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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 00:30:23 JST Bread up, Bro
   it's embarrassing - I dislike Apple and I don't even want this for them.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 00:41:50 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @MeanwhileInOhio yes, they put a very pretty bow on a piece of shit. Something that generates emojis is something that a smart high school student should make. ( and I think I've seen an account that does just that? )
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     Meanwhile In Ohio... (meanwhileinohio@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 00:41:52 JST Meanwhile In Ohio...

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     They've got nothing else. All of their product lines are mature. The Vision Pro headset is a solution looking for a problem. Investors demand green line go up, and Apple, and most of the industry, are leaning into AI because they don't know what else to do. Apple's AI product is just as half-baked as anyone else, if not more so. Everyone is stagnating.
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     Meanwhile In Ohio... (meanwhileinohio@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 00:49:25 JST Meanwhile In Ohio...

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     It's really a demo of what their fledgling AI can do, to keep the Wall Street wolves at bay for a bit while they furiously develop something better. Beyond these insignificant AI tricks, they have no real new features for anything in their product line because they've been steadily adding those features over the past 25 years and there's nothing but minor bits and pieces to add now and again. The entire industry has this problem.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 00:49:25 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @MeanwhileInOhio You don't get to be Apple and use a "demo" as a showcase, though.
     
     Also the whole point of have billions of dollars in cash is so that you don't have to worry about the "wall street wolves"
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 01:14:29 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @MeanwhileInOhio indeed, I think Tim Cook does not have a whole lot of vision.
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     Meanwhile In Ohio... (meanwhileinohio@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 01:14:30 JST Meanwhile In Ohio...

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     I understand and I agree with you, but they're doing it. Having cash in the bank doesn't increase the share price, and that's what drives Tim Cook.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 01:21:23 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Meanwhile In Ohio...
     @threalist @MeanwhileInOhio I also don't by the "I had to do this because the investors made me" - if the investors are demanding that you make money that you can't make in order for you stock price to go up, maybe that means your stock shouldn't go up in price
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     🌲-alist (threalist@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 01:21:24 JST 🌲-alist

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     > Investors demand green line go up
     
     Many such cases.
     
     There words are nebulous and arguable, but in that context, this is the core problem with "capitalism" (not to be confused with "free markets").
     
     Capitalism has no concern for wellbeing of the community, employees or even the company. In a way this behavior is parasitic. They end up destroying the host to squeeze more stock gains out of it.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 01:50:40 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Meanwhile In Ohio...
     @threalist @MeanwhileInOhio Sure you do, you can say "nah, I refuse to run this business into the ground" and then you can either quit or be fired.
     
     The only reason people went along with it for so long is that people hoped that behaving would keep them in good terms with "the system"
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     🌲-alist (threalist@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 01:50:41 JST 🌲-alist

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     They don't have a choice when the investors call the shots.