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Friday, May 11, 2012, 1:38 PM ETApple (AAPL -0.3%) is planning to drop the Google Maps program running on iOS in favor of a new Maps app with its own back-end. The application design is said to be fairly similar to the current Google Maps program on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, but it is described as a much cleaner, faster, and more reliable experience.
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I'll show you what you get with Republican governance and give you a link to it instead of making up fictitious data.
Highest Poverty Rates in the US.
Rank State Poverty Rate
50 Mississippi 20.1%
49 Louisiana 18.3%
48 New Mexico 17.9%
47 Alabama 16.7%
46 Texas 16.2%
36 Arkansas 15.9%
45 Oklahoma 15.6%
44 West Virginia 15.4%
43 Arizona 15.2%
41 Tennessee 15.0%
42 South Carolina 15.0%
40 Kentucky 14.8%
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Where would you locate the factory. Mississippi? Texas? Oklahoma?
You have more people competing for jobs and the unemployment rate goes up. You can't have everyone get free university education because we must have those who are willing to take jobs in manufacturing, construction and manual labor.
Go into a mall sometime and people watch the security guards, janitors and workers at the food court .... even with a free college education available to them the vast majority will never go to college or if they tried would never succeed.
You think the typical worker stocking the shelves at Wal*Mart has any shot in hell of ever becoming an MBA, neurosurgeon, or lawyer? These people are most likely working at the best jobs they'll ever see in their lifetimes.
Look around you. Changing sheets in hotels, scrubbing toilets, fast food joints, tanning parlors, doggie day care centers, food courts, Highs, Royal Farms, are employing millions upon millions of people that won't have any desire or hope of getting a college degree no matter what you gave them.
I don't know what conclusion you getting from my comment, because you just repeated what I said in your own words.
I also disagree with you that the majority of those jobs are held by foreign workers. I can go into a Burger King where I live and not detect a foreign worker.
I taught high school when I first got out of school. It was close to an Army base and we had more than our fair share of kids of enlisted. Very few of those kids had any hope of graduating from college and they have no hope of getting a factory job either. They couldn't even make change. Those kids are now pushing 50 years old.
But if you live in a border state, Florida or New York, you know exactly what is going on. Not all foreign workers take jobs from U.S. citizens, however they fill the void of what Americans are not willing to do.
I don't even know why you are arguing with me on a nuance or variation of the same thing of what I am saying and calling it a disagreement.
I think they'll have to let people choose. Probably after the litigation is over.
Apple can do the same thing with their map s/w. Google can still have google maps in iOS, but as a separate app.
WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP
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Why does the map have to look like but be better than Google's? Don't get me wrong I was here when Apple started and through Skully and back to Jobs.
Detroit, Big Steel, Textile, etc., thought no one knew how to do it cheaper nor better than either, what happen?
As for off-shoring, these factory floor jobs are not a big loss, compared to all the white collar stuff we give to India. We are giving away work as I speak that is entry-level computer stuff with high growth potential.