Say it with me:
Apple is not your friend.
Apple is a company.
A company only exists to generate profits, it has no other morals. It will do everything (within the law, most of the time) to increase profits.
If they have decided using twitter to serve adds is still good for business, they will continue.
No one stopped buying apple when the forced labour of foxconn was revealed decades ago. (well, not enough to offset the savings to apple by using foxconn)
Musk had a walk with Apple’s CEO. I wonder if he promised to keep advertising to appease him? They changed policy and have Musk the first single letter app name.
At the time, Musk was waging war on multiple fronts. He didnt want to pay Amazon or Google for services. And they warned “Fine, we don’t want to pay for ads.” And now its a very tense Cold War.
See, Google and Amazon provide Twitter with services that he can bring in-house.
But Apple brings something more valuable… Apple brings traffic. I’m pretty sure Tim Cook (Tim Apple) literally said that most of Twitter traffic can disappear overnight if he fucks with Apple.
And Musk bent over.
Yes, everyone knows it already, they’re just another company, profit is the main and first objective. Their stuff is generally good but priced high tier. But they do some virtue signalling when/where it doesn’t hurt them too much, so that’s why sometimes we can hope they put down their foot sometimes.
No one stopped buying apple when the forced labour of foxconn was revealed decades ago. (well, not enough to offset the savings to apple by using foxconn)
I think people know that almost everything in their homes (everything from kitchen utensils to speakers, even my mop) is made in the same type of factories or use components that are, except my furniture maybe, that’s from Vietnam and clothing often from India/Pakistan/Bangladesh (still sweatshops, just different countries).
At least Apple had to improve conditions somewhat for their production lines which all the other companies supplying the west with cheap products didn’t. They also audit it, which works somewhat though there’s also evidence manufacturers tries to “hide” problems so nothing is perfect. One brand that tries harder is Fairphone and they are saying it’s currently impossible to be 100% “Fair”. But I guess if one wants to make a statement with their purchase they’ll have to buy Fairphone.
Another company that had to do something was Nike, but I wouldn’t be surprised they’ve reverted to closing their eyes to pure sweatshop suppliers now everyone have forgotten the scandal. Nobody’s forgetting Apple’s scandal because they’re the most in the spotlight.
I don’t know how anyone has the energy to research all this stuff related to everything they might buy.
You eat crayons my dude?
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
