patkelly

Yeah right Tim.  Nice letter but you forgot to mention the corporate greed that is the real issue you should be addressing.  Surely you don't believe that if Apple did not create the 1.5 million jobs you spoke of, those jobs would never have been created by other companies such as the ones that never introduced the orange-phone by orange computer.  Like any other large corporate entity you have actively fought to take as big a piece of the consumer market pie as you could thereby limiting the potential growth of other companies you have seen as competitors you needed to restrain or eliminate.  So before you boast about all you have done for society you should ask yourself how things might be different if all the money you have tied up Apple were more broadly dispersed throughout a more diverse corporate community that surely would have brought a broader mix of more innovative products to consumers.  Paying your share of taxes is the least Apple should do in return for all it has gotten from the community you wrongly claim owes you a debt of gratitude.  It's the other way around Tim and you should try not to forget that.