<div dir="ltr"><div>I think you must be joking about Cook. The CCP owns him. I suppose there aren't any children working in those Foxconn hellholes with the suicide nets, and other more recent issues, but they are certainly brutal sweatshops.</div><div><br></div><div>You comment on his stance on privacy is also ill timed, as while he may give the appearance of caring about privacy for users in Western countries because it is a convenient marketing point, he clearly doesn't actually care about it based on his willingness to do the CCP's bidding:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.engadget.com/apple-10-minute-cap-everyone-airdrop-090340980.html">https://www.engadget.com/apple-10-minute-cap-everyone-airdrop-090340980.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Of course, now that the egg is firmly on face, the rest of the world is getting punished as well so that he has (im)plausible deniability:</div><div><a href="https://www.engadget.com/apple-china-airdrop-limit-everyone-ios-16-2-223231192.html">https://www.engadget.com/apple-china-airdrop-limit-everyone-ios-16-2-223231192.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Now that he has realized who his masters are, he's scrambling to try to move stuff out of there, but it's too little, too late:</div><div><a href="https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/news/why-apple-is-diversifying-and-looking-to-vietnam-as-an-alternate-production-center.html/">https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/news/why-apple-is-diversifying-and-looking-to-vietnam-as-an-alternate-production-center.html/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The writing has been on the wall as far as the CCP for a very long time now. He may not be alone in being part of the problem, but he's a huge part of it, and is certainly no saint, and little better than Google in the doing evil department.</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 10:03 AM John Klos via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
For instance, most people other than Tim Cook would probably calculate <br>
that by not taking stands on privacy, child labor and rare materials, <br>
Apple could make a few percent more $. Google, on the other hand, <br>
calculated that they could make more $ by depricating their "do no evil" <br>
slogan and, well, doing evil.<br><br>
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