You said, “No surprise, then, that Apple leans toward “blue,” a company whose products seem disproportionately favored by liberals (and others with fascist tendencies): their stores are mainly in the “blue” zones where liberals live!”
I think you’re seeing a “purpose” that does not really exist in Apple’s corporate policy. You make it sound like someone at Apple, in charge of the Apple Stores, is saying something like ... “Let’s look for where the Liberals mostly congregate, and then build stores there, because we favor liberals in doing our business!”
What is going on ... actually ... is that Apple is looking for the most concentrated population areas, first, in order to get “more bang for their buck” for that store. I mean, if you’re doing a “study” to see where to place your business, you want a high volume traffic area with a high population, because it’s going to provide more business for your startup company (if you’re a retail establishment).
The fact that these stores are in “Liberal areas” (mostly) results from the fact that high population areas and high retail traffic areas are already Liberal areas, not that Apple is “looking for liberal areas”.
It’s like the telecommunications companies, when they roll out a newer high speed data service for their mobile devices. WHERE EXACTLY are those companies going to place their first implementation of those new data services. They are ALWAYS going to pick the LIBERAL AREAS! Why are they going to pick the Liberal areas, first?! Is it because these companies are trying to favor the Liberal element of our populations? NO, it’s because that is where the most concentrated populations are, and that means MORE CUSTOMERS for a certain amount of cost for rolling out the new data service. The fact that there are a bunch of liberals there is INCIDENTAL!
The trouble with being highly concerned about Liberals, is that this kind of concern has the tendency to produce the idea that there is the devil under every rock and behind every tree. In real life, this is not the case, overall, in everything that goes on in society.
It’s not the case that Apple is looking to place their stores in “Liberal areas” in order to favor the liberals. They are “doing business” and this is what produces a lot of business ... being located in high population areas.
I personally don't own any Apple products, although I appreciate them. They are sleek & beautiful. But I know I could never get that intensely involved with them.
Regarding your nice comments, including, “I think you’re seeing a “purpose” that does not really exist in Apple’s corporate policy”:
I actually agree with everything you wrote except for the above, because I am even with you on that. We really are saying the same thing in different ways. (I do not see where you get that I think there is a purpose other than just what you wrote, selling their products, which is easier in high population areas. Sorry if I wrote unclearly.)
And I agree with you, really I was saying it myself, that Apple’s focus on large cities with their stores (etc) it is incidental: Cities are where the money is at! Big cities are also the liberal mothership.
So ... it kind of results in liberals being able to like and use Apple stuff more easily, when proportioned out, than us good guys.
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.
I am of course being tongue in check about them avoiding smaller cities because they would have to hire us orthodox Americans. They tend pragmatic. (Plus even here there are far too many liberals.)