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Google is bribing instead of innovating. They are part of the problem.
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All public companies are required to file congressional lobbying disclosure reports, which were released today for the second quarter of 2012. Interestingly enough, Google has once again outspent Apple by a margin of nearly 10 to 1.
As revealed by the reports, Google spent just shy of $4 million, coming in at $3,920,000, while Apple spent only $470,000 in Q2.
http://www.cultofmac.com/180362/google-lobbyists-are-outspending-apple-nearly-10-to-1
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(21,551 posts)So 2006...
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)cultofmac
Logical
(22,457 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)They are all corporations just like us.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)...but math says that they are ten times worse.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Yeah, Google spends more to bribe politicians...but Apple is overwhelmingly worse in terms of offshoring to slave-labor-conditions factories for its products. The vast majority of Goggle's employees are in the US, and are pretty well paid.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)You are thinking of Foxconn. Which makes Apple and Google's products.
All electronics are either made in or contain Chinese factory products.
hunter
(38,326 posts)Google's business models fail if big internet providers are able to selectively limit or sell bandwidth to content providers.
Do you really want "high speed access to Google" as part of a Comcast cable package?
Apple has already demonstrated an ability to work with devils like at&t, the recording industry, and Chinese electronics giants.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)like to throttle google one would probably wonder why google wasn't spending more on lobbying