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Apple to Donate Up to $1 Million to (RED), Outs New (PRODUCT)RED Gear in Honor of World AIDS Day
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In Africa, it does affect a large number of children via birth. A for effort on the bigotry though.
.... only $1m? They're like the richest company in the history of ever and thats all lol?
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Im not talking about autism at all actually. innocent children in the US don't die from autism.
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I guess i should have been more specific, Id like to see more going to places like St. Jude Children's hospital, who focuses on children's catastrophic diseases.
Yes. It is one of the worst charities you can donate to. Only 1.2% actually goes towards the cause.
Just give the $1 Million dollars Apple! FFS! If you want to support a charity just do it! Why should it be dependent upon customers showing up and using your payment method of choice over certain days dictated by you?
That's not really giving is it? Its not a gift if there are conditions attached. This is pretty blatant corporate propaganda folks. And I expect nothing less from Tim Cook'$ Apple.
Apple will have a good idea how many over-the-counter Apple Pay transactions they'll do in 6 days and I'm guessing it's a lot less than 1 million. They know this but put the $1M headline out there to make it sound more significant and inflate the potential benefit from the good will of customers.
Brands do this sort of thing all the time. Have you ever noticed how many products on the shelf blatantly advertise some sort of charity or environmental cause? They do it not always or necessarily because they care but because it makes good business sense. People are willing to pay more and the difference in price is usually much greater than the benefit the charity receives. So it's basically just clever marketing with a minor associated charitable outcome.
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I think that was intentional. I quite like it.
That's not really giving is it? Its not a gift if there are conditions attached. This is pretty blatant corporate propaganda folks. And I expect nothing less from Tim Cook'$ Apple.
Apple will have a good idea how many over-the-counter Apple Pay transactions they'll do in 6 days and I'm guessing it's a lot less than 1 million. They know this but put the $1M headline out there to make it sound more significant and inflate the potential benefit from the good will of customers.
Brands do this sort of thing all the time. Have you ever noticed how many products on the shelf blatantly advertise some sort of charity or environmental cause? They do it not always or necessarily because they care but because it makes good business sense. People are willing to pay more and the difference in price is usually much greater than the benefit the charity receives. So it's basically just clever marketing with a minor associated charitable outcome.
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I think that was intentional. I quite like it.
It does, but other than that it works just fine
Just have to slide the case off when I want to take a picture, which is a bit annoying, but not as annoying as you might think
That's because there was a lot of pent up whine from the previous story about Apple Music student discount pricing expansion into more countries. Pretty tough to crap on Apple about that.
$1.000.000 or what Apple calls 0.0001% of the monthly dongle revenue.
Personally I try to support local communities and charities and people. This includes buying local produce, supporting local independent businesses. Being good, generous and supportive to friends and family. I support small theatre and the arts. I will buy music from the artist directly and not through iTunes. Etc etc. It feels like we're powerless most of the time but we each make choices every single day. Including where to spend my limited charity dollar.
better to charge me 1 buck less for their products, and I will give it to whoever I want. Like, for example, myself.
My understanding is Steve Jobs didn't want the Apple logo looking submissive within the parentheses and so they just put "product" instead.
Far too common these days. So many charities, upon inspection, are little more than self-sustaining businesses that make little to no progress towards the cause they claim.
It's quite unfortunate.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong
If you have a chance, check out this ted talk about the way we think about charity overhead. TLDR 5% of 10 million is better than 80% of 10,000
If you have a chance, check out this ted talk about the way we think about charity overhead. TLDR 5% of 10 million is better than 80% of 10,000
Did they not just chop down plenty of acres of perfectly healthy trees for their irish datacenter?
No fux were given on Apples behalf...so I guess thats what they mean when they refer to "green energy"...
Change the way we think about charity overhead? You can't even figure out what the overhead of Red is because they don't release their financials and they have zero transparency. It is registered as a LLC and not a non-profit. Very little of the money is actually going to the cause. One article I read calculated it at only 1.2% but accurate numbers are hard to come by due to the way Red was setup:
Cui Bono? The murky finances of Project (RED)™:
http://www.nyudri.org/aidwatcharchive/2009/12/cui-bono-the-murky-finances-of-project-red™
Reassuring Donors and Event Participant Fundraisers Through Transparency: Don't Be (RED)
http://www.event360.com/reassuring-...undraisers-through-transparency-don-t-be-red/
Last I saw a calculation, Apple makes a million dollars about every ten minutes (1/6 hour).
So if someone made $30,000 a year ($15 an hour), this would be like promising to match up to $2.50 in donations.
For Apple, it's got to be the cheapest good publicity they can imagine. And a tax write off to boot.
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I thought the same since many charities are not doing what they are supposed to do especially Clinton Foundation and Gates foundation. I will start to believe them when they sign a check for a well known research facility to combat AIDS and show us how they are helping the cause. People are less and less gullible which is a good thing
Oh let me be clear, I know next to nothing about (red) specifically, but this talk does take an interesting look at the idea of charity overhead.
Ditto with the Trump Foundation. Red Cross and Wounded Warrior as well are charities that come to mind.
To be fair to Apple, the US as a whole did get lambasted when initially, their donations and contributions to aid those devastated by a typhoon in southeast Asia (forgot the name, but this was some time before Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans area) were lower than all the other countries, even those known to be less wealthy than the US. It was only after this "shaming" that US funds soared.
