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Tim Cook mumusangano neMutauriri weImba John Boehner muna 2012.

Apple CEO Tim Cook ane nzira yakasiyana kune dzakawanda nzvimbo kupfuura akatangira Steve Jobs, uye Washington, DC, kumusha kuhurumende yeUnited States uye masangano ezvematongerwo enyika anokosha, hazvina kusiyana. Pasi pehutungamiriri hwaCook, Apple yakawedzera kukurudzira.

Cook akashanyira guta guru reUnited States, uko kambani yeCalifornia yaisawanzoonekwa panguva yeSteve Jobs, muna Zvita uye yakasangana, semuenzaniso, Senator Orrin Hatch, ari kutora chigaro cheSeneti Finance Committee gore rino. Cook aive nemisangano yakati wandei yakarongwa muDC uye haana kupotsa Apple Store muGeorgetown.

Kuvepo kwaTim Cook muCapitol hazvishamise tichifunga kuti Apple iri kuramba ichiwedzera kune dzimwe nzvimbo dzekufarira, izvo zvinouya nekuwedzera kufarira kwevamiriri vemitemo veAmerica. Muenzaniso ndeye Apple Watch, kuburikidza iyo Apple ichaunganidza data pamusoro pekufamba kwevashandisi.

Muchikamu chekupedzisira, Apple yakakumbira White House, Congress nemamwe madhipatimendi gumi nematatu nemasangano, kubva kuFood and Drug Administration kuenda kuFederal Trade Commission. Kana tichienzanisa, muna 13 pasi paSteve Jobs, Apple yakatsigira chete muCongress uye mamwe mahofisi matanhatu.

Apple's lobbying chiitiko chiri kuwedzera

"Vakadzidza zvakadzidzwa nevamwe pano pamberi pavo - kuti Washington inogona kukanganisa bhizinesi ravo," akadaro Larry Noble weCampaign Legal Center, isingabatsiri mari yezvematongerwo enyika. Tim Cook ari kuyedza kuve akavhurika nevakuru vehurumende uye kurerutsa chinzvimbo chake panguva yeApple's boom.

Kunyangwe mari yeApple mukubiridzira ichiri kushoma kana ichienzaniswa nemamwe makambani etekinoroji, inopetwa kaviri huwandu uchienzaniswa nemamiriro ezvinhu makore mashanu apfuura. Muna 2013, yakanga iri rekodhi 3,4 mamiriyoni emadhora, uye gore rapera haifaniri kunge yakaderera.

"Hatina kumboshanda zvakanyanya muguta," Tim Cook akadaro gore nehafu rapfuura kune maseneta avo vakabvunzurudza mumamiriro ezvinhu emutero wekubhadhara mutero. Kubva ipapo, mukuru weApple akaita akati wandei akakosha kutora izvo zvinozomubatsira muWashington.

Anga achibata nenyaya dzezvakatipoteredza kubvira 2013 Lisa Jackson, aimbova mukuru weEnvironmental Protection Agency, akatangawo kutaura pachena nezvenyaya iyi. "Tinonzwisisa kuti tinofanira kutaura nezvazvo," akatsanangura panguva yemusangano weCommonwealth Club muSan Francisco.

Amber Cottle, aimbova mukuru weSeneti Finance Committee, anoziva Washington zvakanyanya uye iye zvino anotungamira zvakananga hofisi yekukurudzira kuApple, akauyawo kuApple gore rapfuura.

Nekuwedzera kwekuita, Apple ingada kudzivirira kunetsana nevamiriri vepamusoro veAmerica uye zviremera mune ramangwana, senge nyaya hombe yekukwidza mutengo wema e-mabhuku kana kuti zvakafanira bhadhara kutenga kwevabereki, izvo zvakaitwa nekusaziva nevana vavo muApp Store.

Apple iri kutoshanda nesimba pamwe neChikafu neDrug Administration, iyo yainobvunzana nayo pane zvimwe zvigadzirwa zvayo zvitsva, senge nharembozha dzehutano, uye yakaratidza itsva Apple Watch uye Health app kuFederal Trade Commission mukudonha. Muchidimbu, iyo kambani yeCalifornia iri kuedza zvakajeka kuve yakanyanyisa kuita kuitira kudzivirira matambudziko anogona kuitika.

Kunobva: Bloomberg
Photo: Flickr/Mutauriri John Boehner
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