p2pnet - rss feed: Apple iPod recycling plan
p2pnet.net News:- Aiming to get people off its back for its poor environmental record, at the same time trying to boost sales, Apple has introduced a national iPod ‘recycling’ program.
Steven P. Jobs recently tried to defend Apple’s disposal record, and other environmental concerns, when a group of people disrupted a shareholders’ meeting at the Apple HQ in California.
He objected to Apple being singled out, calling it ‘bullshit’.”
Apple has been having battery problems for some time and is just now settling up for complaints vigorously expressed in 2003 which claimed it had misrepresented the iPod battery life.
Now, “Customers who return a music player to one of the company’s 100 retail stores across the United States will get 10 percent off the purchase of a new one,” it states, pledging to “dispose of all the iPods brought in for free”.
To be eligible for the offer, people must bring in a standard iPod, an iPod Mini or the photo version, and use the discount the same day.
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See:-
Apple - Apple Announces Free iPod Recycling Program at US Retail Stores, June 3, 2005
vigorously expressed - Apple to pay up on lawsuits, p2pnet, June 3, 2005
June 4th, 2005 at 1:01 am
“He objected to Apple being singled out, calling it ‘bullshit’.” ”
Progressive companies are supposed to be just that…progressive. And, this should be in all aspects of business, not just the buzz of marketing BS and over-priced hype there Stevo, you should be leading the way in renewing the resources you use to manufacture your questionably over-priced over-hyped technology (which by the way is as safe as it is b/c it’s based on C-Berkley BSD re: Apples OS - yah you really innovated there Steve) and not try to deflect the critiques by all of sudden lumping yourself in with the rest of the hurd…after-all, isn’t that the antithesis of what Apple stands for, schmuck.
TT
June 4th, 2005 at 2:12 am
so true is sad