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Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gay man gives gift to anti-lgbtq president.

    Just proves that you can be gay and still be an absolute parasite billionaire. Fuck your pride apple watch bands.

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    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Peter thiel, the architect behind Vance and trump and bilderberg and palantir, is also gay.

      So gay, he had his former lover killed.

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        vance who is also mostly closeted too. peter thiel defenestrated his model bf.

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well fuck, Clarence is basically a black white supremacist.

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        his sugar daddy is a nazi, harlan crow.

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s pretty clear by now that the character Stinkmeaner is based wholly on Clarence Thomas

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thiel showed the way.

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      • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ernst Roehm did it first

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    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Class is the only identity that matters to them

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      • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tim Cook giving off real housen****r vibes

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No war, but the class war.

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    we're gonna need more luigis.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I understood this reference!

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    • AngryRobot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ready player 2!

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      • motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        🎮🎮

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Whoa whoa there, slow down. You’re talking crazy. Let’s be reasonable.

        The only way to get any sort of reliable data is to let BOTH camps go nuts and see which one gets more attention and results.

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      • tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Because the CEOs will biy the new people. Better to off both.

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      • rayyy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You do know that they will buy more? Legislators are a dime a dozen for oligarchs.

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    • MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      an army of them is what we need.

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  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tim Cook, and Apple, is supporting a pedophile. Remember that when you walk into an Apple Store, if you can afford to.

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    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”

      So is Google and every major company

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      • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re right it’s both now can we fuck off with the “buh buh buh the other company!” bullshit?

        Article is about Apple not Google.

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      • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        real big yet you participate in society energy

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    • atticus88th@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I bet most of the people here replying in the comments are typing on what helped pay for that gold plated ass kissing device.

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      • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is this a “you criticize society yet you participate in it” thing?

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      • ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ya but I am pretty sure Google has done a lot to help Trump. Any big tech company wants to be on the good side of Trump.

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      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe if we were on reddit, here I really don’t think that’s true.

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      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m typing this on a Lenovo laptop keyboard (V14 series, the plastic casing is just a catastrophe near the lid hinges, though I’ve seen the same with the magnesium casing, it has plastic parts inside).

        I’ve also pirated some Apple TV attempt at Foundation episodes, but honestly felt like The Arc. Sci-Fi with some right initial ideas, but ultimately thoroughly idiotic.

        In case of Apple TV’s Foundation, I couldn’t help thinking that they were trying to make it “look expensive” and “feel elitarian” similarly to their products, first priority, make it feel “diverse” and in social interactions representing a certain prestigious set of political ideas, second priority, make it feel nuanced and intelligent more than be nuanced and intelligent, third priority.

        Honestly even with 90s Apple stuff virtualized I feel something bad, like nausea, I wouldn’t be able to use it probably. Too much visual design flexing.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nope.
        I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a Captial G

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Don’t forget the $200k gold bar bribe attached to it

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  • MoonRaven@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gift? You mean bribe.

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    • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes this is a bribe. Period.

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      • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is it a bribe or ransom? Trump is extracting favors by threat.

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OK let me play devil’s advocate for a moment: it’s the only language he speaks. There’s no discreet negotiations. You must stroke his ego.

      Of course that’s still corporate cronyism.

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      • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah the real story here should be hey everyone, look how transparently easy it is to manipulate the President of the United States

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    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cost of doing business in a country ruled by a dictator who LOVES shiny shit

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    • nuko147@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is a gift. The same gift that the Noble gave to their King, so they would not get replaced or loose power. It is a Hail to the King move.

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    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Uhh acktchually its sparkling lobbying

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  • 13igTyme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t get why people are NOW saying he’s trying to appease trump. He’s been doing it for years. He was front row at his inauguration right next to other billionaires.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Giving him a literal gold bar (though disguised as a stand) is stereotypical buying El Presidente Banana Republic bullshit.

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    • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I had to look it up: 24 karat is the purest form of gold. So yeah it’s a gold bar 100% lmfao

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      • Demonmariner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Cook isn’t handling it like solid gold though (it looks too light). I bet it’s 24 karat gold plated zinc.

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    • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sounds like the US’ chickens coming home to roost. After creating those conditions with their CIA elsewhere for decades.

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Release the Epstein files

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    • Sightline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Surely they will throw him in prison!

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  • plm00@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is my own conjecture, but I’m willing to bet that playing nicely with Pres. Trump somehow saves Apple billions in lost revenue to tariffs and legislation because Trump rewards those who are on his good side. I’m also willing to bet Tim Apple is pressured to do this and has a very different attitude behind closed doors. Not that this excuses anybody for their actions, but it’s clear they’re trying to game the system the best they can in the name of “business”.

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    • FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Keeping our morals behind closed doors is what’s wrong with the world.

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      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Almost like it’s a completely bullshit excuse, like “just following orders”.

        Crime isn’t suddenly okay because it’s profitable, no matter how much capitalism wants you to believe it.

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      • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s like nuclear weapons

        Unless everyone gets rid of them nobody will

        Being the only one not to “bend the knee” will just hurt you if everyone else kisses his ass

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re probably right.

      That doesn’t change my opinion, though, that everyone at Apple can go suck-start their own asshole, and they’ll never receive another cent of my money for as long as I live.

      I already wasn’t buying their shit but this has signed and sealed that for the rest of eternity.

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    • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know, I mean if any corporation can eat the loss, it’s apple with their insanely high margins.

      I’m more inclined to believe there’s some form of quid pro quo going on behind the scenes.

      Besides, I simply cannot picture Tim Apple as any kind of a hero in this picture. No way he got bullied. He’s getting something out of it. You scratch my back. I’ll scratch yours.

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Such a disgusting display. Most normal people don’t want anything to do with rapists and child molesters, yet here’s Tim.

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    • ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honestly I am pretty sure this is a bribe to exempt Apple from tariffs. Billionaires care more about their profit than children being harm. It’s the sad truth.

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      • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a bribe in disguise. It’s a tribute and a public spectacle of loyalty. And the top voted comment thinks Tim is playing 4d chess with Trump…

        Nothing will improve until these people are eliminated from their positions of power. Stop giving Apple your money.

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      • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        All in plain sight. Brass and shameful. Why has this been normalize? 😡

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      • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Jesus short memories.

        Apple phones have been built in by Chinese kids in buildings with suicide nets on them since the beginning.

        When the fuck did Apple EVER give a shit about anything other than its value?

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      • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”

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      • arin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Trump has no idea what he is doing he just want free gifts like the stupid used airplane

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        At this point it seems like half of them became billionaires just to be the ones harming the children.

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      • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But Apple cares about children. They were the first to run CSAM scans on their cloud storage and devices.

        /s

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  • MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    literal fucking bribery

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    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s what conservatives crave.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And I can’t even accept a gift voucher due to anti-bribery rules? Fuck off.

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    • braxy29@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      you can’t even accept a bottle of water while waiting to vote! the rules are different for us and them.

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  • JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I guess I’m the only one who sees this as “here little Donald, now play with this and let me do my job”.

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    • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it’s that and also more and all of it is wrong and disgusting.

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    • liuther9@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah that is not how dictatorship works. He is vending a knee

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    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s exactly it.

      Promise things that you’re doing anyway, use big numbers - hundreds of billions

      Give him some shiny crap, he loves it

      Praise him

      Then he’ll let you go on as usual

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  • qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bribe. The word you’re looking for

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    • fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Definitely, as after this it was announced that Apple would not be affected by the 100% semiconductor tariffs.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why when the whole media world rushed to protect him when he came out of the closet as gay was total and utter bullshit. He wasn’t brave and he doesn’t give one hot damn about the gay community clearly.

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  • arin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bribery is now not just legal, but mandatory

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  • july@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    …yahoo.com/…/apple-is-back-on-trumps-good-side-th…

    “The move comes after Trump threatened to place a 25% tariff on Apple’s iPhones made overseas and in the face of a potential 100% tariff on semiconductors.”

    Pussies

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do stocks go up from such a cringe-move?

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    • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Apple stock did, and unfortunately it even makes sense why. Considering how self-centered Trump is, and how easily swayed he can be by a literal shiny rock being given to him, this was probably a legitimately good trade for Apple.

      They spend some money on a gold brick with some laser-cut glass, and the president of the entire country either gives them preferential treatment, or simply doesn't take any more extreme actions he was planning to take against them.

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  • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In other countries this would be an criminal offense. For example in Austria: if the value of the gift is above 50000€ or not, it’s 6 months - 5 years; if over 300k€ it’s 1-10 years of prison.

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  • thoon@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I fucking hate corporatism

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When you’re rich and powerful as fuck but still bend the knee to a felon rapist pedophile.

    All of America’s most “powerful” people are little fucking bitches. Little bitches are calling the shots and representing us to the world. Jesus Christ how pathetic is this country going to get?

    Conservatives: Hold my beer.

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh hey, another reason Apple fucking sucks. Look at that.

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  • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Emperor Cheesar accepting gold tribute from his feudal vassal

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  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ~enthusiastic dick sucking noises~

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now that’s pathetic. Whatever happened to apple? What was even the latest cool thing they did? Seems almost irrelevant now

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  • aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not buying any more iPhones. I got used to them and just continued buying them. But no more.

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  • Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Smells like an opportunity to cause Apple brand damage.

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  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    His name really is Tim Apple now.

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  • thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Time to boycott Apple just like everybody decided to boycott Target and Amazon for bending over.

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