[Swordmaker]

a good analysis of the Tempest in a teapot Cook v. NCRPP controversy over Return On Stockholder Investment by someone who "gets" it —PING!

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[Swordmaker]

You were asking for some different explanations of Cook’s answer? Here ya go. . .

[Usagi_yo]

Just as a side note I noticed this tidbit:

“The other shareholders clearly agreed that such issues should continue to motivate Apple’s actions: 97 percent of them voted against the original proposal that the company should not take regard of these matters.”

The vote count is utterly meaningless, Proxies are granted by negative affirmation That means that if the share holder does not actively assert his voting privilege by voting somebody else will vote for him by proxy.

[TruthFactor]

Apple as a company has every right to run itself as it wishes within the law. And Tim Cook’s point about investors getting out of the stock if they don’t like the way it’s being run makes sense. The rub is that these so called green policies are based on a government-facist scheme called global warming/cliamte change, and many of Apples loyal investors know it and don’t like it.

[Caipirabob]

Apple's Tim Cook is a raving, financially suicidal loon.

A business that alienates the people most likely to be able to afford their overpriced product? SELL! SELL! SELL!!!!!!

[Republicanprofessor]

What about the landfills where all these products will end up? Don’t batteries leak and cause horrible damage? All these libs buy all these pads, pods and Mac computers and they never think about the final dump destination.

Or is there a “green” disposal that I have not learned about yet?

[TheCipher]

Notice how they no longer refer to it as global warming, but climate change. Hard to refer to it as global warming with Niagara Falls freezing over. Thus they can have it both ways with climate change .

[harpu]

Tim Cook is steadily showing he real liberal colors that will ultimately lead to turmoil in his MAJOR investor base.

Don't know when it's going to bite 'em in the ass but it will happen! Cook ain't no steve Jobs!!

[minnesota_bound]

Apple is only concerned about the sustainability of Chinese workers as they keep leaping off the roof the plant where the Apple products are made!

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Star Traveler]

I don’t agree that Anthropogenic Global Warming is any kind of real science, but at the same time, I have no problem with Apple or Tim Cook and his comments - in terms of me getting an iPhone or iPad or Macintosh ... etc.

[ctdonath2]

Apple is sitting on >$100B cash.
They’ve got ROI nailed.
Doing the right thing works.

The twit who challenged Cook about ROI seemed more intent on promoting anti-environmentalism, which is not a conservative value. (Wanton destruction of nature is no better than wanton destruction of humanity.)

And going off-grid IS a conservative value, as it reduces impact and increases independence.