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Apple turing evil?
Not saying anything, but I’m just sayin’. The old Apple would never have made such a P.R. blunder, assuming that this article is not B.S.
https://www.wltx.com/news/tech/article/169902/378/Apple-Earns-More-Money-Per-Employee-Than-Exxon
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it’s not a PR blunder – that is the narnian financial magma still erupting out of the Jobs era.
wait until you see next quarters results. they’re neck and neck with android again on new customers. It’s insane.
there is a fine analysis floating around that vast portions of Apple’s profits are simply based on re-selling flash storage.
that insofar as you can classify Google as an advertising company, you can classify Apple as a flash re-seller with a mark up to beggar the mind.
Just look at the iPad storage multipliers.Jobs, ultimately, was fifteen ley lines coming together: an ascetic Lennon meets a mercantile Turing bearing Dutch taste.
Apple surely will, once he finally dissipates, have, as a company, the ancient mother of all hangovers waiting for them.
the moves he made! re-orientating the development stage slate to the phone, before returning to the slate with a proven formula through mobile computing, after picking up the appstore – that stuff is fast Eddie Felson – you can’t repeat the shots.
because the individual no longer exists. The extraordinary american chemistry that created that individual represented a halley’s comet moon shot.
And so then, hopefully, once they, Apple, have crashed a little to mortal earth, they will belatedly turn to one of their most trusted bulwarks..
and we can all heartily give them the finger.
http://www.ogallchoir.net
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This is the original reporting:
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Jobs, ultimately, was fifteen ley lines coming together: an ascetic Lennon meets a mercantile Turing bearing Dutch taste.
Apple surely will, once he finally dissipates, have, as a company, the ancient mother of all hangovers waiting for them.
the moves he made! re-orientating the development stage slate to the phone, before returning to the slate with a proven formula through mobile computing, after picking up the appstore – that stuff is fast Eddie Felson – you can’t repeat the shots.”
Now that’s impressive. Referencing historic political minds and “The Hustler” in the same post.
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I read the original NYTimes article. Really interesting stuff. It encompasses what’s wrong with the North American Economy.
But, you can’t buy a north american house on $17/day salary. Hence, the end of the American Dream.
Republican or Democrat, you can’t fix this mess without cooperation, and it doesn’t include pork barrelling, corrupt politicians, lobbyists with $1,000,000 in sports tickets budgets.
Nope, real change is needed. It just won’t be in my lifetime
D
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I haven’t been able to look at my iphone quite the same way since I saw video of the announced Foxconn suicide protests.
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Darren –
What you say is true, but you can’t hang this on the politicians entirely. It’s corporate lobbyists funded by corporate greed that got us where we are today – the politicians just followed the smell of the money and saw their own chance to cash in (greed again).
Here’s a quote from Wendell Berry, one of the finest writers of our time, about corporate greed:
“We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all—by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians—be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.”
The whole article can be found here:
https://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/147/
It gives one pause for thought.
Joe Bourke
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I’m looking forward to seeing your political spots when you run for office.
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Yes, you are completely right. The corporations are just as guilty.
I thought Michael Moore had it right in his last documentary. Until we have our own Arab Spring, we will not change anything.
I’m going through the process of reinvention now after loosing a horrible divorce.
I went from wealthy to poverty. Climbing back out is harder than building from scratch!
D
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Why should be Apple different than any other big company?
Corporations do not belong to countries but to stake holders and their only reason to exist is making money.
Markets overpower states and dictates the politics all around the world.
The debate is not “capitalism yes or not”, but “which kind of capitalism”.
rafael
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