October 20, 2023
"Jon Stewart’s show on Apple’s streaming service is abruptly coming to an end..."
"Mr. Stewart and Apple executives decided to part ways in recent days.... [P]otential show topics related to China and artificial intelligence were causing concern among Apple executives, a person with knowledge of the meeting said.... Apple’s foray into entertainment has raised the risk of collateral damage to its brand or estrangement of the diverse customers who buy its pricey iPhones and iPads...."
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Apple's investors need to shed Cook the Queer and find an American patriot instead.
"abruptly coming to an end"
You mean he got hashtag #CANCELLED? For voicing an opinion that his "platform" didn't agree with. So they deplatformed him. He hasn't lost his First Amendment rights, because Apple of course isn't the government. They only do the government's bidding, so it's all legal and such.
How positively Twitterish.
"I laugh at the superior intellect." - Captain James T. Kirk
He used to be a comedian. He could go back to making people feel good.
Apple, now please get rid of your propagandistic "Apple News" service. It damages your reputation and puts you in bed with the hard left CNN / MSNBC low information bubble-dwelling lefty crowd.
I received a free subscription to Apple's video service...but literally found nothing I wanted to watch. It sat there unused for 3 months, and then I cancelled.
Both Pixel and iPhone commercials seem to be making a big thing of their photo-manipulation capabilities. I'm not sure which phone it is that's running an ad where a little girl has her picture taken out in her backyard; then she proceeds to change everything about the picture so that it shows her riding a winged unicorn through a sky filled with, I don't know, stuffed animals or something. Isn't that cute? Her picture is now exactly as she wants it! Adorable! She's riding a unicorn!
In another, there are repeated instances of group fun-time photos in which somebody's eyes are closed - oh, darn it, everybody get back in position. But wait! Just replace this person's face with a different version of the same face, but with eyes open! Perfect - now everybody get back to enjoying those umbrella cocktails!
The attempts to make this image manipulation seem benign and fun give me the shivers. I know we can't put this thing back in the box, and I know that photo-realism has only been around for a hundred and fifty years and was always subject to manipulation at some level... but now our friend Greta Thunberg, if she were six years old again and planning her campaign of global domination, could shop herself onto the back of an endangered and sweating whale, holding a Hamas flag and raising a fist to the heavens.
Apple’s foray into entertainment has raised the risk of collateral damage to its brand or estrangement of the diverse customers who buy its pricey iPhones and iPads...."
I want to take just a moment to put a bow on this.
The foray into entertainment.
China is thought to have a large amount of people. A population that requires entertainment.
That leads to content creators and marketer, coveting the market.
Hold on I'm getting there.
Who owns the televised news? The news divisions are subsidiaries of Entertainment Giants.
If you want to know why China is treated with Kid Gloves, it is because the entertainment companies will do anything to keep the China entertainment market.
I received a free subscription to Apple's video service...but literally found nothing I wanted to watch.
You passed on Ted Lasso? You missed out.
Jon Stewart had a show on Apple?
Tim Cook once closed Apple sales to NC because they dared pass a law that required kids in school to use biologically appropriate restrooms. The same Tim Cook maintained stores in Muslim countries that kill gays...
The difference between Apple and Google is that Apple never even pretended to be anything but Evil.
"The attempts to make this image manipulation seem benign and fun give me the shivers."
Let's not hyperventilate. What you might want to consider here, and I am highly aware of this because I work for a tech company, is that a bunch of engineers developed some stupid chip that does something-or-other -- "See, isn't it cool!" -- and now these poor marketing assholes have to think of a way to sell it to people. It doesn't taste good, it doesn't get you high, it isn't that cheer-leader who sat in front of you in Biology and drove you half mad with thwarted lust. Just thinking about her bra-strap practically -- never mind. No, this thing does some useless crap with image manipulation. Hmmm... OK. Let's go down the list of pushable buttons; Sex? Status? Animals? Children? Sex-with-Animals? Status-with-Animals? We need to get creative here ... but not too creative ...
Oh. This is just terible news.
To anyone who cares.
While I disapprove of Apple's reasons, I applaud the result. The less of Jon STewart the better. Its not like he was some bulwark for freedom of speech.
And I wont miss his utterly conventional Liberal/left mid-wittery. its amazing how far he went, given his entire comic persona consisted of being snarky and raising an eyebrow.
The market has spoken.
"but now our friend Greta Thunberg, if she were six years old again and planning her campaign of global domination, could shop herself onto the back of an endangered and sweating whale, holding a Hamas flag and raising a fist to the heavens."
She sorta just did that.
Me:
"The attempts to make this image manipulation seem benign and fun give me the shivers."
Jupiter:
Let's not hyperventilate.
Fair enough! So it's more like, what, a Dilbert cartoon in reverse, in which instead of marketing over-promising and engineering having to deliver, it's engineering coming up with a useless thing and marketing having to sell it?
I'm still creeped out and waiting for the next images of a news story... that I can't believe because it's too easy for even an individual to manipulate a cellphone image.
I'm still tied to the hardware but quit the services when they wouldn't refund me the day of BLM music they forced on me...
I am no fan of Apple. I do own one Apple product - an ancient iPod. I don't want to support slave Chinese labor products.
I'm still tied to the hardware but quit the services when they wouldn't refund me the day of BLM music they forced on me...
"I'm still creeped out and waiting for the next images of a news story... that I can't believe because it's too easy for even an individual to manipulate a cellphone image."
"Pictures, or it didn't happen", we hardly knew ya.
What a putz. Stewart is estimated to be worth $125M. What, he can't put his own money where his his "brand" is (gosh, I hate that Oprahizing of self), to produce and stream his own show, on his own terms and with full editorial control, on a subscription or ad-supported basis? See Joe Rogan, who is now worth an estimated $120M himself. But really, Stewart was part of a dying era of "propagainers" (see Colbert as the purest example) where he wants all the $$ and control with none of personal risk (other than walking away with a big check, after shrugging his shoulders and smirking).
Is my utter disdain showing? It's because I grew up watching Carson make fun of every politician regardless of party. Ditto with NBC Letterman and early Tonight Leno. And then Tom Synder who was willing to question everything and everyone. Now, it's all corporate late night "propagainment."
Stewart used to alternate between social virtue signalling on popular topics, then hiding behind his clown nose when called out for obnoxious opinions. I guess the Chinese Communist Party sees through that nonsense, and recognizes that anyone not totally supportive of Winnie the Pooh and the rest of the CCP needs to be offed, one way or another. That Apple did this is simply them rolling over with their paws up in the air, hoping that they can keep selling stuff in China for a while longer, until the locals decide to relable it all and cut Apple out of the deal.
Apple wanted a reprise of the Daily Show Stewart. Instead, they got a bitter old man yelling at the sunrise.
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