This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
As a Bi man there is something that particularly stings about a well known, openly gay CEO funding a man who is hateful towards LGBTQ+ people. I never really liked him nor apple but it is an extra fuck you.
Being rich is ultimately the disease as it compels him to appeal to power but I hope the last things hears is "Told you I would kill you last".
Yeah this is so weird. I guess it's either comply or die when it comes to this stuff
It’s time to boycott Apple
I've been doing that for decades, the last apple product I used was an Apple ][e. Couldn't resist that sweet Oregon Trail action at the time.
Why does such a thing as an inaugural fund exist? Seems like it's just to facilitate more corruption!
It doesn't usually. The 'why' in the case is because Trump and his team refuse to sign the ethics agreement to get the normal funding from the government.
Thanks, it must be amazing for Americans to have a president who won't sign a standard ethics agreement.
It's coercion but somehow legal.
I can’t help but wonder if this is to take the news spotlight away from the Siri recording scandal that just popped up
God neoliberals are pathetic.
What I'm curious about is, according to the article, Tim Apple is donating from this own money and won't be donating Apple's money. Why make it a personal donation and not a corporate one?
While others are donating as companies (don't agree with this either but different subject), none are doing it as a personal donation. As the face of Apple, he won't get far claiming that it doesn't reflect Apple as a company, so why not just m make it corporate? Unless it's for tax reasons?
I didn't follow these donation news too closely, but from the headlines it always sounded like they do it personally!? Maybe Trump makes a point out of it that it comes from them personally? Would make them personally attached to him.
Maybe he assumes it will be more impressive to Trump.
These CEOs are funding hate, violence and the end of American democracy - they have enough power, money and influence to oppose, yet they don't. They decided that a few must be sacrificed for the greater ~~good~~ profit.
Something happened on the 4th of December. Today is the 4th of January. Just in case anyone's calendar app is stuck closed. Interesting if true...
Well... they saw that they can show their real face.
Ohh shocking!! A US company CEO donated to the inagural fund of the new president elected by the people (idiots).
This country makes me sick to my stomach. What a fucking joke.
If you can find a way: get out.
For everyone else, you have my sincere sympathy.
They're being shaken down. Same as Mark Zuckerberg being summoned to a meeting with Trump and the next day paying $1m to the same fund.
I'm betting these meetings went something like, "You don't want a president as an enemy, do you? Cough up."
And don't think of it as a tax on the rich - it's not going towards the benefit of the American people. It's extortion.
This isn't even remotely surprising. Apple has been a shitty company for well over a decade.
And before it wasn't?
Not a good move tim
