Apple makes good products but flawed arguments

Yeah, yeah.

It's too bad this article didn't get more traction, mainly this:

"Apple's products still have a large U.S. government R&D content and I'll bet that the guy who says Apple has no obligation to help Uncle Sam does strongly believe that Uncle Sam has an obligation to stop foreign pirating of Apple's intellectual property and to maintain the deployments of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and of the 100,000 U.S. troops in the Asia-Pacific region that make it safe for Apple to use supply chains that stretch through a number of countries..."

Getting to build cheaply in China is an externality of US foreign policy, for good or bad. American corporation don't have to cost it all in.