> While Apple certainly made boatloads of money during Cook's tenure, the company also steadily morphed into something unthinkable to company founders Jobs and Steve Wozniak: it became not just increasingly unethical...
If you think Tim Cook is/was less ethical than Steve Jobs of all people, my only rational conclusion is that you don't know Jobs' history or you're an idiot.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/steve-jobs-threatened-palm-with-p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
https://conversableeconomist.com/2025/10/31/the-silicon-vall...
Apple's first chip, A4, was released in 2010 before Jobs was gone
Given how long it took then to get a single chip physically manufactured the business plan had been sorted out for years, likely not long after the switch to Intel
They were just waiting for manufacturers to hit the right metrics
When Apple embraces Silicon Carbide batteries I'm sure they're going to make amazing stuff.
It's not like they haven't impressed on the hardware side. If you look at something like the M4 iPad Pro which was released 2 years ago, there is no competition even close. Nor with their laptops.
People who make more money than you are *better* than you, and are therefore above reproach.
https://karlbode.com/the-hulk-hates-fascist-media-consolidat...
it reminds me of playground socialization. the cool kids bully you for a long time and so you socialize with the outcasts. one day you get invited into the cool crowd, minimally welcomed with some reservations, and suddenly you're bullying the outcasts you used to associate with even harder than the cool kids ever did because you think it'll help elevate your status with your new in-group
it's really a gross, childish thing but so so common to people who come into power after having it withheld for so long, at least in some Western societies
$62 billion is not a lot of money for Apple's size. And if there is one major thing that changed between Steve Jobs and Tim Cook's Apple, it is Steve Jobs prioritise a lot more for stakeholders, while Tim Cook 100% prioritise for shareholder. They went from being a pirate to become the navy.
Other than that the whole piece is more about Apple getting close to Trump than anything else.
Wow. Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Micron, Nvidia all have Asian men incapable of standing up to fascism.
White CEOs appear to be the minority in tech companies.
Only the people will stand up against fascism, in a mass movement for freedom and democracy.
It's not about their race. Plenty of Asian people in Silicon Valley. Or even their personal beliefs. It's about the interests of shareholders, which they have to (by law!) satify. That means making profit.
No one, absolutely no one was “forced” to buy wireless headphones.
What a fantastic piece of writing. I reread this five times.