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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
They're a smart business. They're doing things that will keep them in business and encourage future business. Yep, it's a business taking advantage of an opportunity (introducing non-Apple customers to their products, boosting their public image) and ensuring that the staff they need will remain available when they need them.
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Oh, BS - you're just bending over backwards to try and twist anything they do into selfishness. Somehow I don't think that they needed a huge amount of staff on hand to deal with all of the people who decided that a huge natural disaster was the time to buy a mac.
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You've heard the old question "Is it paranoia when they really are out to get you?" Well, is it cynicism when businesses really do have a legal obligation to maximize their value to stockholders, and therefore to take those actions, and only those actions, which do so?
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Companies are not required to only take actions which benefit shareholder value.
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If the employees and management of Apple stood up to their board and their stockholders, and said "yes, this thing we're proposing doing is going to lower the value of the company, but we're doing it because it's the right thing to do" I'd admire them. But doing something that's best for Apple -- doing well by appearing good -- is just business as usual for a global corporation. It's not worthy of any special praise.
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Apple is actually doing good here. The fact that your dislike of the company has impaired your reason to the extent that you can't even see this is sad.