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Steve Jobs to Meet with Obama on Thursday
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I would say that a tax exemption of 35% on foreign holdings would be about the only thing that might make it profitable in the short term to move iPad production to the USA -- but then you do have to ship all those parts from China anyway.
I think you mean President Obozo.
Seriously folks, I would encourage folks to do the patriotic thing and show respect for the office of the president -- sometimes that's as simple as using the title "President" before his name. I've said the same thing with prior presidents of the US (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, etc...) -- the president should show respect for the office and the people should show respect for the president and then we should just agree to have differing political views. The current level of contention in US politics is tough to endure on a daily basis because of this lack of respect. The lack of respect got really bad in the last 10 years with the way people referred to President Bush. And for the record, I believe that both President Clinton and President Nixon failed to show respect for the office of President at times during their terms.
That said, enjoy using your free speech -- it is why you have it in the USA. Feel free to ignore my "encouragement".
What has Ballmer done? He took over from Bill Gates and has done nothing to improve the company. President Obama probably want to meet with people that have a great vision and know how to run a successful company.
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He is just meeting with them to secure more reelection funds. Don't be fooled its not about jobs its always about Obama. Nothing more.
He is just meeting with them to secure more reelection funds. Don't be fooled its not about jobs its always about Obama. Nothing more.
Jobs won't be the one bowing!
To you maybe. How many candles a day?
I agree.
Probably so.
What he said. Regardless of whether you agree with the man, he rightfully earned that title.
Someone please photoshop McCain in with Ballmer.
Be back later, this college student needs to go use my parents insurance to get the expensive medicine I need to live.
Huh? You could triangulate his position with the Cell signal anyway. As if they couldn't figure out how to block location services on an iPhone or disable it's GPS
Re-read what I said. The fact that there's a "lousy crowd" here doesn't mean "everyone here is lousy."
And there certainly is a lousy crowd here. In the last two days alone there have been multiple posts wishing Steve Jobs dead so they can finally get USB3 ports or a mid-sized tower Mac, posts from people complaining they didn't get sufficient credit for their own brilliant and insightful posts ("it is intelligent! really!"), people declaring that since they don't need a particular feature no one else has a legitimate need for it, etc.
Apple's Q1 financial results on 21st January 2009, the day after Obama took office...
Apples Q1 financial results on 18th January 2011, 2 years into his Presidency...
He's ruined them.
i dont know why they even debate this, he'll be out of office in a year anyway.
I don't know why people believe what they hear from the shills who recently met in the GOP PAC to test the waters for becoming a presidential candidate.
This is what REALLY bothers me. I see a huge conflict of interest going on. People will say "Oh the republicans do it all the time blah blah." I get it. With this particular topic and the timing of it all, this bothers me.
What concerns me the most right now is the recent July 2010 Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act which a Senate committee approved recently. The act would establish a White House Office for Cyberspace Policy and a National Center for Cyber Security and Communications, which would work with private US companies to create cyber-security requirements for the electrical grid, telecommunications networks and other critical infrastructure. The bill looks like the beginning of an Internet kill switch. As Egypt recently hit their kill switch to shut down the Internet during the protests last week, it makes me wonder if this administration would ever do the same.
Unfortunately, this topic is going to be political.
An internet kill switch in the US would be much harder than in somewhere like Iran or Eqypt.
Not necessarily - it could also mean that we are working on a system such that Stuxnet doesn't happen to our facilities in America. Have you also forgotten the fact that many American companies' servers, including Google and Adobe were hacked by a sophisticated attacked by Chinese Government hackers back in early 2010? Keeping these in mind, we definitely need a security assessment for our infrastructure. Not every thing needs to look suspicious or some form of Government take over.
I agree with you and I hope the topic of cyber attack and cyber defense comes up.. But where is Steve Ballmer then?
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I personally wouldn't let Ballmer anywhere near Obama. If Obama really wants to talk tech I'd throw Gates in the convo. Hes done more with tech recently than just selling software. As much as people want to hate Gates his recently work has been amazing.
Obama is a smart man. So is Jobs. The issue I see with both is they both have very selfish agendas. That doesn't mean they will try and push each but I would really love to see Gates at least in the convo. Technology is more than just Green Energy and Cool gadgets... philanthropy is something that needs to be looking into.