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Apple Comes Crawling Back to X Like a Dog
- guywithahat 2y agoI can’t imagine who could write that headline and think “looks good, send it”
- cbarrick 2y agoI don't see why not. It's sensational, and that drives clicks. Clicks sell ads. I don't think anyone is exactly holding Gizmodo to high journalistic standards.
- forgotoldacc 2y agoCompanies were grandstanding against Twitter for various reasons. None of the issues they claimed to oppose went away. But now they're coming back for the money. If they were an individual doing the same, nobody would find a problem with the headline.
- Lalabadie 2y agoI got the reference, it's a pastiche of a few Trump tweets from before his first term. It became a running gag that the man has no idea what a dog actually does.
- talldayo 2y agoWhy not? It's endemic of a wider shift in Apple leadership towards extremism and political pandering.
- pacomerh 2y agoI don't see the problem. What they're doing is shameful and needs to be called out
- gnabgib 2y agoDiscussion (72 points, 1 day ago, 35 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031493 (41 points, 23 hours ago, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032112
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- jamesy0ung 2y agoApple has built a reputation for supporting progressive causes like (RED) for AIDS relief, LGBTQ+ rights, and racial equity, yet now they’re funding a platform rife with hate speech and extremism.
- inatreecrown2 2y agoApple has also built a reputation for depending on China for manufacturing, and bending to their will in multiple cases. So Apple is not only supporting progressive causes.
- layer8 2y agoApple hasn’t released a new PRODUCT(RED) since the iPhone 14, which they previously did for every iPhone generation.
- pokstad 2y agoThat could be X or Reddit for that matter. Yet no one talks about Reddit the same way.
- guywithahat 2y agoAt least X has fact checking, you can go on r/all most days and find completely false content on the front page. Just a few days ago Reddit upvoted a post to the front page making fun of Elon for saying illegal immigrants can have SSN’s. Reddit has no interest in fact checking or stopping hate so long as it’s popular
- ivewonyoung 2y agoReddit has become terrible and unusable especially since the election campaign started last year. Anyone refuting the misinformation with sources or facts are permanently banned by mods of big subreddits like r/news. Unrelated subs are injected with partisan politics, sometimes completely taking it over. Death threats to Musk higly upvoted. Not a great source but they have plausible proof that explains this behavior. https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/29/busted-the-inside-story-of-how-the-kamala-harris-campaign-manipulates-reddit-and-breaks-the-rules-to-control-the-platform/ https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/29/busted-the-inside-story...
- fsckboy 2y agoand here I was thinking they came crawling back to Xwindows
- Incipient 2y agoTurns out, the majority of buyers don't actually care about this stuff, beyond the initial 15 minutes of 'fame' in the headlines. The majority of the market just cares about price. Company policies, manufacturing locations, advertising services, etc all come second. Until we figure out how to change that, don't expect or blame companies for doing different.