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.
Who are the conservative board members? Sounds like you’re saying it’s the employees fault that Apple has a leftist reputation.
They are champions of the environment, yet moved all manufacturing to China so they didn’t have to comply with EPA regs. Then they hired Lisa Jackson, one of the most crooked EPA administrators in history. That doesn’t sound like a conservative.
If they supported even one lefty who is now pushing higher minimum wages while they actually pay a fraction of that cost to manufacture their products in China, then they are clearly not conservative.
The only thing they’ve done that seems even remotely conservative is shield their billions from taxes by parking them outside of the USA.
And don’t get me started on Saint Steven. I listened to that speech as I have every public speech given by the late Mr. Jobs. You found it conservative. I found it typical. Typical of many men and women in business. Conservative and liberal. It was touching because he seems to have finally realized that he was human, not conservative. In life he was a massive prick. There is not one “innovation” that you can point to that came from his brain because once you know that he would berate an employees idea then present it as his own, you can’t believe anything he says that he invented. He was a master manipulator whose genius was marketing. More along the lines of PT Barnum.