“Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party’s 2016 presidential convention, as it’s done in the past, citing Donald Trump’s controversial comments about women, immigrants and minorities,” Tony Romm reports for Politico. “Unlike Facebook, Google and Microsoft, which have all said they will provide some support to the GOP event in Cleveland next month, Apple decided against donating technology or cash to the effort, according to two sources familiar with the iPhone maker’s plans… Apple declined to comment for this story, and it’s unclear how the company plans to handle the Democratic convention in Philadelphia this summer.”
“While Apple isn’t the most active political player in the nation’s capital, the tech giant previously has backed both parties’ conventions. It provided about $140,000 in MacBooks and other tech tools to the Democratic and Republican events in 2008, according to campaign finance records. Apple sat out the nominating conventions in 2012, the year Democrats opted against accepting corporate contributions,” Romm reports. “Typically, the tech industry tries to court Democrats and Republicans in equal measure. Despite the liberal leanings of Silicon Valley’s top executives, companies like Google and Facebook long have split their election-year donations among both parties’ officeholders. While Apple does not have a political action committee, Cook on his own has tried to forge personal relationships with Democratic and GOP lawmakers. He even dined in D.C. last year, for example, with a quartet of top House Republicans.”
“Major tech companies including Apple support efforts to attract more high-skilled foreign workers to the U.S. –- a position shared by many Republicans. But Trump has taken a vastly different course, threatening to expel millions of undocumented immigrants while building a wall on the Mexican border,” Romm reports. “And on some of the most pressing issues in tech policy, the presumptive Republican nominee’s views conflict with the prevailing opinion in Silicon Valley. Earlier this year, for example, Trump slammed Apple for resisting the FBI, as the government sought to force the company to unlock a password-protected iPhone tied to the San Bernardino terrorist attack. Many tech executives, however, rushed to Apple’s defense.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Apple doesn’t even have the pro technology to run a convention?? Update your damn computers Tim Cook
How can anyone vote this down?
It’s a simple fact.
Trump called for an Apple boycott, so Apple would be insane to give him money.
Apple shouldn’t be supplying any political party anything at any time, period.
Anti-Trump = Anti-American
TRUMP/2016 🇺🇸
Trump at the wheel, and soon the entire world will be anti-american for sure. A people able to choose this sort of a leader just isn’t worth to be considered. I feel sorry for you.
Don’t worry. For all the noise here at MacDailyNews the next US President will be Hillary Clinton.
Then in 2020 she will win again, unless the GOP gets off its current suicide run towards fanaticism. Can’t see that happening though. The patients truly have overrun that asylum.
The core conservative base (energized so powerfully by the Tea Party a few years back) has decided to double-down, following the Romney defeat four years ago, rather than broadening the tent. Unfortunately, the voting population for that base (uneducated white men) is the fastest shrinking one, and the rest of America, and especially women and minorities (black, Hispanic, Asian) find very little that’s appealing in the current conservative platform. And that group will only get bigger in four years.
If the American conservatives (currently represented by the Republican party) continue to hold onto the exact same political platform on all major issues, then they have no chance of winning presidency in America ever again. With their core electorate continuing to shrink every year, the only way for their party to regain support is to embrace political positions that appeal to those rapidly growing parts of America.
Whether white men of America like it or not, Hispanics, Blacks and Asians will continue to grow their share of American population. America of 2050 will definitely NOT be the America of 1950, and the political landscape will have to reflect that change. And those white men of America who are unable to accept that change will probably have to either learn how to accept it or find another country to live in…
Most projections expect native-born white Americans to become the minority of the total population by 2040 (24 years from now). If you are 70, you won’t care; those who are younger will live to see it. By 2050, the percentage of whites in America will become lower than that of any other single racial group.
So funny to listen to these online rants where we write things that we wouldn’t say to each other’s faces.
The irony in all this if Apple supports the Democratic campaign, then they will be supporting Hillary, the one person who has put the country at the greatest risk with her unsecured email service but it’s the one issue that Apple is fighting tooth and nail over.
Smart leaders keep their companies out of the political fray to protect their shareholder’s interests.
Obviously these “terrific private e-mails” where not that terrible and “at risk” as pretended… Way as far dangerous as Trump’s mad talks.
i feel so sad. as an apple shareholder and cheerleader, i find it more and more difficult to be one of the rank and file. i can’t support any publicly traded company whose ceo stands on the backs of his shareholders to promote his own political concerns, however noble, and that is what this ceo has done. he has appropriated the power of the company name and it’s good standing one too many times for political cause. for the first time, i feel my attitude changing toward apple. it’s a sad day in cupertino.
Damn Straight and Well Said…..
It’s like this. Trump will be president because of the media. I like him no more than Hillary, but this is a chance for people to stick it to the media, which is the most toxic institutions in America today. Hopefully you will never be the focus of the slimeball media industry, because they will twist your words into revenue for themselves, truth be damned. So I’ll vote for him, not because he is the best choice, but because of the media.
Oh also, Apple should stay out of politics period.
Also, also, Cook, if you support Hillary, you support the murder and oppression of gay people. Since the clintons took tons of money from repressive regimes hat support killing gays.
Also, Also, Also…This is what happens when companies and/or people get rich and think they must save the world. If cook was poor, do you really think he would be involved in this? Get off your gilded platform and focus on TECH.
Four Times Wrong.
I think you mean four dead in Benghazi.
“tin soldiers and Hillary’s sleepin’, the ambassador’s on his knees,
this summer I hear the echoes: four dead in Ben-gha-zee.”