I used to like him. I worked for the company when he took over. On the first day in the driver’s seat, he sent an email to all employees stating that the policy on company-matched donations to charities was being expanded. I can’t remember the details, but it was something about adding charities that SJ considered too political or something (SJ liked to keep the brand away from controversy, which is why you’ve never been able to get a porn app in the App Store).
I thought it was a classy way of signaling to everyone, “I’m in charge now.” I really had a lot of respect for Tim Apple as a result.
The way he’s fucked things around for third party developers with the App Store tax and locking down what developers can build has been so tone-deaf in the last however many years that Apple released a breakthrough hardware device (Vision Pro) and it’s basically useless because no one wants to build for it. I know that he’s sucking up to ensure that the admin favors his company’s needs wrt manufacturing in China, but it’s still a feckless move. Fuck Tim Apple. He’s part of the problem now. Not like Ol’ Lonnie or Zuck, but still a problem.
I remember when I liked him better when I liked him better.
Typo in article….CEO is Tim Apple
For anyone else who, like me, didn’t know: Trump once referred to Tim Cook as “Tim Apple”, as described in the Wikipedia article on Tim Cook:
In a meeting for the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board with President Donald Trump in March 2019, Trump referred to Cook as “Tim Apple”.
Two take aways from that. One, Trump does not understand why any company would not be named after its founder. Two, Trump has never created a successful company that he ever stepped down from or been trusted enough to take over someone else’s company. Well, he torpedoed the USFL, which wasn’t named after him.
Intelligent analysis I concur with and thank you for. I sometimes wonder what myths our flawed present may pass down to our uncertain future. Who knows? After two millennia, our descendants might think of Trump the way we conceive of Narcissus while they recall the new flood myths we are delivering them.
I was wondering why a cook would meet with trump.
Ha! Writer was probably hungry and just thought of food when apple came to mind and then remembered he needed to cook something. The brain is a crazy thing.
Tim Apple is really proving to be a follower and not a leader. Pretty lame move Mr. Apple.
Can you imagine being that rich and still having to suck dick?
This year provided a great primer for all of us asleep in the industry on what our leadership’s objectives really are. It cut through the bullshit like a razor. We should remember it for the years to come. I sincerely hope it’s taken millions of heads out of asses.
Everyone forgets by spring. Don’t hold your breath.
I self-hosted Wiki.js to keep receipts for myself. 🥹
Yeah, the smart ones knew all along. The dumb ones don’t care or will forget.
The smart ones are moving to blue states or out of the US
It’s funny how all of these “silicon valley tech is running the world” conspiracy nuts are all silent now 😬
Fucking Bezos and Gates invading Ukraine, smh
“Tim who?”
“Cook.”
“Uh,”
“Apple, sir.”
“No thanks.”
“Apple, sir.”
hisses, his body rejecting the idea of fresh fruit
That’s the opposite of how Steve Jobbs died.
It’s so sad that Steve Jobs died of ligma
thought he died of pc
ligma balls
pancreatic cancer???/
NOOOOOOO
Lol the duality of man
Remember when Tim Cook told someone’s mom to just by an iPhone in order to access iMessage. True colors coming out there, total douche bag.
No, I don’t, and I pay attention to Apple stuff. Got a link?
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342243/tim-cook-apple-rcs-imessage-android-iphone-compatibility
This was before the EU forced them to implement RCS.
The EU actually didn’t force them to implement RCS. Apple did it themselves to try and avoid an regulatory/antitrust scrutiny.
At the moment I think having RCS on iPhone is worse than if Apple was forced to open up iMessage to other platforms. RCS on Android is basically controlled by Google and you can’t use it on custom roms. Google also runs the RCS backend that most carriers rely on (rather than implementing their own). So if you are trying to avoid Google’s spyware, you can’t use RCS to message iPhone users.
who the fuck is Tim Cook? that’s Tim Apple in the picture.
I, for one, am looking forward to our soon to be corporate hellscape.
Implying it isn’t one already?
It can always get worse! 🥰
…why?
We need a Luigi.
third time the charm, and they can’t forget the other guy too, or we’re you talking about tim cook?
Let me guess, discussing the implementation of this? But this time instead of concerts, its at peaceful protests…
(Its an apple patent that allows iPhone cameras to be remotely disabled upon detection of a signal)
Couldn’t you just put a filter on for that spectrum and it would never trigger the sensor?
Still terrible and should never happen, but it seems like it’d be easy to bypass and would be ripe with 3rd party vendors.
If they are actually doing this, it wouldn’t be with IR lights, it’d be a radio signal. And they would also make the “airplane mode” be not really turn off the radio, but it would still be listening for signals passively, but emitting no signals (so you can’t detect that fact its listening passively). Then cops can turn on a radio broadcast to nearby phones with a “Disable Camera and Microphone functions” message. Any phone that pick it up will disable those functions.
Ah that does make more sense.
Time to make a Faraday cage bag that can expose the camera without exposing the radio. If that’s even possible. A cage with a big hole seems… not a cage lol.
Or just… buy a camera?
Cameras have no radios, as far as I know. (Just watch, they are gonna start making “Smart Cameras” with phoning home to a NSA server)
“Don’t bite the anus that feeds you”
<gluk, gluk, gluk, gluk, chortle, slurp>, said Tim
Why was he drinking a bowl of spaghetti?
We call this the #TeamCrook era aka today’s Apple.
Bend the knee little bitch. Bend that knee.
All the oligarchs need to kiss the ring in order to get favorable rulings.
Tim Apple*
I’m sure he had to dig deep to endure the smell of urine and feces as is popularly described.
