I think you are proving Tim's point here rather that refuting it. It's how people use technology that determines whether it is good or bad. Bad business models, nefarious/criminal usage, and scams are human choices.
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I already factored everything. The ones I listed can’t be used ‘correctly’ or ‘to make the world better’. They are bad from the start and their design was criminal. Their founders were all criminal minded or deranged, and thats why some of them were founded by anons.
No, you didn't. You assigned human motives in every case. No one is claiming that business models and scams are neutral. It's the underlying technology that is neutral.
The internet is neutral. Facebook is not.
DNA testing is neutral. Theranos is not.
Apple only is vocal about the “issues” that garner them the most virtue points. As are the vast majority of corporations over the last couple years. Now is when we see what companies are truly made of in the face of tons of people under direct attack and threats of destruction. Taking up arms to defend their homes, homemade bombs. REAL ISSUES. Not pointless slogans.
Unlike you, Apple can't afford to live in a world of propaganda and illusions. There is a reason why Apple's business model is so successful.
Just as a comment...you don't know what Apple is doing or not as they haven't announced it. Apple isn't obliged to help the world as neither is Google. It's clearly your choice to leave the "apple ecosystem" for something else.
Lightning is the best for the environment cause Apple charges a huge royalty on it, causing the cables to cost 10 times what they otherwise would ($15 MFi vs $1.50 bootleg), so people buy fewer. But at this point, it's likely that people have enough USB-C cables lying around for other stuff that they'd not need more for their iPhones.
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Update: Apple did the same thing for Apple Maps as Google did*
They removed games with conference flag worldwide (even Russia), but not RT news app etc from the Russian App Store.
Today I was arguing with a Russian and when I told him that Poland joining Nato was the best decision ever made he threatened to cut my throat and stab me to death and called me a nazi.
Why shouldn't I be disappointed with Apple? They're mostly fake.
The media (since 2016 precisely) keeps telling me FB is evil and shoving propaganda at me... I don't get it, all I see on there is my grandma posting selfies and some posts from car groups I'm in. The ads are for buying random stuff like diamond rings. Are they mixing it up with Twitter?
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American big brands including Apple, Google, Ford and Harley-Davidson on Tuesday stopped sales and distanced themselves from Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine, joining a growing list of companies from shippers to car makers to energy companies shunning the country.
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) said it had stopped sales of iPhones and other products in Russia, Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc's Google dropped Russian state publishers from its news, Ford Motor (NYSE:F) told its Russian manufacturing partner it was suspending operations in the country, and Harley-Davidson Inc (NYSE:HOG) suspended its business and shipments of its bikes.
Source: https://www.investing.com/news/comm...ut-from-russia-expected-to-accelerate-2774570
No to war ??
I'd recommend you read the articles explaining how Facebook's algorithms surface and promote misinformation. Luckily, if you only use it for cars and family pictures, you can avoid the dark holes.
If you’re gonna preach climate change to everyone then set the example ..but he’s not really serious about it.
That's a silly argument. I'd say making the largest corporation on the planet carbon-neutral by 2030 is a serious commitment.
Apple commits to be 100 percent carbon neutral for its supply chain and products by 2030
Already carbon neutral for its operations, Apple is unveiling a roadmap to achieve zero carbon for its supply chain and products by 2030.
www.apple.com
One could be actively engaged in green efforts and be for the environment and get on a aircraft. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Or is it MR posters nit-pick everything?
No I “heard” ya. You missed a few points.
“Environment” is a contextually meaningless term, and “friendly” is an attempt to garner emotion rather than make any technical point. Together they are used to push pseudo science than anything meaningful.
The cabling is indentical, what you’re really complaining about is the cable connectors.
Regardless this “environmentally friendly” worry/concern is simplistic and imaginary.
Nobody is going to upgrade cable types for a device unless it already has those ports. Old cables break down anyways, and even older devices need a supply of “new” cabling.
This changing supply need is already factored into manufacturing demand and old types are produced at slower rate and smaller yield compared to new standards that they replace. Also these new types don’t just start out at max volume, but ramp up over time as they replace the old ones.
And the larger point, Apple’s environmentalism is pure pageantry and a corporate distraction by a CEO with limited vision for the industry in which he works. But I guarantee he knows how to price out and source cable manufacturing for optimum profit returns. Ditto for cardboard packaging, and the more time Tim Cook wastes emoting over saving a few nickels, the more Apple languishes in key areas, like software quality.
Yes, in your opinion this is true and not a statement of fact, imo.
Yes, that’s his job.
Straw man.
I disagree with Cook and everything I do.. I think in terms of the web and internet, we need to return web 1.1 which was much better with less bloat and javascript. Cook is not visionary, he is an idealist who lives in a UTOPIAN mindset.
What if the articles are misinformation? My friends and I all have been using FB to keep in touch since the start of college. Nobody is seeing the stuff the articles allege. Yet I get on Twitter or even Reddit and instantly get pushed fringe political groups promoting anger and falsehoods.I'd recommend you read the articles explaining how Facebook's algorithms surface and promote misinformation. Luckily, if you only use it for cars and family pictures, you can avoid the dark holes.
AUKUS is the future, NATO is the past.
The processes that you are observing right now is a very smart and complicated way to legitimise and finalise this important transition.
Sorry. I didn't realize that you weren't actually interested in an answer to your question.
I can also play the "your opinion isn't fact" game too, but saving the environment is an extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require proof, and Apple has no proof for this claim besides glossy press releases.
Further Apple has little proof their efforts are even scientifically sound, beyond the same glossy press releases.
Apple has released extensive annual environmental reports.
Environment
Apple 2030 is our plan to use recycled and renewable materials, clean electricity, and low-carbon shipping to bring our net emissions to zero.
www.apple.com
Sure we can play this game....then no company/corporation who claims anything similar to along the lines of Apple claims is all in the same boat and requires the same set of scientifically sound proofs.