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Apple.com Pays Tribute to Al Gore's Peace Prize Win

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Did anyone just go to apple.com? Weird....check it out.

I don't think we'll get a leopard announcement today if this is what's on the front page...
 
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queshy said:
Did anyone just go to apple.com? Weird....check it out.
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Yes it is? Why would they have that up there? Kind of dumb to have on your front page, and can alienate some customers. They should have products up there!

"We are bursting with pride"? :rolleyes:
 
AppleiMac said:
Yes it is? Why would they have that up there? Kind of dumb to have on your front page, and can alienate some customers. They should have products up there!

"We are bursting with pride"? :rolleyes:
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cos he just won the nobel prize and he is on their board of directors!
 
i think Steve and Al are very good friends, this site is viewed by tons of people, so... Al deserves it!!
 
Keep in mind, Al Gore is on the Apple Board of Directors. That explains why he is on their home page.
 
I love how they show Al in front of a picture of a hurricane. Because everyone knows global warming causes more, bigger, nastier hurricanes. That's why we've had so many this season and last, just like everyone predicted.
 
AppleiMac said:
Yes it is? Why would they have that up there? Kind of dumb to have on your front page, and can alienate some customers. They should have products up there!

"We are bursting with pride"? :rolleyes:
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Although I personally think Al Gore is full of crap, I don't think people should be alienated by some Nobel Prize winner a company chooses to recognize on their front page. Yeah, Apple supports Gore, but that doesn't mean they're not still Apple, who has been churning out amazing products for as long as I can remember... (No rants about Al Gore, there's other threads for that!) :D

He's on the BOD? :O Whoa.
 
dokein said:
I love how they show Al in front of a picture of a hurricane. Because everyone knows global warming causes more, bigger, nastier hurricanes. That's why we've had so many this season and last, just like everyone predicted.
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A large hurricane just happens to be a new Leopard desktop picture also.
 
AppleiMac said:
Yes it is? Why would they have that up there? Kind of dumb to have on your front page, and can alienate some customers. They should have products up there!

"We are bursting with pride"? :rolleyes:
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AL Core is on the board of directors of Apple.
 
Mac OS X Ocelot said:
What is up with Apple Hot News posting three articles on Al Gore and his Nobel Prize?
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actually there are seven articles, but i agree apple doing this because you must be very proud if one of your board members won a nobel prize!
 


Former Vice President and Apple Board member, Al Gore, won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Apple.com's homepage updated with a tribute to Al Gore:

Al has put his heart and soul, and much of his life during the past several years, into alerting and educating us all on the climate crisis. We are bursting with pride for Al and this historic recognition of his global contributions.
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Al Gore joined Apple's Board of Directors in 2003.



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AppleiMac said:
Yes it is? Why would they have that up there? Kind of dumb to have on your front page, and can alienate some customers. They should have products up there!

"We are bursting with pride"? :rolleyes:
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They only got into this whole "environment" thing after they got slammed by the environmentalists...otherwise they'd never post something like this.

Sidenote:

I feel so special for having contributed to MR by being the first to post a story :D lol

/Sidenote
 
That's a classy nod by Apple. How many corporations have a Nobel Peace Prize winner on their board? It's also nice "repayment" for the very prominent use of the 17" powerbook in "An Inconvenient Truth."
 
MLeepson said:
The whole Al Gore thing on the front page is prob. just a filler for an announcement image.
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of course not. a director of apple won the nobel peace prize, for heaven's sake. it's nothing to do with a product announcement. if you think that it is, you're too obsessed with apple products.
 
AppleiMac said:
Yes it is? Why would they have that up there? Kind of dumb to have on your front page, and can alienate some customers. They should have products up there!

"We are bursting with pride"? :rolleyes:
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I just threw up in my mouth a little.... :eek:

...and I'm from Al's home state!
 
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