“Consider that just a couple of weeks ago, Apple rolled out a new mobile operating system, and within days, they found a glitch, so they fixed it,” President Obama recently told an audience. “I don’t remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads or threatening to shut down the company if they didn’t.”
Acknowledging the many problems that popped up in last week’s rollout of the online healthcare exchanges, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered, “[H]opefully you’ll give us the same slack you give Apple.”
Let’s review. Apple fixed its problem. And customers continued to voluntarily purchase its products.
That’s where the president’s and the secretary’s analogy badly breaks down. Obamacare’s problems are myriad and metastasizing … and hardly being fixed.
Even Obamacare enthusiasts Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas, writers of The Washington Post’s “Wonk Blog,” objected to the ridiculous comparison between Apple and Obamacare in a story headlined, “Obamacare’s Web site is really bad”:
The Obama administration doesn’t have a basically working product that would be improved by a software update. They have a Web site that almost nobody has been able to successfully use. If Apple launched a major new product that functioned as badly as Obamacare’s online insurance marketplace, the tech world would be calling for Tim Cook’s head.
The differences between Apple and Obamacare hardly end there. Did I mention that no one is forced to buy Apple products?
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5 replies on “The Apple of Their Own Eyes”
.… Did I mention that no one is forced to buy Apple products …?
Not to a 1951-Columbia/1936-Euro-weenie-“mind”-set Buraq Hussayn Gang apparatchik, I pray and trust.
Your life’s energies are way too wonderful to waste on that claque o’ wankers!
No need to impeach Apple.
No one had to use Apple’s latest iOS. Also, if upgrading to the latest iOS caused problems, then users could go back to the previous version. Can we go back to the previous version of the ObamaCare Exchanges? Didn’t think so.
I have yet to buy Apple products. I have at least a year before I pay for not having health insurance. (My employer doesn’t offer it and, as a contractor, I don’t qualify.
It’s just too bad the GOP won’t stoop to such things as ‘extortion’ or ‘blackmail’. Maybe then we’d get somewhere. Instead, both parties ultimately will make nice at a ‘White House summit’ (beer or wine?) and keep up the spending.
Government is force etc. etc. Says it all.