If you're doing charity you are not going to second guess the motives of your donors. You can't afford that, and you know very well that you don't have the right to be the moral judge of anyone. You care about the organization and the cause(s). Your point is useless.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Auctions Apple HQ Charity Lunch for Fourth Year in a Row
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If you're doing charity you are not going to second guess the motives of your donors. You can't afford that, and you know very well that you don't have the right to be the moral judge of anyone. You care about the organization and the cause(s). Your point is useless.
It depends, as of today the bid is at $135,000 or the equivalent of 6,500 $20 tickets. That's a lot of tickets and we don't have the final amount yet.
In addition, not many non-profits allow raffles and lotteries due to strict IRS requirements and many organizational issues. The organization I am serving on the board does not allow them (bylaws) due to some complexities, but we're going to have a silent auction this Friday.
I truly believe Apple thinks it is what customers want. Their metrics show people buy the base model, but don't want to spend the money for the next level. And they [Apple] thinks its not much of a jump. I call bollocks of course, but I really believe Apple thinks this.
Even ignoring the charity angle, if you had the money, can you think of a more cost effective way to possibly influence Apple products and have some questions answered? Sure, you could take out a full page ad in the New York Times calling out Apple, but that would just annoy Tim Cook. This is your chance to reach the level of a tweet by Taylor Swift.
Haha that's why you've got to time it after you're done eating, but with enough time left for it to be obvious he wants, not needs to run, to another meeting!
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The optimist in me wants to believe that, but the cynic also finds that they are so intent on maintaining high profit margins and given their extremely high customer satisfaction rating, figure they can afford to gimp their products in terms of storage. That and by offering quadruple the storage for just another hundred dollars on a $650+ purchase, I can see how they look to tempt customers to spending more on what they should be getting for less. I think both POVs are accurate in Cupertino and with them combined have reinforced that 16GB be the entry-level position for years now