Apology accepted. FYI, despite my sometimes freely given criticisms of the intersection of Apple’s politics and products, I’m a staunch Mac devotee and probably always will be. There’s always been a level of superiority of that product line that to me has always been apparent, and highly and uniquely satisfying. And I acknowledge that Jobs was the prime driver of that level of excellence, even though he had the morality of the opposite of his angelic Apple PR reputation. Now if they could just stop selling Macs in exchange for bricks of platinum, that’s be great. But I say that having paid $2,500 for my 128K Mac in 1984, plus $500 for an external floppy drive and another $500 for an Imagewriter printer - and for the same money I could have bought a fairly nice car. So I’m not holding my breath, and I long ago acknowledged my addiction.
Tim Cook is stupid. Steve Jobs would not drag Apple into any political entanglements at all. He did not want to "piss off half of Apple's customers by making donations to either party" (paraphrasing his words.) Cook doesn't understand his prime job is the health of Apple, not pushing Liberal or LGBQWERTYUIOP agendas. Any time he does that he pisses off some portion of Apple's customer base.