Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews
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Re: Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews
#2Hang on a minute. I've reverse-engineered icloud and I have personally verified that it is hosted, in significant part, on AWS and Azure.
Is Apple buying some kind of carbon offset? Or has Greenpeace gotten the information wrong? Or did things change in the year or so since I looked at this?
Re: Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews
#3Hang on a minute. I've reverse-engineered icloud and I have personally verified that it is hosted, in significant part, on AWS and Azure. Is Apple buying some kind of carbon offset? Or has Greenpeace gotten the information wrong? Or did things change in the year or so since I looked at this?
... or does Greenpeace have a clue what they're talking about?
Re: Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews
#4Hang on a minute. I've reverse-engineered icloud and I have personally verified that it is hosted, in significant part, on AWS and Azure. Is Apple buying some kind of carbon offset? Or has Greenpeace gotten the information wrong? Or did things change in the year or so since I looked at this?
When did you perform that verification? I know they started out by hosting storage chunks on AWS and Azure in 2011, but they have massively increased their own data center capacity since then.
Have you reverified recently?
Re: Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews
#5Slacktivism at its finest
Re: Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews
#6I can't see how this makes Greenpeace look good and Amazon look bad. After reading this, Greenpeace looks like a bunch of ignorant thugs, and Amazon seems victimized. How could this possibly be more effective than a boycott?
Re: Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews
#7Once upon a time I used to think Greenpeace stood for something, wanted to make a real change in the world and then they go and pull crap like this. Sorry Greenpeace, but this is just plain childish and in the end, does very little to bring attention to your plight and just makes you look bad.
There are worse things happening in the world than Amazon not running green data centres...
Re: Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews
#8Nuclear is dirty now?
Re: Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews
#9Hang on a minute. I've reverse-engineered icloud and I have personally verified that it is hosted, in significant part, on AWS and Azure. Is Apple buying some kind of carbon offset? Or has Greenpeace gotten the information wrong? Or did things change in the year or so since I looked at this?
When did you perform that verification? I know they started out by hosting storage chunks on AWS and Azure in 2011, but they have massively increased their own data center capacity since then. Have you reverified recently?
And "how" was it verified? When Apple was building a large datacenter in North Carolina[1], a lot of local techies were saying it was for 2 purposes -- Siri and iCloud. Granted, that was the popular technology at the time for Apple, so it may have been inferred knowledge, and not directly stated...
I also wouldn't be surprised if they used AWS/Azure for load balancing, geodns, routing and simple filtering before actually being tunneled in to their datacenter.
[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/25/apples-icloud-reig...
Re: Greenpeace deluges Amazon Fire Phone with one-star protest reviews
#10It should surprise no one that Greenpeace, also, is an ideologically corrupt organisation only interested in filling the pockets of those at the top via fake promises of rainbows and the voluntary work of those at the bottom.