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Apple Has Raised $65 Million for (Product) RED Fight Against AIDS

Apple has over $100 billion in equity and they can't even afford to donate 0.1% of it to charity.
($65 million is 0.065% of $100 billion)
 
cclloyd said:
I thought the numbers would be much higher than that...
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Agreed...

$65 million is nice...it would be interesting to know what "the portion" is that Apple contributes.

It's been 7 years roughly so that is about $10million a year Apple is giving. Maybe we could assume 1 million RED products sold so that would average about $10/unit. If 2 million RED units, that would be $5/unit per year.

As of Sep 2012, Apple sold more than 350 million iPods plus about 20 million iPods in 2013 so far...not all iPods are available in the RED program but roughly there have been about 370 million iPods sold...maybe we get really conservative and say only 100 million iPods have been sold since the RED program...and then really conservative again and say only 10% of that are RED devices which means 10million RED iPods....which would be $1/unit donated per year.

Not bashing...just throwing out some math to ponder. At the end of the day, it's all for a good cause and still $65million total from Apple. Too bad Apple didn't have an additional donation where the consumer could ALSO donate say $5 while purchasing his/her RED device on top of the Apple donation.
 
carfac said:
seems like there are better charities to get this work done than something that gives less than 20% to its end recipients...
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You should look closer into the whole fundraising industry. 20% is like four times the going rate, even for something that has no actual product, just purely rounding up donations.

Meanwhile, Product (RED) products are generally the exact same price as the non-Product (RED) ones, but companies like Apple and Nike still have to develop and manufacture them.
 
iGrip said:
What color did Steven Colbert use in he Wrist Strong campaign?
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Red

DisMyMac said:
Maybe.



Well, the idea is that you can't just let the color be. You must do something about the "problem".

Pink is red + white... I'm not sure what to say.
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Oh OK, to each their own, I personally just never saw it that way. I always saw the particular colour as something to rally with, something easy to identify. I never assosiated the charities colour of choice as the disease, but as the organisation itself.
 
Love the (Product ) RED items with my Black iOS devices. They really pop against the black. The best thing is that all 4 devices are the same shade of red.

iPhone 5 with the new iPhone 5S case
iPad 4 with the red Smart Case
iPad Mini with the red Smart Cover
iPhone 4 with the red number
 
KWTA said:
A great idea to raise funds for AIDS victims in Africa but the main problem is the Catholic Church's refusal to push condoms and as Bono is a catholic I can't see him telling the Pope he's got it wrong. Very sad situation but we all have to keep putting pressure on the church to admit their mistake. Ideology should not come into the equation when lives are at stake.
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Because people who ignore Catholic teaching on sexual ethics won't use condoms because that's a sin. Makes sense.
 
vpro said:
Umm. Last I did my research, there are a lot of cures out there. How is raising money going to fight against AIDS? That is so absurd. What is with the phrasing "fight against" - it isn't a fight it should be re-worded, raise money to cure, these cures take a lot of money and time so it needs to happen ASAP for so many who are suffering. A lot of AIDS patients I know, who are also personal friends, are not fighting for their lives, they are moving on with their lives and need the cure NOW.

We are a virus on planet earth and there is a fight out there to get rid of us, I don't see anyone raising money against that - hahahahahahaaa.

Hah, fight against AIDS, bah! There are cures, this bright red shiny fruit company should know that.

I wanna see stats of how it is helping patients directly, all this $$$, where is it?
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If there's a cure, I'd love you to tell me where it is. My friends would be very thankful to you!

The money is mainly used to bring medicine and medical aid (in relation to HIV-positive patients) to countries and areas in Africa (and around the world) where there is no coverage. I have no numbers or "proof" that the money is spent as it's promised but I assume it doesn't go into some evil, heartless, greedy millionaire's pockets.

DisMyMac said:
There is an obvious widespread campaign to associate bad things with the color red. It's brainwashing.
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It's not brainwashing by some evil company, it was an awareness project that started with those people effected. The ribbon came from imitating the yellow ribbon used to support the Vietnam veterans and the color red was chosen for blood and passion.

It was then hijacked in response of the support the Visual Aids artist group received from supporters around the world.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3250251.stm
 
vpro said:
Umm. Last I did my research, there are a lot of cures out there. How is raising money going to fight against AIDS? That is so absurd. What is with the phrasing "fight against" - it isn't a fight it should be re-worded, raise money to cure, these cures take a lot of money and time so it needs to happen ASAP for so many who are suffering. A lot of AIDS patients I know, who are also personal friends, are not fighting for their lives, they are moving on with their lives and need the cure NOW.

We are a virus on planet earth and there is a fight out there to get rid of us, I don't see anyone raising money against that - hahahahahahaaa.

Hah, fight against AIDS, bah! There are cures, this bright red shiny fruit company should know that.

I wanna see stats of how it is helping patients directly, all this $$$, where is it?
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There is a number of drugs out there fighting the symptoms, but there is not an actual cure (ie a treatment that would allow to get rid of the virus and live on drug free). But I agree, with this medication a more or less normal live is possible nowadays .. at least in the first world. In Africa however a lot of patient have no access to these expensive forms of treatment, which is why the virus is spreading a lot faster in Africa.

That said .. I would thought that they came up with more than that to be honest. 65m over 7 years doesn't sound like a ton to be honest, but than again .. it is 65m for a good cause.

T
 
A better cause would be a fight against malaria, tuberculosis, dehydration/hunger, poor hygiene and the list goes on...then its AIDS. It's just best to claim AIDS is the root of it all because that claim generates billions of $$$.
 
epictempo said:
A better cause would be a fight against malaria, tuberculosis, dehydration/hunger, poor hygiene and the list goes on...then its AIDS. It's just best to claim AIDS is the root of it all because that claim generates billions of $$$.
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There's always a "better" cause, no matter what cause to which you contribute.
 
epictempo said:
A better cause would be a fight against malaria, tuberculosis, dehydration/hunger, poor hygiene and the list goes on...then its AIDS. It's just best to claim AIDS is the root of it all because that claim generates billions of $$$.
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Yes. Throwing 'medicine' at africa is a nonsense. In the West, death from common infectious diseases was already declining as more people had good diets, good shelter, and good sanitation. Life expectancy rose as awareness grew of the dangers of workplace pollutants in large industries. While medicine played a part, the legwork was already done by rising living standards by the time many major discoveries were made.

There's nothing to suggest medicine alone can replace good living standards.

Phillantropists and big business could do far more good overall by helping countries build sewers, good shelter, good water supplies, etc. than by feeding them wonderdrugs. With this is place, the hopelessness of everyday life is decreased, aspirations are formed, a middle class develops, war and conflict doesn't seem as attractive anymore.
 
epictempo said:
A better cause would be a fight against malaria, tuberculosis, dehydration/hunger, poor hygiene and the list goes on...then its AIDS. It's just best to claim AIDS is the root of it all because that claim generates billions of $$$.
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You may have noticed the other charities tackling these other issues, theres a small one called the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation for a start.

RED started out to focus on AIDS and will continue to do so. If they spread their money everywhere then nothing would get done.

No one but you claims AIDS is the root of everything. Certainly no one sane.
 
tatonka said:
There is a number of drugs out there fighting the symptoms, but there is not an actual cure (ie a treatment that would allow to get rid of the virus and live on drug free). But I agree, with this medication a more or less normal live is possible nowadays .. at least in the first world. In Africa however a lot of patient have no access to these expensive forms of treatment, which is why the virus is spreading a lot faster in Africa.

That said .. I would thought that they came up with more than that to be honest. 65m over 7 years doesn't sound like a ton to be honest, but than again .. it is 65m for a good cause.

T
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There are a few instances out there of people being apparently cured, but they're unusual cases, and they're recent enough that nobody knows if it was an actual cure, or just beat the virus down to the point where it can't be detected, but it's still there and will come back. A couple of the methods are promising. Others are more risky than living with the disease.
 
Apple doesn't have an App that fights AIDS yet? I thought there was an App for everything. :p
 
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