Excellent summary about Apple. Apple users are for a large part a cult following.
We have a female in law, who in most issues is a conservative. She owns every Apple product and has the latest update on her I Phone, I Pad, and I Mac.
When you bring up your excellent points, her eyes glaze over and she acts like a brain washed liberal.
Rush Limbaugh apparently has the same problem when it comes to Apple computors.
Your excellent Apple summary, “So when Apple decided that it didn’t want to comply with EPA rules and moved their manufacturing to China, they were only concerned with what? Or when they thumbed their noses at minimum wage laws and hired Chinese workers at a fraction of the cost of an American worker they were just doing what? And how ‘bout when they shielded their billions in foreign banks to avoid taxes in the USA? All this at the same time that they were sending massive amounts of money to politicians who devised the very rules that they have so assiduously avoided. We have several vulgarities for people like that.”
I use Apple products because I find them better and easier to use than other company’s offerings. Now, just exactly how would I be supporting a company that did NOT push leftist dogma by using Microsoft, Dell, HP or just about any other? Are any of Apple’s competitors NOT manufacturing in China, or supporting gay marriage, or pushing for gun control?
I recently bought my first Windows laptop in years. I prefer the Mac OS but I actually like Win 8. I just use it for web stuff however and spend most of my time on the desktop side. So I’m not saying that other companies haven’t been doing the same, just that Apple gets a pass ‘cause they “care” so much. And they’re geniuses.
I used to defend Apple but only as a viable OS. And I found cult-like behavior on both sides, but much like the Dems vs Repubs, Apple is the darling right now so everyone fawns.
Limbaugh is another story. They won’t ever run ads on his show, but I guarantee, he gets plenty of perks. These old conservatives who can find nothing wrong with an entity as long as it has the letters INC after their name are relics.
They’ve told us for decades that “BIG BUSINESS” was sacrosanct even as more and more businesses were putting their money behind the Dems. Something wrong when you defend a company for years as they pour chemicals by the ton into the air and water only to find out that they gave all their cash to the Democrats and sent all their jobs overseas.