"scritch" wrote in message
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A brilliant innovator and marketer. Changed the way we work with
computers.

However, Apples have stolen family-wage jobs here to be made in foreign
factories that cruelly exploit their employees and ruin the environment,
with the expectation that the poor folks here will still forever buy the
Apples with their last dimes, all to enrich some shareholders who
apparently believe these bad practices will never affect them.

I'm pretty conflicted about Mr. Jobs.

I own no Apple products. As for Jobs and jobs, I'd guess he is no better or
worse than any other computer/electronics maker. What portable phone is
made in the US or Canada? Try to find a toaster not made in China. Yet we
buy because it is such a good value. Is it?

The Pogo rule seems to apply inmost cases. "we have met the enemy and it is
us: