“Can’t somebody here have a passion for something?”
Passion =/= rabid PR spoksperson for a corporation that will go after anyone that dares say anything negative about this company.
“...know for a fact that Swordmaker was very upset with Apple CEO Tim Cook for politicizing his homosexuality”
That’s it? Anything else? Didn’t think so. And that was after hours of people hammering Apple that forced him to actually say something. And at most he could only muster up a mild tap on the hand and attribute the PUBLICLY-TRADED companies assault on conservatives as just some Tim Cook thing. Yeah, ok. I guess it was nice of him to get that out before JimRob had all Apple stories banned on FR.
He also gave kudos for another Apple nut that labeled people critical of Apple as “latent homosexuals” before the Mods deleted the story just yesterday.
“There’s also a ping list here for Microsoft. While I personally favor Apple products over Microsoft, I don’t go running over to Microsoft threads to throw mud at them for liking Microsoft products.”
So? There are PLENTY of people that do. Unlike Apple fanatics that literally go into complete meltdown at the mere criticism of anything about that company, most of the time, people that use MS stuff couldn’t care less when Linux people show up to pimp that or Apple fans show up to scream about how much it sucks and how everyone needs to get a Mac.
I realize that the founders and top executives at Apple tend to lean to the left politically. Same can be said of most of our companies, including Microsoft, Starbucks and Google. I take pleasure in seeing them contort themselves to justify the billions of revenue dollars they are generating with their products and services. Bottom line is that they can talk a good game about how liberal and enlightened they are, so they get invited to the White House and go on cover of Rolling Stone, etc., but behind the scenes, it's cold, brutal capitalism that generates the dollars.
I think conservatives are making a mistake by writing off these companies. Instead, we should be looking to bring them into the conservative fold. We should not cede this ground to the liberals.