Tim Cook sold Apple's soul

[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. ;-)