The Macalope Weekly: Pointless exercises

12.08.2012

And now we get to the Macalopes favorite, number 10: Our fans dont care if we screw up.

Indeed, many Apple customers stay loyal to the company even when it disappoints them. Earlier this year a group of Apple customers led by Change.org, a for-profit advocacy group, sent a petition to Apple imploring it to improve working conditions at its factories, especially in China. However, the groups members said they wont be discarding their Apple products, or even recycling them.

Can you imagine? They wouldnt even switch to any of the readily-available competing products that are made here in the U.S. by workers getting paid six figures a year to OH WAIT &

So, given the choice between continuing to use the best products availablemade by the company thats actually something about workers conditions in Chinaand Luddism, Apples mindless zealots chose to continue using their devices while asking the company to do more. Unconscionable.

Well, this was a delightful exercise in applying standards to Apple that no one expects of any other company, Quentin! The Macalopes not sure what the purpose of it was, but thanks!