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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider "?some people are questioning Apple?s values today," No doubt? thoughtless, ignorant people whose use of language gives an altogether distasteful glimpse into their self-serving, deluded minds. Unle…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ljocampo I hope Apple and every other American company that out-sources its manufacturing take this as a lesson why it's better "Made in American by Americans." China might have been good for the bottom line in the pas…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii So they signed an agreement to transfer the trademark to Apple, but didn't actually go to the trademark office and do it. That clarifies things. If that's true, the higher court should overrule. A district co…
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Would anyone mind terribly if I jumped up and down, screaming "I don't care! I don't care! I don't care!" in response to this? Frankly, if iI have to face one more iWord, iI am going to dr iVe to Cupert iNo to comm iT an iDrivebiEye, in defense…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider "way, way above the average of the norm," Even leaving the bizarre redundant phrasing aside, how are we to know that this isn't the equivalent of reviewing a better-than-average Nazi death camp? Hu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Landcruiser Manufacturing something overseas because we don't have that kind of labor pool or capacity is one thing. But we have thousands of highly skilled, high educated software developers right here in the US. Appl…
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What a busy week! It's a good thing Tim Cook has truthfully told us how "Apple takes working conditions very, very seriously, and ? [has]? for a long time." And what could be more obvious? Certainly no company achieves a $100B surplus without bei…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Asked "what investors should know about the supply chain," Cook said "Apple takes working conditions very, very seriously, and we have for a long time." When you need to distract from the fact that what…
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Yes, yes? We can see from the abject failure of the iTunes store, YouTube, and ever other attempt to provide online access to video that the market values exquisite picture quality above all else. This is hardly surprising, given the previous fail…
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Quote: Originally Posted by enjourni Yes Samsung, you will get me to switch to your phone by bashing the phone I'm currently using. Great idea! Are these people idiots or what? Now I just hate Samsung, when before I could probably have cared l…
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"Mobile can be a symbol of who you are," Lee said. "A lot of people believe 'what I have in my hands is me.'" A lot of people believe a lot of things. A lot of people are astoundingly shallow, terrifyingly ignorant, and spend the bulk of their …
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One of the great ironies of the 21st century is that most of our marvelous hi-tech toys are made entirely by hand, in sweatshops, by desperate people whose pitiful wages can't purchase even one of the hugely profitable devices they make. If you d…
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Apple would have the world believe that the degradation they support in China is far away and nothing to worry about it, but in fact, corporate sociopathy begins at home. This perspective is so common that it's easy to grow numb to just how appalli…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Gates said in that interview that it was strange to have someone as "vibrant" as Jobs die so young. Certainly it's tragic, but "strange?" This reminds one of nothing so much as Bush Senior's delighted …
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Quote: Originally Posted by tylerk36 Back in the early part of the 20th century workers in the US were mistreated until they formed unions. Of course the unions became corrupt and problems arose from that as well. But the workers got better tre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mooeymoose A few days ago we had the NYT article about why this stuff is not assembled in the USA. It had a lot of good points that would seem the same for Brazil. Did the NYT point out that anywhere life is meanin…
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Stop regurgitating Apple's self serving press releases. A a "zero tolerance policy regarding child labor"? Sounds like Google and "Don't be evil." Why listen to corporatese when it's possible to listen to someone who's been there? http://ww…
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Quote: Originally Posted by milkmage looks like a Bank. One institution's dirty, self-serving lies look much like another's.
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Does it occur to no one that it's Apples' products which are successful, and not Apples' hype? The thing I love most about the internet is that its economically based on the illusion that advertising has ever accomplished anything other than anno…
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It's 2012. "Steve Job's widow" is an individual with a name of her own, even in headlines.