Re: ditching Apple products due to boycotts?

Clearly they are doing it for symbolic purposes... which is why we should
do it right back to them. Apple products are overpriced and overpromoted
anyway. They are a California based company but they certainly do most of
their work overseas. The way things are currently going the outsourcing
equation will change, and possibly become invalid.

-jmz


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Steve Phariss <sphariss@gmail.com> wrote:

> And this is why boycotts are stupid... if you take it to the logical
> conclusion no one can buy anything.
>
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Nadim Hoque <nadimhoque@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The thing is that Apple is based in california and that's where the design
>> their products. Then again if we were to boycott all of california products
>> wouldn't we have to ban our networking infrastructure because we the
>> hardware is mostly based in california?
>> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kurt Granroth <kurt+plug-discuss@granroth.com<kurt%2Bplug-discuss@granroth.com>
>> >
>> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 13:23:48
>> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> Subject: Re: ditching Apple products due to boycotts?
>>
>> On 5/16/10 12:54 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>> > Hello PLUG,
>> >

>> >    I am wondering if anyone is switching off Apple products due to the
>> > recent Los Angeles boycott of Arizona:

>> >
>> >
>> http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/05/12/20100512los-angeles-boycott-vote-over-arizona-immigration-law12-ON.html
>> >
>> > <
>> http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/05/12/20100512los-angeles-boycott-vote-over-arizona-immigration-law12-ON.html>
>> Hopefully
>> > they will choose Linux.
>>
>> What does any of this have to do with Apple?
>>
>
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