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[TW]Fox;22472124 said:
Yet oddly everyone hates Gates and worships Jobs..
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Jobs was an excellent manipulator, he could achieve anything with mere words and Apple is built on manipulative marketing. I've never fallen for his or Apple's crap, personally.

One example of this is at an old Apple Keynote. He was demonstrating how "awesome" the Mac is with digital cameras. It flopped big time when he tried connecting a digital camera to the Mac, he took the camera and flung it to the hard floor as quickly as possible while muttering something like "stupid batteries", breaking the camera in the process while making it seem as if it wasn't the Mac's fault at all. Obviously the Mac had failed as they couldn't even try camera again even if he wanted as he had smashed it to pieces.

It was IIRC greeted, to my amazement, with a round of applause, as if the Mac was working perfectly.

Brilliant manipulator he was.
 
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They also gave their old house to their next door neighbour's daughter who was having problems raising a deposit for a house of her own. To also add to the above, they have donated money to help with the building of the new Arts Guild Theatre in Greenock.
 
[TW]Fox;22472124 said:
Yet oddly everyone hates Gates and worships Jobs..
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estebanrey said:
This is what I've always found strange. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is raising billions by getting the world's billionaires to give up vast amounts of their wealth. Yet trying searching for charitable work by Steve Jobs and the best you can find is some hardened capatilist arguing the amount of jobs created by Apple is chairtible enough for one man's lifetime.

Yet Jobs is seen as the 'cool' guy and Gates the evil capitalist. :confused:
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Can't agree more.

Gates/Buffet are campaigning to pay more tax & give vast sums of wealth to charity.

Jobs just had a good marketing team, average hardware, mediocre software & inflated priced trendy rubbish Apple gear is.

robgmun said:
I read that Bill Gates intends to give away 90% of his wealth! That a serious crap load of money!!!
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If I remember correctly he's giving away pretty much all of it.

With his children given ownership of a few charities to run.

asim18 said:
Jobs was an excellent manipulator, he could achieve anything with mere words and Apple is built on manipulative marketing. I've never fallen for his or Apple's crap, personally.

One example of this is at an old Apple Keynote. He was demonstrating how "awesome" the Mac is with digital cameras. It flopped big time when he tried connecting a digital camera to the Mac, he took the camera and flung it to the hard floor as quickly as possible while muttering something like "stupid batteries", breaking the camera in the process while making it seem as if it wasn't the Mac's fault at all. Obviously the Mac had failed as they couldn't even try camera again even if he wanted as he had smashed it to pieces.

It was IIRC greeted, to my amazement, with a round of applause, as if the Mac was working perfectly.

Brilliant manipulator he was.
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Also this.
 
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paradisiac said:
Im split on this one. on one hand its really nice of them and they should be commended for sharing their wealth, on the other, there are probably people with more important needs that could have done with the money more. im not saying this kid didn't deserve it any less, but to single out one person and not a charity seems mean on the other people that didn't get any.
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I'm with you on this.
I will always do charity gigs for things like Air Ambulance, Donna Louise, Cancer etc but every now & then I feel I get conned when it is for one person.
The worst one I did (because I didn't ask) was back in the 80s when we helped to raise £1600 for a powered trike because this young lad was going to be in leg casts for 9 months.
I really did want to walk away because I would have preferred to have taken the money to Douglas McMillan.
 
Good on them :).

JBod said:
They often are actually. Bill Gates for example does huge amounts of charity work. On the other hand Steve Jobs never seemed to make any charitable donations.
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The problem is that we only know about Bill Gates because he makes a massive song and dance about it. For all we know Steve Jobs might have been giving away silently for years.

When I give to charity (though obviously not in those quantities!) I don't make a massive song and dance about it!
 
While I think a lot of what they did is fantastic and should be applauded, I don't know how they could find it to make their biggest donation of a staggering £1m to Alex Salmond's party to assist in the campaign for independence.
 
Westyfield2 said:
Good on them :).



The problem is that we only know about Bill Gates because he makes a massive song and dance about it. For all we know Steve Jobs might have been giving away silently for years.

When I give to charity (though obviously not in those quantities!) I don't make a massive song and dance about it!
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Did you know about Gates Academy where 1000s of young people who could not afford to go to Uni state side would receive a full ride, even if doing a medical degree?

Gates has done a ridiculous amount of charity work worldwide for about a decade, and no one paid any attention to him until he said in an interview that his intentions was to give away all of his wealth on various charities and campaigns. The difference even if he did make a bigger song and dance about it, his persona will bring more attention (money) to the subjects he is working on.

The notion that you are somehow more "noble" by giving to charity and then to NOT talk about it to other people and maybe convince them to donate some money themselves serves no purpose but to give yourself some kind of self smug satisfaction.
 
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cu3ed said:
The notion that you are somehow more "noble" by giving to charity and then to NOT talk about it to other people and maybe convince them to donate some money themselves serves no purpose but to give yourself some kind of self smug satisfaction.
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Not just my idea I'm afraid.

Matthew 6:1-4 said:
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
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eddiemcgarrigle said:
They also gave their old house to their next door neighbour's daughter who was having problems raising a deposit for a house of her own. To also add to the above, they have donated money to help with the building of the new Arts Guild Theatre in Greenock.
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Didnt know that. I like these 2 more and more. Im in Greenock. Well I was until I moved to Gourock last month.
 
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