Imagine being CEO of one the largest corporations in the US, and prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
Gift? You mean bribe.
Yes this is a bribe. Period.
OK let me play devil’s advocate for a moment: it’s the only language he speaks. You must stroke his ego, and give him an opportunity to look down on you.
Of course it’s still corporate cronyism.
Cost of doing business in a country ruled by a dictator who LOVES shiny shit
Bribery is now not just legal, but mandatory
Imagine if the CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world didnt bend over and spread cheeks for a cock so small Donald has to… employ the services of paedos like Jeffery Epstein…?
Donald is suspected of being a paedophile. Yet people still bend the knee like this. I tell you, when it finally comes out, I hope everyone remembers who was happy to continue kissing his ass. Fuck you, Tim.
All the people that surely criticized Musk at the time, would surely not criticize cook this time, because Apple fans… They have it in their hands
This is a bit like mark rutte calling Trump “daddy”. It’s completely inconsequential in actual reality but still feels so entirely wrong. And I don’t even know who should be most embarrassed, the bootlickers or Trump for being transparently narcissistic that everyone realizes bootlicking works
So now that apple bent the knee can people finally stop buying apple shit?
Google hasn’t “bent the knee”? 😏
Cook speaks Trump. Fluently.
What a fucking tool.
Yes he is, but that’s who you voted to lead 🤷🏻♂️
I have always hated Apple, this is just further proof that they are greedy fucks with no morals.
“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
Cost of doing business
Back door to Apple customer data maybe?
I guess I’m the only one who sees this as “here little Donald, now play with this and let me do my job”.
That’s exactly it.
Promise things that you’re doing anyway, use big numbers - hundreds of billions
Give him some shiny crap, he loves it
Praise him
Then he’ll let you go on as usual
Yeah that is not how dictatorship works. He is vending a knee
I think it’s that and also more and all of it is wrong and disgusting.
What if he’s on the list and doesn’t want his name coming out.
Just suck him off already, you fucks. Come on commit!
Is the 24 karat on Aluminum?
Such a disgusting display. Most normal people don’t want anything to do with rapists and child molesters, yet here’s Tim.
Honestly I am pretty sure this is a bribe to exempt Apple from tariffs. Billionaires care more about their profit than children being harm. It’s the sad truth.
Trump has no idea what he is doing he just want free gifts like the stupid used airplane
At this point it seems like half of them became billionaires just to be the ones harming the children.
“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
It’s a bribe in disguise. It’s a tribute and a public spectacle of loyalty. And the top voted comment thinks Tim is playing 4d chess with Trump…
Nothing will improve until these people are eliminated from their positions of power. Stop giving Apple your money.
It’s all public spectacles. These people are there not for the money - they are there to make a point, that being that their ideas of authority are what we all must obey.
Preventive obedience, lack of mandate borders, authority not requiring justification, a demand for justification being itself disobedience, implicit trust to authority, and so on.
These are all people who’d be not very respected or listened to in any normal kind of group. They dreamed of getting to a position where they will be, due to hierarchy. And that’s an abuse of any system, so they are hostile to any immunity mechanisms detecting and fixing such an abuse.
So the whole point is in them taking power and showing us all that it’s their rule and their time and it works like some thief feudalism with spectacles of loyalty, spectacles of cruelty, spectacles of stealing and getting away with it and demonstrative abuse of any legal principle.
I respect Cato institute people very much, they somehow manage to say this same thing without my emotion in their various materials.
All in plain sight. Brass and shameful. Why has this been normalize? 😡
He pretty much says it, right? 'here’s a 24k gold bar… to hold the plaque we engraved your name on
Tim Cook, and Apple, is supporting a pedophile. Remember that when you walk into an Apple Store, if you can afford to.
“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
So is Google and every major company
I bet most of the people here replying in the comments are typing on what helped pay for that gold plated ass kissing device.
Is this a “you criticize society yet you participate in it” thing?
Ayy yo we got Ben Shapiro on Lemmy? 🤣
Great reply, from your iPhone.
I have an android. I hate them both but at least I can install any application I want.
Nope.
I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a Captial GYa but I am pretty sure Google has done a lot to help Trump. Any big tech company wants to be on the good side of Trump.
Exactly, they all are sucking that orange teet now.
I’m typing this on a Lenovo laptop keyboard (V14 series, the plastic casing is just a catastrophe near the lid hinges, though I’ve seen the same with the magnesium casing, it has plastic parts inside).
I’ve also pirated some Apple TV attempt at Foundation episodes, but honestly felt like The Arc. Sci-Fi with some right initial ideas, but ultimately thoroughly idiotic.
In case of Apple TV’s Foundation, I couldn’t help thinking that they were trying to make it “look expensive” and “feel elitarian” similarly to their products, first priority, make it feel “diverse” and in social interactions representing a certain prestigious set of political ideas, second priority, make it feel nuanced and intelligent more than be nuanced and intelligent, third priority.
Honestly even with 90s Apple stuff virtualized I feel something bad, like nausea, I wouldn’t be able to use it probably. Too much visual design flexing.
Maybe if we were on reddit, here I really don’t think that’s true.
I already hate Apple products, so I can’t not buy them to make a statement about not supporting fascist loving corpo scum.
“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
Will you stop using Google products, including Android and YouTube or are you just a hypocrite?
