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Apple Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Its Home Page

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springsup said:
Apple should stop doing this. This man campaigned for equal rights, Apple make computers. There is zero overlap. It's embarrassing.
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While it is true that Apple mostly makes tools for the richest 10% of humanity, you shouldn't distill Luther down to just equal rights. He wasn't a one-issue guy by any means and expressed opinions on many topics (black people should be compensated for things that happened 100 years ago, government should control our population, etc.). These positions were often poorly thought out not unlike Apple's software in the fall. Perhaps that is where the similarity is?
 
gnasher729 said:
Apple should absolutely continue doing this. Apple's company goal isn't making computers. Their goal is to improve the lives of people.
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If Apples goal is to improve peoples lives I'm surprised it isn't doing more with its $150,000,000,000 cash reserve.
 
HenryDJP said:
Really now? I don't see anything where Apple is trying to turn this into a sales opportunity. Oh the humanity on this board. :p
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LOL. This drives traffic to their site where they sell stuff. It gives people the warm and fuzzy about Apple. Have you never heard of subliminal messaging?
 
gnasher729 said:
Apple should absolutely continue doing this. Apple's company goal isn't making computers. Their goal is to improve the lives of people (mostly by way of making nice computers, music players, phones and tablets). Here they found a different way of improving the lives of people.

There is also a big problem that Apple and many other companies like Google, Microsoft, and so on are having: The US government wants them to spy on people, and the companies want to make products that make their customers feel safe from government spying. Just recently Obama said that he believes the companies will do what he wants them to do "because they are patriotic". It is important for Apple and others to build up a reputation as the good guys so they can say believably "no, we are not enabling spying on our customers, and we _are_ patriots). "
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Their goal is to make money.
 
Another thing to point out: while the menu bar at the top of the page continues to show, I found it pleasant that Apple removed all the advertisements on the front page, You can scroll down on the page and there is nothing there.

:apple:
 
We wouldn't have this crap is Steve Jobs was still alive. What does this have to do with making computers and iPhones???
 
proline said:
LOL. This drives traffic to their site where they sell stuff. It gives people the warm and fuzzy about Apple. Have you never heard of subliminal messaging?
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Are you actually reading what you post? How do this DRIVE TRAFFIC to Apple's site? All they did was post the acknowledgment on their website. You might as well blame MacRumors and other sites for putting it out there. I had NO idea that Apple acknowledged MLK until I saw the MR article. If you're gonna be MAD about this (which is ridiculous) then be MAD at MacRumors. Or did you just want to have a reason to talk crap about Apple? Oh yeah, that's probably it. ;)
 
AppleFan360 said:
We wouldn't have this crap is Steve Jobs was still alive. What does this have to do with making computers and iPhones???
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This "crap" is just supporting a good civil rights movement leader. Seriously what is wrong with that?
You people just hate on everything Apple does. If they were to change the color of the logo on their site, you guys would still find a way to hate on them.
P.S. They did this before years ago.
 
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Chatter said:
20 posts in and the bitching is on. How about "holding hands and walking together" or something like that...
Sigh.
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lmao! Never takes long does it. Reminds me of the wrestling chant. Can't type the S word but it works well enough.

"same old ****! same old ****!"

I like the photo they used. Dr. King was a great man. Did a lot to say the least.
 
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AppleFan360 said:
We wouldn't have this crap is Steve Jobs was still alive. What does this have to do with making computers and iPhones???
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How do you know what would happen if Steve Jobs where here?

Secondly and more importantly, Why are you so offended by the background changes on Apple.com?
 
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inscrewtable said:
They also invent drugs to exploit third world countries by selling them items that are illegal to sell in the west, and in their quest for mega millions they inflict untold harm as well, thalidomide rolls off the tongue on this one. I'm not sure why you are searching for a reason to be bitter about Apple. And who is to say what is regarded as 'profound'.
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I'm perfectly aware of the evils of both the pharmaceutical and oil industries. Are you implying that the technology industry is free from comparable evils? Really?

What makes it okay for Apple to use these figures for its own promotion, but tasteless when others do it?

Apple is no better than anybody else. Apple has not done "more good" than anybody else. It is in no way more appropriate for Apple to do this than it would be for BP, Shell, Exxon, Pfizer, Bayer or GSK to do the same.

Just because Apple can say something, doesn't mean they should.
 
HenryDJP said:
Exactly and when you go to work (if you have a job or a career) you're doing to help better the company and humanity......of course your goal isn't to make money, that would be blasphemy.
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Of course my goal is to make money. I'll leave my job tomorrow if someone across the street is paying better.

Apple is benefiting humanity only if you can afford the cost of admission.
 
stewy said:
Of course my goal is to make money. I'll leave my job tomorrow if someone across the street is paying better.

Apple is benefiting humanity only if you can afford the cost of admission.
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You're missing my point entirely. When applying for that job of yours I'm 99.9999% certain you didn't tell them your goal was to make money. You, like anyone else tells a company what they want to hear so you can get the job. You pretend that your best interest is helping to grow the company when it's really about you bringing home a paycheck.
My point was you're judging a company for acknowledging a historical figure when you truly don't know what their motivation was.....or are you just annoyed that the acknowledgement was about a black man, because that's what it really seems as.
 
Keane16 said:
You must be new to Apple. They've done this before.

Nothing to do with computers. It's about people. It's a general good deed. Apple are promoting the good work this man did, nothing embarrassing about it.

If even one kid goes to that page and learns about what he achieved and the change he helped bring, it's a positive.

So sad that even this is negative to some people.
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...and if they go to the page and learn about what he achieved... and then buy an iphone... even better!
 
I'm not a racist but I have to admit, I only came in the thread to read the racist comments.

(which everyone knows/knew the racist comments would be inevitable when it comes to MLK topics)
 
Martin Luther King, Jr. was not just a fighter for the passing of a Civil Rights Act, he was fighting social injustice...and the treatment of people of color in parts of our country at that period of time was not only difficult, it was intolerable. The advancements of colored people in our society since that time has been a topic of discussion (and debate by some), but without a doubt, what MLK pushed for was the right thing, and our country is in a better place now since 1964 than we were before that time...far better. You would have to realize social equality to understand how UNEQUAL it actually was before Civil Rights and see that the opportunities today ouweigh the social problems/consequences that may have been an indirect result of post-Civil Rights America.
 
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