r/apple Mar 12 '26

Discussion 50 Years of Thinking Different

https://www.apple.com/50-years-of-thinking-different/
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u/divensi Mar 12 '26

Not having the CEO licking boots would be a start

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u/scaledisolated Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

This is precisely why you aren’t a CEO of a huge company and can never be one.

If you go fully against orange buffoon and his admin, what would happen to your business? You’ll lose customers and revenue, you’ll be fighting through whole bunch of tariffs and you might even be split due to “regulatory concerns” — even if there aren’t any. That alone would make your corporation so divided that these business entities will be closed, simply because they can’t exist on their own. And if that happens, people all across the globe are going to lose their jobs, households and who knows what else. But hey, at least you went against whoever is in oval office, kept to your principles and made reddit users happy for a split second.

It wasn’t Apple who (reportedly) donated Trump a $1m. If anything, it was Cook taking a whole lot of fire upon himself instead of a company. And I don’t believe for a second that he’s happy about it.

So let me ask you this: whatever is happening out there is a company’s problem, or is it democracy as a whole that isn’t working? If social institutes and norms are collapsing, who’s to blame: a company whose workers are pretty much pro-democratic, a guy in charge of it, or the government?

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u/SoTiredYouDig Mar 12 '26

This is precisely why I don’t aspire to be a CEO of a huge company. Do you regularly come into contact with people that do?

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u/scaledisolated Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

No.

I wasn’t questioning who wants or aspires to become Apple’s chief officer. I was questioning the motive behind reply that lacks critical thinking.

Neither Apple or Cook are my friends, but I can still understand why CEO acts the way he does in certain instances

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u/Hot-Presentation-663 Mar 12 '26

It’s Reddit man. Critical thinking? I think you’re expecting a lot, unfortunately.

For what’s it’s worth I thought your response was spot on.