Obama has started an anti-trust investigation into Apple’s iPhone deal with AT&T because it’s too successful and making money. This is standard procedure for communists but it might be well to look back on how that partnership came about: Apple came up with a new idea for cellphones but no major carrier wanted it. They were too busy making money hand-over-fist with their existent, obsolete technology and refused to spend money improving their product so they all: Verizon, nextel and Sprint all turned Apple down. They had complete control over what their phones did, how they did it and when change would come (never).
Only AT&T, desperate to grow market share, took the gamble and agreed to accept the iPhone. AT&T had to rebuild its system to accommodate it, at huge expense, and if it had failed, that money would have been lost. It didn’t fail, of course, and Apple is now credited with forcing cell phone carriers and manufacturers to try to meet Apple’s standards. Those competitors are screaming that they’ve been treated unfairly. Given the Obama plan of the state owning all industry, how long do you think it would take the government to invent and market an iPhone? Hint: we’re still using stamps down at the Post Office.
Well sure, we’re still using stamps, but now they have the self adhesive kind. No more licking the stamps, like when we were kids. There’s government innovation for you.
Telecom is the next logical industry to nationalize, followed by airlines and media (oops, the media already is run by Obama)