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I’m a longtime user and former employee and I can’t begin to summon any words to excuse this shitty look. Apple under Stelv Jobs may sometimes warrant a side-ey
by alsetmusic 4y ago
I’m a longtime user and former employee and I can’t begin to summon any words to excuse this shitty look. Apple under Stelv Jobs may sometimes warrant a side-eyed glance. Apple under Tim Cook keeps coming up slimey af. I used to admire the man. I now think he’s slowly killing a company that I used to love.
- thr0wawayf00 4y agoYou think Steve Jobs would be morally above doing something like this? His personal history is full of stuff like this.
- NegativeLatency 4y agoThis claim is well supported by the numerous emails from court cases that have become public recently.
- thr0wawayf00 4y agoHe denied paternity of his child for decades. We've known what kind of person he is for a long time, people just choose to ignore what they don't like.
- duxup 4y agoIs there something about Steve that would indicate he wouldn't do this? I don't know of anything in his history that would lead me to believe that, but I'm hardly his biographer or anything.
- Bilal_io 4y agoJobs wanted to create a system where you could use apps without needing an app store, similar to the idea of everything being a PWA, but that was before the success of Apple's App Store. I doubt he cared about it afterwards.
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoWell, that’s the charitable interpretation, with the uncharitable interpretation being that he needed an excuse because the App Store wasn’t done in time for the iPhone’s release.
- snowwrestler 4y agoIt is well-documented that the original intention of Apple was to not have a 3rd party SDK aside from a browser on the iPhone, but they changed their minds.
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoYes, that was Apple's stated intention, but we don't know whether that was sincere or just a bluff to buy time.
- duxup 4y agoI don’t understand how that applies to this situation.
- ksec 4y agoSame here. Used to love Steve Jobs' Apple. The major difference I think Tim Cook has a moral compass that is somewhat different to say the least. He doesn't view doing that as wrong. Just watch how many times he said Privacy is a Fundamental Human Right. It is now ingrained into the company to the point of using it as an argument in court. And I haven't even mention China.