[Boundless]

> Now Apple is rotten to the gore.

Three weeks ago, I doubt any of us could name an AAPL Board
member other than Steve Jobs. Now we can, and that is not
promising news for Apple.

By nominating this lightning rod (Gore), they have needlessly
polarized their already-too-small customer base.

Did they imagine that they would capture an untapped customer
base consisting of Gore supporters or other naive people who
bought Gore's self-serving imaginary image as an ubergeek?

Did they think that conservatives and libertarians were such
a small part of their existing customer base that they could
afford to drive them off?

Did they forget about Rush Limbaugh, who until the Gore deal,
was giving Apple free endorsements, and has now warned-off
some 20,000,000 listeners?

This is massively incompetent management at work, folks.
Apple is at serious risk of becoming dot.gone.

[js1138]

All the big tech companies seem liberal at the core. And why not. Until last year, the software companies were run like Pulman. High salaries and benefits, no worries. Everything was going to get steadily better forever. the end of history. The end of business cycles.

[ffusco]

I agree. Apple still makes a decent niche product but Gore will be the worm for them.

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