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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by rTX5CMRXIfFG on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:21PM (#29493796)
No, they never marketed themselves as a company that stands up against the government (to do so means that they don’t understand how power works). Their PR centered around ethical practices is still true where they conduct business in democratic countries.

People should note that just because someone is aiming for an ethical ideal doesn’t mean that the way there is bound to be perfect—those who are quick to point out other people’s hypocrisies always rest on this fallacy. Apple isn’t perfect, but it seems to be the only big tech company making great strides towards being zero-carbon and pushing for user privacy in democratic countries, and when they were called out about parts of their supply chain using oppressed Uighur Muslim labor, they corrected it.

Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by bamboozled on Thursday December 09, 2021 @12:11AM (#29494051)
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by rTX5CMRXIfFG on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:09AM (#29495322)
Your reading of that video couldn’t be more wrong. “1984 won’t be like 1984” easily means that they’re ahead of the competition (this was directed at IBM) because they were giving people the future then. It’s not a political or activist statement against the government.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by Siira on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:09AM (#29508574)
“Ethical practices,” “the App Store,” and the case for “local scanning.”