Tim Cook sold Apple's soul

@kevinrenskers After reading this it seems save to assume, that Tim Cook is genuinely afraid.

@kevinrenskers Thanks, but it dwarfs in comparison with yours Big tech has come a long way from the “Make the world a better place” days.

@kevinrenskers @leroy https://grapheneos.org/usage#android-auto

@tux0r what a strange comment to make when i made it clear I’m looking for an alternative. Which is definitely not Google.

@kevinrenskers Is there a rose gold version available?

@kevinrenskers @kevinashworth Do you think you'd change your mind if he realises it was once again profitable to pretend to care about social issues?

@devolute cynical today, are we?

But the answer is no.

@kevinrenskers Respect. I've been cynical since I realised large corporations don't ever have 'souls' and their primary objective is to make money, almost always at the expense of absolutely everything else and I think it's terribly naive to think anything else.

@devolute I could’ve titled it “Tim Cook sold his own soul to save Apple’s profits”. Maybe that would’ve been more precise.

But he damaged Apple’s reputation alongside his own. And I think calling Apple’s reputation its “soul” isn’t unfair.

@kevinrenskers @stuartm I have been exploring /e/OS on a phone and so far it works fine? My primary annoyance is that in-app purchases do not work (less money to Google, yay!).

In some ways it's a bit of a downgrade. But enough people have to accept a bit of a downgrade so that the alternatives get enough funding to improve.

Best of all, it does not have liquid glass.

@beno interesting!