Cook has openly embraced Trump, particularly in his second term, attending the president’s inauguration, presenting him with an engraved golden trophy, and giving money to the White House to help construct the president’s $300 million pet project ballroom.
The relative workplace calm may be over. “I hope we never find out, but I seriously started wondering what our leadership would do if an Apple employee was summarily executed by our government,” wondered one employee.
Many workers claimed hypocrisy between Apple’s longtime professed commitment to progressive values and causes and the extent to which its CEO has cozied up to the Trump administration. “But but but…. we changed the Apple website to MLK last Monday, so that cancels out.” Another pointed sarcastically to the company’s recent announcement of Black History Month Apple Watch bands. “Went to hang out with the guy who didn’t even acknowledge MLK Day and took away park access on the day,” commented one worker.
For some, the affront was personal. “As a lifelong Minnesotan and an Apple badged employee for over half my life I feel pretty abandoned by the company that has told me it stands for humanity more times than I can count,” wrote another worker. “Silence on ICE violence speaks volumes.” Another pointed out the “Three retail locations in the Twin Cities and not a peep” from Cook. “This isn’t leadership. This is an absence of leadership.” To which a colleague quickly countered: “I disagree, this IS leadership. This is intentional, nobody travels to the white house by mistake.”
An Apple employee who has spent decades at the company said they had noticed a marked cultural and political shift within Apple under Cook’s tenure. “A lot of people are talking about how Steve Jobs would have never given a gold bar to a politician,” referring to the 24-karat gold trophy Cook presented Trump at the White House in August.
Oh wow a rich white gay man hid behind his sexuality to present faux-progressive values when he was actually pretty conservative? Funny how that keeps happening.
It’s almost like class identity often matters more than social identity in respect to politics.
He’s the perfect example of “Well they aren’t breaking down my door, it’s their door a few houses away.”
Never had an apple product, mainly because of their lock down eco system. I used to recommend apple products for those that are not tech savvy (boomers). I know Google and Microsoft are similar, but I usually think of apple as a socialist OS in the sense of what boomers think socialism is.
I seriously started wondering what our leadership would do if an Apple employee was summarily executed by our government
This person is warped if they think Apple’s “leadership” will give a shit. Everything is acceptable as long as profits continue to increase.
Remember when police killed the UPS driver who had been taken hostage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Miramar_shootout
The response from UPS was disgusting: “We appreciate law enforcement’s service and will cooperate with the authorities as they continue the investigation.” They later deleted the Tweet (or w/e platform it was on), but people grabbed screen captures of it.
Leave Tim Apple alone. The man just needed a big room where he wouldn’t be disturbed by anyone else.
If you’re supporting Apple at this point, that’s kind of on you.
They’ve got a bunch of genuinely good content, which is a bit ironic given their dismal subscription numbers.
Apple TV runs circles around Netflix, HBO, and Hulu. But they’ve got a meager 3% of the streaming market share. It’s infuriating.
Apple TV is BET for white people. Rich-White-Trash-TV
Pirate it. All of it. None of them care about you. Support independent media.
Sure. How do you think I’ve been watching it to begin with?
But ffs, why is it so hard for Apple to figure out how to get those numbers up? Every other company knows how to bundle their shitty products. You’d think they would know how to bundle something halfway decent.
It’s simple. They don’t have to. Apple is sitting on more actual cash than any company in history.
And here I am saving money with FMHY
Lot of Apple iseres that have drink the kool aid; iphone, macbooks etal
Cancelled apple music, moved over to Deezer, found thatvitbis actually much better service anyway.
Not livid enough to do anything. So, ignore this faux-lib propaganda. Billionaires are gonna billion, Trump is gonna Trump, and no one is gonna stop them. The “liberal” media is trying to placate you into think change is happening. It is not. Do not fall for it
Out of all the atrocities billionaires commit hourly, I don’t think “watching a movie to carry favor with the authoritarian regime” even ranks
Solidarity with evil is evil.
I don’t disagree with you, I just said that out of all the atrocities billionaires commit hourly, I don’t think “watching a movie to carry favor with the authoritarian regime” even ranks. People are getting overly emotional about the smallest act of self preservation
Linus Torvalds didn’t.
Casting this in terms of what movie he watched when is asinine.
people need to hate computer programmers a LOT more
Where were you in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s? People have historically hated programmers. They’ve been picked on for so long that they made a documentary about it called Revenge of the Nerds.
Then something shifted in the 2010s and suddenly it’s now cool to be into technology. I used to be picked on for being on the computer all the time, now everyone is addicted to their pocket computer, even the ones who made fun of me for it! It’s so bad that we have an entire generation of children who can’t function without being glued to a screen 24/7. I don’t get what happened. Engagement algorithms?
Not trying to protect Apple or Tim Cook, but can I just say that the headline is kinda silly.
This
Cook has openly embraced Trump, particularly in his second term, attending the president’s inauguration, presenting him with an engraved golden trophy, and giving money to the White House to help construct the president’s $300 million pet project ballroom.
should be a much bigger problem than watching a random movie at some random that was probably planned weeks in advance.
But I guess they need something news-worthy to pin it on.
The headline is telling what it took for the Apple employees to start speaking out. The headline is correct. Apple employees are the assholes for not speaking out earlier.
So we’ve confirmed exactly one person has seen the movie.
Never trust a corporation.
Even the “good ones” eventually turn evil.
Except, maybe, the employee-owned ones. Glory to Winco.
Newman’s Own seems good.
Apple has never been one of the good companies. Anyone really in technology knows this.
Like everybody collectively decided to forget what happened to Wozniak.
I mean shit they were all part of the group stealing technology clear back when they first started also. Whatever it took to make that money and get their product out there. And then they were the ones that also started dabbling into the luxury PC market.
There’s a better timeline where they also brought back Woz and OS X had Linux underneath. All the 3rd party media software would inherently be cross compatible with linux and the windows userbase would have started eroding much sooner.
Now I’m sad I’m in the worst timeline. I expect Jeff to lose an eye any moment.
This is beside the point but PLEASE stop calling it a ballroom. It’s a bunker, data center, situation room, and whatever the fuck else they decide to pack in there
The Führerbunker
Hopefully where Trump resets his brain
I mean, those are more sensible. IMO, ballroom sounds worse than that though because it seems frivolous.
