This is why they diss iphone

[NIKKG]

Direct quote from Jobs:

"It's human nature to want to find a successful organization and bring them down, Jobs said. "I see it happening with Google, people trying to tear them down. And I don't understand it... what would you prefer? That we were a Korean company, that we were here in America leading the world with these products... maybe it's just that people want to get eyeballs on their sites."

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...things_up.html

[gTen]

Originally Posted by NIKKG

Direct quote from Jobs:

"It's human nature to want to find a successful organization and bring them down, Jobs said. "I see it happening with Google, people trying to tear them down. And I don't understand it... what would you prefer? That we were a Korean company, that we were here in America leading the world with these products... maybe it's just that people want to get eyeballs on their sites."

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...things_up.html

Yes..Steve Jobs will know all about trying tear down Google...

[NIKKG]

Originally Posted by gTen

Yes..Steve Jobs will know all about trying tear down Google...

Well, I'd rather support an American company than HTC, Samsung, LG and the rest of the Asian clan thats not headquartered here.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by NIKKG

Well, I'd rather support an American company than HTC, Samsung, LG and the rest of the Asian clan thats not headquartered here.

at this point it makes no difference where your stationed...people call it "American Companies" but most of the work they do is outsourced anyways...

As for hiring US workers I'm sure Samsung and LG have as many here in the US as Apple does...

They are all evil..and trying to figure out which is less evil is a silly game..

[NIKKG]

Originally Posted by gTen

at this point it makes no difference where your stationed...people call it "American Companies" but most of the work they do is outsourced anyways...

As for hiring US workers I'm sure Samsung and LG have as many here in the US as Apple does...

They are all evil..and trying to figure out which is less evil is a silly game..

Actually this stuff does matter. Why do you think this country is messed up. We outsourced everything we had. Even though the manufacturing might be outsourced, the company headquarted here still has alot of office people, engineers, accountants etc here. Go see how many Americans LG, Samsung, and HTC employs compared to Apple, M$ and Google who are headquartered here.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by NIKKG

Actually this stuff does matter. Why do you think this country is messed up. We outsourced everything we had. Even though the manufacturing might be outsourced, the company headquarted here still has alot of office people, engineers, accountants etc here. Go see how many Americans LG, Samsung, and HTC employs compared to Apple, M$ and Google who are headquartered here.

Well actually Samsung employees more ppl in the USA then Apple..but mostly cause they do more then just cellphones...

I'd rather not turn this into an economical discussion as it will be a lot of typing...in the end I assure you its no different...

[elephant007]

Originally Posted by NIKKG

Well, I'd rather support an American company than HTC, Samsung, LG and the rest of the Asian clan thats not headquartered here.

HTC American Headquaters
http://www.htc.com/us/about/contact-us

Samsung American Headquaters
http://www.samsungamerica.com/graphics/105dir.asp

LG American Headquaters
http://www.foxconn.com/ContactUs.html
Funny, the company that makes the iPhone is only headquatered in Taiwan, well at least I couldn't find one using Google

I also tried searching for how many Americans each company employs, I was unable to find results though. Everything we buy in one way or another, comes from somewhere other than the US... most components are manufactured overseas by companies that are most likely unionless, the company controls the employees not the employees controlling the company... shoot even Nike is made overseas...
Sure this article is from Wikipedia so take it for what it's worth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike,_Inc.#Manufacturing

Edit:
Correction there are many companies that supply components for the iPhone, it is reported that final assembly is by a Taiwan company named Quanta

[fozmsu]

You'd be surprised to know how many so called American companies build and assemble out side of the country. My dad bought a Mercury Villager back in the day because it was a Ford product. He was a little pissed when he found out most of the parts came from either Canada or Mexico. Today, there's even Toyotas that are mostly built and assembled in the US. Buy American is really starting to lose it's meaning. Living in Michigan, a lot of people argue that the car may be built here, but the profits go overseas. Does anyone really think all the profits made by the US automakers stays here?

[austin420]

nobody in the last 3 threads we have all been entertaining this afternoon have dissed the iphone. i thought we were having a nice shit talking free afternoon in the iphone forum i guess i was wrong.

[NIKKG]

Originally Posted by austin420

nobody in the last 3 threads we have all been entertaining this afternoon have dissed the iphone. i thought we were having a nice shit talking free afternoon in the iphone forum i guess i was wrong.

I didn't imply it for us, its just so many tech sites that even mention the iphone, you get the fanboys coming out doing Iphone vs Android threads, its getting annoying. You can't even read comments anymore without idiots taking snipes at one another.

It really gets old after a while.