Apple: Brought to you by Wall Street

[Locutus]

In the overflow of tributes to one of the greatest entrepreneurs in history, to his genius and drive and amazing qualities as an innovator and leader, maybe a few words could be added to highlight another element in the rise and phenomenal success of Steve Jobs.
Nothing can take away from Mr. Jobs achievement as a creator and one-man economic transformer who made billions of dollars and millions of people happy. But he could not have done it outside the corporation-dominated economic system that is American capitalism. Nor could he have done it without the international economic structure of free trade and open financial markets that is globalization.
Steve Jobs and the company he created, Apple Inc., are quintessentially corporate, funded by investors from Wall Street — the very same corporate Wall Street that unions and activists across the United States are marching against today under the banner “Occupy Wall Street.”




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Terence Corcoran: Apple under Jobs was quintessentially corporate | FP Comment | Financial Post

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Oh that's just bullcrap man. Your a Jewish banker aren't you man. Admit it!

 

[wulfie68]

I respect Steve Jobs created/helped to create some pretty cool stuff, but I don't get the hero worship. The smart phone, the iPod and the iPad aren't exactly what I see as civilization altering inventions: they're really cool but the world got along fine without them. Its up for debate as to whether they increased productivity for most businesses or if its all just entertainment value. Even his original work on computers is of dubious value based on the fact that Apple wasn't the first or best to do most things with them. That we refer to PCs (the IBM originated brand name) as the standard tells us most of the story on that count (yes I know Mac users love their Macs but that doesn't detract from the fact they are a niche market in computing).

That being said, if people want me to worship the Steve Jobs that ran a multinational corporate entity, that was another of the corporate giants who outsourced and ran quasi-sweat shop facilities in developing countries to avoid paying higher wages and benefits to North Americans & Europeans, then they can kiss off. That isn't a model I think is worthy of emulation.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

I respect Steve Jobs created/helped to create some pretty cool stuff, but I don't get the hero worship. The smart phone, the iPod and the iPad aren't exactly what I see as civilization altering inventions: they're really cool but the world got along fine without them. Its up for debate as to whether they increased productivity for most businesses or if its all just entertainment value.

He's a part of that group. You know the stick up their ass latte sucking morons who look down on the rest of us who can't afford a Mac and can't be bothered to learn their prissy platform.

Ipod's kinda cool though.

 

[Locutus]

Oh that's just bullcrap man. Your a Jewish banker aren't you man. Admit it!

Could be one or two in the woodpile. I got a beak as you've seen, dats for sure. Shalom-up.

 

[Kreskin]

Business Line : Industry & Economy / Info-tech : No evidence cellphones can cause cancer: US oncologist

I haven't seen any evidence that cell phones cause cancer.