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Wall Street has had precisely zero influence on Apple in this area, and this was true even when Apple was pretty near going out of business. It's not in Apple's
by Bud 8y ago
Wall Street has had precisely zero influence on Apple in this area, and this was true even when Apple was pretty near going out of business. It's not in Apple's DNA to do this, and it's firmly outside of their core ethics. Don't count on this happening, or assume that everyone is stupid and evil just because most people are stupid and evil.
- white-flame 8y agoPast performance is not an indicator of future performance. For example, Microsoft has certainly changed core issues across the last decade or so. There's nothing special about Apple itself that would prevent such a shift either, given any future leadership change.
- vkou 8y agoWall Street owns the company, and can set its direction. Apple isn't some hobby business, under the control of a principled founder. Particular people in the organization will push back against such measures, but whether or not they will win is crapshoot. Building weapons wasn't in Google's DNA either, yet Maven happened. It was only shut down because the pushback succeeded. Its success was not a sure thing. Corporations aren't people - the only principles or ethical compasses they follow are those of their employees. Employees come and go, and, in the case of leadership, can be fired by the owners. There's a long history of tech companies that have done a 180, in terms of their DNA. Microsoft, SUN (Having been bought by Oracle), Google, are some of the more prominent ones.