TIM COOK? F*CK Apple. That company sold you a Feel-Good Namaste Zen Hippie load of marketing BULLSH*T.

[Miles Archer]

I'm STUNNED by the number of people who are "disappointed" in Tim Cook for partying with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in the wake of a SECOND person being executed on our city streets by ICE.

Apple sold and IMAGE as aggressively as they sold PRODUCTS.

I WORKED THERE...a YEAR AND A HALF'S worth of contract jobs, during the Scully years, when the company stood a very legitimate chance of GOING UNDER.

The public has this image of Apple Computer as two hippies passing a bong in a tent at Woodstock.

I WORKED THERE. It's not what happens behind those walls.

I know next to nothing about Cook (and am OK with that). My days at Apple were over before Steve Jobs returned to save the day.

I could give two fucks at this point if Cook wants to bring his knee pads to Mar-a-Lago.

[Blue Owl]

1. Yup fuck that guy -- he ruined everything Apple stood for... and more

[mwmisses4289]

2. Not everyone, but many of the folks I know

who made the "mistake" (their words, not mine) of purchasing apple/macintosh products couldn't wait to get rid of them. The biggest complaint many of them had, besides how ridiculously expensive apple products ended up being, was having to wait up to a year to get a new machine so they could get apps other folks got almost as soon as they come out.

[Miles Archer]

3. I had the batteries fry in 2 rather expensive Apple products

I had a "Video Ipod." Battery fried. At the time, the cost to send it to Apple for battery replacement was the same as buying a new Ipod.

An iPhone. I use StraighTalk for my phone service (Walmart) and buy my phones from them, so this was an older (but still $200) phone.

Battery fried, went with a Samsung Android as a replacement.

DONE with Apple. Not because of Cook. Because of their products.

[MagickMuffin]

4. You worked during the Mac cloning era. We have 2 Radius Macs

They were affordable and worked just as well. After Scully left and Jobs returned the cloning came to an end.

I have Apple products but haven’t bought anything new for quite a while and have never own their phones. I don’t have an issue with their products.

I still have my 17” MacBook Pro, it still runs perfectly, however, the display is a goner, I have it hooked up to an external monitor. An iPod with toggle wheel. Plus too many others to mention.

My mates MacBook’s decided to exit this world the same day as Jobs.

[bif]

5. I have nothing bad to say about Apple

I have owned several apple computers and now use an old MacBook Pro. My has a new MacBook Pro. We both have iPhones. And I've owned a bunch of Apple stock since 2000.

[IbogaProject]

6. I started with the Apple ][e

And relapsed from 99 to about 2015. My wife still uses an old macbook, and I moved a mac mini to the TV. I recently got a good deal on a used 2020 m1 Mac Mini which is with our TV now. I went with that as it was a big jump in computer power and 32gb ram 1tb storage for just over $300 shipped was a great value and I expect to get ten good years out of it doing it's simple media library and online streaming work. I really burned out when they forced their "app store" and "Apple ID" into the equation. I've been using MX Linux for awhile now. My kid still uses Windows but didn't pay, it's actually free to use for personal use nowadays. He uses Windows as some multiplayer games require Windows. Many games now run great on Linux due to the Steam game library and their SteamOS (linux for their steam deck handheld gaming computer).

I get anxiety whenever someone hands me their iphone as the navigation is alien to me. I use android.

I feel the way they lockdown computers and have nothing to upgrade is setting up for a massive e-waste problem. The apple stores should unlock and erase used computers if the serial number isn't on a stolen lost list and maybe have a two week waiting period. But that alone is an environmental disaster the way they've ended the ability to use parts.

[hunter]

7. The last Apple product I had any regular contact with was the Apple IIc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIc

I was teaching and these machines were heavily promoted for classroom use.

I've never associated Apple products with my own "Feel-Good Namaste Zen Hippie" world.

As someone with a home-built computer / Atari 8 bit underground / BSD background, Apple always seemed sort of fascist and absurdly overpriced to me.

These days I'm some kind of Luddite. My phone flips open like a Star Trek communicator and my computers are diverted from the e-waste bins.

If anyone gave me a brand new Apple product I'd give it away, box unopened, like a hot potato.

[BannonsLiver]

8. It actually does seem like you have at least "two fuck to give".