It will be better if 1 mil from Tim Cook, and Apple matches his donation with another mil. That is 2 mil dollars.
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Apple Donates $1 Million to Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Efforts in Indonesia
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If you own a business and hired someone to manage it. this business makes 200K$ a year of profits. this manager decided on his own to donate 40K$ to charity. how do you feel as a business owner?
Just a general FYI, as someone who has worked peripherally in the non-profit space, processing, distribution, management and handling of too much funding sometimes leads to problems. i.e., it likely wouldn't even be advisable for Apple just to toss $xxxM at the relief effort even if they wanted to.
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What part of Apple is owned by shareholders do you not understand? In essence, "Apple" can't give our money away.
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Yes I’d understand your concern and I hope your girlfriend & their family is okay!
You should be grateful that Apple was kind enough to donated $1M, I’m sure Indonesian government and another country will also donate some more money.
I think I had a brainfart.
My apologies.
Hahaha, well, I can appreciate your emotional intensity, given your experiences, sometimes those extra clarifications in a post aren't noticed once you get fired up
I think everyone should do a little bit of research first before they start their bickering on amounts being pathetic. Do you think Apple has only donated to this? Apple has probably donated tens of millions of dollars in 2017 alone. Last year for Hurricane Harvey and Irma they donated over $10 million. Apple has contributed over $130 million over the course of 10 years, that's $13 million every year just on fighting HIV/AIDS. I think it's very short of pathetic whether they donated 1 dollar or 10 million to any cause (they don't have to it's not an obligation), it's the intent and the promotion for others to do the same what matters because I don't think Apple needs any more publicity for itself.
It’s pathetic when ppl always want to tell others, or companies, what to do. Regarding money or whatever.
Go do it yourself besserwizzers, instead of getting upset what Apple do or not do.
They don’t hear it, nor care about what you think. They have their policies, of whatever tax reasons they probably have.
They simply do whatever they want to do, of whatever reasons they have.
Not my concern what Apple do, except whatever it is they do these days re phones and computers.
If they donate xxx $£€ or whatever, it’s fine. If they don’t, it’s fine with me too.
We’re all compassionate people. But blaming others for not doing enough is not the way.
We are also free people
Go do it yourself besserwizzers, instead of getting upset what Apple do or not do.
They don’t hear it, nor care about what you think. They have their policies, of whatever tax reasons they probably have.
They simply do whatever they want to do, of whatever reasons they have.
Not my concern what Apple do, except whatever it is they do these days re phones and computers.
If they donate xxx $£€ or whatever, it’s fine. If they don’t, it’s fine with me too.
We’re all compassionate people. But blaming others for not doing enough is not the way.
We are also free people
Ooohhh, ohhh...and $2M would be even better. And $4M even better than that! How about $8M?
How do you know what Tim does on his own time?
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They CAN'T give sums that exceed anything even somewhat large because Apple is owned by shareholders who want a return on their investment.Thank you Apple.
Yes, they could have given more but it's a good gesture. Let's appreciate that. Also if you want, you can personally donate to make up for Apples.
Anyways, let's hope it reaches the needy.
The SHAREHOLDERS own Apple, so any donation is PURELY optional. We don’t want Apple donating our money and they have a responsibility to create shareholder value, NOT prop up charities.
Of course, those saying not enough probably are not donating anything themselves.
Apple is just a company, not a government. They don't actually have to donate anything but they have donated $1m which is better than donating nothing. It is not Apple's responsibility to provide disaster relief. Say for example they donated $100m for this, what do they do when there is another disaster somewhere else in the world? Do they have to donate another $100m to that cause? If they don't match it, they will get criticised. It would set an uncomfortable precedent for a company which is in the business of making profit.
I think a lot of the blame has to go to the Indonesian Government for the amount of people that have been killed because they have not maintained the Tsunami Early Warning System which has not been working as designed since 2012! This was a disaster waiting to happen but the consequences to human life could have been somewhat mitigated.
I think a lot of the blame has to go to the Indonesian Government for the amount of people that have been killed because they have not maintained the Tsunami Early Warning System which has not been working as designed since 2012! This was a disaster waiting to happen but the consequences to human life could have been somewhat mitigated.
I will conform to the typical approximation Apple PR of us herds and say
“Wauwhoopsygeemygoddnessgeeman, 1 mio. That’s more than I get in my lifetime.”
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You’re partly misinformed. The warning system (as far as there was) was reset upon the volcanologists’ advise of no tsunami danger
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I came here to see people complain how little a million dollars is for Apple.. I was not disappointed.
As long as Donations are going into the hands of the actual PEOPLE who need this relief I'm all for Apple and any other company doing so.
LOL... Thats not how it works...
Your charity is tax deductible. That does not mean you save money by charity. You have to pay all the charity money to avoid paying taxes on it.