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Answers From Steve Jobs at Apple's Shareholder Meeting
DECS writes "At today's Apple annual shareholder meeting, a series of proposals were presented for voting after which CEO Steve Jobs answered a series of questions from the audience. Jobs talked about Greenpeace, stock options, the iPhone, Mac OS X Leopard, and .Mac."
biggleslearnerjmurphy?
Jobs is insensitive to a high degree on this topic. The brand most known for design has done precious little to actually change the way things are made and reclaimed, except in a few instances. It makes more money to use the materials everyone else is using, and spend little on building a complete life cycle unless forced to do so by law.
My sources tell me that in contract mfg that the entire industry has *less* green mfg going on than seven years ago. There is an orgy at the Consumer Electronics Show every year, and no one is pulling the plug on it.
The effects of this aren't seen in adult humans, its frogs, and topsoil, pregnancies, cancers and hormonal effects, not to mention the amount of materials and energy and fresh water consumed. Grim but literally true. Jobs isnt on the same page here.
great - more reality distortion for the Jobs nuthuggers. I love all the positive spin folks are putting on his remarks.
... uh ... Dell? They suck! HP? They aren't doing anything either! Greenpeace? They don't know what they're talking about!"
"Apple is doing a LOT for the environment. Like what? Well
Great response - your critics don't know what they're talking about and everyone else isn't really doing anything. I wonder if Jobs realizes he's pretty much alone on his HP / Dell position (HP currently ranks No. 16 on the EPA's Fortune 500 list of Green Power Partners).
"Stock options backdating? Uh, yeah, the board agreed to give me a bunch of options during my compensation negotiation. I mean, I didn't want the pice to subsequently go up before they could get all the paperwork finalized and award me the options. What? Noooo - that was the board's decision to back-date them to the lowest price in the last 6 months. I didn't want that! Me? No way!!! Well, I guess it helped that the price was going up, but, I mean I didn't want that or the additional several million I made from it. I mean, I didn't do anything wrong. In fact, I didn't even know what was going on. Wait, where am I? Is this my kitchen? Who are all these people?"
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I, too, find it amusing that the approach Steve Jobs takes to understanding something is to 'hire a few engineers.' Wouldn't expect him to know anything at all any other way. The guy is a user going back to the time when he used Woz.
"Nice of him to finally clear the air on the stock scandal and get the whole facts out there."
???? It's one thing to be a fanboy, it's quite another to be naive.
George Bush said we needed to be in Iraq, and dismissed critics who say his policy is flawed. Do you feel he's cleared the air on Iraq and he's gotten the whole facts out there"?
You scare me.
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