i got a micro chip on my shoulder... now knock it off...

Complete with Kung-Fu Grip.

That's why we call them "new age" hippies

Read the biography. He wanted to have the computers (some iMacs are now) made here in the US but there was no manufacturing facilities capable of making what Apple needed. Considering every other brand is also made oversees, he's probably right. America couldn't survive without the slave labor forces and capabilities of overseas.

TheJarrison's dad,

Some people seem to forget that Apple is not even close to being the only company that subcontracts its manufacturing process overseas. In fact, Foxconn—the company that manufactures Apple products—also does HP, Dell, Nintendo, Sony, Acer... you name it.

Anyone in favor of moving JOBS overseas I’ll pay to move the coffin!

Considering the profit margins Apple has on their devices, I have a very hard time believing that these devices could not have been made in America.

I don't think all the hippies love any particular person...bit general of a statement there. It is also possible to like some things a person does and not the others.

hippies are cool...

@David P. Graf - regarding "Considering the profit margins Apple has on their devices, I have a very hard time believing that these devices could not have been made in America." is is estimated that the investment needed to build competitive facilities would be nearly $5 Trillion dollars (all costs included). Only after investing that amount of money could comarable products be manfuacturered at approximately 25x to 50x the cost.

Why would anyone want a Steve Jobs action figure? What's it do...sales pitch you to death?

Real hippies can't afford iProducts.

Don't really know what you're talking about, do you?

Apparently, I know allot more about this topic than you do. Steve Jobs isn't an action figure, he's a nerd. Get it? Not really action related.

,..he said, while jerking off in his mommy's basement.

Uh, I guess since when he founded a company, launched a revolutionary PC, founded another company, created the computer on which the web was invented, revolutionized computer animation, returned to a company that was nearly bankrupt and built it into the second most valuable company in the world while revolutionizing the music industry, telephones and tablet PC's.

Half-wit.

Did you swallow whenever you finished with Steve, MarkC?

First one came *with* a realistic mini iPhone in one hand, wasn't the least bit creepy and was actually kind of cool. This one, not so much.

A portion of all the proceeds go towards Nike shoes.

Personally I'm looking forward to the wave of Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates videos coming on youtube.

@Cameron Ford:

You wrote this:

True to life, the Steve Jobs action figure will cost twice as much as the Bill Gates action figure but will only have half the functionality.

In addition, fitting to Jobs' philosophy, exactly 0% of the profits from the sales of the doll will go to charity.

But you forgot to mention that all of the Steve Jobs action figure functionality will work flawlessly without requiring it to be rebooted every four hours; that it will be immune to viruses, malware, and adware; that it will not constantly bombard you with frivolous messages like "Your hard drive has encountered an error and will be erased. Click 'OK' to continue"; and it will not create a pseudo-religious "charity" to shield the wealth of itself and Warren Buffet while funding strange and bizarre medical and pharmaceutical "experiments" on the poorest people in third world countries . . .

Additionally, in great contrast to the Bill Gates action figure, the Steve Jobs action figure will be hung like a bull; Barbie® will love it; and Ken® will think that it's "cool" in a non-threatening metrosexual way, really . . .

Really! :D

Baldenario;

i whatever does not always work flawlessly either. It's time for you to get off the iKoolade.

yea...and when apple commands 95% of the market we'll see just how virus proof it is. I made sure to put ever mac on a fire sale just to get that backwards crap off my shelves. Never liked it because it always operated counter intuitively to my thinking. Now...I should just get one of these things so I can drive nails through it and burn it in effigy...fitting tribute...

I'm sorry - I was reading through the comments and had to reply to this even though I've never commented on this site before. I just can't believe someone is on here knocking charitable giving to the poor.

You can knock Gates and Windows and its functionality (which leaves much to be desired), but knocking Gates' charity???

One of my best friends is a molecular biologist who has done malaria research, and there's hardly any money for it outside of the Gates Foundation due to the fact that malaria primarily afflicts, as you put it correctly, "the poorest people in third world countries." Are you aware that the Foundation gives grants for research to legitimate universities and medical research institutions? If you consider experimenting on malaria-infected blood in a laboratory as "experiments on people," you need to educate yourself on the work that's being done before you post.

And charitable contributions do have tax benefits, and there are non-altruistic reasons for giving, but at the same time, if Gates gives his money to his charity, it's also "shielding it" FROM HIMSELF.

Are you that much of a partisan in the whole Mac/Windows thing to actually attack charitable giving? What do you support instead? How about not giving anything at all? Or do you just want to post a snarky comment? Or are you just that cynical? Work on it - the world doesn't need messages like this going out.

I couldn't believe this post...

Welcome to newsvine, where its not about facts, its about ideology. In this case, its PC vs. MAC but before you know it it will be Obama's fault.

Oh and by the way, virus attack the Big Dog whomever that is.

Oh give it a rest. you gaseous imbecile.

And then you yourself forgot to mention that the Steve Jobs action figure functionality never worked flawlessly until the day the company that made it started using the same inner core architecture that the Bill Gates figure had been using since day 1.

And that before such a switch was made, the Steve Jobs action figure would lock up in rigamortis-like stasis so quickly and so often that it literally wouldn't have had a chance to bombard anyone with messages even if it was inclined to do so.

Also, that the Steve Jobs doll was not immune to hater-induced problems, but was simply ignored because there wasn't enough community coverage to make the effort worthwhile. And when coverage began to increase, it was the seams and underpinnings of the BSD action figure that ensured the Jobs figure remained a less than ideal target.

Still, this Jobs action figure has come a long way since the figure that got the series going. You know the one that cost near $10K while similar dolls from other companies cost closer to $1K. The one which melted its connectors and rivets because putting plastic covers over them was considered "not aesthetically pleasing" enough by its chief designer who overruled the objections of his own engineers. The one whose inevitable malfunctions as a result of heat related component melting resulted in a class action lawsuit and recall once customer service annoyed enough people telling them to "Slam the head of the doll against the table until the rivets in the spine re-aligned".

The one which that same designer then re-branded a few years later, calling it the "Jeeve Hobbs" doll without changing a single thing about the design or price except to coat the fasteners with thin plastic.

And, when I say not a thing about the design changed, I of course refer to its junk. Which, just like the Jeeve Hobbs doll, was so busy being hung like a horse that it forgot it was dating a flea. So where the "bull" part comes in is only when describing how niche and tiny the Steve Jobs doll's sphere of effectiveness actually is despite how it looks. As in useless as teats on said bull.

Really really :-D

Cameron you are a horses ass. How much of your check do you donate big mouth. We are glad you don't like Apple. make the lines shorter.

Only if ALL of it was spent that way AND Apple matched it dollar-for-dollar.

Why, did your PC computer Freeze while watching it?

Why not a bobble head? Maybe put a grass dress on it complete with iCock!