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Tim Cook sold Apple's soul
- RGamma 8mo agoMonopolies are rearing their ugly heads again. It's as if we learned nothing.
- robthebrew 8mo agoWhen you have an egocentric geriatric with unpredictable impulses as President, you need to "say" the right things. Doing is another matter. I pity the USA at this moment.
- blargthorwars 8mo agoI learned this with new pronouns. What I think... isn't what I say.
- general1465 8mo agoSounds like communism in Eastern Block 1948~1989
- throwawayqqq11 8mo agoPlease elaborate the damage done by phrases of civility around pronous, that would justify vehement opposition. Dont worry, you can speak ill about communism to me.
- palmotea 8mo ago> Ctrl-F "china", "manufacturing" > Zero results Apple never had a "soul," it never had "values." The OP was just suckered by its marketing and the fact it was previously being sycophantic towards political groups the OP likes. Now someone else in in power that the OP doesn't like as much. That's what changed, not Apple.
- kjmr 8mo agoThe article links to https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-5 https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-5, which goes deep into China and manufacturing.
- palmotea 8mo agoYeah, but it's obvious the OP doesn't really care about that, as he spend paragraph after paragraph talking about anything but. It's pretty clear the OP just had a delusional view of Apple, and is now only coming to realize things that have been true for a long time.
- rhabarba 8mo agoThey still don't unlock iPhones for the government. But please, by all means, enjoy your next U.S. ecosystem.
- t312227 8mo agohello, as always: imho (!) we are in a capitalistic economy: companies don't have "souls", they make profit. tim cook did what nearly every large company in the 1990ties did: move your production to china. why? mainly 2 reasons * cheap production * the back than still developing large chinese market =?> more profit. and he got rewarded and later promoted for this ... just my 0.02€
- burnt-resistor 8mo agoTo be fair, sj dropped the ball on succession planning. Tim Cook, the promoted bean counter, is perfect as a profit-extraction leader Wall St. wants but nothing like sj in terms of valuing the product experience or category-defining innovation that doesn't steer things straight towards maximizing profits. The problem is, when the largest demographic, ordinary people, grow tired of throwing huge sums at fragile, stagnant, less cool, less durable tech they eventually stop buying and start buying elsewhere. Apple needs to find a founder-like CEO who is more concerned with leading, cool, usability, durability, and category-changing vision and less Cook or Scully brand exploitation for profit maximization.
- urup2l8 8mo agoI am thinking the same thing as the author of the article. Long time Apple Fanboy here. I remember Steve Jobs doing things for free to improve customer loyalty. Now that Ernst Röhm, oh I mean Tim Cook is kissing up, I’m looking for an off ramp. After the dividend is paid my Apple stock is gone.