why not include the farmers who raised the cattle that fed the hamburger to the truck driver.<p>seriously, this is PR out of control, yet there are those who will look at this and say 'Apple employs 1/2 million americans'.<p>Note, they include the people who 'build the planes and trucks' (I didn't realize the page scrolled at first).
I'd like to see the research supporting these numbers.<p>I'm curious as to how they determine the number of jobs created via their app economy.<p>Many of the jobs they list do not belong to them and they may actually play a small part in the job itself. Unless they own the transportation company they can't lay claim to the truck driver's job since he's probably delivering stuff for other companies at the same time.<p>How did Apple create or support healthcare jobs?<p>People working to build their stores is a short-term deal. Similar to the truck driver example, unless they own the construction company they can't take credit for the entire job.<p>I'm not saying they cannot lay claim to a great deal of success because most of what they say is probably true. But unless they break the numbers down to realistic examples of jobs created and jobs supported then the numbers they provide is misleading. Especially when they just lump them all together into one big number that makes them look good.
This is beyond pathetic. Who exactly are Apple trying to impress with this?<p>To summarise, they highlight 514k <i></i>US jobs created of supported by Apple<i></i>. Now the two operative word in that sentence is <i>"US"</i>, and <i>"supported"</i>.<p>1. Direct jobs created for US citizens who are on Apple's payroll is a fraction of this. (47k), so about 9%.<p>2. They say US jobs, because do you realise how much they outsource?<p>I personally don't have a <i>major</i> issue with outsourcing. Go where ever the labour is cheap. (And in Apples defence they do try and stay as transparent as possible with Foxconn and employee treatment ethics).<p>Obama asked Jobs directly once, "what will it take to bring Apple manufacturing back to the States". That is never going to happen. But again, I don't have an issue with that, but spinning their profiteering into philanthropy is utter crock-shit.<p>Do you realise the jobs they are listing within their "supporting" grouping?<p>- Business Sales<p>- Healthcare<p>- Customer Sales<p>- Transportation<p>Who are they including in this? BestBuy employees? The 40% of private Doctors that now say they use as iPad professionally and the FedEx employees who ship the goods on overnight freight?<p>I'm just suprised they left off the pilots who carry the cargo. They could have squeezed another 400 jobs into that number for sure.<p>Ultimately, 99% of these people all had jobs before Apple. The truck driver delivered his goods. The healthcare professional was still practicing and the salesmen were still selling. (How by the way does Apple create healthcare jobs?)<p>Don't read this for anything more than it is. PR bullshit.<p>Do you know what Apple doesn't want? Some campaign runner trying to decrease US unemployment numbers by saying that the largest US technology company needs to start employing more people. This is a pre-emptive PR measure.
"For example, this figure also includes... FedEx and UPS employees."<p>Well, I'm sorry to hear that FedEx and UPS are responsible for creating far fewer jobs than I previously thought.
Apple doesn't want one of these presidential hopefuls to start campaigning on the platform that the second largest US company needs to start creating jobs in the US.