SpaceX sent a request to the Federal Communications Commission last week to block Globalstar from launching a new Canadian-built 48-satellite constellation
Wasn’t Tim Cook one of the first to donate to Trump’s Inauguration? Did they at least protest DEI scrapping (excluding some shareholders) or Gulf of Mexico rename, or bent over like rest of big tech? I’m honestly not seeing it, to be Apple is as bad as google
It’s best not to humanize corporations, especially as the arbiters of morality and ethics. It’s simply a calculated risk on Apples part. I don’t mean to be a negative Nancy and all “nothing good happens” it’s just we can’t keep letting corporations get away with being brands you can “trust” when we have all the evidence necessary to assume they are not trustworthy, just profit-seeking.
Reminds me of March 24 to November 10, 2001, when Apple had embraced Unix and – to some extent – open source by releasing OS X, but had not yet pivoted towards glued-shut and DRM’d consumer electronics by releasing the iPod.
Let Apple rain Terror on this damn Nazi.
It certainly is a weird timeline when Apple is the good guy.
I can think of a lot of companies that are far worse than Apple.
Wasn’t Tim Cook one of the first to donate to Trump’s Inauguration? Did they at least protest DEI scrapping (excluding some shareholders) or Gulf of Mexico rename, or bent over like rest of big tech? I’m honestly not seeing it, to be Apple is as bad as google
It’s best not to humanize corporations, especially as the arbiters of morality and ethics. It’s simply a calculated risk on Apples part. I don’t mean to be a negative Nancy and all “nothing good happens” it’s just we can’t keep letting corporations get away with being brands you can “trust” when we have all the evidence necessary to assume they are not trustworthy, just profit-seeking.
Reminds me of March 24 to November 10, 2001, when Apple had embraced Unix and – to some extent – open source by releasing OS X, but had not yet pivoted towards glued-shut and DRM’d consumer electronics by releasing the iPod.
OSX was never really open sourced. If you tried compiling it, you’d have found it wouldn’t work because it was incomplete.