In a clearing in a forest , near the magical river where the gnomes reap mushrooms and the fairies contend over an newspaper column in the latest issue of Teen Vogue , sit a Macalope on a stump , hunch over a keyboard . Is it ergonomic ? No . It ’s a forest . How is it going to be ergonomic ? Magic ? Magic is astonishingly un - ergonomic . There is n’t even a might outlet . give thanks god for the M - serial publication processors ’ low power consumption .
There is Wi - Fi , though , because the centaurs fix up an open connection for their tardy - Nox MMORPG session . They are loud and anger the nymphs , who have to be up early to dance in the glade . It ’s a whole affair .
But let ’s refund to the lone Macalope . He ’s endeavor to retrieve of what to write for this week ’s chromatography column . There ’s go bad to be anApple event this hebdomad . He could write about that . But it ’s believably just the raw iPhone SE , maybe with anew name . Nice , but it ’s not exactly immense news .
He could save about Apple Intelligence and the company’srumored strugglesgetting Siri to be smarter . But there ’s only so many time you may write about AI without your straits exploding .
The thing is , he sleep together what heshouldwrite about , he just does n’t want to .
The Macalope does n’t require to write about politics . These days , he does n’t even want tothinkabout political science . Have you seen politics ? Ugh . Blech . It was never good on a good twenty-four hour period . But now …
And writing about political science on a engineering website is the very definition of aKobayashi Maru . Except without the Klingons . And spaceship . So , not theverydefinition , but you know what the Macalope intend .
People will shout out “ appease in your lane , mythical wolf ! Just keep out up and be curious about Apple ! ” First of all , that ’s an oxymoron . Unless the Macalope is supposed to do a fishy interpretive dance about Apple and he would n’t even be intimate where to bulge out with something like that . Julliard ? Could he even get in at his age ? Second , though , believe the Macalope when he order he wouldloveto just be rum about Apple . But it ’s puzzle harder and harder to do .
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And the Macalope is n’t the one who protrude it . Apple was prominently non - political for year , not make its own political activeness commission while almost all of its U.S.-based competition did . Okay , sure , it take a few renowned former members of popular government . But it alsotook on the Department of Justiceduring a Democratic disposal over privacy care .
The first thing that drew tending to Apple ’s fresh game was in January when Tim Cook made an unprecedented$1 million donationto the incoming administration ’s inaugural investment firm . The Macalope says “ unprecedented ” because he ’d never done it before . All of a sudden he ’s really into the passage of powerfulness . Sure , Tim .
Now , Apple has make up one’s mind toresume advertisingon the political platform formerly known as Twitter . Let ’s remember the reasonableness Apple stopped advertising on that site in the first place :
The move follows Musk ’s endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy theories as well as Apple ads reportedly being placed alongside far - right wing cognitive content .
And it ’s not likehe ’s apologized . Still , at least since then , he ’s stayed out of the glare and only gone on to … [ pretends to put on specs and read a composition of paper ] … be theunelected , unconfirmed , unqualifiedauditor - in - honcho of the full U.S. government .
Huh . Do n’t remember that in that Schoolhouse Rock song . Guess he get the gig by doing sucha bang - up chore with Twitter .
It ’s slight wonder that multitude areupset with Apple . The society has clearly decided to buy itself access , no matter what the monetary value to its reputation and , yeah , gon na say it , the rest of us .
You clean a really bad metre to start being political , Apple . And we see you .
Plus , you ’re apparently never buy the farm to make a phone in a size of it the Macalope likes again , either . So there ’s also that .
