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As I said in my previous post: "There may be a few people who are not able to read and understand what's going on."
How do you acquire a company and steal their tech?
Considering 66% of their revenues come from overseas you should expect them to ramp up spending and hiring overseas. If Apple only operated in the US, they'd be a far smaller company with far fewer employees (American), if they exist at all.
Let me guess, your smartphone is from that other great American company, Samsung? LG? Motorola?
I always choose the Salvation Army, which has minimum administrative costs and are always ready to lend a hand in such situations. Red Cross is heavy with Administrative costs. Just search and see what they pay the head of that organization.
If you must know I have an iPhone SE...the last Apple product I will buy unless they start making better products.
Perhaps stealing wasn't the correct wording. What they are doing is raping company that they acquire. They take all the IP and terminate most of the employees, kill the products, and leave the customers of the company without the product they signed up for. There is rarely an Apple acquisition that is good for the people working for it and customers of the company.
As far as the hiring, someone said they are creating jobs...I said sure, outside of the US. You seem to think I said more than that for some reason.
I would be careful giving The Red Cross any money so freely. Do you all remember the $500 Million lost from the Haiti Relief funds?
http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief
http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief
Seems like all of that has already been posted a number of times throughout the thread.
I read that entire article. Wow never donate to the Scam Cross. The only reason why you hear about them all the time is because they are in bed wasting donated money on promoting these big companies to donate to them.
Then donate directly if you need the whole world to know it was YOU and NOT Apple that gave those 2 bucks. Your complaining here does nothing.
Things of this nature didn't happen a few hundred years ago?
Unless you can cite sources for your information, it sounds like nothing more than classic Apple hate talk.
As for jobs, if you bothered to check Apple's job postings online, you'd know your own post is nonsense. They're hiring plenty of people in the US while companies like Cisco, IBM, HP, Microsoft and Intel are shedding them by the tens of thousands.
You have the best smartphone in its class and you say that unless Apple makes better products you're getting something else? SMH.
Sorry, you sound like you're just trolling and shame on me for biting.
I have no idea where the money ends up now, if I make a donation. It's just a transaction, be its via website or app, apples reasoning which I think you are alluding to, is a cope out .
I was going to donate some money but then I decided to go golfing instead. Seemed like the sensible thing to do.
Maybe because 1) Apple has been a wet towel lately and no one has much of a reason to respect them for their products (though here's hoping for the upcoming MacBook Pros) and 2) the red cross does actually have some cons to it as stated by some other posts.
LOL. You troll my post and then call me the troll.
Okay. Have a good night. (should I cite my sources that its a good night?)
And what does item 1 have to do with the actual topic of this particular discussion?
You've been around long enough to realize most posts get negative comments (seems more lately). Number 1 is just pointing back to the fact that MR forum members aren't really in the mood to support everything Apple is doing.
Right, whether it actually has anything to do with what's being discussed or not. Unrelated emotions over anything else essentially. Certainly been happening more and more over time unfortunately.
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I take it you don't drive or have heating or electricity or running water at your home? The production of any mass utility requires a lot of power which still needs to be generated from not environmentally sound sources. Private companies offset themselves like Apple but when your dealing with national scale infrastructure that is still not an option.
Global warming has happened before on this planet long before we built the wheel and it was followed by global cooling. There is still a strong debate while we have accelerated the process and reducing carbon pollution is essential, this may be part of our planets life cycle.
I do find people blaming Oil companies funny really as before Deep Horizon happened when did we ever hear such widespread condemnation. The real one we should be concentrating on now is Fracking as that will be very bad in the short term over the next few hundred years.
[doublepost=1471761012][/doublepost]Anyway back on topic... I commend Apple for promoting charities and giving when they do to charity. They don't have to by any means.
It is a shame about the Red Cross and the stigma they now carry but that is on them to combat. They still do represent the biggest global symbol or crisis aid relief charity and so that is why Apple promotes them.
Personally I never quite trust big charities. All the Billions that get donated and nothing ever really changes.
But Apple is doing something which is more than a lot of other large companies not just technology ones
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How clever. What are the other bad jokes you have seen here and would like to express them yourself?
How clever. What are the other bad jokes you have seen here and would like to express them yourself?
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