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One-of-a-Kind Products Designed by Jony Ive and Designer Marc Newson Sold Off at (RED) Auction

Charity is good. If the money donated was unfairly accumulated, charity is one way to get some of it back.

Even in the most mythical societies money is always going to be accumulated by those in power.

Some thief stole a credit card and bought some iToys of course, but also gave some money to the Red Cross!
 
I'm confused

I recently cleaned up a bit and donated a bunch of stuff to Goodwill. In exchange, I got a tax receipt. What most of you are saying here is I could actually go out and buy stuff, and so long as the money supports a charity I can get a receipt for that too? Even if I'm getting something in exchange for my money already?
 
scoobydoo99 said:
Not at all. It's absolutely true. Enslaving the working class and looting the world's natural resources to become obscenely wealthy is disgusting. Tossing a few coins back at charity auctions does not absolve the injustice.
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Well… I had a long, thoughtful reply, but the commenting system just ate it. It suffices to say that the current situation with the US government is a pretty good demonstration of why this kind of viewpoint will rarely lead to any actual progress towards a solution.

Please, MacRumors, this is why down-votes are a good thing. Judging from the responses there are at least as many people who disagree with this comment as there are who have up-voted it. I really don't need to see shallow, hateful statements like this showing up as top rated comments.
 
HiRez said:
What's odd to me is the 77. I mean you are already up around a million dollars, are they really upping bids in thousand dollar increments at that point?
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Yes. Rich people didn't get rich by wasting their money. Unless you win the lottery, then you'll probably blow through it all in a couple of years and be poor again.
 
lol..RED auction.... oh man, that's good..

I still reckon these should be sold on the Online Apple Store and in Retail stores in multiple colors...

Everyone would rather have a Red Mac Pro on their desk..... wouldn't they?

It would complement the Gold iPhone.
 
Insane how much money people have to spend. I applaud them since it's for charity, but man that's crazy.
 
MacRumors members never fail to be negative. What's wrong with you people? Don't be mad be glad! (Before I get happy people mad I should make it clear that not all of you are pessimists here some of you are capable of generating a smile)
 
JAQ said:
You don't get to be that wealthy by thinking about others. People who care about the wellbeing of other people would never stockpile that much before putting it to use for benevolent purposes. It would burn a hole in their conscience.
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You must not buy Apple products then, right? Because if you did you'd be giving money to multi-millionaires who in your mind are evil and should give all their money away, because there's no need for anyone to have that much money.
 
This thread is what's wrong with the internet/world. Geez.

Somebody bought something at a charity auction. I doubt anybody bitching in this thread can/would donate that kinda money.
 
2ms said:
There's way too much self-congratulatory attention to Apple design the last couple years. I think Steve must have kept a lid on things and now that he is dead people have been taking a lot of liberties. Apple doesn't have the class that they once did. The design of their products has gone downhill a lot. iOS7 would have never been approved by Steve. None of the current iPods would have been approved by him. The quality of OSX has even gone downhill, as I have had far more issues with it on my Retina MBP in 1.5 years than I did in all the rest of my 8 years of using Macs put together.

It's all just very disappointing. Seeing a company lose what was great about it. All for ego. That's how things appear, at least. This "Designed by Apple" and all the talk about the individual people who work within the company. It's just low class. The products aren't as good as they used to be, yet instead of working on that, you've got all this other kind of famous celebrity brand name designer crap.

Apple, get your act together if it's at all possible. Maybe it isn't without Steve. Maybe you guys needed him to make the right decisions. But you gotta try, because things are coming apart.
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Spot on, 2ms. Apple needs to get back to basics. My BC devices are much more stable and useable then what is being cranked out now.
 
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2ms said:
There's way too much self-congratulatory attention to Apple design the last couple years. I think Steve must have kept a lid on things and now that he is dead people have been taking a lot of liberties. Apple doesn't have the class that they once did. The design of their products has gone downhill a lot. iOS7 would have never been approved by Steve. None of the current iPods would have been approved by him. The quality of OSX has even gone downhill, as I have had far more issues with it on my Retina MBP in 1.5 years than I did in all the rest of my 8 years of using Macs put together.

It's all just very disappointing. Seeing a company lose what was great about it. All for ego. That's how things appear, at least. This "Designed by Apple" and all the talk about the individual people who work within the company. It's just low class. The products aren't as good as they used to be, yet instead of working on that, you've got all this other kind of famous celebrity brand name designer crap.

Apple, get your act together if it's at all possible. Maybe it isn't without Steve. Maybe you guys needed him to make the right decisions. But you gotta try, because things are coming apart.
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Sorry, but what makes you think you know what is right for Apple? The CEO? :rolleyes:

For you to say Steve would have never done this or that is absurd as it gets. You're just assuming and speculating. You didn't know the man, nor do you know what he would've have done. From what I've read, he was convinced many times to accept a product when he was against it.
 
QCassidy352 said:
we get angry rants about "the 1%" from the "Occupy" folks. Truly baffling.
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Why is it baffling? By your own logic 99% of the posts here should be 'angry rants'.

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Kissaragi said:
Mods should probably just lock the thread before it gets any worse.
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Yeah - free speech should be blocked if it doesn't conform to your opinion.
You want biased open forums? Go live in China.
 
Coming soon to a crappy financial analyst article headline near you...

New Apple Mac Pro Doomed: sells single unit opening weekend!
 
Parkin Pig said:
Only the stupendously wealthy can afford to spend cash like this to buy one-off trinkets to impress their friends.
Good cause? Call me cynical, but isn't it the greed of the stupendously wealthy that causes the uneven distribution of wealth that leads to poverty and hardship in poorer parts of the world (devastation of rain forests for cattle raising, abuse of workers for cheap electronic manufacturing, private ownership of freshwater supplies etc).
The 'saintly' folk who bought these goods will no doubt get a massive tax break on these charitable purchases, and alleviate any guilty feelings (if they are indeed capable of such an emotion) connected with the origins of their income.
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Depends. Did the people who bought these take unfair advantage of the environment?

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Parkin Pig said:
Yes, I'm fully aware that there are wealthy philanthropists in the world, but I find it unlikely that those are the sort of people who would pay 1 million dollars for a red pedal bin full of microchips.
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And wealthy people who founded or invested in companies. You know, those things that employ workers and provide products.
 
Good cause and everything, but anyone else think the table is pretty generic?

And the leica looks like a toy in this redesign.
 
iBug2 said:
Does that mean that someone out there has a working new Mac Pro before Apple actually released that thing? I wonder which model it is. For that kind of money they should have maxed out the thing.

And I think Apple should sell a RED version of their mac lines. I'd certainly buy a RED nMBP instead of black if it was available.
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Probably only loaded with 3GB of RAM and. 250GB hard drive. :p Hope Apple doesn't get any ideas about increasing their MSRP prices now lol!
 
2ms said:
iOS7 would have never been approved by Steve.
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Finally someone said it. There are way too many jerks here who would (and will) give you crap for saying something paraphrasing "Steve would never allow this." If they presented iOS 7 to Steve, it would end up in the biography as one of his rage moments.

"It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better." Looks like they took the easy way.

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Parkin Pig said:
Yeah - free speech should be blocked if it doesn't conform to your opinion.
You want biased open forums? Go live in China.
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All forums are biased in that they don't want you to go off-topic, as you and others have done. I'm guilty of that too.
 
And here goes again the old adage: We be things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

The only difference is that the buyers in that auction did have the money. Still, they bought things they didn't need to impress people they don't like.
 
Rocketman said:
I am waiting for the guy to post unboxing photos to MacRumors. He has the first MacPro in the wild!

Rocketman
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Are you kidding? I bet the box is never opened. Cutting the packing tape would reduce its value as a collectable. This box will be shrink wrapped and packed in a crate and kept in a vault. I doubt it will be set on a desk and used for day to day computing.
 
Some of the comments on this thread disgust me. Charity auctions raise a TON of money and do it by making charity a social event for the rich. You're taking an item that is worth significantly less, allowing people to bid on it which raises the value through the roof and donating that to charity. How is that a bad thing?

All of you on your high horses thinking you should dictate how someone should donate their money to charity should post what YOU do for charity and how YOU spend money on it.

Yes, an item is involved but it doesn't mean thats always the case. Lots of famous people do charity auctions (since they raise awareness to a cause) and still spend tons of their own money on the side doing humanitarian stuff.

People are donating their money that they can easily keep for something that is a good cause, if someone finds that appalling then they're the ones with the problem not the people who bid on an item that probably won't even use.
 
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