Apple Supports World AIDS Day With Red Logo at Stores and Apple Pay Promotion

[MacRumors]

In what has become an annual tradition, select Apple Store locations are now displaying a red Apple logo in support of World AIDS Day on December 1, such as Apple Nanjing East in Shanghai and Apple Ginza in Tokyo, with other locations likely to follow.

Photo shared by Shanghai Daily via Storeller​

Apple has also announced that, now through December 6, it will donate $1 for every purchase made with Apple Pay on Apple.com, through the Apple Store app, or at an Apple Store in the U.S. to The Global Fund to support the fight against AIDS and COVID‑19. Apple said it will donate a maximum of $1 million through this initiative.

Proceeds from (PRODUCT)RED products will be split between The Global Fund's battle against AIDS and COVID-19. Apple had previously committed to donating all proceeds to the Fund's COVID-19 response.

Apple also continues to sell a variety of (PRODUCT)RED products, ranging from iPhones to Apple Watch bands, with a portion of proceeds from every purchase benefitting The Global Fund. Over a 15-year partnership with (RED), Apple said it has raised nearly $270 million in the fight against global pandemics like HIV/AIDS and COVID-19.

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[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Thank you for your support of AIDS no one does it better than Apple.

 

[HiVolt]

No offense, HIV/AIDS is not a pandemic.

 

[bandrews]

No offense, HIV/AIDS is not a pandemic.

Sorry, missed the bit where they said it was a pandemic...

But pandemic/global epidemic. It's just semantics. It's still a hideous disease that has been around too long. Hopefully now with vaccine trials starting we can start to see the end of it.

 

[RadioHedgeFund]

Thank you for your support of AIDS no one does it better than Apple.

"Give us a bucketload of your cash and we will give the AIDS foundation a tiny percentage of ours,"

- Apple

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

No offense, HIV/AIDS is not a pandemic.

It WAS a pandemic. A friend of mine died from it. Try to be a little more humane... If anything, AIDS becoming a 'manageable infection'. Effective treatments should give everyone hope for containing, and eventually eradicating Covid too.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

"Give us a bucketload of your cash and we will give the AIDS foundation a tiny percentage of ours,"

- Apple

But with the volume of purchases at the stores, it adds up to quite a bit of money. At least they aren't a charity that is using 80% of the donations for first class travel, 5-star accommodations, chauffeured cars, and top grade office space.

 

[gaximus]

"Give us a bucketload of your cash and we will give the AIDS foundation a tiny percentage of ours,"

- Apple

"Give us a bucketload of your cash and we won't give any to AIDS foundation"

- Every Other Corporation

 

[rpmurray]

Apple said it will donate a maximum of $1 million through this initiative.

A million dollars doesn't go as far as it used to. Apple could double it by searching Tim's couch.

 

[B4U]

Now, let's make a PRODUCT RED iPhone 13 pro.

 

[SigurTom]

Do I need to recalibrate my monitor? or is that orange.

 

[HiVolt]

Do I need to recalibrate my monitor? or is that orange.

It only shows Red on a Pro Display XDR or the new M1 Pro/Max.

 

[ScottishDuck]

Having customers donate allows companies to offset tax.

Decline donation offers at stores and donate directly to charitable orgs.

 

[travelsheep]

Not Apple's fault, but should be rightfully called Fauci-Day, to honour and celebrate the central figure of that epidemic.

 

[svish]

Nice that Apple continues to donate year after year

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

"Give us a bucketload of your cash and we won't give any to AIDS foundation"

- Every Other Corporation

"I care about the AIDS foundation"

- corporation with gay CEO

 

[RadioHedgeFund]

Do I need to recalibrate my monitor? or is that orange.

No, but I did take back my 'red' iPhone 12 which was blatently pink.

 

[gaximus]

"I care about the AIDS foundation"

- corporation with gay CEO

Apple was giving to AIDs foundation before Tim Cook was CEO. Also are you implying that non-gay CEOs don't care about AIDs?

 

[SenorWhyMe]

It WAS a pandemic. A friend of mine died from it. Try to be a little more humane... If anything, AIDS becoming a 'manageable infection'. Effective treatments should give everyone hope for containing, and eventually eradicating Covid too.

if only there was a way to not get gay aids hmm

 

[bandrews]

"I care about the AIDS foundation"

- corporation with gay CEO

Says someone obviously unaware how much AIDS impacts heterosexual people in developing nations....

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

It is believed that the new variant came from AIDS victims in South Africa. Immunocompromised people seem to be the pot that new nastiness can come from in the future.

 

[macdos]

No offense, HIV/AIDS is not a pandemic.

Sure it is. It infects 1.8 million people annually. It is the US virus, the GRID virus, wreaking havoc in Africa and other parts of the world. Although the virus arose in Africa, the pandemic originated in America.

However, now covid has killed more Americans in two years than AIDS has in 40 years.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Sure it is. It infects 1.8 million people annually. It is the US virus, the GRID virus, wreaking havoc in Africa and other parts of the world. Although the virus arose in Africa, the pandemic originated in America.

However, now covid has killed more Americans in two years than AIDS has in 40 years.

And the source of the Omicron variant is reportedly AIDS victims in South Africa that can't afford the expensive drug cocktails and meds that infecteds in richer countries have largely taken for granted. Vaccine inequality is the biggest chink in the armor people see vaccines as being. The truth is, the same thing could happen anywhere there are a large population of under, or unvaccinated people. Sad...

 

[I7guy]

Sure it is. It infects 1.8 million people annually. It is the US virus, the GRID virus, wreaking havoc in Africa and other parts of the world. Although the virus arose in Africa, the pandemic originated in America.

However, now covid has killed more Americans in two years than AIDS has in 40 years.

Might as well call alcoholism a pandemic as well.

 

[macdos]

Might as well call alcoholism a pandemic as well.

Alcoholism is not contagious.