Re: ditching Apple products due to boycotts?

well outsourcing is viable if the dollar has overwhelming purchasing power
in the target country. This could change sooner rather than later.

-jmz



On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:35 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I sure hope outsourcing becomes null and void. What do you base this on?
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> Keith Smith
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> --- On *Mon, 5/17/10, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com>* wrote:
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> From: Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com>
>
> Subject: Re: ditching Apple products due to boycotts?
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 12:55 PM
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> 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<http://mc/compose?to=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<http://mc/compose?to=nadimhoque@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
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>>> 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<http://mc/compose?to=kurt%2Bplug-discuss@granroth.com>
>>> >
>>> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 13:23:48
>>> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us<http://mc/compose?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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