I agree, Apple clearly makes the best hardware & software, seamlessly integrates the hardware & software and has the world’s best security. I’ve moved fully into the Apple “ecosystems”.
But I do miss Steve Jobs — he wisely stayed out of politics and focused wholly on the quality & capabilities of Apple’s products & the needs of Apple’s customers. The current CEO (who couldn’t fit into Job’s shoes if he stuffed them with ten newspapers) stupidly goes around expressing HIS personal political & social views. That only serves to needlessly distract from Apple’s core missions and annoys the hell out of most people — including the great bulk of Apple’s customers & shareholders.
Interesting trend. Even under Steve Jobs, the Apple Employee Political Action Committee, an independent from Apple Non-Profit organization where the individual employees direct where their contribution must be donated, was making ~90% of the political donations to Democrats and ~10% to Republicans. But now, in the last election, with Cook at the helm of Apple, the percentage of Apple Employee directed PAC donations to Democrats was only around ~80% and ~20% went to Republican politicians. For the Silicon Valley, that's almost a sea change. . .and probably a push back to Cook's over-the-top Liberal activism.