Comment by yupyupyups
8 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...
8 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...
There are zero mentions of Cook in that thread.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
> 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.
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Wish I could be as miserable a failure as him
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.