Trump’s chip tariffs won’t hit Apple despite no plans for a US-made iPhone.

I’m sick of powerful people / companies kissing his ass, but I can’t deny that this is a smart move for getting out from under his disgusting gaze.

  • july@leminal.spaceEnglish
    47·
    1 day ago

    So they can’t donate more than 5$ to FreeBSD which is why their software exists but they make this POS for daddy trump?

        • Coriza@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          17 hours ago

          Yes, because of bash license change from GPLv2 to GPLv3 apple refused to upgrade the bash version shipped with macos and kept it on v3.2 (last GPLv2) for like 10 years before eventually migrating to zsh

          • echindod@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            17 hours ago

            I use to give people shit that the default ls command was from 2002. They finally fucking upgraded it in like 2020. But yeah. That’s some old fucking software.

  • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    when i thought Apple couldn’t get less cool… they thought differently and proved me wrong

  • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    It’s the other way around. Apple gave Trump a golden statue so he can kill off all their competitors. They no longer have to compete with their branding or products. It’s not smart, it’s just lazy, greedy and against any shred of decency. It’s not even capitalism, it’s plain corruption and proudly doing it in the open.

    • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      19 hours ago

      This is capitalism. In that system the money is the important part and so how you get it mostly doesn’t matter. Corruption is part of it, and they use the money to make sure the laws that would punish them don’t exist.

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.caEnglish
    212·
    2 days ago

    Lol! Trump wants a thing. They don’t want to do it. So, they toss him something shiny to make him forget the thing he wanted?

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        29·
        2 days ago

        It’s like when I want to get my cats in from outside. They don’t want to come in of course so I have to shake the bag of treats, when they come in they give them like five even though clearly they would like the entire packet.

        They never learn.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      It works because the thing he really wants is validation, and they gave it to him. Now he’ll continue, and come back around their way again soon, I’m sure.

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1003·
    2 days ago

    Hey, uh, what the fuck? Why the fuck are companies giving the President of the United States Golden statues like he’s some sort of Middle Eastern Dictator?

    • uienia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      Because they know that that is really what he is. Everyone has him figured out now. That is why NATO and EU brownnoses him in front of journalists, or why Qatar “gifts” him an airplane.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        18 hours ago

        I think Zelensky has figured it out too, and got on good terms with him.

        It’s really comical. It’s like the easiest diplomacy ever, within limits and until your enemy brownnoses too.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      52·
      2 days ago

      Because he’s some sort of middle eastern dictator. Figurehead of a religion of intolerance and hatred, concerned almost entirely with wealth derived from fossil fuels, utterly irredeemable personality.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Frankly, it’s a shrewd strategy with regards to orangeboi. He’s easily distracted by shiny things and gifts, so give him a shiny gift. He has the attention span of a toddler, and he’s fairly easy to manipulate, if you operate within that context.

    • Jrockwar@feddit.ukEnglish
      66·
      2 days ago

      Because he might not be “Middle Eastern” or “Dictator” but he behaves exactly like “some sort of Middle Eastern Dictator”.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      To ask for “favors” later. Clearly money sways him, he’s imposing tariffs on Brazil because “they’ve never been good to us”, meaning “they don’t give USA enough money”. It’s all about money and how he can get it into him and his pedo friends pockets.

      Look at the plane he got, supposedly he’s taking it with him after office? I wish he’d just spontaneously explode during a meeting with his pedo buddies, taking them out too. Or on the plane and take them all out over the Pacific.

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I can blame them. It sets a very dangerous precedent and tacitly legitimises the maga party’s bad behaviour.

    • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      58·
      2 days ago

      Because he’s pretty much that. Idk about the middle eastern part. (Why did you even include that phrase, are you racist? There are dictators in Europe, South America, North America, all parts of Asia, idk how Australia is nowadays.)
      But he’s definitely a dictator.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    On the face of it, this falls foul of numerous anti-bribery laws and regulations of the sort employees of companies such as Apple are required to do tests on annually. (If you ever so much as worked as a mail clerk at a large company, you will have clicked through multiple-choice tests driving home that, should you somehow find yourself in a position of trading a bottle of champagne or some Superbowl tickets for a multi-million-dollar contract in some exotic foreign land, that sort of thing is absolutely not on, and will cost you your job if not federal prison time.)

    On the other hand, those rules were drafted back when America saw itself as qualitatively above the sordid corruption that less fortunate nations were mired in. Those days are as far gone as the drag clubs of Weimar Berlin.

    • Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      The rules only apply to low paid employees. You bet your ass a regular federal employee could still be fired for receiving a free lunch.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    A few nice words and a $15 shiny object is all you need to curry favour with the current President.

    Can someone ask him for free college education and healthcare in America, presenting him a golden stethoscope or golden book-shaped award?

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Honestly if the US actually had a left wing party that challenged the status quo, I’m sure he’s vapid enough that he might have tried to get his cult of personality going there.

      I don’t think it would have gone well for him because he’s actually just a straight up shitty person, but I feel like for an obvious narcissist like him the party lines are just window dressing.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        100%.

        Trump has had some Republican inclinations, but he could have absolutely been a leftist demagogue. Or any affiliation really.

        Look how he tore through other Republicans like toilet paper.