The REAL Apple Cultists are the Apple HATERS Ping!
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Posted on 03/21/2015 1:33:07 AM PDT by Swordmaker
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In b4 the haters! BUMP
That was excellent!
If Apple can maintain its margins as it starts to build more of its products in the US — and presumably pay more income taxes in the process — it’ll be amazing. But it won’t be the first time I’ll be amazed. :’)
I think the new sphincter-shaped campus building will be a huge mistake, unless Apple has some new category-killer product lines coming. But again, won’t be the first time I’ve been amazed.
Do you have any thoughts on the auto project? Another Apple success in the making or something else?
You are aware that Apple is the only major computer maker that makes any of its computers in the USA, aren't you? Were you also aware that Apple pays 2.5% of all US Corporate income taxes, with an effective tax rate in the last tax year of over 28%? These are facts, my FRiend.
I would be extremely surprised if Apple were designing a car. I think it would kill their Apple CarPlay business to compete with the forty car makers who've signed up to install CarPlay in upcoming models of their cars. I think Apple is designing SOFTWARE for automakers, not their own cars. . . nor will Apple buy Tesla for the same reason. They don't want to be competing with their customers for a marginal profit business. Tesla has yet to sell a Billion dollars worth of cars! Apple CarPlay will easily be a $20 billion component of Apple's product mix in five years.
ok thanks....as always time will tell
Care to insert a link to those facts so we can all see them? Not that I doubt you but this whole Mac vs, PC thing has gone on as much as the Republicans vs, the Demodrats; Gators vs. Bulldogs; Notre Dame vs. USC; yadda, yadda, yadda.
I could really care less for any of it. I do my own research, buy the best possible product at the best possible price to perform the best possible service that I need.
Those who choose labels over anything else are just as hypocritical and misguided as those who chose the Golden Calf.
What percentage of total Apple production is in the US right now?
You know if I posted them AGAIN, it would be about the twentieth time I've posted the facts, quotes, and links on Freerepublic as to Tim Cook's testimony before the U.S. SENATE a year ago in which he testified under oath as to the facts of Apple's Tax situation and paying $1 out of every forty dollars of US Corporate Income Taxes, and provided the tax returns proving it. . . after facing down the Democrat Senators accusations of not paying any US Income Taxes. His testimony is available online in a video.
As for making computers here, ALL of the Apple Mac Pros are made in Austin, Texas, from a majority of American made parts and components. The Apple IMacs are assembled in Elk Grove, California, using a good percentage of American components. Apple does not, and never has, provided a percentage break-down by model of their computer sales.
This is exactly the problem with the Apple haters. They are jealous of a successful company.
PsyOps, preaching to the ecosystem.
It is a little weird. Are they jealous of success? Do they wish for failure in others?
The Apple turn-around story of the late 90's is the very stuff of free enterprise capitalism and the power of the individual.
Here is a company that was on the brink of bankruptcy. The founder of the company returns, and with individual vision, against the prevailing group consensus of the day, he turns the company around, saves it from bankruptcy, and it becomes wildly successful. This is a textbook example of the individual making a difference; of vision, of creating a product that is not the usual committee-designed bland beige dreck produced by so many companies.
I love the fact that Steve Jobs returned to save his own company and prove the majority wrong. Consensus is what gives us the US Post Office or Healthcare.gov. Individualism gives us the likes of Apple.
I think that everyone, Apple lover or not, should shut off their damned electronics and go outside and do something like I am right now. Put a limit on staring at screens. Fishing is fun for example. Or hiking.
When you build a better, people will buy it.
It's amazing to me that people can actually put forth statements like this while every Apple print advertisement and broadcast commercial, every dollar spent by and even the existence of a Marketing department at Apple stands in contradiction.
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