“It’s no secret that President Barack Obama is a fan of Apple gadgets, and they are all around him: at his fingertips during a Twitter town hall, on his desk at the Oval Office and by his side en route to golf games,” Amie Parnes and Kim Hart report for Politico.
“Now, due to popular demand by aides, the White House is moving to incorporate Apple devices into its daily routine,” Parnes and Hart report. “Last month, the information technology office launched a pilot program for the Executive Office of the President that allows Apple-loving staffers to access their official email accounts on their iPads and iPhones through a secure connection.”
“Last month, when Obama left to play a round of golf at Andrews Air Force Base, he carried his iPad. And when he appeared at the White House Twitter town hall in July, he used a MacBook Pro, although the Apple symbol was covered with the presidential seal. He also has an iPod,” Parnes and Hart report. “At the White House, where nearly every image is carefully planned and executed, it is no coincidence that the president was seen carting his iPad to a golf game, observers say. Nor was it a coincidence that Obama sat beside Jobs at a dinner in Silicon Valley earlier this year.”
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“Obama still uses his Secret Service-approved BlackBerry instead of an iPhone. And even though he doesn’t have a computer in the Oval Office, aides said he has a Dell upstairs in his private study,” Parnes and Hart report. “Obama’s Republican presidential rivals are invoking Apple to reinforce their message about job creation — though they’ve pointed out that Apple’s products are mostly made in Asia rather than in the U.S. They say the country would benefit if Apple made its products here, creating new manufacturing jobs. ‘We need American entrepreneurs not only thinking of products like the iPhone or Segway,’ presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said in a speech on Wednesday. ‘We need American workers building those products. It’s time for ‘Made in America’ to mean something again.'”
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The Segway was conceived [thought of), designed, and manufactured in New Hampshire, USA.
Had Dean Kamen outsourced the manufacturing of the Segway, perhaps the much lower selling price would have created massive sales, and a successful company.
‘We need American entrepreneurs not only thinking of products like the iPhone or Segway,’ presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said in a speech on Wednesday. ‘We need American workers building those products. It’s time for ‘Made in America’ to mean something again.’”
To all retards who post on this site: STFU!
I smell a crackberry, or is it smackberry? No, I’ve got it: whackberry!
So how realistic is it for Apple products to be “Made in the USA”? They could easily add “Made in USA” labels/icons for Apps that “qualified”. That could prove interesting.
This is an American issue besides the tax breaks and cheap labor , cheap living expenses and the fact that these factories are in the middle of nowhere in china. The fact is simple, local governments kill jobs anytime business wants to create any type of job. Look at taxes, housing costs,transportation and other expenses. That Eliminates NY or Long Island. They live factory apartments located in the building. Also, Americans can’t jeep there mouth shut when it comes to new products and can be. Bribed very easily.look what goes on now.
‘We need American workers building those products. It’s time for ‘Made in America’ to mean something again.’”
Yeah, as if Americans are prepared to pay what Apple’s products would cost if they were made in America. Despite all the anti-immigration sentiment and don’t-export-jobs rhetoric, Americans love the low prices that oppression brings, whether it’s exporting jobs to China, hiring migrants to pick our produce, or the abominable wages Wal-Mart pays so that they can undercut all competitors.
I’m so sick of politicians pandering with messages of “Rah Rah USA, Buy American!…” when most of the laws they’ve passed pertaining to business have been to the detriment of our economy.
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