Well, some people who reply to you about Apple and their products are simply idiots ... and that’s the beginning and the end of the explanation.
Well, Star Traveler, that certainly explains the last post from Leonard210 on this thread, does it not? Who else but an idiot could have come up with this gem:
"If people across China were killing themselves in such massive numbers, Steve Jobs should have anticipated jumpers and demanded placement of suicide nets well before they started jumping from the buildings making his products. In fact, they should have been covered in bubble-wrap as they entered the facility."The entire post is an exercise in idiocy. When you read it, you can feel neurons dying. . . murdered by non-existent "facts," repetitious links to the same limited sources—as though echoes of the same mis-interpreted information helps his case, and blind leaps off the precipice of illogical conclusions based on his distortions of what was written.
My problem with Leonard's whole position remains that it has been very well established and documented that except for the first suicide in July of 2009 of a mid-level engineering associate at a FoxConn engineering office that involved the apparent disappearance an iPhone prototype in what was probably industrial espionage, ALL the other suicides occurred at manufacturing facilities manufacturing Sony PlayStation game consoles, Nokia cellular phones, and Microsoft X-Box Game Systems. If Leonard is seeking prescience in CEOs, where is his high dudgeon that Kazuo Hirai, CEO of Sony, Stephan Elop, CEO of Nokia, and Steve Balmer had not ". . . demanded placement of suicide nets well before they started jumping from the buildings making (their) products. . . " The facts support that conclusion MUCH better than Leonard's conclusion that Steve Jobs should have pre-ordered nets on building where no suicides ever had or ever would occur, except in Leonard's and the press's cynically confabulated imagination. As has been pointed out numerous times, the press uses Apple to generate clicks. Man when doesn't work for FoxConn kills himself. Apple's Fault?
“Well, some people who reply to you about Apple and their products are simply idiots ... and that’s the beginning and the end of the explanation.”
The response you received makes your point quite well. Who on earth believes that you own every aspect of the “Foxconn suicides,” as Steve Jobs did, if this company wasn’t even producing your products?
You better hide now, Swordmaker has a tendency to call out the entire Apple ping list if he catches anyone actually reading my posts. Afraid yet?