One former colleague from the USA is right now pushing things around at a big university there to have me hired (I'm Romanian) there for two reasons:

1. I'm very good at what I'm doing (and he knows it, having worked with me for 4 years);
2. I'm much cheaper than an USA-based worker.

Now, I understand that the influx of qualified offshore people is putting a rather painful downward pressure on USA salaries and I agree it's regretful. However, yelling and kicking and protesting won't help in the long term. You could, as a nation (sum of individuals) seize one of two choices:

a. isolate from foreigners (impose laws that make it very difficult to immigrate) or
b. accept the change.

Both choices have their own set of disadvantages.
Now, the idea of "cheap workers from a foreign country are crap from a skills perspective" is an idiotic generalization which stems mostly from cultural clashes. In a work environment, mixed teams are a retarded idea. Combine that with under-skilled liaisons (people who should carry work instructions or projects across) and culture enforcement (Kumar from Bangalore would never get "Cowboy Hat Friday", nor would Florin from Romania be willing to spend two hours in a meeting discussing the right way to represent African-American heritage in a picture for the latest product whitepaper) and you're in for a shitty work environment where nobody would feel comfortable being in.

One example I actually lived (generic names are put in for obvious reasons):

John from USA works in a remote support team and hits retirement age. The company decides to offshore his position and hires Pradeep from Hyderabad. Pradeep brings an impressive resume and is quite skilled at resolving his customer's issues. But Pradeep has a bit of MTI (Mother Tongue Influence) and his new customers and team mates aren't used to talking to anyone with a foreign accent. At the same time, the company is unsatisfied with the way the Indian team (supporting Indian customers) is abiding to the work instructions provided, so they send Jack, who's an accomplished, skilled support team manager, to India to "put things in order".
Three months later, it's becoming quite clear that both Pradeep and Jack have failed achieving their assigned goals. Pradeep is miserable at work, customers complain about him being "dense" and unintelligible and his team loathes him. Jack can't understand why his team doesn't like him, can't seem to get his orders across properly and hasn't managed to have them respect the corporate rules.

Lessons learned (in theory, practice sucks and we all know it):
Don't mix teams. Don't outsource the wrong jobs. Don't impose your culture over others.

I don't think you get it.
This behavior happened back in the day and is still wrong.
With that being said, I dislike Apple for many other reasons, this one being just one of those many.

I guess a Wooosh! is in order.
But seriously now, the days when geeks were basement-dwellers who only saw naked women on the Internet seem to be a thing of the past. None of literally hundreds of IT geeks I happen to know fit that particular pattern.

Exactly what happened to me when I tried installing Sacred on my PC years after it was released. I had bought the original CDs and errors galore. Turns out the DRM was unable to work on the newer OSs, so I had to slam a crack in it. After mentioning that on their official forums, a moderator there sent me a PM saying "yes, we know about the issue, no, we can't help you but yes, we're okay with you using the crack as long as you bought the original game".

Just clear the Dalvik cache and it's gonna be fine.

My two boys vocally disagree.

Anecdotal evidence:
I bought a Nexus 7 2012 for my wife exactly the day Lollipop was released. It had 4.1 on it, or something. It offered OTA updates for several versions all the way to 4.4.4 that evening, and 3 days later offered a Lollipop update which I promptly accepted. Went on without a hitch, now she has a great, responsive tablet.

Others might have been unlucky, not me.

You want to play that game?
Fine.
No, you're mistaken.

There, that solves everything.

Ad hominem isn't necessarily involving a person. An entity would suffice.

Neither. I'm a fairly successful employee, considering the country I am from. The only downside is that I was born in what you would call a third world country, and that prevents me from earning what you'd call a reasonable salary.

Which would at least earn them honesty points.

Yes, Yes and I'm not doing it because people in the USA yell off the top of their lungs if a company hires people from outside the 'states.
Disclaimer: I do NOT want to move to the US, so yeah, you'd be safe from getting another filthy immigrant, as they say.

Hell, they could hire me for 50K a year and that way they'll have a 50% salary reduction for that position while I would make 4 times the amount I'm making now, working for an USA-based company.
Batshit crazy, ain't it?

I always thought that transparency should be right there in the banner. "Hey guys, we have 60M worth of assets but we need more because $REASON".

It's the future past tense of the rooted version of "I can haz cheezburger".