maestro64

sounds like Apple heard all the screaming.

ppietra said:

maestro64 said:

This is called using regulations to harm your competitors. So Apple is all about more regulations since they already know their competitors are not doing the same things as Apple and Apple know there is this push to force pensions plans to only invest in companies that meet certain green goals. 

This is no different than Amazon lobbying for $15 minimum wage because they know smaller companies can not afford this and will eventually fail.

This is only about reporting not about changing how companies do business, and if you had taken time to actually read everything you would have noticed that it was the SEC that asked for opinions on this matter, it was not Apple that started the discussion, Apple only gave its own opinion.
If anything it would be about marketing, and considering that almost every Apple competitor in the field is claiming some sort of environmental goal/achievement, it would just make the claims more transparent.

I understand what is happening, this about forcing companies to do things the government really does not have authority to do, so they are using the SEC to force companies to report their activities. We saw the same thing with Conflict Minerals the Obama administrating requiring the SEC to make companies report out their use of metal coming out of certain African countries. Companies were force to track and trace origins of metals used in products. Since they could not force every company in the US to do this, they made the requirement on publicly trade companies which in turned force the non-public companies to comply as well.

As said, the governments are going to require their pensions investments to be in companies which comply with green pipe dream and the only way to make that happen is to force companies to report their activities. Once the reporting happen then all those pension will move their investments, so if company does not have green solutions they will loose out on investments. Of course Apple want this since they know it will harm their competitors. Keep in mind that very few companies have the resources to install solar panels to run their operations,

As someone pointed out, how about counting all the bad chemicals required to make solar panels or the fact that windmills need their blades replaced every 10 yr due to stress cracks and the blades can not recycled and are sitting in field around the country. Yes you do not like power generated by carbon fuels, but the alternatives also have their down sides like having to replace solar panel every 20 to 25 yrs or replacing batteries every 7 to 10 yrs verse a power plants turbines and generators last 50 yrs and they produce more MegaWatts of power through their life then any solar panel or windmill.

What he is saying, Facebook has the resources to over come what Apple is doing where smaller companies do not do more business will have to rely on Facebook to even get to the customers they need. 

Directv loss viewers because of what AT&T did, they increase the price multiply times and the user interface got worse in the last few years I’m at the point I’m going to drop it since it’s not worth it anymore.

MplsP said:

What in God's name could require Chrome to use 10-20x the amount of memory that Safari uses??? Just one of the reasons I keep Chrome off my MBP. For another reason, search Chrome Keystone Mac

It’s just a great example of just poor programming, or it was done on purpose to make Mac’s look bad. There is no other reason.