Yes, it WAS much ado about nothing. But, folks, all of you reading the blogs and especially the bloggers, why don't you help "US", not just the Mac users but all of us, and shift the issue to where it rightly belongs.
Yes, the press is corrupt, lazy, and lower than even pimps and dope dealers on my list of lowlifes, but that is not why I am writing.
It is the POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and DISTRACTION on the part of our government agencies which fits right into the corrupt and mangy press.
At a time when CEOs of companies like ENRON, WORLDCOM, DELPHIA and dozens of others have taken hundreds of millions in salaries and bonuses----At a time when those CEOs have betrayed their shareholders trusts by completely falsifying data and running their companies into the ground and making their stock worthless-- At a time when CEO's have lied and distributed completely false financial information that led to the ruination of countless other investors----It is at this time when our government agencies, [who can't seem to do anything right to rectify those situations until way after the fact] make a point of going after APPLE and Steve Jobs, for doing what apparently many hundreds of corporations did [ some more innocently than others] in the face of ambiguously and improperly written rules for issuance of options. Their target, easy to find and self-aggrandizing in the publicity the Feds get, is, of all people, Steve Jobs, who has probably increased shareholder value more than any other CEO in the nation, who has contributed mightily to changing the entire economy and way of life of our citizens, and who has taken a meager salary of $1 per year, and who has not profited himself from any of these transaction. In a world where the equivalent of corporate rape and assault are commonplace and the Feds are helpless to do anything, they do the equivalent of sending a swat team to handle jaywalking. Perhaps it makes them look like they're doing something.
IN fact, it is time for you Bloggers, who are in touch with each other and a vast public to be proactive instead of constantly reactive to the stupidity of the media and, in this case, the Fed agencies. Why not shift the issue to where it belongs, the bad judgment in first drawing up poor guidelines, and then attacking a CEO and company, where shareholders have prospered, consumers have been delighted and not cheated, and where the economy and lifestyle of our nation has been enhanced. Goddamnit, folk,s write something about that. Shift the focus of all this press nonsense. Don't be satisfied with another nearly insane instance of 'much ado about nothing".
It is up to you to shift the debate to where it belongs. That is what Blogs should be able to do, and not just passively be puzzled by the world run amuck around them.
Let's go and DO SOMETHING.
You can count on one hand the number of truly innovative, world-changing companies in the world. Apple is number one. The SEC should sniff somewhere else lest they totally bring down the US economy. I bet the original investigation was politically motivated because the exiting Congress was none too fond of Board member Al Gore.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/0...r=1&
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