Apple to Redirect (PRODUCT)RED Proceeds to COVID-19 Relief Efforts Through September

Can we please stop the madness?

Nobody ever cared about seasonal influenza, including Apple, before all of this bs happened. Donate your money to that, which is a massive killer every single year...that nobody still seems to care about.

Nice.

But virtue signal all over the place, Tim. Make your Wall Street masters proud.

BS?

Did the last seasonal influenza require New York City to have 85 large refrigerated trailers brought in because city and hospital morgues could not handle the volume of daily COVID-19 deaths?

That's just one of hundreds of reasons "nobody cared" as much about seasonal influenza.

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I can’t speak for other manufacturers, but I don’t think Apple’s charged more for any (RED) variant. They just donate a portion of the profits that they’d otherwise keep.

They actually did on their very, very first special red (not RED) device... which may be what popped into op’s mind.
It was a U2 iPod that was black & red.
I think it was $100 more- but also came w/ a larger capacity than you could get otherwise.

Christ... it occurs to me I know too many pieces of useless trivia about Apple. ?

I'm a little confused. I thought in the past that there was an extra charge for product(RED) items from Apple (and, I expect, from other retailers). But when I go to the Apple website and price out the phone, it shows the same price for the product(RED) version as it does when I choose the same configuration in either of the other colors.

I can’t speak for other manufacturers, but I don’t think Apple’s charged more for any (RED) variant. They just donate a portion of the profits that they’d otherwise keep.

I can’t speak for other manufacturers, but I don’t think Apple’s charged more for any (RED) variant. They just donate a portion of the profits that they’d otherwise keep.

They used to do so. The last product(RED) item I purchased from Apple was an iPod nano for my daughter a few years ago, and that model was something like $10 more expensive than the other colors, for that reason. But if they have changed the mechanics of it all that's cool.

I, too, remember the U2 iPod: it was black with red elements, maybe the scroll wheel (I'm sure I can just look it up on a search engine, but I'm trying to use my remaining memory, lol). That wasn't a product(RED) item, just a special version of the iPod, which had only been white up to that point.

Like anyone is buying ANY Red products until the new phone comes out. Amazing how this generous offer ends before the new iphone. Plus RED products are always too little too late, released at the end of the rush.

They just announced a new iPhone today, including a product(RED) version.

You know what this means, right? There is only one likely answer: SOMEONE HAS HACKED THE ENTIRE INTERNET AND REMOVED ALL MENTION OF THE TRUTH! Even more unnerving: whoever it is has ALSO managed to hypnotize almost everyone in the entire tech-reading world to wipe all memory of it completely away. Everyone but me!

It was a bug in the wiping mechanism. Thanks for reporting it. We should have the fix in shortly and then you'll be in sync with the rest of the system.