Tim Cuck

Smells like an opportunity to cause Apple brand damage.

Not a "gift". It was a BRIBE !!

Tim Apple has turned into such a disappointing bootlicker.

it's fascism, all CEOs bend down.
no person with principles against fascism would never become a CEO, basic human decency is bad for the investors
- There was once a time when a small company built out of passion could elevate a normal guy into CEO, so as recently as 30-40 years ago you could still have some decency at the top. As the barriers to entry have shot upward, today to become a C-level you get an MBA and carefully scrape out your soul as part of your "leadership" education which has nothing to do with the widgets your company will produce, and everything to do with fellating the shareholders.
  It's sad because I grew up in an era when a guy could still get ahead by being sharp and having good ideas, but now it's only by Playing The Game. So those of us with morals are stuck with low earning potential because of it.

And I can't even accept a gift voucher due to anti-bribery rules? Fuck off.

you can't even accept a bottle of water while waiting to vote! the rules are different for us and them.

I don't get why people are NOW saying he's trying to appease trump. He's been doing it for years. He was front row at his inauguration right next to other billionaires.

Bribe. The word you're looking for

Definitely, as after this it was announced that Apple would not be affected by the 100% semiconductor tariffs.
- You're kidding, right? Right?

Giving him a literal gold bar (though disguised as a stand) is stereotypical buying El Presidente in a Banana Republic bullshit.

I had to look it up: 24 karat is the purest form of gold. So yeah it's a gold bar 100% lmfao
- Cook isn't handling it like solid gold though (it looks too light). I bet it's 24 karat gold plated zinc.
Sounds like the US' chickens coming home to roost. After creating those conditions with their CIA elsewhere for decades.

This almost makes me wish I still used Apple products so that I could boycott them.

Ive been Apple free for 20 years though.

I'm of the opinion that Apple hasn't produced a good consumer friendly product since like the Apple II or the original Macintosh (debatable). Hell even the Lisa.
now people will say oh the original imac, ipod, and iphone were revolutionary and sure they were but they were by no means consumer friendly. They broke, and still do, easily. constant cord replacements, and computers you can't upgrade unless you were on like a G8 or PowerMac and even then your options for upgrades were limited. Add to the fact you're primarily paying for the name Apple more than anything else.
Add to the fact anything you buy from Apple is guaranteed to be obsolete, per the company, within a year or less. hell at one point they even treated their OS post X the same way.
And they've always been like this ever since Jobs was ORIGINALLY running the show. Remember the Macintosh required a special tool just to open it up, a tool only available to certain developers on the Macintosh team. For a guy that lived his life as a hippie he sure did love tossing electronics away willy nilly.
- My only Apple computer was a G3 Powermac, which I got used from the resale store at the University I used to work at, which means I got it real cheap.
  Compared to the boring and clunky Windows XP machine I had, I loved the design of the hardware and the software. I loved that to access the mobo to upgrade the RAM I just had to lift up a latch on the side of the case (my Modern case isn't even as easy as that to get into). I liked the colors and the 'handles' that made moving the tower around easy if you needed to. I had a very tacky aesthetic back in the day where if something was made of clear blue plastic I would buy it, so that Mac fit right in with my 'decor' lol
  Compared to XP the UI was a lot more sleek and modern imo, the dock was a game changer because I rarely used more than a handful of programs so having them always available was cool. Plus my simple minded ass was impressed by the animations. The "hot corners" were super useful. as was resizing the windows by dragging them to the edges of the screen. The overall look was just much more nice to look at. I think it was 10.3 Panther if I recall correctly.
  At the time I was just starting to learn about Free and Open Source software, so I thought the fact that they based OS X on Unix was pretty cool. The first DE I ever installed was on that Mac (LXDE?) and the first FOSS programs I installed was on there, VLC and The GIMP I believe. I also loved how easy it was to install programs. You would just download the file and drag it into a folder called 'Apps', and to uninstall you just deleted or moved the file out of there. Compared to the 'install wizards' and the 'add/remove' control panel on Windows, it felt like actual wizardry.
  I think more than anything the geek in me just liked learning a new set of skills and a different way of doing things, but overall I loved the experience. When they announced the iPhone I was excited. I was actually one of those people who carried around a mobile phone, MP3 player and Digital Camera at the same time. So the thought of just having to carry around 1 device to do all those things was like a dream come true. Then I heard about the price and was less excited (it was almost $1000 in today's money adjusted for inflation). I was a working class stiff after all. Then I found out about the lack of apps and thought that was weird. But still I was pretty much on board.
  I got a iPod Touch to replace my Nano and kept my flip phone. That's when I realized that I had to jailbreak it to fully unlock the functionality. That's where they finally lost me. I had been planning on buying another Mac but I figured if they were willing to lock down their phones like that- it was only a matter of time before they did the same thing with their computers.
  It ended up being a good decision because on my next (Windows Vista) PC I learned to install Linux and I could do some really tacky things with the UI then! lol. Compiz anyone :D
  All this to say I think Apple was actually in fairly decent (if still too expensive) place prior to the iPhone, but their whole 'walled garden' approach to computing just wasn't my bag at all.
- For most people Apple products are absolutely consumer friendly, what are you talking about? They’re amazingly simple to setup and go, the ecosystem actually works well, and they’re far more reliable than anything Microsoft could dream of putting out. They also don’t go obsolete within in a year, that’s total nonsense, and in fact they have generally had better support than their main competitors as far as I’ve seen. People I know have kept their Apple machines for a very long time without much issue. I myself had my first MacBook for ~11 years, from 2010 to 2021.
  For people who to tinker with software there’s still a lot you can do on them but back in the Windows vs. Mac days some ill-informed people decided that because Apple products work well they must be hard to code on, despite the Unix based nature of them. Currently, many people I know in software are issued MacBooks and say they work very well while the Windows machine I got for something as simple as AutoCAD was constantly having issues.
  Their consumer unfriendly tactics aren’t directly to connected to the capability of the machines. They 100% do some bad shit on that front, but it’s not enough to push most regular customers away. If you can’t figure out the difference between yourself and a regular customer then this isn’t a conversation you clearly have all the information for. Most of what you’re saying is just the usual parroted garbage that muddies the conversation and frankly makes it harder to deal with the companies actual failings because it just shows a grotesque inability to understand why people like their products.
  I will be very clear: This overt move beyond the usual corpo nightmare has soured me a lot on their products, which sucks because they are objectively very good. I also don’t entirely know what to do about it as making a switch to Google products is just as bad a move. I’ve heard of a couple alternatives, we’ll see what the landscape will look like in a couple years when I need a phone and several years after that when a new laptop is required.

Gay man gives gift to anti-lgbtq president.

Just proves that you can be gay and still be an absolute parasite billionaire. Fuck your pride apple watch bands.

Peter thiel, the architect behind Vance and trump and bilderberg and palantir, is also gay.
So gay, he had his former lover killed.
https://www.jezebel.com/death-of-gop-billionaire-peter-thiels-kept-man-is-being-1850259839
https://www.advocate.com/peter-thiel/peter-thiel-model-jeff-thomas
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/
- vance who is also mostly closeted too. peter thiel defenestrated his model bf.
Well fuck, Clarence is basically a black white supremacist.
- It’s pretty clear by now that the character Stinkmeaner is based wholly on Clarence Thomas
- his sugar daddy is a nazi, harlan crow.
Thiel showed the way.
- Ernst Roehm did it first
Class is the only identity that matters to them
No war, but the class war.

And Trump is just going to screw him over anyway, bribe or no bribe.

When you're rich and powerful as fuck but still bend the knee to a felon rapist pedophile.

All of America's most "powerful" people are little fucking bitches. Little bitches are calling the shots and representing us to the world. Jesus Christ how pathetic is this country going to get?

Conservatives: Hold my beer.

reality is often disappointing.

literal fucking bribery

It's what conservatives crave.
- PowerBribe(TM)

Gift? You mean bribe.

Yes this is a bribe. Period.
- Is it a bribe or ransom? Trump is extracting favors by threat.
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.
- Yeah the real story here should be hey everyone, look how transparently easy it is to manipulate the President of the United States
Cost of doing business in a country ruled by a dictator who LOVES shiny shit
Uhh acktchually its sparkling lobbying
It is a gift. The same gift that the Noble gave to their King, so they would not get replaced or lose power. It is a Hail to the King move.

US oligarchs are friends with regime?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-is-back-on-trumps-good-side-the-cost-600-billion-113413035.html

“The move comes after Trump threatened to place a 25% tariff on Apple’s iPhones made overseas and in the face of a potential 100% tariff on semiconductors.”

Pussies

Would Steve Jobs done the same?

bet steve wouldn't even answer the phone call. he was a bit egotistical, lol, and i doubt he'd have patience for trump's bullshit regardless of the consequences.
- Steve was a c off the old unt block but he sure would've told trump he could only have a gift with FUCKWITNET engraved all over it🤣🤣🤣🤣

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
- You're right it's both now can we fuck off with the "buh buh buh the other company!" bullshit?
  Article is about Apple not Google.
- real big yet you participate in society energy
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?
- Ya 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.
- Nope.
  I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a capital G
- 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.

enthusiastic dick sucking noises

Like in the grapefruit technique video.

that makes him a fascist.

we're gonna need more luigis.

- I understood this reference! Probably because I, too, am a dinosaur.
Ready player 2!
- 🎮🎮
an army of them is what we need.
- Whoa whoa there, slow down. You're talking crazy. Let's be reasonable.
  The only way to get any sort of reliable data is to let BOTH camps go nuts and see which one gets more attention and results.
- Because the CEOs will biy the new people. Better to off both.
- You do know that they will buy more? Legislators are a dime a dozen for oligarchs.

His name really is Tim Apple now.

Don’t understand how this isn’t criminal in America.

It is. Except that the law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. If a law is there on paper, but no one will enforce it, then it isn't a law. It's just some words on paper.
Capitalism
- Yeah, like ... Imagine a shitty dystopian scifi with ultra corporations.
  Now understand and accept that that's what real life is.

- I'm sure this has been pointed out before, but it's very appropriate that the video for "This is America" was shot in an abandoned factory building.

I’m not buying any more iPhones. I got used to them and just continued buying them. But no more.

You going to get the Trump phone, right!?
- Of course he has his own phone. Let me guess, it randomly charges your account and you can’t cancel the plan?
I'm going from Android to Apple soon, because I'm finally totally over all the present day Android BS. Good luck, have fun.
Word to the wise: don't buy anything less than a flagship. Older flagship if you're wanting to save some money. Samsung is best. I've played around with all kinds of mid-tier Androids & it's a frustrating experience. The phones just don't work well for long. Motorola sucks ass, don't even bother.
- What do you mean by "don't work well for long"?
  I've been using my Sony Xperia phones for many years, without significant issues.
- With the mid range Pixels you get a very polished and high quality Android I'd say.

In other countries this would be a criminal offense. For example in Austria: if the value of the gift is above 50000€ , it's 6 months - 5 years; if over 300k€ it's 1-10 years of prison.

Oh, this is 100% a criminal offense for any government employee that isn't Donald Trump (or someone that he has decided to shield).
Low level government workers can't even accept someone paying for their lunch.
The same loophole exists almost anywhere: "its a gift to white house or trumps library"
- A gold bar gifted to an institution would still count as corruption in most sane jurisdictions. Sure those loopholes exist, but we tend to disguise them as investments or charity.
It's criminal here too. But laws don't matter anymore because the "party of law and order" decided to elevate a felon rapist pedophile.
Not sure if you know this but I find it fun to know so I’m going to share.
In English when deciding whether to use a or an you should look at the start of the following word and if it starts with a vowel sound then use an else use a.
Examples:
An apple
An hour (note doesn’t start with a vowel but sounds like a vowel)
A goat
A criminal offence
- An hour
  Note, this can differ by region. For example, "an historic ..." is common in the UK, whereas it would be "a historic ..." in the US due to accent differences.
- aaah i know this and normally don't make this mistake, thank you very much tho, i will fix it right away 🫡
In other countries this would be a criminal offense.
Dialing 911 and telling my local constabulary that the President is doing crimes. But then they just laugh at me and say "We're all doing crimes! It's the innocent people who get thrown in jail."

So, where are y'all going to hang your mandatory Trump portraits?

So, where are y'all going to hang ~~your mandatory~~ Trump? ~~portraits~~
- i kinda like how they dealt with gaddafi. i think thats the way to go.
At the far end of my firing range.
And start practicing goose stepping for the invasion force parades.

- Don't forget the $200k gold bar bribe attached to it

What is engraved on it? What is he saying?

The engraving is irrelevant as the main glass piece will "accidentally" fall down and break, the 24k gold stand then would be put in storage where it will be "lost" and smelted down to a clean untraceable ingot

Now that's pathetic. Whatever happened to apple? What was even the latest cool thing they did? Seems almost irrelevant now

There's nothing cool about Apple and never was. They're just really good at advertising to people who don't understand technology. You have always been able to get the same grade of technology for way cheaper by purchasing from elsewhere.
I've been an IT professional (as a job) for over 2 decades. I have had numerous jobs and worked with a lot of tech people. I have had exactly one fellow employee that liked Apple and that dude was straight out of high school and we hired him on as an intern at first and he knew basically nothing.
Apple is good at advertising and robbing people blind. That's it.
- Funny, I've been an IT professional for over 2 decades and most of my coworkers have used Macs for development and system administration.
Didn’t you watch the video? They turned a gold bar into a “stand.” Truly revolutionary, Tim apple.
- Wait for the price tag on the upcoming golden monitor stand.
The latest cool things they have done: they've stopped being whiny little bitches & made their iPhones USB-C, with pressure from the EU. They've finally adopted Google's RCS messaging protocol, which should allow Apples & Androids to play nicely together in texting.
Both of these things were massively overdue; they were being arrogant & childish for years...
Last but certainly not least: iPhones 15 & up (I think) have FREE "satellite messaging". If you're out in bufu & you've got no signal, simply put your iPhone out with a clear view of the sky...and your text messages will be relayed, received via satellite. This is a safety feature, not everyone knows it's a thing, and personally I think it's very, very cool.
T-Mobile should also team up with Starlink so all T-Mo customers should get free satellite text messaging. Should. But modern iPhones have free emergency text messaging here & now; that's worth more than any "Trust me, bro, it's totally coming".

Release the Epstein files

Surely they will throw him in prison!

Bribery is now not just legal, but mandatory

I can't watch, the cringe is overpowering.

Keep bending down and kiss the ring, Tim. You're not low enough, keep going...

He is kissing his as so gently.

Nothing subtly though

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.
- 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.
- All in plain sight. Brass and shameful. Why has this been normalize? 😡
- Jesus short memories.
  Apple phones have been built in by Chinese kids in buildings with suicide nets on them since the beginning.
  When the fuck did Apple EVER give a shit about anything other than its value?
- But Apple cares about children. They were the first to run CSAM scans on their cloud storage and devices.
  /s
- 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.
- He pretty much says it, right? 'here's a 24k gold bar... to hold the plaque we engraved your name on
- “Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”

Emperor Cheesar accepting gold tribute from his feudal vassal

I guess I'm the only one who sees this as "here little Donald, now play with this and let me do my job".

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.
Yeah that is not how dictatorship works. He is vending a knee
- He is vending the knee
  I hate when I try to buy the knee, and it gets stuck in the machine...
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

I hate how this community has become mostly politics lately. Its understandable since technology and politics are connected but still.

Politics are about control. When fascists are in charge. Everything is politics
Mmmmm..... Is it politics, or ethics?
Can you be okay having ethics discussions in technology? If not, maybe the problem is less other people, and more you, not having any sort of spine.
I, too wish everything wasn't horrible, but think of it this way: technology is the stuff, made by the people, who make decisions and ideas. And so, it's important to know what the people are doing. Especially so for those of us without the privilege of benefit of being able to ignore politics.
I'm saying you're a privileged manipulator trying to quiet those trying to improve things, and I think that you should fix that, rather than complaining that people are talking about it in a passive aggressive, manipulate way.
Maybe you could make a community called "ethics blind technology"?
Or "unethical tech"?
Maybe even "aethical technology"
I feel "tech" communities have always been more about smartphones and startups rather than actual tech.

This is my own conjecture, but I'm willing to bet that playing nicely with Pres. Trump somehow saves Apple billions more in lost revenue to tariffs and legislation because Trump rewards those who are on his good side. I'm also willing to bet Tim / Apple is pressured to do this and has a very different attitude behind closed doors. Not that this excuses anybody for their actions, but it's clear they're trying to game the system the best they can in the name of "business".

Keeping our morals behind closed doors is what's wrong with the world.
- Almost like it's a completely bullshit excuse, like "just following orders".
  Crime isn't suddenly okay because it's profitable, no matter how much capitalism wants you to believe it.
- It’s like nuclear weapons
  Unless everyone gets rid of them nobody will
  Being the only one not to “bend the knee” will just hurt you if everyone else kisses his ass
You're probably right.
That doesn't change my opinion, though, that everyone at Apple can go suck-start their own asshole, and they'll never receive another cent of my money for as long as I live.
I already wasn't buying their shit but this has signed and sealed that for the rest of eternity.
I don't know, I mean if any corporation can eat the loss, it's apple with their insanely high margins.
I'm more inclined to believe there's some form of quid pro quo going on behind the scenes.
Besides, I simply cannot picture Tim Apple as any kind of a hero in this picture. No way he got bullied. He's getting something out of it. You scratch my back. I'll scratch yours.

i wonder what trump will ise that for

So now that apple bent the knee can people finally stop buying apple shit?

Google hasn’t “bent the knee”? 😏
- How about we make all tech ceos work in the cobalt mines instead of children
Dumb people buy Apple products, so they'll probably keep buying them, because they're dumb.

Lmao I hope it's fake or thinly plated gold on a lead base

Oh hey, another reason Apple fucking sucks. Look at that.

Another reason billionaires fucking suck. They'll always end up looking out for each other
- Class consciousness
It’s Apple or Google pretty much here for us Americans. Who do you think we should support? Or do you think we should go back to t9 Nokias?
- Linux phones will eventually get to a point that I can ditch the big two entirely. I hope. But yeah if I didn't need the apps for my job, I'd go back to a Nokia T9 in a heart beat. I was a live long before smartphones were, I don't need one.
- You’re on Lemmy and haven’t heard the word of our lord and saviour Linus Torvaldes?
- I want WebOS back.
  Or a clean, normal, non-Android phone version of Linux.
- European alternative: https://sailfishos.org/

Just a normal day in Trumplandia. You have to suck the King’s dick to stay alive!

Do stocks go up from such a cringe-move?

Apple stock did, and unfortunately it even makes sense why. Considering how self-centered Trump is, and how easily swayed he can be by a literal shiny rock being given to him, this was probably a legitimately good trade for Apple.
They spend some money on a gold brick with some laser-cut glass, and the president of the entire country either gives them preferential treatment, or simply doesn't take any more extreme actions he was planning to take against them.
- trump loves guady gold plated pieces, he thinks its the epitome of fine furniture or wealth.
- The shareholders should be ashamed.. That's not good business, that's evil.
They sure did!

What a stupid fucking dildo. Sucking pp like that.

This is why when the whole media world rushed to protect him when he came out of the closet as gay was total and utter bullshit. He wasn't brave and he doesn't give one hot damn about the gay community clearly.

I fucking hate corporatism

https://paulstreet.substack.com/p/fascism-is-corporatism-the-merger
- Capitalism's natural end stage

Time to boycott Apple just like everybody decided to boycott Target and Amazon for bending over.

I mean at this point you'll have to boycott everyone. Boycotting isn't gonna cut it anymore.
- See, I disagree with this sentiment. Coming from a Canadian we're seeing products in grocery stores and other places we've simply never seen before because all the american product is rotting on the shelves. For instance, I've seen legit Canadian brands of laundry detergent whereas my whole life all I've ever really seen is tide, bounce the usual corp crap.
  This is slowly but surely propping up alternatives in a way that simply wasn't possible before and directly contributing to what is currently small manufacturers, farmers and other retailers into becoming viable alternatives to the usual suspects.
- You're not wrong—and yet, nobody decides to do anything. Still.
Google gave $1M to him
Will you boycott Google products too?
- Shouldn't we?

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.

A set of shiny keys dangled in his face so he forgets about demanding a US-made Iphone.

Just suck him off already, you fucks. Come on commit!

The real Tim Apple

An apple shaped hole in a CD? He just presented Trump with an A-Hole award.

Fuck you Tim Cook

so Trump excluded Apple from his tarriffs, right?

Ding ding ding!
Trump could do the funniest thing... And not exempt Apple.

I guess Trump didn't like the rimjob from Tim the first time.

Jesus, just pull his fly down and give him a blow job already.

Probably got bored of that

I’ll bet those boots taste disgusting.

Since this isn't Tim Apple's first roll in the hay with Trump, I doubt he minds the taste.
Just like $100 dollar bills, if you're lucky, you might even get a little cocaine with it.

Fucking gross.

Assuming that’s a 5lb paper weight base, is that ~250k$ worth??

Seems like someone is worried about tariffs on iPhones. Sadly, this will probably work too.

I have always hated Apple, this is just further proof that they are greedy fucks with no morals.

Back door to Apple customer data maybe?
- They already get that from the PRISM act.
“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
- You know how those Trump supporters thought we were supposed to be really offended at "Fuck Biden" but no one gave a shit because even most Democrats were never really cheerleaders for Biden?
  Even people who hate Apple know that Google is a piece of shit too. We aren't (generally) Google cheerleaders. You don't need to whatabout all the anti-Apple comments.
- Dude. We know.

bootlicker

edit: apple polisher is more appropriate and punny

Cook speaks Trump. Fluently.

I bet Apple has a Trump Mitigation Team

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?
- Oh yes, let me protest this thing that just happened by throwing my Android-OS phone that I bought years ago away. That'll show 'em.
  You're just as disingenuous and stupid as the morons on the right who smashed their Keurigs.
  FYI, my next phone will probably be a Linux phone anyway and I hardly use YouTube at all these days, and when I do it's with AdBlockers on, and I never gave a cent to them for premium, so I cost them money to use their platform if anything. If PeerTube or some other non-Google video hosting service could go mainstream, I'd use that in a heartbeat. I've de-Googled my life as much as I could reasonably be expected to, and this was before their CEO kissed the ring. So fuck off with your judgemental attitude.

I doubt many here would refuse to do this for massive bag.

What a fucking tool.

Yes he is, but that’s who you voted to lead 🤷🏻‍♂️
- 'you'

Scorched earth.

Let's see if apple enjoys the Tesla treatment.

You know cook loves money more than his principles.

I can't wait for all these fuckwits to get what's coming to them.

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

Goddammit Tim Apple, it doesn't even look like anything remotely interesting.

For a split second after he stepped aside to reveal it, I actually thought it was a cool dragon figure. Must've been my mind desperately seeking any meaning in this nonsense because I was looking at the phones.

Why don't they just transfer $200k directly to Trump?

"ewww, that would be bribery. This is not a bribe, it's a ... gift? Yes, it's a gift. Definitely a gift. And we expect nothing in return ;⁠-⁠);⁠-⁠) just a little gift. And this is definitely not a distraction from the orange buffoon being a child rapist and being mentioned many times on the Epstein list!!!"
“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
Not a big enough bribe at this scale

So Trump didn’t want his usual bribe of a BJ and $10M??

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

This is not inconsequential at all, it's literally a bribe

Imagine America loving it.

Ba da da da da.

Ick

Had a hard time hearing what he said... What was it? A gold base for a piece of glass?

gold
thats exactly, its probably just gold plated, and not solid gold.

Is the 24 karat on Aluminum?

More likely zinc or brass.

Tim is smart. This is exactly how to survive your shit president, America. Bend him over and kiss his ass, and you’ll survive.

Or we can fight back and not lay down for the dictator as he destroys the entire country around us
- They just made an assessment what it costs to fight vs what it costs to just kiss his ass and hope it will pass. The outcome is obvious.
Trump is not a powerful wizard, all his power comes from people who give it to them. Those people have a choice, and this is it.

Is this another reference to piss play like last time?

Maybe he just has a fetish for tiny pee pees?

I salute Tim on his dick sucking skills

Such precision at such small scale.

Render unto Caesar..

Surely 18k gold would be close enough, right?

18? We all know that he prefers 15 or so...

Plot twist: It's loaded with spyware to gain leverage over Trump and blackmail him.

Look at this move from a purely business perspective:

Give the toddler a shiny toy, toddler plays nicely.

And oh my fuck it's such a cheap gift from the war chest of Apple's bajillions. The real story is the Trump is too stupid to be insulted!

Been screaming for years, "PLAY this narcissistic fool!" Just wish world media and politicians and celebrities would get in the game. He's a CHILD! PLAY HIM! Instead we got world leaders rolling over. Heysus.

Nah, not hating on Cook for making an hilariously logical move.

Nah, it would have been way better (especially for literally everyone else) if they didn’t play at all.
Instead all the greediest people are realizing they can do this and they get all the things they want (so does Trump, along with more power) and it’s only at the expense of the entire American population (and the rest of the world too).
Fuck Cook. It isn’t clever. It’s literally greed. It’s not even that other people haven’t thought to do this, it’s that you have to be a total piece of shit to do this.
trump loves anything that has gold on it, also its not solid gold because it would be too heavy for him to handle.
- It's not solid gold because anything solid would be out of character for Apple. Note also the surface texture.