Ben Thompson ties the Apple "crush" ad back to "bicycles of the mind:"
"The apology comes across as heartfelt — accentuated by the fact that an Apple executive put his name to it — but I disagree with Myhren: the reason why people reacted so strongly to the ad is that it couldn’t have hit the mark more squarely."
https://stratechery.com/2024/the-great-flattening/
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