These are questions that have almost created an online movement —
Boycott Apple.
I say it is time gamers
boycott Apple until they have to sink into red ink.
After Apple refused to help the FBI, Trump tweeted to his followers to «
Boycott all Apple products until such time as Apple gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical Islamic terrorist couple from Cal.»
Trump's comments about immigration and encryption, his call to
boycott Apple products, along with his personal attacks on Amazon.com (amzn) CEO Jeff Bezos have all been seen to hurt his standing with tech sector voters.
«
Boycott Apple until such time as they give that information,» Trump was quoted by Reuters as saying at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina.
People across the U.S. are planning to
boycott Apple and Amazon products and services on Thursday over their relationship with the National Rifle Association (NRA).
He also said he would force Apple to make iPhones in the United States, has threatened Amazon with an antitrust investigation and proposed
boycotting Apple because of its standoff with the government over encryption — none of which won him friends in tech.
Not exact matches
Neither
Apple nor Amazon immediately responded to a Fortune request for comment on the
boycott.
Trump has done the same to
Apple, dinging it on the making of its popular products outside of the U.S. And he also called for a
boycott of
Apple after it refused to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
Trump also called for a
boycott of
Apple following the company's refusal to aid the FBI in breaking encryption on the iPhone used by the San Bernadino shooter.
As many of
Apple's products are assembled in China, this move could cause disruptions to the supply chain and could spur other penalties such as
boycotts.
Faced with
boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike,
Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.
Trump called for a
boycott of
Apple products earlier this year after the company declined to provide the FBI with security - weakened software to help crack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
Opponents of the National Rifle Association are organizing a
boycott of
Apple and Amazon on Thursday to protest the inclusion of the NRA TV streaming - video channel on the companies» services.
At the time several brands were caught up in short - lived protests and calls for a
boycott, including
Apple.
Despite Cook's recent political activism, he is unlikely to host an event for Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, who called for a
boycott of
Apple products back in February.
After
Apple declined to help the FBI crack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, Trump called for a national
boycott of
Apple products.
In February 2016, President Trump called for an «
Apple boycott» until the company agreed to help the FBI unencrypt San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone.
Trump has trained his rhetorical fire on the entire tech industry, but he's singled out
Apple for a
boycott.
At one point in early 2016 Trump even called for a
boycott of
Apple unless the company helped the FBI break into the iPhone of a San Bernardino shooter.
Celebrity activist Alyssa Milano is calling on her three million Twitter followers to
boycott Amazon,
Apple and FedEx for one day, in hopes it will pressure them to break ties with the National Rifle Association.
This movement started when the
Apple iPad originally came out and famously
boycotted Flash due to security issues.