Paul Buchheit reports via Common Dreams
An emotional response to any criticism of the Apple Corporation might be anticipated from the users of the company's powerful, practical, popular, and entertaining devices. Accolades to the company and a healthy profit are certainly well-deserved. But much-despised should be the theft from taxpayers and the exploitation of workers and customers, all cloaked within the image of an organization that seems to work magic on our behalf.
1. Apple Took Years of Public Research, Integrated the Results, and Packaged it as Their Own
2. Even After Taking Our Research, Apple Does Everything in its Power to Avoid Taxes
3. Overcharging Customers
The manufacturing cost of a 16 GB iPhone 6 is about $200, and with marketing it comes to about $288. But without an expensive phone contract with Verizon, AT&T, or one of the other wireless carriers, the cost to the customer is at least $650.
4. Underpaying and Mistreating Employees
5. Apple Has Figured Out How to Spend Most of its Untaxed Money on Itself
Apple's View:
The tax-avoiding, research-appropriating, cost-escalating, wage-minimizing, self-enriching Apple Corporation has, according to CEO Tim Cook,[1] a very strong moral compass.
[1] Link in article redirects.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @07:43AM
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-- gewg_
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Aichon on Wednesday May 20 2015, @09:29AM
You're treating this as an e-peen contest, with the result being that you're missing the point entirely. Besides, even if it were a contest, this is a community-driven site for which there are numerous ways to contribute, such as by providing highly-rated comments as he did on a semi-regular basis [soylentnews.org]. Submission count is hardly the be-all-and-end-all of metrics, but kudos to you for discovering that it's an effective tool in the shallow person's arsenal for convincing people that they're better than others.
As for what this is all about, trading blows in fanboy wars is all well and good, but that article was complete drivel, and the summary was nothing more than a highlights reel of headings from the article. If your first response to criticism is to attack the messenger, rather than to recognize that the article you linked was littered with logical self-contradictions, conspicuous omissions and convenient cherry-pickings of the facts to mislead the reader, deliberate appeals to emotion, and a one-sentence lip service to the only patently illegal issue they raised, then I'd suggest that the guy you just said "good riddance" to was entirely justified in rethinking his stay here.
Hell, I'm inclined to rethink mine too.
Do you get bonus points for driving folks away with your submissions?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @09:42AM
you're missing the point entirely
No, I was being silly. GMAFB.
Do you get bonus points for driving folks away with your submissions?
Absolutely! Right now, my karma is...
Oh, wait...
-- gewg_
(Score: 1, Troll) by BasilBrush on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:35AM
Presumably you have a positive Karma because you don't log in when you write trolling shit like this. And can't get modded down for the braindead submissions you post either.
Hurrah! Quoting works now!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:35AM
you [...] can't get modded down
You can't possibly be that stupid.
(Watch that get mod'd down, moron.)
-- gewg_