Personally I preferred it when Apple was ran by a guy with more interest in product than social issues, I don't buy Apple because of their politics. It's great that they're nice people but was greater when their focus was on making the best product.
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Apple and Tim Cook Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Personally I preferred it when Apple was ran by a guy with more interest in product than social issues, I don't buy Apple because of their politics. It's great that they're nice people but was greater when their focus was on making the best product.
Stay out of politics and social issues apple, and next time bother to make reference to 10th anniversary of your products. You are a consumer company, not our moral compass .
MLK was a great man, who does not need a consumer company to pretend to care to sell products, he was greater than this
MLK was a great man, who does not need a consumer company to pretend to care to sell products, he was greater than this
Nothing to do with Apple products and King is definitely not my ***** hero either. Cheating on his family with multiple whores, using the n word, His friends Reverend Sharpton, Jackson, all poverty pimps per the definition. Yeah some hero. Next time I want the news, I'll go to Macrumors.com instead of a news website.
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Incredible. Millions dead from slave labor mining Coltan in Congo for iPhones, and Tim Cook awards himself with a halo.
http://europe.newsweek.com/where-apple-gets-tantalum-your-iphone-304351
http://europe.newsweek.com/where-apple-gets-tantalum-your-iphone-304351
They both had a dream.
MLK wanted to end racial discrimination.
Tim Cook wanted to end the Mac Pro.
MLK wanted to end racial discrimination.
Tim Cook wanted to end the Mac Pro.
And do you know how much the King family foundation charges advertiser to license his image? It's just so commercialism, from a guy who did one of the MLK ads and saw the licensing fees ;-(
So your saying it's yet another example of Cook using the Apple name to show his personal feelings about a topic that the company has absolutely nothing to do with. He's getting quite good at that.
I still think it's a mass marketing ploy though because no other giant corporation behaves like this publically.
Ah, you mean "no other giant corporation," like, say Google, with today's doodle honoring MLK day? I could look for more, but I don't think it's necessary, as showing one other giant corporation is sufficient to disprove the claim of "no other giant corporation."
Oh you mean the google home page, like it has done for quite some time and celebrated lots of different events like the Olympics, tell me when exactly was the last time Apple promoted the Olympics on its front page then? Yes Google is different. Apple is just after a quick advertising publicity stunt. You don't go to google to view expensive electronics or watch straps...
Was Luther King June on Sonys front page today, Panasonic, IBM, Samsung???
"However, I'm not sure why anyone would have an issue with pursuing the goal of equal rights, or remembering and honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on this day"
Because they don't believe in pursuing the goals of equal rights or remembering the honor and gift that was Martin Luther King Jr.
It's sad that people like them choose to not pursue the values that everyone should uphold. They are on the wrong side of history, humanity, morality, and love.
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You realize you can move to a state that is more oppressive if you so choose right? I was for freedom so I moved to Texas.
For the record, MLK day is a Federal holiday.
If you think celebrating Martin Luther King is a "direct shot at the incoming administration", then you must have a pretty awful incoming administration. But then of course, you do.
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Fact is that Apple has more done for improving incomes of people in China than any other company. Anyone at their suppliers using child labour becomes an ex-supplier very very quickly. They force companies to repay fees charged by agents (that's something that Samsung sees as a very acceptable practice in Malaysia).
If you care, you might write to Donald Trump and see what he thinks about helping poor people everywhere in the world. Well, they aren't going to vote for him...
You are either totally misreading the article, or this is intentional. Millions died in Congo during a war before the first iPhone was released. Which is an awful tragedy, and using it to further your agenda is despicable.
Apple has ALWAYS paid tribute to great minds of our time...its part of who they are. "THINK DIFFERENT" . This not a political agenda piece. Cook has one but you should know the difference by now.
Mlk "I have a dream, that one day....my fellow Mac Pro users would no longer be discriminated. I have a dream that this skinny tech CEO will learn to upgrade Mac Properly!"
Not good. Was it with milk or citrus? Citrus would be better for the wall.
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The issues you are raising are real and cannot be underestimated. Unfortunately they concern basically all our modern high tech products even including the internet.
And I wish that people who said things like this realized the fact that they sound like racist, uncaring jerks who are against equal rights for all.
But hey, maybe they do.
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It's upsetting and discouraging that people actually have an issue with this... honoring an individual who fought for basic human rights. It's not surprising, though, considering so many people have an issue with ANYONE who does ANYTHING to protest against inequality. The power of ignorance is amazing to me.
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Oh yes. All that money overseas. Because America is obligated to receive the benefit, right? For some random prideful idiotic reason. Not to mention the lost money through the crazy tax rate. That's very obligated.