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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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I know. Saw that and thought the same. 
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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real cool of apple to do it. any other sites? (curious)
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No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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Not that I know of... really nice of them to do that though.
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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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Props to Apple
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smart move. will give them mor bisness.
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waky waky!
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double props to apple
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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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very cool of them. proud to be an apple owner 
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Guess I missed whatever was on the page. What exactly was there? any screenies ?
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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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I just saw this myself this morning. It shows Apple as a company with compassion.
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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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I wonder why it is on amazon.com and not .ca.......Same with Apple.ca
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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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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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apple rocks
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Originally posted by i_rooster:
smart move. will give them mor bisness.
Oh yeah, Macs are gonna start flyin' off the shelves because of this..
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Originally posted by Daracle:
I wonder why it is on amazon.com and not .ca.......Same with Apple.ca
because the sites for the different country's are not updated at the same time. they are updated one after the other. Its only a matter of time.
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Originally posted by joelcpa:
Oh yeah, Macs are gonna start flyin' off the shelves because of this..
I dint meen this kind of adverticement will help make produkts fly off the shelf i jest ment that it will give them more bisness, more bisness means just "more bisness" not necessarilee super saels!!
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Originally posted by ironknee:
apple rocks
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Never forget 
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Originally posted by i_rooster:
I dint meen this kind of adverticement will help make produkts fly off the shelf i jest ment that it will give them more bisness, more bisness means just "more bisness" not necessarilee super saels!!
*Resists urge to criticize spelling*
This certainly was a classy thing for Apple to do.
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Apple ROCKS!!!! This company gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.
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Cool! I always get the Ausw�rtigen Amt
calendar from the Guthe Institute. I really didn't know what their mission was until now.
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What a nice thing to do.
Well, I guess its time for me to follow by example. Probably should donate some money now.
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I've always thought of Apple as one of the least evil tech companies out there. Some times a bit antisocial with some things, and arrogant as all get out... but they're a good company.
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Originally posted by funkboy:
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?
Well, obviously the charity foundations are all over that, but not all the money they will be getting because of this will go there. I'm sure they will do everything they can, but they can't spend all their money on this, they need to save it for future disasters too. I heard the the IMF or World Bank may clear some of the nations debts too, which on a personal level is cool, but sucks in a political way or something.
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Originally posted by TubaMuffins:
I heard the the IMF or World Bank may clear some of the nations debts too, which on a personal level is cool, but sucks in a political way or something.
Why would it suck politically?
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because old bushie wants to keep the american money in america.
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Originally posted by Person Man:
Why would it suck politically?
it was late and i couldn't think, i meant it wouldn't be good for world economics, to just erase debt would throw things askew.
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I actually think this is a lot more impressive than Best Buy
http://jeremycamp.com/
Perhaps some of you might consider this just bad web design but you can barely tell he has a site besides it. But either way I'm very impressed with one of my top two fave music acts. He's a great guy, talented musician, and all around good guy.
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