Y could Apple not "invest" in US manufacturer? Maybe pay a company with better working conditions here in the United States to manufacture their parts?
Still not enough profit margin?

Guess I'm really old-fashioned, still an American trying to buy American, (when I can.)

For folks waiting for specific features, I understand your frustration with GIMPs development pace. Open Source projects often stutter and stumble, sometimes they even seem to disappear; so let's not forget the bottom line: A lot of people have been able to do things with images they could never have afforded to do if it were not for the GIMP. Viva la GNU Image Manipulation Program! (catchy :)

Market is what creates this. I was from upstate NY, smaller recyclers went out of business due to large one that takes in all donations/recycles, strips parts to sell on ebay, then dumps the rest out of country. They made money off sales, pay next to nothing to dump. This killed off legit recyclers.

See this video clip from Stargate "heroes" episode about the importance of freedom of the press: The guy BLASTS the camera crew for turning off camera... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVV-Pi9gviE

Likely true -- but I was just joking as to an appropriate size of such a "fine", that it would be massive, as is the US debt...

If the EU can fine a US company for what amounted to unfair business practices, what should the US do to China? Debt? What debt?

Faster, more secure,lower memory usage.
That's what they should work on and would make it even more popular.
Why waste their time making it more boated and vulnerable
to hack/attack. (Integrating with OS cannot help but do this...)