A uniquely Apple shit-show

[Andrew Reid]

I see the guy responsible for Liquid Ass has taken his ass off to Meta, which in my opinion is one of the most unethical companies in the world.

Quote of the week comes from Tim Cook:

“The truth is we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer, if our customer was our product"

“We’ve elected not to do that.”

“Privacy to us is a human right. It’s a civil liberty, and something that is unique to America. This is like freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”

“Privacy is right up there with that for us.”

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Last time I looked, privacy was not unique to America. In fact, Tim has just spent the past 12 months cozying up to a fascist dictator.

Maybe he got kicked in the head by a horse, I don't know. But something there isn't quite right there.

Could it be that these companies are taking us for fools?

Alan Dye is the guy responsible for the current mess at Apple by the way...

Alan's a perfect fit for Meta as he appears in my opinion for all the world to be an absolutely world class bullshitter. If fake-it-till-you-make-it was an olympic sport he'd be the GOAT. How a design department under his leadership took years to come up with a worse phone UI, a cheap Android-like skin with folders that look like fucking icecubes, I'll never know. It must be one of the worst tech failures of all time.

The quality control is nowhere. The aesthetics are awful. The AI side is an abject failure (Apple even admit it).

What is it with these fuckers and failing upwards?

He's gone from one of the most highly compensated positions in tech to possibly an even higher paid one, and his singular achievement has been to ruin our phones.

I am actually an Apple fan, their design ethos under Jonny Ive was sensational and the engineering has always been spectacular, people criticise them for design over substance, it's total BS - Apple Silicon is a revolutionary architecture. The current Macbooks are the best laptops ever made. The iPhone, which gave rise to it (RISC Apple Silicon) have always featured the best operating system on a phone, by a mile, it's not even close.

So what the hell is going on under Cook?

This is a company which is able to attract the best product, marketing and engineering talent in the world, bar none.

They should not be ending up in this situation, by promoting Alan fucking Dye into senior leadership positions.

In my opinion they should roll back everything he's done.

Give us back iOS 18 and apologise.

The fact they have gone cap in hand begging to Google for ai features is the other big humiliation of 2025 for Apple. This is a rival which literally stole the very concept of a modern smartphone from Apple, and they are now rewarding them for it.

[Clark Nikolai]

Yikes!  You know, I've been too busy to get around to upgrading my iPhone to iOS 26 and now maybe I won't (until they sort this out.)

[Andrew Reid]

I wish I hadn't!

[octoplex]

Tim Cook has always been a mess, he's just been sufficiently hidden from public view; most of the time.

Did you know that Steve Jobs hated Cook? Massive chunks of Steve Job's biography were censored by Walter Isaacson, after Job's death, to conceal this from the  public. There's an investigative piece on it, here: https://vo.lc/The-Execution-of-Steve.html 

Cook is also a child-slaver. His is personally-evidenced knowingly using children to manufacture Apple products. Note that this is different from Apple's prior use of child slaves, because, until Tim Cook turned up, Apple had not been directly, knowingly, complicit. [Source: Business Insider]

The real reason these Apple executives are jumping-ship, however, has nothing to do with technical problems at Apple. Instead, they are getting ahead of a much bigger scandal, which will likely sink the company. 

Here I quote from an article by a Guardian award-winning writer who was a journalist for both The Times and The Telegraph newspapers; and worked at BBC radio. The journalist knew Steve Jobs personally, and worked with him. This is from the article:

"Tim Cook abuses children. This is well-documented. The extent to which he abuses children is to be determined by a court, and the process by which he will be brought to trial for his repeated abuse of children depends on your capacity — as the message on Steve Jobs' desk, pictured at the top of this page, reads — to "THINK". Your inclination will be to turn away."

"Tim Cook has, bizarrely, never had any identifiable partner of any sort. Readers will note that this was also the case for notorious pedophile, Jimmy Savile. This is not of course, to draw any comparison whatsoever between Tim Cook and the notorious pedophile Savile. Any attempt at such a direct comparison would (as it was with Savile) be met with such violent legal repercussions from the child-slave-traders at Apple that nobody would dare write such a thing. Perhaps we should not even think it."

"Many reporters, after Jimmy Savile was exposed, congratulated themselves on having kept silent for years out of fear of being sued, and all the children who were raped in the interim were also delighted at the reporters' cowardice. Weren't they?"

"The problem is that the entire, disgusting edifice of Silicon Valley relies on our fear. What happens if we're not scared? What happens if we stop treating the child-slave-trader Tim Cook as royalty?"

Source: The Execution of Steve, By Chris Stevens / Phoenix Kaspian, 16th January, 2024.

Note that the journalist's article has been up for almost two years, undefeated by Apple's legal team. Apple is the richest company in the world.

You do the math.
Apple is cooked.

[fuzzynormal]

8 hours ago, octoplex said:

You do the math.

In a world where 1+1 no longer equals 2?  

[Andrew Reid]

A bit of a stretch to go from developing an Alice in Wonderland app to accusing Tim Cook of being a pedo.