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So it sounds like Apple and a group of shareholders had fun on Friday,

as had been announced Apple's annual shareholder meeting was held on the 1st of March

at the Steve Jobs Theatre at Apple Park in Cupertino.

Most of the write-ups I saw of the meeting focused on a proposal by the National

Center for Public Policy Research, a right-leaning organization, that would

apparently like to see more right-leaning members on Apple's board.

Fun fact, this is the same organization that at the same meeting five years ago

tried to get Apple to spell out the costs of its sustainability initiatives and to commit to focus on profit over every other consideration.

One wonders which is their greater interest, seeing changes at Apple or seeing their name in the paper.

Whichever the case, Apple had an answer to this year's proposal.

Business Insider was among the sites that highlighted the issue.

According to the piece and his comments later, Cook argued against the notion that Apple should query potential employees or anyone affiliated with the company about their political beliefs.

As a gay man from the South, he learned not to ask people their thoughts on homosexuality

because if he had done that, you don't have a lot of

friends he said I don't check people at the door as to who they are and what they

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