“The United States need to be a leader in thought, design, and execution. Economic victory requires nothing less,” Yoshikami writes. “But is there a model America can follow? Is there a corporation that epitomizes innovation that can be a learning lesson for other companies? The answer is yes; Apple. Apple has demonstrated what can be done with visionary leadership and courageous creativity.”
Yoshikami writes, “It’s not unlike thinking 10 steps ahead in a chess match. Grandmasters that follow this path are the ones that win championships, not those that merely react to the current environment. Thinking ahead, and in a way that alters the product/service landscape, is the Apple way.”
“America must play to win and not rest on past successes. A new history begins now. The past is irrelevant. AMERICA MUST PLAY TO WIN starting today,” Yoshikami writes. “While the rest of the world may have been tempted to give up on the United States, they take the leader of the economic world lightly at their own risk. It takes discipline, commitment, and innovation; all of which America can summon if the desire to win is strong enough.”
Yoshikami writes, “Yes, this is this generations [sic] Sputnik moment; will America rise up and meet the challenge? We believe the United States will shock the world with it’s resilience. And we believe the challenge will be met. The alternative is second place and something America dislikes. Winning matters in America.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Debt-free Apple spends less money than it takes in and has banked a vast surplus for the future. America has a long, long, long way to go to be like Apple.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Arline M.” and “iWill” for the heads up.]
That quip about Sarah – I hope that was suppose to be funny. As bad as the elected officials are in DC today – and they are nothing to write home about – I can not imagine SP doing any better. In fact, I’m sure she would do much worst.
mw: seen As in I’ve seen the light and its not Sarah Palin!
Ever get the suspicion that TrevX, Wanda, Kenyan, Jillian, Mikester and perhaps other UNREGISTERED commenters that spew this antiObama crap are all the same pathetic, cowardly, effeminate runt?
C’mon little boy, does your parents know what you are doing alone in your room with your laptop?
The problem is almost all Executives in the US & Canada get superb compensation regardless of performance and if they screw up royally they get Millions to leave. There is literally no incentive for them to do better or take the risks necessary to make giant leaps forward. Add this to the culture of Stock Markets that require quarterly improvement, something that holds back long term investment and thinking.
America needs to be like Apple – outsourced to the Chinese.
Uh huh.
@Kayan: “Anyone who thinks Sarah Palin would be a good President, or a good next-in-line-to-be president, shows astounding mental issues (delusional thinking, incompetency and/or ignorance). McCain’s terrible, terrible choice for VP alone discredits his entire capacity to make important decisions.”
No more mental issues then the millions that voted for that inept, Socialist “Spread the Wealth” mentality, unqualified dolt currently occupying the WH.
Is Palin ready for the Presidency? Sure, she’s qualified… over 35 years of age and can present her original birth certificate with actual Doctor signatures (that’ll rattle some with ‘astounding mental issues’)…
Seriously, let’s settle this once and for all… Obama and his “Spread the Wealth” mentality, with both houses of Congress controlled by Liberals that eagerly followed ‘lock, stop and barrel’ with his one trillion dollar stimulus, Biden’s summer of recovery tour, Obama’s worldwide apology tour, the ending of offshore drilling in LA, gas over $3 and climbing and where are the Dems and their complaints now, Gitmo still open one year after Obama said it will be closed, new Health Care entitlement program to match the great success of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid…, increased regulations, bureaucracy, and increased, overpaid gov’t workers to staff them, etc. had their chance… The economy is no better than what it was when he took office.
On that poor economic backdrop, let’s see what a Freedom Lovin’ Palin, Drill Here, Drill Now, limited government presidency with a Conservative (not Republican)/TEA Party Congress, in both houses, and their concurring philosophical view and policies would effect things? Oh and we’ll need the Press to abate for her term because we know how the press covers for Libs and Dems, but skew and lie when reporting on Conservatives/TEA Party & Republicans and will have it as their one mission in life, if Palin were President, to destroy her the “Rather, Brokaw, Jennings” newscast way.
Then we can see that it’s not the person, but the philosophy that matters and can take note as to which one has the positive effect and then can shut up everyone, myself included, on the political debate on this and other forums!
Agreed? If not, what are you so afraid of? The chance that your whole viewpoint of the world might be proven wrong?!
Palin 2012… Let’s settle this debate once and for all!
Cool, another MDN politics thread full of inane prattle by people posing as conservatives.
“America needs to be like Apple” – forgetting that almost everything Apple “makes” is designed by Apple, but built by others overseas.
Yes, this is true, but they SELL ipads, iphones, ipods, and macs to them at very high profit margins, and this brings the money spent BACK to the US coffers. The difference between Apple and other mega companies, is that Apple owns Apple, and they DO NOT spend their money on corporate lobbyists and live off the greed principles. They basically have a list price, and that is that . Companies such as Halliburton pays lobbyists, move their base out of the US, and then looks for ways to overcharge our own govt. Corporations need to invest in OUR structure, not in their own.
If Obama had it his way, a lot more would be done but when you are in a system where great ideas are replaced with politics and idiots, things go down the tubes, like Microsoft.
Because, if the U.S. was to be like Apple, the president would control everything like Steve controls Apple.
He would have the ability to see what is good for America and move people forward who would otherwise be content being complacent, (Microsoft).
In order to have a great government, we have to enable our leaders to lead not drag them down. The President is employed by us, we chose him to do a job, let him do it or shut up. Americans ought to stand behind their leaders instead of telling him what to do as if we know how. Same goes to the republicans. Let him and help him do his job and stop whining like babies. We elect republican officials and democrats to lead not be future cast members for Jersey Shore that spend their time arguing instead of doing a real job.
We can no longer be like Walmart, (big and cheap) we have to invest heavily in ourselves and our future and that is what our presidents wants. It is what Apple has done. It is good for America.
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
Wait that was Hillary Clinton… I guess that only applies to Liberal Kooks!
And what does Registering on this forum or not have anything to do with the issue?
I bet if your sorry tail wasn’t out in AZ protesting Gov. Brewer and the Immigration Bill she signed into law, you were there in protesting in spirit… Yeah, show the love for “Illegal Immigrants” but trash the “Unregistered Forum Users”… Sounds typical, buster. Sounds typical! Go back to your momma’s basement yourself and login to your favorite website that you pay homage and devotion to, Media Matters…
@Journo
Indeed, Bush was so great about “getting out of the way.” No child left behind, for instance, was certainly not a federal mandate levied on the states…or was it? And the Medicare prescription card with the doughnut hole. Anything with a hole is OK, I suppose. And the federal government got smaller, didn’t it? We did not spend trillions of additional dollars on the U.S. military and create a whole new generation of widows, orphans, and veteran’s with terrible injuries, did we.
You are a clueless twit. And I doubt that you have any concept of where the “governors” or the gas pedal is on the “mighty U.S. economic engine.” Economic progress at the expense of the environment and quality of life is a losing proposition. Until the GOP acknowledges the importance of protecting the environment, I cannot support it.
By the way, I *am* a fiscal conservative. Too bad neither of our national political parties have been fiscally conservative in practice for most of the past three decades.
What are you posing as Macromancer?
America is owned by the Chinese at the moment. iPhone is made in China, iPad made in Taiwan. What are you celebrating? Do you realize that your lifestyle is based on living on borrowed money from China? Did you not know that China plans to replace USD with RMB by 2018? Maybe in 2020 Chinese designed Pads and Phones are made cheaply in the US.
Apple is a dictatorship, America is not.
@Booster,
Yeah, because the likes of Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Beck, Hannity, Palin, Bachmann, Levin, Savage, etc. are the poster children for good vibes, moderation and courage.
Thank the good Lord for the people you mention above. They are lightyears better people than anyone on the Marxist left. You Marxists need to stay the hell out of our pocket books, rights, constitution, and lives. What the hell makes you think you know better what is better for us than we do ourselves you sickos. Liberals were always the picked on losers you growing up. And they were picked on for good reason. Now they want to get back at the world. It’s amazing how many communists post on this site. Sick.
The Law by Frederick Bastiat spells it all out for you brain dead democrats.
Conservative government take over in 2012. Read it and weep losers.
@Listen buster…
Debate is a good thing and I do listen to other people’s point of view. However I also believe in maturity and civility and HONESTLY trying to understand the other person’s point of view. That is being open-minded.
You do not debate, you call people names (kooks, …you, presumably (and I recognize I could be wrong here) are here just to spit out childish rants. The unregistered names, to reiterate, is a reference to the fact that I suspect that many of these rants seem similar and I presume come from the same person. This also reflects childish behaviour.
Get my drift?
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One final thing….I am not American but I do admire many Americans.. There is a lot of good in the USA and I have hopes that you guys will start to moderate your views a little and start to be less divided in the future. THis article bring up this point….to become a world economic power again. Its slipping from your hands and all everyone does is bitch rather than say…what can we do?
Buster has serious mental issues. Hope Maobama care can help him before he hurts himself. That goes for King Smell too, the Marxist pretending to be a conservative. Yeah right. Stuff it libs.
“Is Palin ready for the Presidency?”
Well let’s see. She’s an airheaded bimbo with an IQ of -10 who doesn’t know what to do or say without her staff of political nannies telling her.
Hell yes she’s ready for the Presidency! If the last several elections have taught America anything, it’s that things like brains, talent, independence, and command over the English language are not part of the job description.
“Obama and his “Spread the Wealth” mentality”
Obama has the same “Make the Rich Richer” mentality as George W. He just candy-coats it in a slightly different flavour. As will whoever succeeds him.
“Freedom Lovin’ Palin, Drill Here, Drill Now, limited government presidency with a Conservative (not Republican)”
Because there’s nothing more conservative than indescriminately drilling for oil! Oh wait a minute, a conservative philosophy would be to not go nuts with the drilling. A liberal philosophy would be to drill here, drill now.
@Frank and Captain America…
Thanks gents for helping me prove a point about civility. I strongly suspect that your average conservative who looks at your comments and finds it as distainful as I (I assume again you are the same person…there cannot be that many kiddies running around loose on computers during recess).
By the way, what makes you think I am a liberal..or communist as you like to say? Maybe I am just….an adult!
Bluster is not American, that must make him/it a democrat. That’s how Maobama and friends play themselves off, anti-america, apology tours and so on. Maobama would love to be able to dictate as Steve Jobs can running a corporation. The problem is the constitution doesn’t allow for it. You know that ancient document that all you libtards hate so much.
Americans do not like you Bluster. And that is a monumental understatement!
Buster, you do not have one once of civility in your Marxist body.
Buster your postings spell out exactly who you are.
Hey Palin 2012,
Where did you find the results of Palin’s IQ tests? Are they published somewhere like NoBama’s birth certificate or college records? I wonder what Biden’s IQ is. The absolute biggest idiot to occupy the VP spot since Al “Global Warming SCAM” Gore. You liberals think you are brilliant. The fact is you aren’t. You just think you are.
Buster you are not here to debate anyone, just to spout liberal propaganda.
Can’t wait to see how the new state laws demanding original birth certificate copies for presidential candidates turns out for 2012! This is going to be fun watching Obama become ineligible in 5 plus states……….. Google it commies.