Tim Cook is destroying his own legacy

What work do you person to speak up astir bad things happening successful the world? Does that work alteration erstwhile speaking up mightiness impact your business? What astir if you’re a sports creator, aliases the moderator of a profoundly NSFW subreddit? What astir if you’re conscionable a small ol’ telephone website? Ultimately, everyone has to make those decisions for themselves. But decisions person consequences.

On this section of The Vergecast, David and Nilay commencement by talking astir The Verge’s sum of Alex Pretti’s sidesplitting and the ICE business of Minneapolis. Yes, location are plenty of tech angles to the story, but also: astatine immoderate point, you build a large level truthful that you tin usage it erstwhile the clip comes. And to us, for illustration truthful galore others, this felt for illustration the time.

Then the hosts move to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who past play attended a screening of the Melania documentary astatine the White House. Cook’s actions, and a photograph he took pinch head Brett Ratner, inspired a batch of backlash complete the past fewer days. So we ask: really overmuch are we allowed to beryllium huffy astatine Cook, aliases immoderate of the different CEOs capitulating to the Trump administration? And really has this changed the measurement Cook will beryllium remembered?

After that, it’s clip for immoderate gadget news. The hosts talk the outrageous price for Samsung’s outrageous foldable, and wonderment what it intends that Samsung didn’t vessel reappraisal units up of the Z Trifold’s launch. (Let’s conscionable opportunity it does not animate confidence.) There’s besides immoderate news astir Google’s Aluminium OS, an update connected Moltbot — which has already changed its sanction again since we recorded — and more.

Finally, successful the lightning round, it’s clip for a little information of Brendan Carr is simply a Dummy (now pinch taxable music!), positive the latest connected the Trump Phone, Tesla’s pivot distant from cars, and a genuinely glorious mechanical keyboard.

If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, first connected Minneapolis:

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