This article is pretty terrible and I’m not a fan of Apple but honestly he’s taken a pretty measured approach and the fact that their product is garbage isn’t his fault so much as the hype train being off course.

If anything people should be thankful he didn’t waste more money, but right now the measurement isn’t how successful your business is or how good your product is but how much money you flushed down the toilet chasing the dream of “AI”. Because this is a bubble not a revolution.

Tim Cook is a CEO. His job is to make money for a board of directors and he does that job well. He is not interested in else because that is what a corporation is about.

AI is garbage.

I’ve never stumbled across Apple Insider before, it’s quite the apologist for the company. Here’s some tone deaf quotes from the article that made me laugh:

“It’s true that the buck stops at the CEO, but without Tim Cook, Apple would not have so many bucks.”

I guess if you make a lot of money you get a pass for allowing misleading and anti-consumer marketing campaigns?

“If billions and trillions are hard numbers to imagine, here’s another one. Apple could, if its valuation could be converted to cash without loss, give every person living in the continental USA a free iPhone 16e — and then 13 spare ones. Each.”

I love how they chose to illustrate Apple’s obscene level of wealth with how much it could benefit people if they ever distributed that wealth through altruistic giving 😂