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Comment by therobots927 | Hacker News Reader

It’s not so much about political alignment as much as it’s about your bank account.

Apple has more cash reserves on hand than most countries do and yet its CEO had to scramble to stand behind Trump during the inauguration and offer a million-dollar tribute to stay in his good graces. Power > money.

And worst of all he had to watch "Melania"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_(film)#Release

He didn't have to do a single damn thing. He did the cost-benefit analysis and chose to cozy up to a corrupt administration.

Given how much the typical Apple consumer skews left and has extreme brand loyalty, if Apple got tariffed simply because Tim failed to bow down, Apple would be in a stronger position to fight it than any other tech company. They could have stood up, but chose not to.

I think your forgetting that governments can just shut a company down, or even worse completely take it over and nationalise it. At the end of the day sovereigns rule over all else. Money means nothing when a gun is pointed at your head.

How do we know the typical apple user skews left?

  > Given how much the typical Apple consumer skews left

idk, that might just be something people believe but i haven't seen any evidence of that... many right-leaning pundits are apple users; even rush limbaugh was a mac user!

Not really.

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