[capableweb]

The full quote:

> We tell all of our customers how great our products are for remote work, yet, we ourselves, cannot use them to work remotely? How can we expect our customers to take that seriously? How can we understand what problems of remote work need solving in our products if we don't live it?

I'd have to agree. If you're building products and market them for "remote working", then you better have figured out remote working yourself in your own environment, otherwise I won't trust that you've actually gotten it right.

Of course, there is also a difference between different job functions. If you're in the hardware team, I can see how it's hard to actually collaborate remotely on a bunch of stuff. But for the pencil pushers in corporate? Definitely should have figured out how to make that work.

[jayd16]

Tools can be ideal without the situation they call for being ideal. Apple isn't pushing for remote work, it just has a good solve for it. Its not hypocritical at all.

[thawaya3113]

Just because a tool is great for working remotely does not mean remote working is good.

Turkey marketing its drones as great for war does not mean Turkey is being hypocritical for saying that war isn’t good.

[capableweb]

> Just because a tool is great for working remotely does not mean remote working is good.

So lets say Apple doesn't believe "remote working" is good in general. Why would they be building tools for something they don't think is good?

[thawaya3113]

I don’t see Apple claiming remote working is not good in general. They just don’t believe remote working is good for them.

And again, Turkey creating great drones does not require them to believe war is good.

This is a pretty straightforward logical fallacy.

[enumjorge]

> Turkey creating great drones does not require them to believe war is good.

I don’t think that’s the correct analogy. It’s more like Turkey creating great drones while also believing that drones are not an effective way to wage war.

[yakkityyak]

Isn't it $entity creates $tool. $tool is used by people for $scenario. $entity doesn't like $scenario.

Apple nowhere said their products aren't good for remote work...?

[dominotw]

> Why would they be building tools for something they don't think is good?

other than profits for shareholders?

[WithinReason]

money?

[sofixa]

Your Turkey allegory isn't fitting due to "si vis pacem para bellum". Turkey can say war isn't good, and one of the best ways to dissuade potential enemies is by being good at war. Nothing similar is at play with Apple.