Apple to Donate to Hurricane Michael Relief Efforts

[I7guy]

Evacuation orders provided, some people disregard. People are choosing to gamble their fate. I feel sorry for those who did evacuate and lost a great deal. I believe you are misinterpreting what I am saying.

Taking from Peter to pay Paul. I commend Apple for donating and I am sure the Executive team have made non-disclosed donation to many of these efforts, however every little bit helps. Doing a little bit for being a well recognized global player is like basically lip service.

I’m the context of your posts lip service is better than no service. I’m hoping others step up to give the same lip service as Apple. Of course there are those who deride the donations while probably at the same time avoid any donations of their own.

 

[C DM]

If you look for it, you can find many donation by Pepsi / Exxon / The Home Depot Foundation / The Starbucks Foundation / Lowe’s / United Airlines and such (all the majors do, and many small companies do it , even if only for tax deductions....), they just do not make a fuss like Apple does..

I don't disclose if I do and how much if I do donate, that does not prove anything.

EDIT:
Just because it is not on paper (or screen) doesn't mean it did not happen, and just because it is (on screen) does not mean it did happen!

Apple makes a fuss about it?

The $200 BILLION dollar company that I run pledges $1 MILLION dollars. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the nice applause, but it's really not necessary.

So better not to donate?

 

[Bustycat]

Did you donate anything?

I have donated for people in the Phillipines and Fiji before and I’m seriously considering donating for India this time if the situation becomes worse.

 

[kdarling]

If Apple gave nothing there would be no criticism so if you object to the amount they give then you give the same percentage of your income after tax etc as they do........!

In other words, if your salary is $100,000 per year, then you would donate about $1.37 to be the same percentage of your net yearly income, as $1 million is from Apple.

And be sure your donation is covered by all the news media.

 

[C DM]

In other words, if your salary is $100,000 per year, then you would donate about $1.37 to be the same percentage of your net yearly income, as $1 million is from Apple.

And be sure your donation is covered by all the news media.

And still $1.37 won't do nearly as much as $1,000,000.00 would (while $1.37 is still more than nothing).

 

[Laird Knox]

To all those complaining about a Twitter post making a fuss, take a look at some of the donations made for Hurricane Harvey (too early for Michael).

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ane-harvey-relief_us_59a52b10e4b050afa90c6fed

If you'll notice most of those links go to each company's press release about the donation. Way more company cheer leading than a Tweet.