple has been openly pro-Trump since day 1!
iTrump
Whatever. They’ll still take the techbro paychecks and look the other way. Let me know when these nerds grow a spine.
I don’t think this new CEO is going to last more than a year. He has all the charisma of Gil Amelio.
At least he shelved the Apple Vision headset. Hopefully he also canned the Apple Glasses and AirPods with camera that were rumored.
Most prominent CEOs want a successor that fails because it makes them look better in retrospect.
Maybe. It’s inauspicious at best.
I mean, why would he care? Either way he gets obscene amounts of money for at the least a lazy years worth of work
I don’t think this new CEO is going to last more than a year. He has all the charisma of Gil Amelio.
…nothing like the old CEO…
This is just the public things they’ve capitulated on. How many private requests have they received and acted upon?
Every single employee that was tasked to change Lake Ontario to Lake America could just say no, and quit.
Or are we just following orders?
Well, that’s what Nazi Germany did…
And they managed to get Hitler to eat a bullet. Maybe we’re on to something.
Easy to say when it isn’t your job in this economy, plus a family.
Did anybody ask AI what it thinks about the name change?
Lol wut? “My brain is not especially fucked enough right now so I’d like an extra special DOUBLE helping of corporate machine bullshit today, thank you!”
I think you should take that hit for the team, obviously. If you believe one is required.
What a bunch of loose, prolapsed assholes these execs are. How do they expect to usher forth a technocratic state if they can’t even separate themselves from the stupidest under the status quo?
