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Goldfinger
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Dec 29, 2004, 04:39 AM
 
Look at apple.com:


Probably the only company in the industry that does stuff like that. Nothing about their own products on the main page.

PS: have mercy if this is timeline material.

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Dec 29, 2004, 04:42 AM
 
I know. Saw that and thought the same.
     
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Dec 29, 2004, 05:20 AM
 
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Dec 29, 2004, 05:43 AM
 
real cool of apple to do it. any other sites? (curious)

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Dec 29, 2004, 07:19 AM
 
Not that I know of... really nice of them to do that though.
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Dec 29, 2004, 07:42 AM
 
That is very cool indeed. I remember them doing something similar after 9/11. With the Apple website being as popular as it is, this gesture is a great help. Meanwhile...
     
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Dec 29, 2004, 07:56 AM
 
Originally posted by joltguy:
That is very cool indeed. I remember them doing something similar after 9/11. With the Apple website being as popular as it is, this gesture is a great help. Meanwhile...
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm
     
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Dec 29, 2004, 08:11 AM
 
Props to Apple
     
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Dec 29, 2004, 09:06 AM
 
smart move. will give them mor bisness.

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Dec 29, 2004, 09:07 AM
 
double props to apple

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Dec 29, 2004, 09:13 AM
 
www.amazon.com

They've got a Red Cross image front and center of the home page. But Apple is really impressive - they totally eliminated any self-promotion on the front page items and just have individual links to aid organizations. Nice job, Apple, I'm impressed.

On a side note: how does one contribute to these organizations and know the money is really getting to the victims? I'm always hesitant to donate because I don't know if my money will really make it to the hands of the victims. Anyone very familiar with some of these groups, and have opinions of how they do business?
     
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Dec 29, 2004, 09:34 AM
 
very cool of them. proud to be an apple owner
     
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Dec 29, 2004, 09:46 AM
 
Guess I missed whatever was on the page. What exactly was there? any screenies ?
     
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Dec 29, 2004, 09:47 AM
 
Originally posted by cSurfr:
Guess I missed whatever was on the page. What exactly was there? any screenies ?
Edit: Stupid proxy server had the page cached. Very classy thing for Apple to do
     
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Dec 29, 2004, 09:51 AM
 
I just saw this myself this morning. It shows Apple as a company with compassion.

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Dec 29, 2004, 12:10 PM
 
Originally posted by Peter:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm
That's all well and good, but the point was that Apple changed their main page and Microsoft did not.

I don't care what the Gates Foundation does. It would be a nice gesture if Microsoft did the same as Apple.
     
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Dec 29, 2004, 12:20 PM
 
I wonder why it is on amazon.com and not .ca.......Same with Apple.ca
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Dec 29, 2004, 12:22 PM
 
It's now on the German Apple site as well.

http://www.apple.com/de/
     
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Dec 29, 2004, 03:38 PM
 
Remember Microsoft always lags behind Apple. It'll take em a few days to update their page if they are paying attention.

I'm very impressed with Apple either way. They took down the product ads from their site and have all charities and that takes a lot of class and compassion.
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Dec 29, 2004, 03:48 PM
 
Originally posted by wdlove:
It shows Apple as a company with compassion.
How?

I'm not saying its not a nice gesture, I just don't see it as a measure of their compassion.
     
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