The Internet being mostly broken at this point is driving me a little insane, and I can’t believe that people who have the power to keep a functioning search engine for themselves wouldn’t go ahead and do it.
I wonder about this every time I see people(?) crowing about how amazing AI is. Like, is there some secret useful AI out there that plebs like me don’t get to use? Because otherwise, huh?


Apple execs use iPhones with a modified iOS that lets them use a keyboard that doesn’t suck and doesn’t have sponsored auto-corrections, and I will die on this hill. /s
Honestly though, I think a lot of people at Microsoft just use Macs. Google? I have no idea. I would imagine the smarter ones search with DuckDuckGo or something like that. Apple? They probably just use their own stuff since they look down their noses at the competition, but they use the best. Co-founder Steve Wozniak basically confirmed that. Even though he no longer works there, he said they send him the best iPhone every year. (I’m not sure if they still do that.) He also said it’s pretty but he wishes it did half the shit his Android phone does. He also uses custom firmware on Android, so he’s not just using a stock Android phone, he’s running something like GrapheneOS or LineageOS. So Woz is basically just collecting them at this point. Maybe he donates them. I dunno. So yeah, Tim Cook has a Mac on his desk, but it’s not the $480 M4 Mac mini, it’s a fully spec’d Mac Studio that would probably set you back close to 10 grand. Because why would he use anything less? And he’s carrying the top spec’d MacBook Pro. And a 1TB iPhone Pro… he doesn’t seem like a big guy, so he might just be using the “regular” Pro and not the Pro Max, as a personal preference. Honestly, the executives can use whatever they want, but they’ll only be seen with the flagship.
I worked for a FAANG company for a lotta years. We always had the fully spec’d laptop/desktop/phone. Its not reserved for just the C-suite. The tech is cheap compared to almost every other aspect of employing expensive labor. Hell, the food we got every day probably cost the company well more than the tech.