Plenty of people complain that life isn’t fair, but you will never hear that complaint coming from Apple, Inc., because they believe for a certainty that life is very, very fair for them, for apparently as the old saying goes, paraphrased and updated for the 21st century, "What's good for Apple, Inc. is good for the country." There is no company in the world that consistently gets and receives the most favorable press in the world that Apple does, to which Apple's product announcements, news, shows, and updates are treated as if rock-star like events. There was a time, long ago, when Apple was the upstart, as witnessed by the Super Bowl ad of 1984, where Apple was perceived to be the force of freedom and empowerment against Big Brother and groupthink, but today Apple is the State, itself, with its many sheep-like followers and sycophants, bleating how wonderful and great Apple art.
The reality of the situation is that Apple is just like most other multinational corporations, an entity of incredible power and influence that has zero interest in full disclosure or playing fair with the public or of truly being democratic with its employees as witnessed by their compensation packages which are hugely favorable to those of the high executive ranks, so much so, that as reported by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2012, four out of the top five executives with the highest fiscal compensation were all from Apple. Neither too does Apple play fair with paying its fair share of taxes, whereas this is fairly common with any multinational company, it is disappointing that Apple hides behind the smokescreen of stating that "Apple pays all its required taxes, both in this country and abroad," which is at best a truth, but is certainly not the whole truth, because Apple along with its phalanx of tax attorneys, lobbyists, and accountants, make sure to take wholesale advantage of the tax code, while throwing out self-serving bones such as: "…Apple does not move its intellectual property into offshore tax havens…" which makes it sound as if Apple is as almost as American as the proverbial apple pie. The fact of the matter is when massive multinational corporations use tax dodges to skirt around paying their fair share of taxes, they pass that burden onto the American people themselves, and/or future generations.
Because too, that Apple and its products are perceived so favorably by the public at large, Apple knows that it can consistently charge a higher price for its products than its competitors can because Apple's goods are almost universally recognized as being of more valued and as status symbols, whether they truly are or not. This means that a massive influx of money passes from the general public for products that from a strictly utilitarian perspective are overpriced in comparison to their real underlying worth and intrinsic value, because these Apple goods have achieved cult-like special social significance.
Then too there is the issue of Apple employment, where is often overlooked, but shouldn't be in an era of perpetual American low employment numbers. Apple outsources the bulk of its assembly work overseas, specifically to China, for the basic reason of taking advantage of low labor costs as well as their perceived docile labor conditions. These assemblers are not directly employed by Apple, but rather a contract is issued to a manufacturer such as Foxconn or Pegatron to assemble the devices, and subsequently these contractors take care of the direct employment and pay of the assemblers doing the work, not Apple, and these jobs are not even considered for Americans in America.
The bottom line is that Apple makes a ton of money, each and every year, and further that it has little interest in doing right by America and its citizens, what Apple wants to do--it is already doing to superb effect, which is enriching the select and privileged few, while taking lots of money from the mesmerized and credulous rest.