[Tucsonican]

Apple is the ultimate business success story.
They make a product people WANT to buy, and are willing to pay a premium for, manufactured at the cheapest possible price. This is how you create wealth.
That product is extremely popular among the media, who constantly hype it, creating a “must-have” impression. It matters little to them that said product is made-in-China by almost slave workers, they just gotta have it, because it’s “Popular!”.
Apple is the ultimate hypocrisy of the left.

You lost me on this. Are you suggesting that Apple is a fine example of Capitalism at work or that it is a tool of the left or both?

Apple is making money hand over fist because people want their product. They provide a product which exceeds the perceived benefits of products offered by their competitors and do so at a price which their customers find to be fair and reasonable. I don't really see how any of that is left wing.

[tcrlaf]

The left embraces Apple, while at the same time crying about “EVIL CAPITALISM!”, “OUTSOURCING!”, etc. They have to have it, because it’s “Cool”. They don’t want to be seen as one of “Those People”.

The biggest laugh I had in years was the moron at ‘Occupy Fremont Street!’, in Las Vegas, that was taking photos of himself with an iPhone, while carrying a “CAPITALISM IS EVIL!” sign. (Wearing Nike’s, and a Diesel desinger shirt, too!)

How do you get through to supposedly “SMART!” people, that are that f***ing dumb?