“...When Cook said nothing like that! The media, using that SINGLE SOURCE repeated that claim as fact.”
So we got that incident wrong which leads to the conclusion that Apple is conservative friendly? Good product/bad product, great debate material, but Apple financially supports the left and all that entails. So do lots of other companies, especially tech companies, but then why not just say Apple is run by a bunch of dicks but they make products I like?
Neither way. . . Apple as a company spends very little on political contributions. . . far less in fact than Microsoft, Amazon, Google, or Samsung. . . . especially on lobbying. There is an Apple Employee' PAC. . . that supports Democrats over Republicans by about 80/20. But what employees's PAC doesn't. That's where the money against the California initiatives came from. The Board of Directors is split about sixty-forty liberal to conservative. . . so they really don't take too many extreme political stands. They mostly just don't do anything politically as a company. . . and stand neutral. Which is strange considering the REPUTATION people have attributed to them because of the assumed biases of the people who bought and used their products.
That turns out to be more myth than fact. Strangely, the New York Times did a survey of the political leanings of their Mac using subscribers about ten years ago. . . and found, much to the surveyor's shock, 43% of the Mac users self-identified themselves as CONSERVATIVE!! Of the remainder, 25% claimed independent, and 27% were Liberal. The balance declined to state. LOL!
Steve Jobs had a moderately Liberal reputation, but have you heard the commencement speech he gave at Stanford? Nothing better has been said by most conservatives. If he had taken the time to really think about it, he probably would have switched to conservative thinking. The ideas he truly thought about and believed in were. It's only when he spoke quickly and without thinking, did he spout Liberal mantras. . . philosophically, his ideas were conservative. Look at his stand against pornography on the Apple App Store.
Unfortunately I’m limited in what I can buy.
If I based my purchases on company ideology I’d have to stop using Adobe, Apple and Filemaker, which are the bulk of my software!
And if I move from Strata to Maxon or Autodesk I’m sure they have reprehensible donation and personnel policies, also..
Ed