If anyone could figure out a system to let its investors cast their proxy votes online, you'd think it'd be Apple, right?

Not so. Ed Foster tells the tale of a reader who gripes that Apple, who "brought us such breakthroughs as the Macintosh, OS X, the iPod and now the iPhone, seems to be the only company in the U.S. which uses a proxy voting service which can't deliver materials in a timely fashion. ... Even Microsoft, using the Swiss cheese of operating systems, is able to deliver their investor materials on time!"

Before you write this off as a one-time snafu on Apple's part, the reader adds: "P.S.: This is the fourth year in a row I've tried to get some help from Apple and/or InvestorVote.com to resolve this problem."

Visit the Gripe Line and "cast your vote for the technology company that acts like you're not even on the map."

Posted by Caroline Craig on May 8, 2008 09:06 AM