Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by orangepurple on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:11PM (#29492644)

Standing up against the government is one of the messages of their anti-1984 ad.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by zepto on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @09:12PM (#29493033)

No it isn’t. That was about standing up to IBM.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by cable2600 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:54AM (#29494622)

I thought the Big Brother figure on screen looked more like Bill Gates than IBM. The real enemy was Microsoft and Windows.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by bildung on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:40AM (#29495488)

The first version of Microsoft Windows only appeared a year after that ad. In 1984 Microsoft was just a supplier for IBM.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by zepto on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:38AM (#29495903)

Microsoft wasn’t the entrenched giant in 1983.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by grupthink on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:39AM (#29494526)

Now we need an ad about standing up to Apple.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by pmontra on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:45AM (#29494563)

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