I buy Sony products despite the fact that Japan attacked America (I have a long memory). Because they make some very good products.
I buy Samsung products despite the fact that they are corrupt to the core. Because they make some very good products.
I buy Microsoft products despite the fact that Bill Gates is a corrupt One-World socialist megalomaniac and Steve Ballmer is an asshole, and that neither knows how to run a business properly. Because they make some very good products.
I buy Apple products despite the fact that their CEO is a poofter who makes a big public deal of his poofterism. Because they make some very good products.
I use GNU/Linux (it's free, I don't have to buy it) despite the fact that Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds are arrogant socialists. Because they make some very good products.
I really don't give a crap about politics in business. I don't deny myself products I like and want or need, just because the company has something negative about it. Boycotts have a long history and most of it demonstrates that unless you've got huge numbers on your side, the boycott will make only some noise and have little or no long term effect. I don't need to "feel good about myself" that bad.
So while I surely disagree with Tim Cook about this issue, I just don't give a crap what he thinks or says, and it won't affect my buying habits, at least not at this level. Apple's still a solidly American company and overall they make the best quality products in a couple of areas.
I do wish he's shut up and concentrate on the business, though.
I like the way you think.
I use Apple products because they have always provided a better product for my needs. What Tim Cook chooses to do with his genitals is of no interest to me.
From a practical point of view, and a sensible consideration of potential health complications, it might be of interest to those who hold stock in that company, now that a person at risk has assumed leadership.
My little opinion is... A prominent executive of any major corporate entity who involves that “brand” in controversial social issues is making a categorical mistake. It is much wiser to shut up, blend in, and tend to business, and concentrate on meeting the customers’ needs,
Many corporate CEOs are making, what seems to me, to be boneheaded public statements that upset a larger percentage of their customer base, and I wonder why. They didn’t get to the top of the organization because of their emotional attachment to some social issue “du jour”.
Makes me wonder if there isn’t some .gov pressure being placed on them behind the scenes, by pols with a political agenda. Like, “support this publicly, or else we will make trouble for you with our alphabet agency regulations and tax laws?
Just my late night wonderings about all this nonsense.
I strongly disagree with Tim Cook on this issue, nor do I approve of his public airing of his lifestyle. It is also a poor management choice of his having Apple get more involved in political and social issues. Steve Jobs assiduously avoided having Apple as a company getting involved in political and social entanglements because, as he said when pressed by a Democratic activist, "Half of Apple's customers are Republicans and we should never alienate half of our customer base!"
Jobs was much wiser than Cook in this area.
I buy Samsung products despite the fact that they are corrupt to the core. Because they make some very good products.
I buy Microsoft products despite the fact that Bill Gates is a corrupt One-World socialist megalomaniac and Steve Ballmer is an asshole, and that neither knows how to run a business properly. Because they make some very good products.
I buy Apple products despite the fact that their CEO is a poofter who makes a big public deal of his poofterism. Because they make some very good products.
I use GNU/Linux (it's free, I don't have to buy it) despite the fact that Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds are arrogant socialists. Because they make some very good products.
I really don't give a crap about politics in business. I don't deny myself products I like and want or need, just because the company has something negative about it. Boycotts have a long history and most of it demonstrates that unless you've got huge numbers on your side, the boycott will make only some noise and have little or no long term effect. I don't need to "feel good about myself" that bad.
So while I surely disagree with Tim Cook about this issue, I just don't give a crap what he thinks or says, and it won't affect my buying habits, at least not at this level. Apple's still a solidly American company and overall they make the best quality products in a couple of areas.
I do wish he's shut up and concentrate on the business, though.
I have to agree, here in Oklahoma we have Open carry of firearms. I have been in discussions where people want to boycott EVERY business that bans firearms in their store.
I carry my firearms into any store I want to. If I choose to do business with that store, then by God I'll do business with them. The 2nd Amendment is the only Amendment that shall not be infringed, and trumps the rights of property owners.
Boycotts only hurt the person doing the boycott. Moms Demand Action have been trying this for years and it isn't working for them either.
If I sat down and make a list of every business that supports something I don't agree with, then I might as well stay home.
NOTE: Tim Cook is exercising his rights to disagree with the State of Indiana. Even thou I believe Homosexuality is wrong, it is still protected under the Laws of the US. So is the right of Free Speech.