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Steve Jobs Offers Support to Apple Employees Affected by Earthquake

Thursday March 17, 2011 12:54 am PDT by Arnold Kim

Photo of Apple Store in Sendai, Japan by naok

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is reported to have sent a message to Apple staff regarding the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The contents of the email were posted to Chihouban.com (via Macotakara), and MacRumors had also received a copy of it independently. The email was said to have been sent to all Apple employees.

To Our Team in Japan,

We have all been following the unfolding disaster in Japan. Our hearts go out to you and your families, as well as all of your countrymen who have been touched by this tragedy.

If you need time or resources to visit or care for your families, please see HR and we will help you. If you are aware of any supplies that are needed, please also tell HR and we will do what we can to arrange delivery.

Again, our hearts go out to you during this unimaginable crisis.
Please stay safe.
Steve and the entire Executive Team

Apple has set up Red Cross donations through iTunes, and delayed plans to launch the iPad 2 in Japan due to the recovery efforts. We also previously reported on Digg founder Kevin Rose's email correspondence with a friend in Japan relaying Apple's efforts to support its customers and employees in the aftermath of the earthquake.
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thevofl
16 months ago
Kudos to Steve et al
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talkingfuture
16 months ago
Thats very good of him.
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Nuvi
16 months ago
Its the least what they should do. In all honesty I would like to see Apple do more like making some sort of direct donation, matching customer donations or similar. Its not like Apple couldn't afford to do it. The number of people they are helping with this effort is low. However, its better then nothing.
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Moyank24
16 months ago
And there are so many who think he doesn't have a heart.

I'm sure people will find many things to criticize though.

Cue the haters in 3, 2, 1....
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macduke
16 months ago
It's good to see Apple doing whatever they can to help. This is one of the worst disasters I can ever think of. Massive earthquake, huge tsunami, and multiple possible nuclear meltdowns. I also heard that some volcano there is going off now. And then there's the potential economic collapse. Those poor people. If I woke up tomorrow and they were showing footage of Godzilla rampaging through Tokyo, I would not be surprised. What else could go wrong there?

Donate if you can, otherwise just pray for the best. Apple knows that California sits on the same ring of fire. It's only a matter of time.
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kvizzel
16 months ago

And there are so many who think he doesn't have a heart.

I'm sure people will find many things to criticize though.

Cue the haters in 3, 2, 1....


I'm sure everyone will criticize and hate on him because he's only helping Apple Employees.

He has heart.
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tonys
16 months ago
Nice... I'd like to see micro$oft do something like this.... c'mon billie!:cool:
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orisonmarden
16 months ago
:Openhat:
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saving107
16 months ago

Its the least what they should do. In all honesty I would like to see Apple do more like making some sort of direct donation, matching customer donations or similar. Its not like Apple couldn't afford to do it. The number of people they are helping with this effort is low. However, its better then nothing.


Who's to say that Apple hasn't (privately). Are you expecting a Press Release stating exactly how much Apple has contributed?
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lars666
16 months ago

Nice... I'd like to see micro$oft do something like this.... c'mon billie!:cool:



"Billie" already has done much more for mankind than Apple and Steve Jobs will do in 10.000 lives ...
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