Does Apple care that its naked self interest is showing?
FORBES: Removing Google Maps May Push Potential Apple Customers Toward Android
FORBES: 23 Died Building Your iWorld: Time to Boycott Apple?
Now, Apple's no stranger to using names which are already trademarked -- if you'll recall, Fujitsu used to own iPad and Cisco owned iPhone before Apple took care of all of that with its gigantic piles of money.
But sadly, perhaps a more universal lesson has nothing to do with Apple: Health care decisions are different from others.
FORBES: What Steve Jobs' Death Teaches Us All About Our Own Health Care
With Nike's new pack, your books, laptop, Cheetos stash, and little white (or colorful) Apple are all taken care of on a daily basis.
ENGADGET: Nike unveils iPod-controlling C.O.R.E. Backpack iD
While the buzz surrounding the growth of Android continues, Apple does not seem to care.
Apple and Google can take care of themselves, their balance sheets awash in billions of dollars of excess liquidity.
Samsung has reached a level where its product announcements are important enough that they join a short list of companies that people will actually show, log on, care think Apple, Microsoft, Sony.
FORBES: Galaxy S4: Will Samsung Continue to Rule the Universe?
"We are aware that a lack of communications...led to the perception that Apple is arrogant and doesn't care or attach enough importance to consumer feedback, " Mr. Cook said, according to the letter.
Take care not to get bitten by Apple.
FORBES: Apple's Deep Value Makes It Worthy Of Dividend Investor Dollars
You keep providing analogies, in the US economy, to demonstrate your confidence in the free-market to decrease health care cost, but you completely ignore apple-to-apple comparison with countries like Norway or France or Germany or Switzerland (which has Obamacare like system).
FORBES: Should Your Kids Subsidize My Grandmother's Health Care?
But Apple issued a statement to the effect that it does care.
"We are aware that a lack of communications... led to the perception Apple's attitude was arrogant and that we do not care and attach importance to consumer feedback, " Mr Cook wrote.
"It would certainly be classic Apple in terms of 'We're going to take care of the entire experience from soup to nuts, '" says Crawford Del Prete, senior vice president at tech-market researcher IDC.
Many people operate their phone independently from other devices or do not care if their calendar and contacts are stored in Google or Apple clouds.
FORBES: How To Keep 'Costs' Of Switching From iPhone To Motorola RAZR Low
"I just want to eat, " Tom Nguyen, 32, a health-care company analyst, said as they passed the normally raucous Big Apple Circle big top at Government Center.
Obama should have passionately made his case to the American public about health care in simple, easily understood terms, much as Steve Jobs at Apple has gotten people excited about the iPad.
应用推荐