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Apple’s Covid-19 Response

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Re: Apple’s Covid-19 Response

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Post by blowski »

stickfigure wrote: post #9
antonzabirko wrote: post #5

Nice! Everyone make sure you get your coronavirus response papers ready! Wouldnt want to be the only person on the planet not talking about how they're handling it!

This really is an underrated comment. In the last 24 hours I've received more than a dozen emails from random businesses that have my email address - many of which I have not interacted with in years - letting me know that my health and safety is their top priority . It's like someone in the marketing department realized "hey, here's an opportunity to send some spam without looking sleazy". It's opportunistic and gro…

Perhaps their support teams are receiving a lot of questions, and they decided to cover them in an email. On the scale of sleazy things companies do, this is on the low end for me.

Re: Apple’s Covid-19 Response

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Post by jbverschoor »

stickfigure wrote: post #9
antonzabirko wrote: post #5

Nice! Everyone make sure you get your coronavirus response papers ready! Wouldnt want to be the only person on the planet not talking about how they're handling it!

This really is an underrated comment. In the last 24 hours I've received more than a dozen emails from random businesses that have my email address - many of which I have not interacted with in years - letting me know that my health and safety is their top priority . It's like someone in the marketing department realized "hey, here's an opportunity to send some spam without looking sleazy". It's opportunistic and gro…

Well. At the same time Apple will continue to pay. Other companies use the moment to fire people.

Re: Apple’s Covid-19 Response

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Post by ehsankia »

blowski wrote: post #10

I wonder which companies will benefit from this pandemic, long-term. If there’s a surge in remote working, for example, seems like that could be good for FAANG, bad for transport companies, commercial real estate, public events. Is there any analysis out there about this?

Streaming sites like Netflix, maybe?

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Post by [deleted] »

stickfigure wrote: post #9
antonzabirko wrote: post #5

Nice! Everyone make sure you get your coronavirus response papers ready! Wouldnt want to be the only person on the planet not talking about how they're handling it!

This really is an underrated comment. In the last 24 hours I've received more than a dozen emails from random businesses that have my email address - many of which I have not interacted with in years - letting me know that my health and safety is their top priority . It's like someone in the marketing department realized "hey, here's an opportunity to send some spam without looking sleazy". It's opportunistic and gro…

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Re: Apple’s Covid-19 Response

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Post by antonzabirko »

stickfigure wrote: post #9
antonzabirko wrote: post #5

Nice! Everyone make sure you get your coronavirus response papers ready! Wouldnt want to be the only person on the planet not talking about how they're handling it!

This really is an underrated comment. In the last 24 hours I've received more than a dozen emails from random businesses that have my email address - many of which I have not interacted with in years - letting me know that my health and safety is their top priority . It's like someone in the marketing department realized "hey, here's an opportunity to send some spam without looking sleazy". It's opportunistic and gro…

Thank you for your support here. I want you to know that I deeply care about everyone who responds to my post. You'll be glad to know that you can keep writing responses from home for the next week. After that the coast should be clear, so I expect you to come in.

-sent from nuclear bunker

Re: Apple’s Covid-19 Response

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Post by kbenson »

debaserab2 wrote: post #7

For a company that literally owns a significant chunk of all the money available in the world, this response seems tepid at best.

More money doesn't always make something happen faster or better. Governments are likely spending hundreds of millions to billions. Even if Apple had committed a billion dollars, would that result in better training, more personnel, more useful medication, medication where it needs to be, better tests, or more testing in the short term?

I suspect the answer is no, because I think those are likely all constrained on the supply side right now and money is not currently the problem.

It's sort of like a disaster happening in the area close to you. Maybe you go to try to donate your time to help others affected by the disaster. Maybe when you get there you see 50 other people standing around twiddling their thumbs because there's more people than they have useful tasks for at the moment. Do you stick around all day with nothing to do so you can say you helped, or do you leave after 30 minutes and promise you'll check back tomorrow to see if they have more use for you then?

Re: Apple’s Covid-19 Response

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Post by klohto »

caymanjim wrote: post #14

Bragging about unrelated topics in the first paragraph, and touting a $15M donation while sitting on $200B in cash. So magnanimous. By the way, get back to work.

Is there a guide on how much are you supposed to give? Would $200B be good enough? Why criticize how much is one giving

Re: Apple’s Covid-19 Response

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Post by ineedasername »

debaserab2 wrote: post #7

For a company that literally owns a significant chunk of all the money available in the world, this response seems tepid at best.

What would be a more suitable response? Giving employees that need to be out of work more money than they usually make?
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