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Let Apple rain Terror on this damn Nazi.
It certainly is a weird timeline when Apple is the good guy.
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 me Apple is as bad as google
Yes. Tim Apple gave the $1M bribe to Orange Donald.
Never heard of him. Do you mean Tim Apple?
I can think of a lot of companies that are far worse than Apple.
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.
Darwin was just their version of BSD which they released in order to comply with the license, but the actual Desktop/UI was a separate stack. You could build and install Darwin, but it wouldn’t do anything.
Wasn't that because they desperately needed a new OS and just acquired Steve Jobs' company NeXT who had an OS called NeXTSTEP which was based on Mach kernel and BSD. They didn't embrace Unix and open sourcing out of goodwill.
Yeah it was almost briefly cool. You could take apart and upgrade your own iPod, build your own enclosure for it
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.
Isn't this sorta how the Corporate Wars started in the Cyberpunk universe?