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Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure::Former Vice President Al Gore will exit Apple's board of directors, the company said in an SEC filing that also revealed a pay drop for CEO Tim Cook.

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[–] sir_reginald 8 points 9 months ago (8 children)

yeah, that green company that artificially impedes reusing parts by firmware.

the very same company that sells premium laptops with not upgradeable 8 GB of RAM. The very same company which sells laptops in which even the SSD is soldered, so when it dies or when it is full (the base model is 256 GB and they make you pay a big premium for more) you have to replace the whole thing.

[–] skyline385 -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

Is 8GB RAM laptop even relevant to this discussion? You seem to be going off on the “Apple doesn’t provide enough RAM with their base models” rant which is a completely different discussion. Regarding soldering the SSD, many manufacturers do it and it’s certainly not good practice for the environment.

I never said Apple is the greenest company in existence but they are also not the worst like the original company implied and they are certainly not forcing early retirement of their products. On the contrary they are doing the opposite by providing software support even 5-6 years after purchase.

[–] TheGrandNagus 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

8GB laptops are pretty much ewaste outside of Chromebooks. That's why it's relevant to the "green" discussion

E: lol the person below made a whiny comment essentially saying Apple has magic RAM and then blocked me so I can't reply. Am I back on Reddit or something?

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