Apple executives' decision to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" on its Maps app is setting off a firestorm inside the tech giant, with employees furious that leadership caved to President Donald Trump out of fear of his wrath, according to a new report.Employees are furious that the company is roll...

What a way to launch John Crapple.

    • thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I actually think this is funny. And alarming, but not the way I hear people talk about this. I feel like Apple was really smart here, offering a fairly measly, cheap, pointless trinket to continue making money hand over fist in the US. Tim was smart here, ROI must have been MASSIVE for that with the tariffs and such.

      However the real reason I think this is interesting is that it shows publicly and blatantly just how easily Trump can be paid off and placated and should have been be a huge wake up call for ANY of his supporters and peers. Between this and the FIFA trinket, no one in government should be so easily bought/paid off. I never got why people didn’t go after Trump legally and in the news for even thinking of accepting something like this.

      • credo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I made a lot of money in Apple stock over this event. I bought in after the verbal assault, and sold after the gifting.

        So it definitely worked.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    274·
    2 months ago

    This is the battle they are willing to fight? Your country picks an insane shit head for president and he wants to legally change the name of a lake and you throw a fit? What about fighting to allow ICE detection apps on the App store or standing up to assure your ai is honest and revealing about Trump administration atrocities?

  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    CoMaps is Apple/Google app store, open source, privacy centric Map app with turn by turn, lots of customization, and also has desktop clients for Linux and iOS.

    • the__joosh@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I switched this when Apple announced ads were coming to maps and have been very happy, some places don’t exist but with an OSM account you can contribute to a better map which is nice

  • khepri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    Gee what’s it called when corporations and the government are welded together in a power block that controls everything about the nation? Help me out here guys I forget.

  • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    2 months ago

    Whatever. They’ll still take the techbro paychecks and look the other way. Let me know when these nerds grow a spine.

  • anon_8675309@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    This is just the public things they’ve capitulated on. How many private requests have they received and acted upon?

  • matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    Were these people working from a remote cave or island for the past year and half?

    It’s not like Apple playing friend with Trump started yesterday! Apple has been openly pro-Trump since day 1!

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    I don’t think this new CEO is going to last more than a year. He has all the charisma of Gil Amelio.

    At least he shelved the Apple Vision headset. Hopefully he also canned the Apple Glasses and AirPods with camera that were rumored.

    • ccunning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I don’t think this new CEO is going to last more than a year. He has all the charisma of Gil Amelio.

      …nothing like the old CEO…

    • Fishnoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I mean, why would he care? Either way he gets obscene amounts of money for at the least a lazy years worth of work

  • edwardbear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Every single employee that was tasked to change Lake Ontario to Lake America could just say no, and quit.

    Or are we just following orders?

  • lmdnw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    What a bunch of loose, prolapsed assholes these execs are. How do they expect to usher forth a technocratic state if they can’t even separate themselves from the stupidest under the status quo?

    • Optional@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      One of the marketing managers was flayed on a spit. Jeez rtfa!

      /s yeah its lame but wygd, quit? In this context I read it as employee morale takes a kick in the ‘nards so go poach some applers or expect bad stuff to happen there next. Both being bad for apple and both the result of some internal chatter.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

    Getting on Trump’s bad side can mean an anti-trust lawsuit or an end to tariff exemptions. With billions of dollars at stake, the executives would be negligent to act otherwise.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Wow, I guess we just have to accept their is a wanna be mob boss in the White House!?

      Also, this is far more of a partnership than you think.

    • Optional@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I mean, this is how I justified tim apple’s participation in the techno bunghole club with the gold-based-corning glass sacrifice. Six months in, get in, throw some shit in the air, get out. Fine, i disagree, but whatever.

      But this is nothing. This is just stupid. An EO is nothing. And frankly even the most pedestrian trump watcher knows he’d TACO before losing $1 over “lake fucking america”. So it looks really bad for The Fucking New Guy to pre-cave on nothing that’s this goddamn stupid.

      • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        This isn’t pre-caving, this is supporting. The government and corporations are working hand in hand to fuck everyone over except their share holders.