Apple held discussions with X (formerly Twitter) about once again showing ads on the social media site, reports The Wall Street Journal. The talks...

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  • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
    36·
    10 hours ago

    Given that Musk just recently made a hand gesture that was widely interpreted as a Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration…

    I really wish we would stop adding all the extra words around this.

    Musk gave a Nazi salute.

    If you play his nazi salute next to an actual video of Hitler doing his nazi salute it is effectively a frame by frame copy.

    He did it twice to make sure we knew it wasn’t an accident.

    Stop with all the “some people might have interpreted it as a Nazi salute under certain circumstances and at the right lighting and when the moon is waxing crescent” bullshit.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
    17·
    10 hours ago

    From Six Colors to True Colors.

    Fire Tim Cook, maybe Apple can save some of the goodwill they still have left by putting a product engineer in the driver seat again.

    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      Agreed. This is just another reason though. For what it’s worth, I vote “against” for him with my handful of shares.

  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    134·
    9 hours ago

    And unsurprisingly the Apple bootlickers are attacking and namecalling anyone who suggests we move away from Apple. The chuds really came out full force on that thread.

    • SalvoEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      I started ignoring most of them recently. I unsubscribed from most of the podcasts and only listen to the remaining ones when I have exhausted all other entertainment.

      I am still following some of the Apple Journalists on Mastodon, a lot of them are also very disappointed in the direction Apple is taking.

      Personally, I am not in the market for any new computers because my current machines fulfil my needs. There is nothing in any manufacturers roadmap that interest me.

      I am interested in repurposing some of my old hardware that functions perfectly but is no longer supported. I plan on installing Debian Linux on anything that can’t run Haiku, but I will keep a small partition of the original OS for any emergency firmware updates.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 hours ago

    Why would they do that? What do they have to gain?

    I’ll believe it when I see it. And if it happens I’d imagine there will be huge pushback from Apple employees.