Tim Cook Brings Philanthropic Attitude to Apple, Donates $100 Million to Charities

hothardware.com — All eyes are on Tim Cook since assuming the role of Apple's chief executive officer after Steve Jobs' health took a turn for the worse, and now that the co-founder is gone, the world is eager to find out how Cook intends to fill those shoes. Perhaps ironically, Cook has chosen to fill the mighty big shoes Jobs left behind by putting a bigger... Feb 4, 2012 View in Crawl 4

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Tim Cook Brings Philanthropic Attitude to Apple, Donates $100 Million to Charities

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slopduck Feb 5, 2012

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To be fair, the headline is misleading, the $100 million mentioned was donated by Apple under Jobs, he just never announced it or made a big deal about it. The new Cook initiative is the employee match up to $10,000, which is quite something. Still, what this is really saying is that Cook is more concerned with the PR of charitable giving than Jobs was, who felt that it shouldn't be done as marketing ploy.

cranelake Feb 4, 2012

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Maybe he should consider spending some of that on better conditions for the people who make his stuff, so they stop trying to kill themselves?

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elimgarak Feb 5, 2012

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Considering how much bad publicity Apple is getting on that front, I am sure they are in talks right now with their Chinese manufacturing partners about this.

elimgarak Feb 5, 2012