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Apple Donates $8 Million to Chinese Earthquake Victims
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I think that is a wonderful thing that Apple did.
My guess is that they will be repaid many, many times over in many, many ways.
I seem to recall that they also made their stores available as communications centres. After getting their stores back onto the internet system people could show up and use the computers to contact family and loved ones, and catch up on the news. That the stores were kept open all night in some places for people to use the computers.
Because Boston was a criminal act and not a natural disaster? Because as tragic as the Boston bombing was, it pales in comparison to what happens every day in the US? (On the day of the bombing in which 3 people died in Boston, 11 people were murdered with guns in the US) and no one was made homeless in Boston.
All corporate charity needs to be seen with a bit of cynicism, I believe.
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Good on Apple
It's good when corporations donate to people who have lost their homes, their businesses, their schools, their infrastructure, and yes, the lives of family members. The people in the Longmenshan (Dragon's Gate Mountains) have suffered major loss to earthquake in the last 5 years.And it is not just the 2 earthquakes: there are the landslides and floods that follow the quakes. Samsung donated too, in fact more than Apple. Other international and Chinese national companies are donating as well.
It is humanitarian tradition that makes people and corporations donate. I can think of no reason to sarcastically slag those who donate.
It's good when corporations donate to people who have lost their homes, their businesses, their schools, their infrastructure, and yes, the lives of family members. The people in the Longmenshan (Dragon's Gate Mountains) have suffered major loss to earthquake in the last 5 years.And it is not just the 2 earthquakes: there are the landslides and floods that follow the quakes. Samsung donated too, in fact more than Apple. Other international and Chinese national companies are donating as well.
It is humanitarian tradition that makes people and corporations donate. I can think of no reason to sarcastically slag those who donate.
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Samsung beats Apple by donating RMB60million ($9.5 million) on the same day.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/arti...-outshines-apple-sichuan-earthquake-donations
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/arti...-outshines-apple-sichuan-earthquake-donations
I read this then saw under your AV that you're in the UK.
We love a god pothole here.
Sorry to be a realist, but they're developing those markets and this is a headline grabbing good thing, that will have much more impact than an equivalently priced ad campaign.
Edit: still I'd rather their good press be attained by helping those in genuine need rather than by lining the pockets of ad execs.
My country's donation is pathetic.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/s-pore-gives-s-50-000-to-support-disaste/645904.html
FYI, the prime minister earns 2.2 MILLION a year, paid by the public. Compare that to Obama's 400k per year. Yet we only gave 50k to the relief
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/s-pore-gives-s-50-000-to-support-disaste/645904.html
FYI, the prime minister earns 2.2 MILLION a year, paid by the public. Compare that to Obama's 400k per year. Yet we only gave 50k to the relief
Yes, but they donated in Chinese currency, not US dollars. And in Chinese currency the total sum is not 8 )
Yes I second that, Bill Gates and MS contribution to charity on the whole is stupendous.
Just a boring editorial note: The casualties are over 10,000. (Casualty is not synonymous with fatality/death.)
I remember reading a something a while back saying Steve Jobs had a huge problem with donating to any charity or cause. It's a good thing, but I just remember that because he had such a problem with the (Red) products... but he gave in and did it anyway. Does anyone else remember this? I believe it was posted here on MacRumors?