On Oct 26, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Mac User #330250 > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ---------- Original message ---------- >> Subject: Re: IS the world about to change ? >> Date: Freitag 22 Oktober 2010N >> From: Dan <[email protected]> >> >> >> Anyway, you have a point here. WHY should Apple change their strategy? They >> simply don't need *us* anymore. >> Us being low-end-Mac owners. >
> When I do a web search If I do not see what I want in about 3 pages of > links I give up because I am exhausted from wading through the mud of > hypertext. My point is, is anyone here good at this ? At finding documents > that are hard to find. > > If so could the Apple Corporate charter be found ? In the archives of the state in which Apple was incorporated, which is likely California. Possibly in the Investor Information on Apple's web site. > > Beside turning a profit is mentioned in that charter even, I would assume ir > says something about how it Apple intends to serve the customers and the > Nation within which it was founded. Of course charters for other countries > will follow the customs and requirements there. No. A corporate charter is a legal document which is 99% boilerplate stating who the officers of the corporation are and how the company is set up. There is normally zero mention of customers or any mention of the country, other than the legal requirement to state the location of incorporation. What you're talking about sounds like a corporate 'mission statement' which is normally just marketroid gobbledegook that's changeble per the whims of the moment and has no legal standing whatsoever. Perhaps old corporate charters for things like the East India Company had such stuff in them, but the EIC was being chartered as a quasi-government. They had a standing army and navy. > > Why should Apple make that machine I mentioned at an affordable price ? And > why should they avoid business decisions that deteriorate the function and > the use of machines already sold ? > > Because, if they do not their whole philosophy of purpose and existence > upon which they were founded and upon which public trust has been based > becomes a lie. Call the waaahmbulance for that overinflated sense of entitlement you have...."Apple must sell me what I want or else they're EVIL!!" All of Apple's "public trust" is based on one thing, and one thing only: they sell things that people happily want to exchange their money for. They're a company, a commercial venture, selling things that you may or may not purchase. They're not a religion, a country, or some deeply engrained social construct. A company, which sells things. No more, no less. If they don't sell you what you want, find someone who does, or, failing that, step into the breach yourself. Sell a computer as easy to use, with as well-made an OS, for $500; this is the essence of capitalism. Oh yeah, do it without copying their work, because, you know, it's *theirs*, no fair cheating... -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
