Is it fun to just make up all the arguments on your own? How about you respond to what I actually said instead of your fantasy fanboy drivel? "They are doing it too!" stops being a legitimate excuse sometime in grade school.
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Apple and Employees Give $2.6 Million to Charity Through Donation Matching Program
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Is it fun to just make up all the arguments on your own? How about you respond to what I actually said instead of your fantasy fanboy drivel? "They are doing it too!" stops being a legitimate excuse sometime in grade school.
Just what I would expect you to say. Carry on. If you don't understand it, there's no point in me trying to explain. I don't want to be accused of taking the thread off topic. My opinion stays the same. I think it is pathetically cheap of a company the size of Apple to be so poor at charitable contribution.
I wonder how much Apple donates to charity as a whole (not just this one program). Would be interesting to see that number. $2.6 million is pretty much nothing as far as corporate generosity goes. Example, Valero Energy 23x smaller market cap then Apple donates between $6-7 million per year to various children charities.
http://www.valero.com/NewsRoom/Pages/PR_20110915_0.aspx
http://www.valero.com/NewsRoom/Pages/PR_20110915_0.aspx
Keep in mind that the $2.6 million ($1.3 million from Apple) was based on two months.
and yet it is still chump change for Apple. Also chances are the money was retro active threw the entire year. Just means people turned in the paper to match.
Standard pratice in most companies on that policy is as long as everything is turn in during the year it was done they will cover it.
So it more that in 2 months that is how much paper work was turned in and still Apple has a way to go to just to get to pathetic amount for a company the size of Apple.
Yep. So?
Thank you for the speculation. Not sure how it changes what I said.
"Pathetic" being your own opinion based on an undisclosed and unjustified moral standard.
I'm just curious - why are you so often contrary just for contrary sake. If someone says blue - you say "why blue."
You've done it quite a bit in this thread and others. So I'm genuinely asking what, if anything, you're trying to accomplish?
Accomplish? This is a forum. I'm trying to have a discussion. Part of an interesting discussion to me is questioning assumptions.
Why do you spend so much time commenting on posters rather than the topic of discussion?
It really simpler than that. To a lot of people like BaldiMac apple is infallible therefor anything that is contrary that is wrong and BS.
That's just crap. I don't believe anything of the sort. Stop pretending the world is populated by stereotypes.
That's not a fact. Nowhere did he state that he believes the world is populated by stereotypes.
See how that works.
Quoting myself (yet again), because I feel that unless someone answers this question, passing judgement on Apple is foolish.
All hegemony companies should do this at least, of which Apple is the epitome.
That is government's responsibility. These are elected officials who are there to serve those who put them there. If they do poorly, they're out. It isn't ideal, but the basis for its existence is sound vis-a-vis those in need.
On the other hand, you can make more elements of society beholden to powerful corporations.
The situation isn't as simple as you think.
do·nate
1. to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause.
Apple's charity program is a scam.
The purpose of a match is to give a dollar-to-dollar increase to the charities. Apple is not doing that.
If you read the whole article, you'll see that Apple's $1.3m match is not going to any charities. It's going to be used to internally promote the program. They are paying themselves, if you will.
"The $1.3 million matched so far is being used by Apple to internally promote the program and solicit more donations."
The employees could have donated directly to the charities and the charities would have received the same amount they are receiving with Apple's program. Instead, Apple gets good PR for what their employees are doing without having to donate anything.
1. to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause.
Apple's charity program is a scam.
The purpose of a match is to give a dollar-to-dollar increase to the charities. Apple is not doing that.
If you read the whole article, you'll see that Apple's $1.3m match is not going to any charities. It's going to be used to internally promote the program. They are paying themselves, if you will.
"The $1.3 million matched so far is being used by Apple to internally promote the program and solicit more donations."
The employees could have donated directly to the charities and the charities would have received the same amount they are receiving with Apple's program. Instead, Apple gets good PR for what their employees are doing without having to donate anything.
In other words, you never let ANYTHING go and you always have to have the last word no matter what. Even the moderators telling you to shut it doesn't do any good.
I read that as if it were:
"Apple is promoting the program by advertising that fact that Apple has added $1.3M - doubling employee donations."
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That may be the worst understanding of anything I've ever seen on this forum. And there are many candidates.
Dream, if you contribute more than 1.3 million to charity, then I will listen to you...if not...then shut your mouth. I would be suprised if you donate anything to charity.
well um 0.006% of the earnings of a person making $50,000 a year is about
0.00006 x 50,000 = $3.
I'd say almost everyone donates more than that to charity, if donations through all sources are counted.