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This is a huge stain on the company, the brand, and Cook’s leadership. It’s not just censorship—it’s active cooperation with an authoritarian power under the f
by ordinaryradical 7y ago
This is a huge stain on the company, the brand, and Cook’s leadership.
It’s not just censorship—it’s active cooperation with an authoritarian power under the fig leaf of TOS violations. Truly astonishing.
- flukus 7y agoAnd the people who purchase apple products. They gave Apple this level of control in the first place.
- jm4 7y agoOh, get off your high horse. Which devices are you using from a company that isn’t similarly large and doesn’t do the same thing?
- flukus 7y agoI'm far from perfect, but I don't purchase products from a company that has dictatorial control over the software installed on my phone, so I'm not complicit in handing over that power to corporations (and in turn the CCP), iPhone users are. Their actions helped lead to this.
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- troysand 7y agoNo disrespect to Steve Jobs but my guess is that he would do the same thing.
- ryanlol 7y agoI doubt it. There are infinite ways to word this email, a different CEO may not have written anything. Cook presumably had some goal while sending this internal email, I doubt he achieved it. Telling your employees lies as weak as this certainly isn’t going to improve morale.