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  • NBQ001

    Apple will help fund the rebuilding of Notre-Dame de Paris, says Tim Cook: https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/16/a…

    So many rich individuals and corporations donating huge sums. I must agree it's rather weird that they come forward now and not as much when it's about other issues.

    • https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
    • yep. didn't see apple offering to rebuild glrenfell towershapesalad
    • despite people losing their homes and some slowing being cooked to death.shapesalad
    • * grenfell towershapesalad
    • I guess it looks good to donate Money to rebuild a church, when most people in Europe are not religious...shapesalad
    • I'd like to see them pay their billions in taxes. Spending a few million is a nice, cheap, pr bumpformed
    • set was so right yesterdayBennn
    • Apple has been considered a philanthropic leader for a couple of years now. Mostly toward education, though.monospaced
    • Masons, unite.pablo28
    • good for Apple pr. if Notre Dame is to be rebuilt, let Japan do it. It will be perfect.imbecile
    • I wonder if Apple negotiated a way to get an Apple Store inside.monospaced
    • all PR -umbee54
    • Pay it forward.umbee54
    • You think they will sell more products and services because they will help rebuild and restore Notre Dame?monospaced
    • only you said that.imbecile
    • People are without clean water in Flint Michigan, Hundreds are living in horrible conditions in Puerto Rico. Fuck'em, let's rebuild a church.jmckinno
    • +1000 jmckinno, couldn't agree more_niko
    • but let's take it further and raze every fucking church, mosque and synagogue on the planet and replace them with schools, tech hubs, art studios, music studios_niko
    • even just green space and maybe this planet will be better. but no, let's build temples to our idiocy. My imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend_niko
    • ...and I'll fucking murder you if you don't agree._niko
    • @imbecile, I was asking because umbee54 said it was "all PR," which made me wonder: to what end? sales?monospaced
    • Notre-Dame de Paris = 1
      Flint, Michigan = 0
      utopian
    • all press is good press. they're just keeping their name in people's mouths. coat-tailing tragedy with a drop in the bucket donationimbecile
    • There has been a lot of bad news around Apple lately, so yeah, good timing for some super cheap, super valuable PR. It'll go down in history books.formed
    • Housing the homeless in SF won't.formed
    • If there was bad news about Apple recently, it didn't seem to affect their sales or their stock price at all. Not sure they needed any good PR, but okay.monospaced

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