Who are the conservative board members? Sounds like you’re saying it’s the employees fault that Apple has a leftist reputation.
They are champions of the environment, yet moved all manufacturing to China so they didn’t have to comply with EPA regs. Then they hired Lisa Jackson, one of the most crooked EPA administrators in history. That doesn’t sound like a conservative.
If they supported even one lefty who is now pushing higher minimum wages while they actually pay a fraction of that cost to manufacture their products in China, then they are clearly not conservative.
The only thing they’ve done that seems even remotely conservative is shield their billions from taxes by parking them outside of the USA.
And don’t get me started on Saint Steven. I listened to that speech as I have every public speech given by the late Mr. Jobs. You found it conservative. I found it typical. Typical of many men and women in business. Conservative and liberal. It was touching because he seems to have finally realized that he was human, not conservative. In life he was a massive prick. There is not one “innovation” that you can point to that came from his brain because once you know that he would berate an employees idea then present it as his own, you can’t believe anything he says that he invented. He was a master manipulator whose genius was marketing. More along the lines of PT Barnum.
Don't forget Apple board member iGore.
Apple did NOT move to China to avoid EPA regs. They moved to stay competitive, just as did every other high tech business. Apple forced the clean up of the Chinese assembly plants and manufacturing companies they contracted with. They PAID for new equipment to accomplish those goals. No other company did that.
If they supported even one lefty who is now pushing higher minimum wages while they actually pay a fraction of that cost to manufacture their products in China, then they are clearly not conservative.
Apple REQUIRED the Chinese Contractors to triple the pay rates over the standard rates of the workers on the assembly lines of Apple products and put Apple employees in the plants to assure compliance. Normal Chinese rates for assembly rates on cellular phones for other makers are £1.10 per hour, Apple workers are paid £3.30 per hour. Overtime on Apple assembly lines are limited and underage workers are prohibited. If an underage worker is found on an Apple line, the CONTRACTOR will be required to continue paying that worker Apple hourly wages WHILE he or she goes to school through college, and pay all tuition and school costs! That is a strong incentive to screen all workers against underage workers. In the past five years only twelve have been discovered. . . Five of whom have declined the education.
The only thing they’ve done that seems even remotely conservative is shield their billions from taxes by parking them outside of the USA.
The "billions parked" outside the USA were earned there, outside the United States. There are also Billions "parked" in the USA as well on which Apple has paid a high tax rate. In fact Apple pays more taxes than any other US corporation. One out of every 40 dollars collected from corporations in the US last year came from Apple! Those billions overseas had the taxes paid on them as well. . . to the countries where the revenues were earned. Apple conservatively has argued before the Liberal Senate, that it would like to move these earnings to the United States to invest here, but the LIBERAL US tax code insists it must be taxed again, as though those Dollars, Marks, Francs, Pounds, Yens, etc., were earned here! Apple has taken VERY conservative fiscal positions on taxation.
These are all easily discovered facts. . . Not your myths and propaganda which is in reality the junk pushed by Liberals. Look who was pushing that TAX stuff accusing Apple of paying ZERO TAXES when it was a total fabrication. . . liberal Democrats!