I've already agreed with you on that part. They don't have to wrap themselves in a progressive flag, which does not fit with their fiscal decision making. In your many replies, you have not engaged that point so why are you continuing to reply to me.
The thing I think you're missing is, everyone here on these forums knows that shareholder value is the key to success at Apple. It goes without saying. However, there are many ways to get there.
Does Apple gimping pro laptops, shaving off battery and shipping faulty keyboards, add to shareholder value? A lot of us think, no. But Apple clearly believes there is an intangible effect for the customer here, a desirable thinness that will keep it on the cutting edge of computer design.
It's that intangible effect that sophisticated companies like Apple are aware of. In your replies, you mention direct shareholder value, i.e. hoarding money off seas to avoid paying more US taxes. Any company can do this, and Apple is doing it, to the possible detriment of intangible benefits.
I have been talking about both intangible benefits that can affect shareholder value, i.e. the PR boost that Apple would receive by bringing money back to the US and investing more heavily here. We've seen that it before in the plants that were announced in, I think, Wisconsin. As the smartphone market matures, these efforts can help to keep Apple in the forefront.
But also, as a consumer, I don't like seeing companies get away with blatantly false statements, and I don't approve of the short term shareholder value that deception provides. Apple lies about a lot of things (such as its fabled progressive commitments, lecturing the US Government on economic and humanitarian things). Forum members like yourself really don't care, as all you seem to care about is what you'd do as CEO. Unless you're Tim Cook, you're not CEO and you can afford to hold Apple accountable as much as the rest of us. It will make Apple a stronger company and only contribute to shareholder value.
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