Like them or loathe them, Greenpeace has crowned Apple the greenest tech company again. It seems Apple gets this recognition reasonably regularly from them.
Does the fact that Apple is doing what it can for the environment factor in to your buying decision when you decide to choose a new smart phone or other electronic device?
Personally, it doesn't for me but I do appreciate that others feel very different about the environment.
Well, I am interested, so did a search on the Greenpeace website for 'Apple'.
I think this is purely related to Apple's use of renewables to power their data centres.
So it seems more a question of the environment factoring in to your decision when you upload something to the cloud, for instance. To consider their manufacturing 'green' is ludicrous.
Well, taken from the article, the excerpt gives more information than your interpretation. What I find ludicrous is the extent to which Apple detractors go to minimise the company's efforts.
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The American tech giant Apple is now on the leading position among the worlds major tech companies who have committed to become Green-tech, meaning using 100% renewable energy for everything from running their data centres to the manufacturing of new products, according to the latest report conducted by Greenpeace. The report, which grades some of the worlds top tech companies for their green performance in terms of energy transparency, renewable energy commitments and deployment, and energy efficiency, indicates that Apple leading the pack having achieved 100% green energy. The following infographic made by Juice Electrical Supplies distils the data from Greenpeaces report grading 14 worlds major tech companies on their green performance such as transparency about their energy use, green energy index rating, and usage of coal, nuclear power and natural gas. - See more at: http://www.businessvibes.com/blog/ap....zhJiSnf5.dpuf
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Like them or loathe them, Greenpeace has crowned Apple the greenest tech company again. It seems Apple gets this recognition reasonably regularly from them.
Does the fact that Apple is doing what it can for the environment factor in to your buying decision when you decide to choose a new smart phone or other electronic device?
Personally, it doesn't for me but I do appreciate that others feel very different about the environment.
I feel the same way, OP. That won't sway me to buy or not buy Apple either way. I buy based on products themselves.
Trying to promote a company that wants you to upgrade your phone every year as environmentally responsible, is like polishing a ****.
Apple's the least guilty of this; 3.5 and 3 year old products are getting iOS 8. Before Google started stepping in Android manufacturers would practically NEVER update the OS on their phones (my mom's LG optimus 2x is one of the 5% of Android phones still around on Froyo. She's not going to flash & install a custom ROM. Thanks for nothing LG.).
Don't even get me started on BB who wouldn't update their one and only tablet, and having an app store that is fragmented into three pieces (BBOS, PBOS, BB10). Apple tries hard to keep their old hardware as new as possible through pushed updates which few, if any, of the other tech companies can rival.
I did a paper on Apple's environmental footprint in grad school and got a pretty good mark for it. I concluded that Apple is quite unfairly singled out for their practices when compared to their industry peers they're one of the more socially responsible companies especially since Cook took over and hired the former EPA chief Lisa Jackson to work on their environmental programs.
Apple's the least guilty of this; 3.5 and 3 year old products are getting iOS 8. Before Google started stepping in Android manufacturers would practically NEVER update the OS on their phones (my mom's LG optimus 2x is one of the 5% of Android phones still around on Froyo. She's not going to flash & install a custom ROM. Thanks for nothing LG.).
Don't even get me started on BB who wouldn't update their one and only tablet, and having an app store that is fragmented into three pieces (BBOS, PBOS, BB10). Apple tries hard to keep their old hardware as new as possible through pushed updates which few, if any, of the other tech companies can rival.
I did a paper on Apple's environmental footprint in grad school and got a pretty good mark for it. I concluded that Apple is quite unfairly singled out for their practices when compared to their industry peers they're one of the more socially responsible companies especially since Cook took over and hired the former EPA chief Lisa Jackson to work on their environmental programs.
So, it is good for our environment that Apple have released 7 tablets in the same time frame that RIM/BB have only released one, how exactly?
So, it is good for our environment that Apple have released 7 tablets in the same time frame that RIM/BB have only released one, how exactly?
Had the Playbook had ANY success AT ALL then BlackBerry would have released another. And another. The fact that it was an epic failure is not in any way to be deemed a win for the green movement.
Does anyone really take it seriously that Apple pushes clean energy for their server plants? Let's just accept that these companies are going to be releasing devices yearly anyway...
