| ▲ | yupyupyups 20 hours ago |
| Here is a joke for you all. How do you keep a floor clean? Tell MacRumors it's Tim Cook's boot. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-26-2-to-allow-third... |
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| ▲ | emchammer 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Tim Cook has shown everybody what he is good at. It’s not running a user-first computer company. It’s time for him to be shown the door. Can’t even scroll right in the text editor. Trillion-dollar company. |
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| ▲ | eCa 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Mu favorite Macos bug (haven’t upgraded to 26 yet, so not sure if it is still a thing): 1. Have Bluetooth on. 2. Turn it off from the menu option, but don’t close the menu. 3. The shortcut to lock the computer don’t work. It’s been like this for 5+ years. Funniest thing is if you’re quick enough it’s possible to close the menu using a Bluetooth mouse after BT has been turned off. It’s my daily challenge to pull that off. | | | |
| ▲ | runjake 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The stockholders have something different to say about that. He's been a cash cow for them and that's how the game is played. It's really hard to be a publicly-traded corporation and user-first. Those goals are often at odds with each other. | | |
| ▲ | ebbi 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Exactly. I'm conflicted, because as much as I benefit from being a shareholder of companies, I am also acutely aware of the fact that once a company is listed on the stock exchange, there is an inverse relationship between profit-focus and user-focus. Not being on the stock exchange, a company like Apple could be like, you know what, we make enough money from our hardware and services to both grow and pay our people well, so we will remove the 30% fee on apps and keep our developers happy and loyal, increase the cloud storage capacity for our customers, etc. But they simply can't do that, because it's all about YoY revenue growth to keep the shareholders happy. | |
| ▲ | LadyCailin 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > It's really hard to be a publicly-traded corporation and user-first. You aren’t wrong, but I hate that you aren’t. It’s a shame there is so little regulation and that things are getting more and more expensive and complex to initially develop, that there just isn’t really a free market anymore for many important things. | | |
| ▲ | runjake 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | I hate that I'm not, too. Particularly since the 1980s, I feel like we've veered too far toward obtaining maximum profit at the expense of true innovation and developing products that truly serve the customer. | | |
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| ▲ | arvinsim 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | MacOS still doesn't separate trackpad and mouse scrolling settings. Ended up having to install a 3rd party mouse scroll reverser to get the behavior I want. | |
| ▲ | JSR_FDED 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wish I could be as miserable a failure as him |
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| ▲ | naIak 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There are zero mentions of Cook in that thread. |
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| ▲ | renewiltord 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's a thought-terminating cliché common in online circles "bootlicker" "corporate overlords" etc. etc. Has nothing to do with reality and more just a bunch of young kids who found another tech forum to perform their political whining on. Eternal September wherever you go. | | |
| ▲ | ffsm8 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ever heard of advanced concepts such as "euphonism" and "joke"? Especially in the context of idioms such as "boot licker" (which doesn't describe a person literally licking someone's boot! I know, shocking, right?) I mean I didn't click on the linked thread, because frankly: who the hell cares what people on a forum called "Mac rumors" say... Even as a frequent apple user myself i wouldn't take anything seriously there. But the way you two addressed his sarcasm was just underwhelming. Take a joke for what it is. Downvote if you don't see value in it - but if you're going to address it - do it properly and not by "misunderstanding" things on purpose. | | |
| ▲ | renewiltord 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, indeed, repeating the same thing over and over again is one form of humour. Seth McFarlane reached the pinnacle, and now Hacker News and Reddit users the world over wallow in the shallows of it. A tragedy that a 3B LLM can replicate such glory as repetitive posts about corporations and bootlickers and so on and so forth. |
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| ▲ | kotaKat 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Nonono, you have to tell MacRumors that Bloomberg reported that it was Tim Cook’s boot in this week’s Power On newsletter. Then that floor will be so clean you could do open heart surgery on it. |
