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I don’t understand what anyone was expecting.
Some people are still under the impression that they live in a democratic republic under a constitutional doctrine of permissive freedom and the rule of law.
Seems to be something else in this case.
I already lost all remaining respect for Tim Cook when he kissed the ring in the oval office. I wonder how Steve Jobs would have handled the current political challenges.
Americans elected a mob boss to their highest office and he also appointed many of the judges in the legal system. As a corporation your choices are to give in or to get crushed.
Don't let them pretend that they are innocent in all of this. They're all polishing their jackboots right now.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Americans elected a mob boss to their highest office and he also appointed many of the judges in the legal system. As a corporation your choices are to give in or to get crushed.
Giving your lunch money to a bully all but guarantees they'll be back for more.
Incidentally it's also a textbook presentation of the Manufacturing Consent Propaganda model, except it's not only propaganda, it's an outright authoritarian coup.
Hmm how different is this fundamentally from the ability to report police locations (speedtraps) in Google Maps?
From: https://onefoottsunami.com/2025/10/03/iceblock-blocked/ > Gosh, it’s almost like Apple serving as the exclusive gatekeeper for what software can be installed on the iPhone (and iPad, and Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and Vision Pro) is a bad thing that creates a single point of failure which can be abused by increasingly authoritarian governments. Apple should not be able to decide which apps their customers are a…
From: https://onefoottsunami.com/2025/10/03/iceblock-blocked/ > Gosh, it’s almost like Apple serving as the exclusive gatekeeper for what software can be installed on the iPhone (and iPad, and Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and Vision Pro) is a bad thing that creates a single point of failure which can be abused by increasingly authoritarian governments. Apple should not be able to decide which apps their customers are a…
If phoneposters cared about that, they would buy a general computer. And yes, situation with ebooks is the same.
What e-reader doesn't allow side-loading books?
Cowards.
I already lost all remaining respect for Tim Cook when he kissed the ring in the oval office. I wonder how Steve Jobs would have handled the current political challenges.