Well, I’m not quitting Apple products, because they’re too good. I buy my products for how good of a job they do for me, not because of the employees at the company, no matter what level they’re at.
In fact most of the time I have no idea what their political persuasions are ... when I buy gas, if I get a coffeemaker from a manufacturer, or the pharmacy I go to, the bakery, grocery store, the shopping mall ... and you name it ... I don’t know and I don’t care ... because I’m buying a product for myself, in order to meet my requirements, and no one else’s requirements!
And when I work at a company, I don’t expect to have an entire subgroup of the population complaining against me “in that job” because of my political and religious and sexual persuasions. I expect to be judged in my job environment strictly on the ability to do my job properly, and perhaps better than anyone else.
If I get involved in my own time ... which I do ... then we can all argue about it on my own time, but not on the basis of my job or my work or the goods that I am making or selling on the market!
I figure that I can get involved personally (with whatever my own personal political or religious or sexual preferences are) on my own time. My work remains separate.
OH ... BY THE WAY ... I’m typing this on an iPad ... :-) ...
Well said.
The problem is the influence of the position. If I got involved in something in my free time, no one would care because I have no real influence. When the head of Apple talks, people listen - a lot. It’s no different than celebrities opening their mouth and making fools of themselves.
I hate my iPad. It’s too screwy. Keeps shutting down when I try to open sites. I wish I could get rid of it.