if you want to sell a product that looks like defect but sucks for everyone, lying and saying “its a prisoners dilemma, don’t be a sucker” is a remarkably effective technique.
Of course you need explosive reactive armor on your car! imagine if you get in a crash and the other bastard has it and you don’t
Maybe you were busy being open minded and etc.
But uh rest of Silicon Valley was pretty openly rooting for Trump to win 2024.
The emperor having no clothes is actually really useful when you can interact with the emperor. You want them then to be mallable like Tim Cook giving Trump a golden statue so they're immune to tariffs that their competitors have to pay.
I'm sure people like David Ellison made off like a bandit, being able to push mergers (or at least, try to push mergeers) that would have been stopped early under any other administration. I don't think Apple was doing any blatantly bold moves like that, though.