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Absolutely no one gave Apple a pass for the butterfly keyboard. You can look back at Jason Snell’s “Apple report card” where he sends surveys to 40+ people in the Apple punditry ecosystem during those years and Apple was derided by everyone. No one gave Apple a pass for on device scanning or the piss poor Johnny Ive inspired thin laptops that removed ports and that over heated during the latter x86 days. Everyone was…
Yet it is. People like you insisted "it's not that bad yet" at every step of the awkward path; but you're still unable to admit Apple fully walked back their bad decisions. They deliberately built a business dependent on anti-competitive abuse and a halo effect solicited through propaganda. They repeatedly manufactured cover for their misdeeds because they knew they were wrong . And now they've been caught in the act…
Their business is not built on the App Store. People looked at Android at least in the US and 70% of them avoid it like the plague. Before that, people decided they like the iPod even though it had “less space than the Nomad and no wireless”.
And anyone who voted for this knew exactly what they were getting. Trump was in office for four years prior and “rural America” who depends on Medicaid, the Muslims who refused to support Kamala because they thought Trump would be better for Palestine, the poor and working class who are going to be hurt by increased prices and other policies, red states that depend on government support more than blue states, businesses abs farmers who supported him and even the unions that he is now trying to kill all are demographics that voted for him and supported him. Now they are in the “find out” part of FAFO. I have no sympathy for them.
The halo effect wasn’t because of “propaganda”. Poor little Google, Microsoft and Intel couldn’t compete with a company that was almost bankrupt a little over 29 years ago and was still small in 2007.
If non Christian Germans were dumb enough to vote for the Nazi party (they weren’t), I would have said the same thing. This country deserves exactly what’s happening to it because of its own poor choices. I’m not saying this out of pride and happiness.
I’m sad about it. But this is always “who we have been” despite what Michelle Obama says. We’ve been since Columbus, through slavery, through Jim Crow (that my still living parents grew up in) and now.
Trump was fairly elected. I’m not “apathetic”. What is in my control is that my wife and I have been seriously talking about establishing residency in Costa Rica upon retirement. We are going back next year to talk to a real estate agent to see about getting a place there. We might rent or we might buy. If this is the country that Americans want, Americans can have it. I’m not saying I’m leaving tomorrow. But we are investigating, I’m working on getting to be a better Spanish speaker and my wife is learning.