Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
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.
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.
Exactly, they all are sucking that orange teet now.
Nope.
I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a capital GMaybe if we were on reddit, here I really don’t think that’s true.
Gift? You mean bribe.
Yes this is a bribe. Period.
Is it a bribe or ransom? Trump is extracting favors by threat.
Cost of doing business in a country ruled by a dictator who LOVES shiny shit
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.
Uhh acktchually its sparkling lobbying
Giving him a literal gold bar (though disguised as a stand) is stereotypical buying El Presidente in a Banana Republic bullshit.
Sounds like the US’ chickens coming home to roost. After creating those conditions with their CIA elsewhere for decades.
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.
Release the Epstein files
Surely they will throw him in prison!
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
This is apple we’re talking about. Not some random company.
There are bigger random companies who are bending the knee like Meta, Amazon and Google
All 3 of those are smaller than Apple. The only 2 companies with bigger market caps than Apple are Nvidia and Microsoft.
Market cap isn’t everything.
Meta by itself has a bigger cultural impact globally
That’s not how companies are measured against each other though. How are you even quantifying the cultural impact? You could have said many companies are bigger than Apple because they have a bigger physical footprint, bigger customer base, larger number of staff, bigger area of operation, larger mass of product or many other things but the fact is when we compare the “size” of companies, we are referring to their market cap.
Nobody should get rid of their nukes. In fact, more countries should have nuclear arms.
Such is life on planet earth.
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.
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.
Bribery is now not just legal, but mandatory
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.
Tim Apple is gay… I’m not aware of any reports of Epstein trafficking boys, but it would not be at all surprising.
To be completely honest, I had forgotten. His sexuality really makes no difference to me. It’s just sad to see so many folks sucking up to Trump.
And no I wouldn’t be surprised, while true Epstein didn’t traffick boys, I would be surprised if he didn’t have some connections to that. Again nothing on Tim’s preference for male or female or whatever he likes…but god it seems rich folks can’t help but be into horrible things.
His sexuality doesn’t mean anything to me either, I was just pointing out the incongruity.
I figured. Sorry if I came off rude, my bad.
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
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.
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.
The same loophole exists almost anywhere: “its a gift to white house or trumps library”
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.
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.
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.”
Do stocks go up from such a cringe-move?
They sure did!
enthusiastic dick sucking noises
Like in the grapefruit technique video.
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
Yep the fact that this goes automatically to hating on Apple instead of the rich tells you all you need to know
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?
I want WebOS back.
Or a clean, normal, non-Android phone version of Linux.
Sailfish exists: https://sailfishos.org/
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.
European alternative: https://sailfishos.org/
