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RUSH: To the phones. Nathan, San Jose, California. I\u2019m glad you called, Nathan. I appreciate your waiting, too. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Yeah, I\u2019m a lone Republican here in San Jose, California. Whenever my wife and I go to vote and I say I\u2019m Republican, I get a dirty look by the election judges. (chuckling) So —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I totally understand. Totally.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was a Republican in California once, too. I know exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. So I\u2019ve been a listener of your show ever since my dad introduced me when he first got your book, The Way Things Ought to Be. My dad would tape your TV show. He had to find it at midnight in our local Chicago area when I was growing up. My dad raised us well, you know, with Republican ideals about self-reliance and not taking anything from the government. I live out here in California now, and a lot of people out here have that mentality that they want to get something from the government.<\/p>\n

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But I primarily called to talk to you about the latest Apple products and about tech here, because I work in the tech industry. I don\u2019t work for Apple but I work for a test and measurement company that\u2019s just right down the street from Apple, and they come to us as well as Google. They come to us saying, “How do we test our latest equipment before we get it on to the shelves?” Without going into a lot of details, the future out there is going to be more and more of these mobile-type devices from Apple. I know you\u2019re a huge Apple fan and so am I, and my wife is a huge fan. We\u2019re wanting an iPad and all that stuff, but the future is gonna be really wearable products.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean like Google Glass?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And the iWatch and things like that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. We had Sebastian Thrun from Google come to our company, and he demonstrated Google Glass for us, and we got to play around with it. You know, you get to take pictures with it. It\u2019s very futuristic. You kind of feel strange wearing it but you walk into walls and stuff like that because you\u2019re doing text messaging.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not to mention you look weird.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true. You look like the Borg from Star Trek.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You look like a zombie.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right, yeah. People are already walking into water fountains, text messaging and bumping into people in the hallways. With text messaging, it\u2019s gonna get worse with people driving cars.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hang on. Don\u2019t go away here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, we\u2019re back with Nathan in San Jose, California, who works at a high-tech testing company. He tests high-tech gear.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Tests and measurements. Yeah. We make test equipment. We were formerly part of Hewlett-Packard.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I see. All right. Well, you want to know what I think? You talk about Google Glass and future stuff in high-tech. I tell you, your call is actually kind of well timed, because you talk about Google and Google Glass. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. Yeah.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Google is in bed with Obama! Google is instructing the Democrat Party how to use high-tech for information gathering, and guess who they\u2019re gathering information on? Their opponents.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I mean, Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin and these guys made no bones about the fact they love Obama. They\u2019re in bed with Obama. They\u2019re in bed with the Democrat Party like all of Silicon Valley is. They\u2019re in it for one reason: to be close to power, to be the reason power exists. They want to be the high financiers of power, because that gives them power. It\u2019s not about ideas. I get so many people asking me… Nathan, don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n

I get so many people asking me, “But if these guys are Big Business-types, Rush, why are they for Big Government?” It\u2019s called crony capitalism. It\u2019s called being at the seat of power without having to be elected! You buy your way in there, and then you\u2019re able to shape whatever comes out of Washington to your benefit without having to go through the work of being elected and getting into the political process at all. You just buy your way in there. <\/p>\n

So it is about ideas but you\u2019re buying your ideas and you\u2019re having your allegiance to a political party, and whatever happens to anybody else is irrelevant. You want to make sure there\u2019s enough wealth transfer so that customers have enough money to go out and buy your Google Glass, or buy the ads that Google is actually selling with all this stuff. That\u2019s the way they make their money, but it\u2019s insidious, this big California tech concern in bed with Obama. Look at Apple. <\/p>\n

Just two weeks ago, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, was brought up to Congress. Here you have the most profitable business, even more profitable and bigger than Exxon, and they are paying more taxes than any company in America, and yet they\u2019re brought up and made to explain why they aren\u2019t paying more. Now, what that was really all about was, “Hey, you know, you guys are making a hell of a lot of money and you better start spending it here.” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the equivalent of a shakedown. So what happens? What does Tim Cook do? Within three weeks, he hires Lisa Jackson, the ex-EPA administrator, who was one of these Obama people with the fake, phony e-mail address. This woman is an absolute tunnel-visioned environmentalist wacko. This woman believes that humanity and automobiles and carbon and all of the things that constitute growth in an economy are suspects. She criminalizes as much of this as she can. <\/p>\n

She ran the EPA as a rogue administrator. She was issuing her own regulations, her own orders, her own indoctrinations. “To hell with it!” She had Obama\u2019s full support. I\u2019m telling you, folks… Now, I\u2019m not saying she\u2019s an idiot, but intellectually she\u2019s as wrong on what she believes as possible. It doesn\u2019t matter. To her it\u2019s a religious belief. She is a classic, hypocritical leftist. Anyway, what did Apple do? They hired her. To do what? <\/p>\n

Supervise their “green” efforts, because Apple has a lot of data centers to run their iCloud operation and they\u2019re building the world\u2019s largest solar panel arrays in this country, and so Lisa Jackson has been hired ostensibly to offer Apple guidance on how to do it right in terms of the environment. So there\u2019s one example of how Washington works. I hope to hell she doesn\u2019t really have anything to say about what they do with that company, \u2019cause if that happens (sigh), that\u2019d be depressing. Now, Nathan, before you go… Are you still there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yup.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. I have people… You know, Apple has its worldwide developer conference coming up on Monday. Now, let\u2019s be honest. Apple hasn\u2019t had any new products. They haven\u2019t even had an announcement in 210 days.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. They\u2019re very mum on what they\u2019re working on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: People that have iPhones and iPads, they love Apple. It\u2019s almost a cult. But they\u2019re worried out there \u2019cause Samsung seems to have a new phone every week, Motorola seems to have a new phone every week, HTC seems to have a new phone every week. They have all these new features, and Apple hasn\u2019t done anything in 210 days. So there\u2019s a lot of concern.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Without Steve Jobs, they\u2019ve lost their primary innovator. You know, the brain trust, they left. So they are looking for ideas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what\u2019s going on here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But he was a visionary, though.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I don\u2019t think that\u2019s it. Jobs was great, don\u2019t misunderstand. It\u2019s a huge loss. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what\u2019s going on here at all. I just think Apple\u2019s gotten bigger than they ever thought they would get. I don\u2019t think they can meet their demand. I don\u2019t think they can meet the demand for their products.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m still bullish on Apple. I think that the next big thing is gonna be the wearable devices. If Google\u2019s got the glasses, which are kind of funky, the next thing is to be… You know, and I\u2019m old enough to know what Dick Tracy wore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The iWatch, I know. Nathan I\u2019m gonna tell you: I have people who know I\u2019m an Apple fan. They ask, “What do you think\u2019s gonna happen at the developers conference next week?” People who know there hasn\u2019t been a new iPad or a new iPhone are hoping and praying, “Is there gonna be some new gadget?” So what everybody\u2019s looking at is they\u2019re gonna have an upgrade on the software that runs the iPhone and the iPad.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s supposedly gonna have a new look because the industrial designer, Jony Ive, has been put in charge of software design now as well as hardware design, and, if you read the bloggers — as you well know, Nathan — the bloggers hate skeuomorphism. Snerdley, do you know what skeuomorphism is? (interruption) You don\u2019t. Skeuomorphism is on your iPad, the notes application, looks like a yellow legal pad. That\u2019s skeuomorphism. <\/p>\n

The tech bloggers hate skeuomorphism. They hate the game center looking like a green, felt-covered pool table. They hate the calendar with fake leather at the top of it. They hate it. The blogger tech people hate skeuomorphism and they\u2019ve been on the anti-skeuomorphism — I don\u2019t know — crusade for a couple of years. So everybody\u2019s convinced that Jony Ive hates it, too, and he\u2019s gonna come out with a flat, basically black and white-looking operating system. Cleaner. <\/p>\n

People know that I\u2019m a big-time Apple aficionado, and they want to know what I think\u2019s gonna happen at the worldwide developer conference. I\u2019ll tell you right now this is what I think is gonna… Oh, another thing! The Mac Pro, which is their big professional computer for video and film editors? It\u2019s the most powerful computer for it, and they haven\u2019t upgraded that thing in three years. It had a minor speed bump, but it\u2019s not even got the latest technology. It\u2019s three years late on the latest technology. <\/p>\n

So everybody thinks there\u2019s gonna be a new one of those. I was thinking of what all could happen at their developer conference, and I think maybe they might announce a new Mac Pro. They\u2019ll say that it is going to be available later this fall. They won\u2019t specify a date. In September, they\u2019ll say that a configuration of the new Mac Pro that nobody really wants will go on sale in mid-October. They will then announce the configuration of the new Mac Pro that everybody wants will not hit until November. <\/p>\n

Then when it hits in November, it\u2019ll come with a shipping time of three to four weeks. Then when three to four weeks hits, one or two will be available. They\u2019ll say, “Well, we\u2019ve got some shortages due to the unforeseen demand,” and the units will actually ship in mid-December. But at a trickle. Most deliveries delayed until January when the new iPhone 5S will finally be available. The iPhone 5S will be announced in September with ship dates in five to seven days.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll sell five million in the first three days and they won\u2019t any for the next three months. The iPhone 5S will have new quantities finally available in January. It\u2019ll also be delayed, the 5S, because the bloggers will be upset that there\u2019s still too much skeuomorphism in it. So Ive will have to go back to the drawing board to make it flatter to satisfy the tech bloggers. So the 5S and iOS 7, the new software system… Look for nothing before December, is the bottom line here, folks. OS X 10.9, the new software for your computer?<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll announce that and its availability sometime in July.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll ship on February 30th of next year.<\/p>\n

Nathan, thanks for the call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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