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.
Bought my wife an Apple device a few years ago, now that m sickened that I helped pay for a small piece of this.
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.
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.
For the class in the back cronyism is capitalism.
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?
They really know their audience.
Yeah.
It fucken worked, didn’t it?
Not stupid if it works. Something else is.
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.
Sounds like your cats have you well trained :)
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.
Let Apple additionally throw some underage girls for him to rape so the deal lasts.
Honestly, if it pushes that heart rate up I might be okay with it.
Kill him, girls. Serve your country.
Since when did the word “statue” now also mean “trophy” and/or “award”?
Commemorative disk?
I’m also confused like you. Looking at the pictures in the article and the others at The Verge it appears to be a trophy or award like you get for employee of the year not a “statue”.
Was the statue at least US made?
No. Was cheaper do do it overseas.
Allegedly the gold came from Utah, and the glass from somewhere else in the US.
That’s one of the nicer participation trophies I’ve seen
suck-up
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.
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.
Keep buying your Apple products, guys.
Just for this everyone should reconsider buying any Apple products. Tim Apple is such a disgusting and nasty person, and then he started licking the predators ass. Fuck him and fuck American companies.
This would be a great idea if literally any other tech company were even slightly above such behavior. This is just what Capitalism is all about, baby. Corruption. Get used to it, because this isn’t changing until Americans revolt (culturally, violently, politically, economically? who knows) and that likely isn’t happening with this complacent and socially isolated of a populace
Apple speaks Trump fluently.
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?
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.
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.
Tim Apple should try to ‘Think Different’
I personally vote for CEOs publicly embarrassing themselves in more and more degrading ways.
