You can buy a Windows computer that is not only fast but also comes with lots of bells and whistles for around $ 1200. An Apple computer with similar specs will run you well over $ 2500, and liberals think that is double super awesome. (Now you know why Apple is sitting on billions of dollars in cash.)
Liberals give Apple a pass on being an evil, greedy, capitalist corporation because they are Apple and they are cool. Call it Selective Outrage Example #1411.
But wait, there's more. Apple is a bit of an outlier in that they don't like to play the typical Washington games (See The Sopranos). "Kicking It Upstairs" is a traditional mafia tradition where the bosses receive tribute payments from their underlings. The Washington version is conducted via lobbyists and a dozen other legal forms of tribute payments to the bosses. GE and other giant multinationals are expert at such machinations but so far Apple has kept itself mostly outside "the system". The Washington bosses would surely drop the hammer on Apple were it not for the fact that Liberals would go apesh*t for poking a stick at their beloved Apple. So Apple more or less gets a pass from the bosses upstairs in Washington.
Now to Milton Friedman: His famous example of the pencil illustrated how suppliers from all over the world are carefully orchestrated to create such a common ordinary commodity as the pencil. The rubber for the eraser comes from one country, the lead from another, the wood casing from another, etc. All these far flung components must come together at the same place and at the same time to created the final product, which at the time was produced in America. Friedman was illustrating the magic of capitalism.
Like the ordinary pencil, Apple products rely upon carefully orchestrated components arriving "just in time" at an assembly plant to piece together the final product. That assembly plant is not in the United States but the principles are the same. The screws may come from China, the mother board from S. Korea, etc. It's another prime example of Friedman's magic of capitalism. But don't tell Liberals, they would spontaneously self-combust if they knew the truth about the magic at work behind the scenes.
Without a doubt some Liberals do understand how Apple products are created, but here again they give Apple a pass because they are Apple and they are cool. Call it Selective Outrage Example #1411.