Are the displaced jobs located overseas? Not all of them certainly, but not everyone has a new job to move into in the same company or even the same industry after things change. What does the displaced worker do? Most likely they will move into a new type of job or a support role to the new efficient process.

- like Charlie’s Dad in Willy Wonka who gets a job repairing the machine that replaced him in the chocolate factory.

Certainly it is good to know where the work is going.

Thanks for commenting Seth!

Interesting topic, Dan, but I think you’re fundamentally wrong if you mean to say that technology results in fewer jobs. In fact, there are far more jobs now, with more technology. The jobs, however, have shifted to the electronic companies that create the technologies that replace people. Rather than employing people in an assembly line at a car factory, the jobs have shifted to the robot manufacturer that makes the machines that assemble the cars. Although there may be a net loss in this line of work, the efficiency is greater, and is passed to other parts of the economy in lower prices, leaving more disposable income for people to spend on other items, such as iphones. Technology is not new – it is simply relative to the time. Technology has been putting people out of work for years, but the creation of companies and jobs in new technological fields have been putting them back to work.

That being said, I can totally understand why someone would push for a more open platform than a proprietary one. If Apple still makes the best product for the job, then I think they will continue to thrive.