'It's a little gadget, but it costs a lot and it seems that everybody has one. When you do the multiplication, it's going to matter.' He estimates that iPhone sales are adding one-quarter to one-third of a percentage point to the annualized growth rate of the gross domestic product."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/your-money/when-iphones-ring-the-economy-listens.html
Awesome!
Apple: The American Icon.
Google: An evil company collecting people's information and selling it for/through ads, as its ONLY income source. Hot Air of nothing. Android is its three legged dog designed to COLLECT USER INFORMATION" for sale. The more Android crap out there, the more sheep off the information to Google to make money. But it's going down.
Previous evil company: Microsoft. We all know how that's turned out. From one Zune to another.