Apple plays the long game. They know the regime is temporary. The marketing stat bonus they will get for defying trumps regime will get them much more than selling out to him now. They will outlast him.
Their motives aren’t pure but they are compatible with capitalism and pig fuckery at the same time here.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Thats just the price i feel. These stories always ends with they got acces and no longer need apple.
The product is a “definitely not an apple employee” “hacker” who shows up at your door with how to break in.
The cost price is making sure the media tells everyone about how apple isn’t willing to play ball while i am pretty sure us has a law to force them to play ball just like all the dictatorships.
Somewhat funny i actually realized this dynamic when watching star trek. Whenever they need to do something illegal they simply put their badges on the desk and just like magic they are no longer bound by federation law.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Another fun one is ex-Intelligence agents leaving government work to go into the private sector and create unconstitutional spying powers and obtain information which would be illegal for the government to obtain, which they then sell to the government.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
That’s the main reason I don’t like the “good people in uniform as beacons of virtue” trope. That always happens. Every time I see that on screen I immediately imagine the morally inverted version of the same plot.
At least in Babylon-V such a decision is something not reversible and important for the main characters.
And in SG-1, despite that being sort of a piece of military propaganda, that too doesn’t happen too easily.
But there the main characters are not some beacons of anything, they are just people with their own way.