Apple Inc (AAPL)

[Moron]

Dslarsen – I’m not sure I see the relevance of comparing Apple to MS in this case, perhaps aside from the fact that Apple wouldn’t be in business without MS, but some people expect more from “great” companies than merely shiny toys. Apple had perhaps the best business opportunity in modern (or any?) history, and Steve Jobs failed to capitalize on it. You people worship the clown. He continues to believe Apple products are so superior to all else that he doesn’t mind lying to the masses, including his own loyal customers. The company has billions of dollars in cash in addition to HUGE equities elsewhere thanks to exceptional marketing and hype to those gullible and shallow enough to fall for it, yet he (Jobs) refuses to even give anything back to the community via philanthropic efforts (he actually cut all corporate charitable programs when he returned to the company after being fired before). His employees detest him and Apple vendors/suppliers feel the same. Conditions within at least one of their primary manufacturing vendors are so deplorable that the company has issued memos asking that workers not commit suicide! Sadly, many have failed to comply. Apple continues to use them.

Microsoft is far from perfect, but since you made the comparison, MS is more ethical and gives more back to the community and world every hour than Apple has done during the past 30 years. Some of us value that more than overpriced shiny toys that may or may not work as advertised.

Criticizing Microsoft has nothing to do with it. MS can’t be blamed for Apple’s shortcomings.