[Swordmaker]

Apple is going to target that big city demographic too. And they are going to look and seem “blue” — maybe bluer than they really are. I know a lot of Apple people who are are anything but liberal. As a corporation when you add it all up they still skew solidly liberal, but they do business pragmatically. It would help their corporate appearance if they had to really address flyover America better. However us hicks are too easily entranced by the big city stuff, so they sell to us enough without any special effort.

A Democrat operative once asked Steve Jobs why Apple did not make political donations to Democrats or even to the Democratic National Committee. . . or even "In Kind" donations. Steve Jobs replied "Because around half of Apple's customers are Republicans. I would not want to make half of our customers, of either party, angry with us, so Apple does not get involved." Apple has stuck to that policy over the years and does not make political donations.

Apple's Board of Directors has both Democrats and Republican members. if I had to guess, I would think the Republicans would be solidly Establishment Republicans and not true conservative Republicans. However, some is better than none.

The industry Apple is involved in is skewed solidly liberal. It is hard to find a company that is not. Why? I have no idea. Probably because the people involved in it are relatively young and had their ideas warped by participation in public schooling.

Apple's independent Employees' Political Action Committee, like all labor oriented organizations, makes political donations. Individual Apple employees can make donations on their own. . . however Steve Jobs, in the last 14 years of his life made very few political donations and compared to others of his wealth, the ones he did make were very small.

[BunnySlippers]

Nice post Swordmaker

I have a huge list of companies I will never buy from and a ton of products I will never buy.

But I never talk about them. My dislike of their product never rises to the level that I have to become apoplectic online somewhere. The hatred of a consumer device is funny when viewed on FR ... The hatred reaches astronomical levels.

It’s really laughable!

[Weirdad]

Very interesting — makes sense considering their success that they behave professionally by not going out of their way to get political and by that lose business. Steve Jobs seemed a little more professional than some of Apple’s other management, hope his influence does not wane much on that.