Sure, but to be consistent you can’t use Amazon, Facebook, X, or many other products either.

Me either. Android for everybody! Suck it Tim Cook!

*degoogled Android for everyone. itsfoss.com/android-dist...

Excellent!

Same here. #Samsung

Dont use apple gear, too expensive and too controlled.

How embarrassing for him

I use them, fully committed, Mac, iPad, iPhone all of it, I'm fucking gutted! Can't afford to change everything, would if I could. But to be honest Microsoft is as bad. They're all kneeling to the disgusting orange blob!

Im sorry for your loss. www.techradar.com/best/best-li...

Me too

Regrettably, I bought my first iPhone a month ago. My first Apple product since the Apple II I bought in the early 80’s.

I’m framing it as: I’ve paid a high ransom to liberate these freedom tools from the tech oligarchy & repurpose them to undermine capitalism in service of the People.

I've never bought one single apple product .

👍🏽

Me too!!

Jobs would have had trump kissing his ring. BTW, they still haven’t invested all their funds from his first term. With Epstein’s bestie it’s about the sizzle.

AGREE

I don’t think Steve Jobs would approve …..but who know?

I'll never purchase an Apple product. EVER!

I wish Apple sales would tank.

Same.

#fuckapple #Timcook is another #cad

Me too

Kissed the ring and got insulted anyway.

Cook and Bessent are awful Gays. Their cards should be taken away.

You mean Tim Apple 🍎?

I hope apples board fires him over it

Lol, they'll give him a raise.

Same. Never owned a single one of them.

Fuck the oligarchs! #EatTheRich

I’m looking to change mine after that display

Never did, never will.

Never used Apple, never will...

These days, it's hard to use any product and feel good about it. 😞

That's why we use change to our advantage. Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, Google are all terrible, yet it's next to impossible to boycott them all. Instead, encourage customers of whichever company in the press rn for making a public genuflection to do something about it. Boycott, write the board, etc.

I mailed rocks via the USPS after my local healthcare corporation violated ACA billing laws and Jason Crow was busy courting Palantir instead of me. He thinks he is gonna take a senate seat when someone runs for the next landlord while he built cages to house people from the San Juans. 🤦🏻‍♀️

What about a custom OS created by indeoendent developers? itsfoss.com/android-dist...

Never have and never will use an apple product.

Fixin' to 86 my iPhone...

Never have, never will.

All because they may lose a few bucks. Cook is worth 2.4 million..even losing 500mil isn't gonna hurt that bad. Now Apple is worth 3.27 TRILLION!! LMAOL and he kisses the assholes ring..wow

These people are showing the world how much their integrity is worth.

Just how many men are in the Epstein files? It seems like, all of 'em.

Apple might as well start closing their stores outside the USA, now that Tim Cook has knelt and kissed Trumps boots! #BoycottApple

I stopped using Apple products in 2017 when they were caught providing older phones "updates" designed to throttle phone performance. The only Apple hardware I use is the ipad my job has me use.

I can't wait for the iPhone case saying I bought this before. . .

💯

He wasn’t watching what happened to Tesla shares and sales. Sack him!

Sickening 🤮

Yeah, I think I'll hold off on moving to Apple for the moment. I had planned to make the shift because of family, but after this, it's not going to happen anytime soon.

No Apple products here.

I'm a stones throw from the Disk and I can hear the protests

Me, too. I cannot imagine how a successful business professional could denigrate themselves in such a public way with no thought about his loss of honor, assuming he had some.

I am all Apple, and find it disgusting.

"All Apple" ? Ewwwwww.

I'm with you on that!

I've had multiple reasons to oppose products from Apple, and this is one more - a rather severe one.

Never have. NEVER WILL.

Some of us are using Apple products and are stuck with them are also disgusted.

Same. Never have, never will.

I don't use Apple products either, now I never will!!

I don't either, but I was proud that a hometown boy had ascended all the way to the top of the world's biggest corporation. Sadly, he turned out to be like all the other hometown boys. A coward.

It was the display, not the intention, that saved Apple from a stock crash. Trump is a sociopath who would not hesitate to sink the stock of Apple just to satisfy his ego. As CEO, Tim took the most pragmatic option.

Apple is most impacted by the tariffs … Tim Cook has no choice but to

I thought his name was Tim Apple.

Steve is trying to raise from his grave and strangle Tim.

While I don’t disagree with your sentiment (I’ve had iPhone for more than a minute), please name me a tech/phone company that isn’t oligarching the absolute heck out of anything they can, under this current clown show? I’ll wait…

So fuck a tech company and install a custom OS on just about any Android model. itsfoss.com/android-dist...

I couldn’t help but notice, that is a circular desk trophy, somewhat in the shape of a sphincter. Possibly mimicking trump’s mouth, or referencing the fact he’s a pig sphincter? Just a thought, could be an inside joke.

Could be a bug.

It’s a golden-glass sphincter trophy.

I am crying in my iPhone

I need to get off of them and will, one by one, I have an iphone, two ipads and a macbook pro, I will not be replacing any of them with Apple products after this. Our best defense is spending our money on companies trying to resist this kleptocrat. #ResistFaciscm #BoycottCapitulation

Which ones are they?

I’d like to know this as well. I haven’t heard about Samsung saying “fuck off” to Trump but I could be wrong. Google kissed the ring big time so their os is out. That leaves you with a dumb phone and who knows what those corporate fat cats are up to

Very valid points. I’ll just not be upgrading until these die, one by one. Hopefully better options then, they already have monies I paid for these.

My Windows 10 machine is dying and I’d thought I’d get a Mac. But not now.

I also have a windows 10 desktop that I use to sail the high seas. Luckily I’m handy and I’ve been able to update the hardware in my machine myself but I won’t update the os. Look into seeing if you can get your current machine upgraded so that it works well again

Nice, I am trying the same things on my Win machines, I have two desktops that I can't upgrade to 11 and a few laptops in the same condition. I have an IT guy buddy that is going to come by someday (I called him about a month ago) as he can do it fairly easily if he ever gets here.

i’m sick of being nagged about Bing and Win11.

Absolutely agreed.

You're probably better off with a decent Win11 machine anyway. I hate this, I've been a Mac guy since the G3 but the only small victories to my morale are not supporting this capitulation when I can. Good luck and stay strong!

I honestly doubt there will be better options. The further things go the more monopolies we will see in hardware technology. Samsung tablets still don’t compete in a market share value/consumer recognition as with ipad. Tbh I don’t know anyone with a non-ipad tablet but that is clearly bias

I had a great Lenovo one that died.

I still have one, it was inexpensive and still one of my most reliable machines.

I had one of the rare Lenovo desktops. I only got rid of it because the hardware was no longer upgradable and it would have required a whole new motherboard and processor. I built my computers myself from that point forward

I have an old Lenovo tower replaced with a horrible Dell, thinking of using it.

It’s probably still good for most use cases.

Same.

He played very well. Give trump a gold gift and promise manufacturing that isn't possible for years

Unfortunately I do.

Grooooooosss.

With that comment I am switching to a grandma jitterbug.

Android forever

A corporate elite oligarch kissing the ring of whomever is in power? How does this shock anyone?

Only apple thing I ever had was an ipod shuffle (the tiny one) and it's been obsolete for longer than I had it. Won't ever buy anything else from them.

So completely sad Tim did this. Apple will soon be gone from my life.

What a betrayal of Apple's philosophy. Jobs is turning in his grave.

Trump is probably disappointed. He wants more gold-lined planes.

Is it real gold? Hmmmm

I’m switching, today.

I had an iPhone before Cool became a Trump toady. Not sure what to do…

Never have and never will. They've always been lagging behind other brands in quality and features. I worked at circuit city for several years and watched as technology in general evolved. I sold and installed electronics and had friends in all departments including the one selling phones for ...

...an outside company. Apple phones have always been problematic integrating with car electronics and their software has constant flaws making them difficult to stay consistent. I know this from experience with thousands of customers. So yeah, Apple can suck it.

Do you really think Google is any better in dealing with Trump?

Hell fucking no, de-google everything. itsfoss.com/android-dist...

Yes, but it's not just Appmy unfortunately. Tho, ofc, there was never a good reason to use Apple anything.

I’m done.

I’m utterly ashamed that I do. And I can’t afford to replace them!

I could not believe what I was seeing. I was repulsed!!!

It was indeed. Tim Cook is a disgrace, but typical for the billionaire class. (I own Apple products.)

"What Would Steve Jobs do?"

I don’t know enough about him to hazard a guess but I did wonder the same thing.

Me too ✋️

boycott #Apple

Orange ring=rimming.

I haven't owned an Apple since the Macintosh computer days. It's all android and Linux for me.

I'm forced to for work but I intensely dislike the iPhone

So am I glad I dont use Apple products.

I’m getting rid of mine in 4 payments. Back to a flip phone where no one can trace me.

I’m trying to figure out when exactly we went wrong. 2012. I could never see Russia from my house and now we have a Diddler on the Roof who got mail order brides from there. Then I recalled the biggest lie told. White people can math. What kind of chin does John have?

Pffft. Never used apple unless it was at work. Windows or Linux based operating systems for me.

What products do you use? You are part of the problem. Probably on a Samsung LOL

Ditto!

Right now I wish I didn’t use Apple products…

I prefer MicroSoft.

Fuck them too. www.techradar.com/best/best-li...

Nope, not a one! All these years and I've never felt it necessary. I enjoy being an Android user.

Yeah- because all those other companies, they’d never bend the knee to Trump

It's very easy to put a custom OS on an Android. You're not locked in to google.

Right there with you Never have Never will

Pretty sure it was the brown ring

I want to smash mine after watching that nauseating display fealty

Do it!

Is this the same man who made a big speech about never returning to his home state of Alabama (my home state as well) bc of its poor record on LGBTQIA rights?

Personally speaking, I really don’t want to buy anything made in US right now.

Tim, WTF!!!

Proud to say I'm middle age and still haven't spent a dime on that trend-peddling joke of an incel company.

Awesome handle! Yeah, I stopped using Apple in 1987. Never owned nor wanted an iPhone. I'm not much for ostentatious displays of bad judgment.

I don't use any of their products and now I won't.

I have an Apple iPhone and have for years. I’m sickened over it. I want to get another smart phone. Fck that guy. But I doubt my partner would be onboard. We just bought them last year. 😡

I’m in the market for a new laptop and now it will NOT be another MacBook

I have 2 at work (phone & iPad). I leave them continuously on & running but don't use them. Just keep recharging the batteries once a week. I'm guessing someone in the ether world collects statistics on these kind of things.

Never have never will

it’s not what it appears. a calculated series of showy but meaningless flatteries so that the company gets carved-out exceptions. because the CEO has a duty to protect its employees, its shareholders and its customers.

Prostrating yourself in front of a fascist is not really conducive to "good business". He may be "protecting his shareholders and employees" at the moment, but Apple will never be able to make phones in the US. Eventually Trump will turn on him.

unlikely that iPhone will ever be made in the US. simple fact that has been true for more than a decade, still true, and will be true after Trump is gone. but for the here and now, some flattery, a golden glass desk trinket, a meaningless announcement about glass production seems to be enough.

Yes. Flattery and gold. I imagine the frankincense and myrrh will be next.

As soon as mines paid

That company died with Steve Jobs

I do, the only software I’ve used since Steve was in charge his FIRST go around. I so hate to learn new software but at 71, I might have to.

Me 3

happily will give up mine. Cook is a jagoff.

Same

I do use Apple products. And i find it disgusting that Tim ‘Apple’ kisses the ring. He is gay and Trump has zero respect for him. People abandon all principles in favor of money. Zero spine.

The dumb added over at Google got in the debate about the Golf of Amerikkka. I have artwork on my phone. Ask me about the Couch lover invested in an app before he had the National Guard do what you a body of water while the strand canyon is on fire?! I remember when the put out fires

Well, hopefuly you've learned the error in your ways now. Fuck Apple.

The alternative products are so much worse.

Then you don't know much about the alternatives.

Enlighten me. As long as it is not Microsoft or Google.

1) Custom Android OS fully degoogled. Will work on most Android models, but takes reading through some tutorials to learn how to do it. ex: lineageos.org 2) A fully open-source device. Ready out of box but more costly. This list has some of each. itsfoss.com/open-source-...

Very interesting!!

And I wish I could up and get rid of mine. What a fucking MAGA cuck. Steve Jobs is rolling over in his fucking grave right now…

Steve Jobs would have done same thing

Never have, never will.

I do have a Macbook but NO iphone and I have NEVER had one!

Neither am I.

Ditto. Didn't like apple then, like it less now and can't stand weak-kneed sycophants.

Agree with you, and I have never used apple products. No reason to start now.

The enemy has their hands on the jewel. If Americans don't act now, they are going to wake up to a day when it has been SNATCHED. Then where will y'all be? Today's Americans were GIVEN their freedom, their Rights, & their independence. They did not earn them, & now they are taken for granted.

Me either!

Same.