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Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight
An anonymous reader writes Apple will donate a portion of their sales from online and retail stores on Cyber Monday and Black Friday as a contribution to the worldwide fight against AIDS. Apple kicks off a two-week fundraising campaign for RED, the charity started by U2 lead singer Bono and Bobby Shriver. It includes 25 partnering app-makers, from Angry Birds to Toca Boca, which will donate all proceeds from purchases of their apps or in-app upgrades. In a statement, Apple CEO Tim Cook said: "Apple is a proud supporter of (RED) because we believe the gift of life is the most important gift anyone can give. For eight years, our customers have been helping fight AIDS in Africa by funding life-saving treatments which are having a profoundly positive impact. This year we are launching our biggest fundraising push yet with the participation of Apple's retail and online stores, and some of the brightest minds in the App Store are lending their talents to the effort as well."
They've been doing this kind of promotion for years. They introduced the original RED iPod when Jobs was still in charge.
At least put some thought into your crappy trolling efforts.
So much negativity and cynicism here. /. backlash if, say, Ubuntu would do a similar effort this week?
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You can always try what my family is doing which is skipping the whole damned mess. I mean for the love of FSM now everybody is doing it on Thanksgiving day? DaFuq? I sat my family down and asked them a very simple question.....do we REALLY need more electronic crap? They took stock of all the TVs and laptops and desktops and tablets and phones we have and decided nope, not really.
So the only electronic thing being gotten this year is the youngest is getting an octocore because his quad has been getting unstable (and he hates having less than me and his big bro who both have X6), but since it was getting unstable I done let him have his early, got it for $109 3 weeks ago on a pre BF sale. The rest decided they'd rather have non BF stuff, books for mom, 10 pounds of Hazelnuts and Brazil nuts for dad ("They never put enough ^%*&^%*& decent nuts in the damned can!") and for the oldest? Dining gift cards so he can take one of the various women he dates out to eat.
So no more stupid Black Friday bullshit for us, the sock drawers are loaded full of electronics as it is!
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I disagree. Jobs did a lot and didn't take credit.
Apple is, and has been, the greenest computer company on the planet. They just didn't advertise it until the green peace terrorist started lying about it. Apple, under Jobs, did many good things, they just didn't use it as PR. They used the user experience as PR.
Yes, there are a lot of issues with Apple.
Jobs was a hippie.
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So what? They are giving money to help fund the finding for a cure of a disease. Why isn't that good enough? Would you rather nothing was given?
Is you life so disappointing to you that you need to attack groups that are trying to do some good?
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