“At the Wall Street Journal’s D conference, technology columnist Walt Mossberg took Apple CEO Steve Jobs through a comprehensive grilling session,” Always On reports. Mossberg questions Jobs about Mac OS X’s lack of viruses, the tech economy, politics, Apple’s corporate sales, Pixar and more.
An excerpt:
Mossberg: Correct me if I’ve described this wrong, but I think it was announced that you recently signed up as economic advisor to John Kerry? Is that the right way to say it? What’s that all about?
Jobs: I called him up and said that I’ve had a little bit of experience with advertising and I’d be glad to help him on advertising. Then a week later I read that I was an economic advisor.
Mossberg: So are you an advertising advisor? Are you an economic advisor, or are you involved in their campaign to some extent?
Jobs: I’ve offered to be. We’ll see what they take me up on.
Mossberg: Do you think he’s more tech friendly than President Bush, or is it broader issues in your mind that pull you that way?
Jobs: Some people have said that I shouldn’t get involved politically because probably half our customers are Republicans – maybe a little less, maybe more Dell than ours. But I do point out that there are more Democrats than Mac users so I’m going to just stay away from all that political stuff because that was just a personal thing.
Full article here.
Mac republican right here. But I don’t mind that my hero Steve is a democrat. Differences are a good thing.
Wow, I did not know that you could be a smart Mac user, and a dumb Republican… That is really confusing!
Exactly how does steve know more apple users are democrats???? (Republican here.)
The most public Mac user in the U.S. is the Rush Limbaugh – conservative Republican to the max.
Anybody ever seen a photo of Democrat and Apple board member Al gore ever use a Mac or any Apple computer????
Go Steve!
Conservative Mac user here. Vote Republican. I do so because my taxes are too high, I believe in personal responsibility, the sanctity of life, and the preservation of traditional values. I choose a mac because it is the best choice for me. I choose to cast my vote for Bush/Cheney in Nov. because it is the best choice for me – although I wish Bush would be less liberal when it comes to federal spending.
Republican Mac user here. Glad to finally hear a well-known figure say he’s going to avoid talking politics. I wish more of them would follow his lead. Proves Steve is smart after all.
paul, you’re just an elitist ass hole.
republican here, not sure who i am voting for. mac user for 16 years.
what a jerk.
he just said, “like, maybe….i dunno….its a personal thing” so…he’s just guessing, folks. if the country is as evenly split as it seems, it seems reasonable for someone’s guess to fall to one side or the other based on their own anecdotal evidence.
Smart Steve Jobs. Politics have burnt more than one. Good to hear he is staying away.
Nader 4TW: LOL ;P
James
Your taxes are too high because your president needs your cash for his war. What do you expect? Who do you think should be paying for it? The public school system?
I’m baffled by your common sense in being a Mac user considering the reasons you will vote for Bush… Weird…
Gren –
Well, we knew this would devolve into the same thing it always does–so . . .
“because your president needs your cash for his war”
Well, it’s my war too. Oh yeah, and it’s Kerry’s war too since he voted for it. AND he just recently went on record and said he would vote for it again even if he had known for a fact there were no WMDs.
just so you guys know, Paul’s comments don’t reprsent all Democrats perspective on things. I may disagree with my conservative bretheren, but I still have a healthy respect for their ability to come to their own conclusions, speak their mind, and fight for what they believe in.
i also would like to say that pretty much everyone who is not a murderous psychopath, also believes in the ‘sanctity of life.’ No political party has a stranglehold on that. I assume James was talking about abortion rights. So I guess he can further clarify that he believes that life begins the moment a sperm hits an egg. I disagree, but I feel that is where our debate should be at. It seems that the misnomer Prolife has unfairly steered the whole debate of the choice to abort a pregnancy.
Shempzilla, why should well known people avoid politics? If you believe in something, you should make your voice heard. In fact, I think it ‘s good that celebrities voice their opinions because they can actually catch the ear of the media.
It’s kind of sad that Repubs are saying that actors should stay out of politics these days when their favorite past president was an actor.
Auctoris, Please don’t misrepresent the facts.
The congress voted to give the AUTHORITY to the president to decide to go to war. The CHOICE was always in his hands. And assuming that we found mass stockpiles of weapons in the inspection process and Iraq kicked out the inspectors, I myself would have backed this war.
A vote for to give authority to declare war, is NOT a vote for war.
And Kerry is right to stand by his decision. After all, giving the authority is what helped get Saddam to let in inspectors again with unparalleled access. That’s a good thing. Declaring war with no evidence at all of weapons or impending threat, that’s a bad thing.
Since we only had a huge talk in this forum just last week, can we avoid that this time? Let’s talk about what wasn’t mentioned in the above article – and we can blame MDN for this:
“Mossberg questions Jobs about Mac OS X’s lack of viruses, the tech economy, politics, Apple’s corporate sales, Pixar and more.”
Yet MDN decided to mention only the political part of the discussion. Much more apropos to this site & this forum would be Jobs’ take on lack of viruses. Next would be Apple’s corporate sales. Next would be the tech economy, followed by Pixar. Finally, one person’s take on politics.
C’mon MDN, you guys have really gone downhill. How about a little more Mac and a little less politics?!?!?!
Gren,
Our taxes are too high due to tax increases in previous administrations. Our deficit is growing because of an economic downturn while the current administration has decreased taxes and spent money on fighting wars and rebuilding nations. Judging if that is wise will take a broader view than is currently available.
I’m another Republican Mac user. Personally I think Jobs should stay as far away from politics (from either party) as possible to avoid alienating any potential customers. However it’s a bit late for that now seeing as how he’s “advising” the Kerry campaign, has Al Gore on the board, etc. Personally I don’t care which way Jobs goes and he’s certainly never going to influence the way I vote at the polls, but I still think it’s quite foolish for him to associate his company with one particular political party. It can cause nothing but trouble either way.
The Point of it all is that democrats are idiots
“Neither the United States of America nor the world community of nations can tolerate deliberate deception and offensive threats on the part of any nation, large or small. We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation’s security to constitute maximum peril.” –John F. Kennedy
Libertarian conservative Mac user here, I don’t care if Steve is a Democrat or not as long as Apple keeps putting out good products.
Paul wrote:
Wow, I did not know that you could be a smart Mac user, and a dumb Republican… That is really confusing!
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This is just the kind of comment that passes for clever, in the liberal mind.
Sincerely,
Jack Ass
Auctoris,
I see that you can not support your assertion that ‘Kerry voted for the war’, so you have posted a nice quote by JFK.
… so I will comment on that. Of course what JFK was referring to was the threat of nuclear weapons at our doorstep in Cuba. A fact that is not refuted. Iraq on the other hand did not have stockpiles of chemical weapons, nor a re-constituted nuclear program (one that was dismantled 12 years ago) and there was NO standing unrefutable evidence in support of these things. therefore, the use of JFK’s quote in support of your position on the war in Iraq isn’t logically connected.
I think it should be obvious why Steve would support Kerry. Bush is major bad news for America and the World.
Reasons why we need to get rid of Bush.
Record Budget deficit spending
net loss of Jobs during his Tenure
His record on the Environment is horrible.
He totally dropped the Ball pre-9/11
Ignores the Geneva Conventions
Continues to support the Patriot Act
Guantanamo Bay
Disempowered the UN
Alienated world opinion against the US
Fostered atmosphere in which US Troops tortured prisoners
Smear Campaign tactics
Didn’t finish the job in Afghanistan
flip flopped on importance of catching Osama
Rushed us into a sidetrack war from the War on Terrorism
Iraq war was based on faulty intelligence – No WMDs
Established a Preemptive Strikes are OK precedence
Unduly influenced by the far right religious faction
Has divided rather than united America
Sounds like a moron when he talks
Black Democrat Mac User here. Politics are great to discuss because you get to hear how disillusional the other side is.
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