Tim Cook sold Apple's soul

[kevinrenskers@hachyderm.io]

@olokolo Right, for me this feeling has been growing for a few years as well. I used to build iOS apps for a living until 2023 when I decided to switch. So it’s not new but it’s getting worse and worse, Cook’s cozying up to Trump.

[laorobob@troet.cafe]

@kevinrenskers
Thanks for this insight. As an Apple user since 1992, I really started to feel uneasy only when Tahoe arrived. Before that, while I noticed the embarrassing behaviour of Tim Apple, I thought it wouldn’t affect the product. But now, there is no denying any more.
And for the first time I start to feel the dilemma since I need the stuff to work and there is no viable alternative (and no, for my needs, Linux is not there yet).

[kevinrenskers@hachyderm.io]

@LaOroBob Yeah I am still on iOS 18 and macOS 15 on all my devices. Linux isn't really the biggest problem for me - it's the iPhone.

[holtisan@mastodon.social]

@kevinrenskers

This blog posts hits home, man. I was aware of some stuff, but there is more perspective in there.

I switched my desktop OS to Linux already, @nextcloud & @homeassistant are my next projects on the list. Not using any Meta or X or Google stuff.

My iPad lays dormant in some box, not using it at all.

For the iPhone, I am not sure. It’s my absolute daily driver. I have hardened it in terms of privacy & data collection.

[kevinrenskers@hachyderm.io]

@Holtisan Yeah the iPhone is the real problem, I just don't see a good alternative to be honest. But I only just started looking into de-Googled Android versions, so who knows.

[holtisan@mastodon.social]

@kevinrenskers yeah, I have been looking at alternatives, too. There are good ones, for sure. But none could really wow me into using it. I am not super dependend on iOS exclusive apps. But most alternatives just don’t feel as good or lack functionality.
Also my family is almost all on iPhone. Sharing between those devices is just so simple, if it wasn’t for LiquidGlass going in the way.

[kevinrenskers@hachyderm.io]

@Holtisan Same here! We're all-in on Apple: MacBooks, iPhones, iPads, iMessage, shared calendars, Apple Music, password sharing, etc.

So it's not just me leaving the Apple ecosystem, it's also me leaving the family ecosystem (because they will absolutely not switch to Linux and/or Android).

I haven't updated to Liquid Glass though 😅

[ladyailuros@mastodon.social]

@kevinrenskers

Oh yeah if we hooked a turbine up to Jobs’ corpse we could power entire cities he’s spinning so hard in his grave.

[leroy@indiehackers.social]

@stonetree @kevinrenskers parking! I forgot about that. ugh, that’s another dependency and the city uses ~7 different apps, depending on the lot (luckily most of them have several options)

[tael@yiff.life]

@kevinrenskers I'm more sympathetic to this take https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116005751401481582

[tael@yiff.life]

@kevinrenskers I think you fundamentally misread the post. It's saying that Liquid Glass is NOT when Apple began being evil. Neither is this. Apple never had a soul, they were always the bad guys.

[tael@yiff.life]

@kevinrenskers You are framing Apple as "they were once the good guys but now they have forsook all their principles and become the bad guys." They didn't. They were always the bad guys.

[kevinrenskers@hachyderm.io]

@tael Ok, I don't really agree with that. But I am fine with you believing that.

[tael@yiff.life]

@kevinrenskers Again, you're fundamentally misreading the post. I can't help you if you refuse to understand the point I'm making, which has nothing to do with Liquid Glass, at all. You don't have to agree with it, but misrepresenting it is equally unnecessary.

[tael@yiff.life]

@kevinrenskers I wasn't offering you help. I was sharing my opinion on a social media network. It's a shame that this seems to have upset you.

[tael@yiff.life]

@kevinrenskers That is an idiom.

[kevinashworth@mastodon.social]

@devolute @kevinrenskers Well I hadn’t given it much thought at all but I had assumed good things about him. Guess I did this about a lot of people (but increasingly less so, given all the fascism). Anyway, I was wrong. That’s all I meant. I was wrong.

With things so bad now, getting back to the low level of US leaders pretending to care would go a long way. I hope our evil moment propels us far beyond that low level when we do recover.

Also, sure wish there wasn’t a duopoly on smartphones.

[davew@mastodon.social]

@kevinrenskers

apple is a company, very good at selling itself as a lifestyle. but there's only one person, who's been gone for 15 years, who could keep that reality distortion field inflated.

we didn't see it directly in the US but imagine the compromises they had to make to be so in bed with the chinese government? the US isn't that far gone yet but we're getting there.

the story is very old, the diff is that people just don't like to see it on their tv. ;-)