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We aren’t spending public money on Apple.
by mplewis 3y ago
We aren’t spending public money on Apple.
- victorbjorklund 3y agoAre you sure govts never bought an Iphone?
- maronato 3y agoGovernments buy iPhones to use. The US government gives bigpharma money and tax benefits as a way to encourage R&D. Those are not the same
- victorbjorklund 3y agoSo you think your phone has zero tech that originally came from govt funded R&D such as the military?
- twoodfin 3y agoThe iPhone doesn’t exist without mobile networks that telecommunications companies used government subsidies to build. (The same subsidies, by the way, that some like to complain weren’t spent on FTTH. Personally, I think mobile was the right call.)
- bart_spoon 3y agoApple’s products are almost entirely dependent on the internet and telecommunications networks and tech, all of which was funded and researched by the government.
- nitwit005 3y agoWe're spending public money on every corporation. Who built the roads their goods travel on? Who educated their workers? We're spending the money less directly perhaps.