Apple's climate change efforts might be based on misguided idealism

CIO ^ | Apr 21, 2015 6:03 AM | By Jim Lynch

[IncPen]

Good to know you approve of it.

Assumes facts not in evidence.

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Shouldn’t Apple go back to doing business in Muslim countries that kill homosexuals?

[winner3000]

For a company that is close to the point of saturation in terms of market share, pissing off a pretty big percentage of current or potential US consumers does not seem like a bright idea. I guess Cook just couldn’t help it. He truly hates Christians and conservatives this much. However the damage won’t show up until it shows up in the stock price based on slowing sales. We’ll see. I’m just glad that he opened his big mouth just before I switched from Samsung to an iPhone. It was a very close call.

[Swordmaker]

For a company that is close to the point of saturation in terms of market share, pissing off a pretty big percentage of current or potential US consumers does not seem like a bright idea. I guess Cook just couldn’t help it. He truly hates Christians and conservatives this much. However the damage won’t show up until it shows up in the stock price based on slowing sales. We’ll see. I’m just glad that he opened his big mouth just before I switched from Samsung to an iPhone. It was a very close call.

Steve Jobs was much wiser than Tim Cook will ever be. He told a Democrat activist that Apple would NEVER make any political contributions to any Liberal or Democrat causes or candidates. When asked why not, he said: "Because half of our customers are Republicans and conservatives and I am not about to piss off half of our customers." It was for the same reason that Apple kept its charitable giving to educational and scientific causes.

However, I disagree that it is close to saturation. Only in the US is the smartphone market getting close to saturation. 60% of the world has never ever been connected to the Internet. . . and 85% of the world's population who have are on either dumb phones or feature phones. Apple is going gang-busters in the rest of the world. It has captured 26% of the Smartphone market in China, 34% of the market in South Korea LG and Samsung's home market!!! India has yet to be touched with only 4% of the phones in india being smartphones. The market is nowhere near saturation for iPhones . . . and the market wants iPhones.

[Swordmaker]

Shouldn’t Apple go back to doing business in Muslim countries that kill homosexuals?

I am not sure it's safe to do business with any country with Muslims majorities.

[Swordmaker]

Tim Cook looks like the guy in the 1984 commercial!

Whaddaya know. You're right! Hadn't noticed that.

[TheBattman]

herein lies the rub...

It would speak volumes more for every company that wants to shout out the “need” to “save the planet”, if those companies would simply take the steps they claim are necessary... all within their own company.

Implement “green energy”, implement massive recycling, implement policies dealing with your industrial waste from manufacturing, etc. That is all wonderful and productive (even if in some ways misguided).

I am an Apple product owner (just bought a new iPad Air 2 after my android tablet crapped out after only 5 months - thanks to a hosed firmware update, and ZERO tech support from the manufacturer). But is Apple following their own rhetoric in their Foxconn production lines in China? Maybe they are (though doubtful, it IS China).

But the point I’m trying to make is - take all the steps you think are necessary in YOUR OWN business, stay out of MINE! Let the free market decide which course is best.

[5th MEB]

The only thing I would do with a brand new Apple computer if you gave it to me, is sell it for as much as I could get and buy a used PC.