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Here in NYC white people are already for the most part in the minority. This is not the point of this thread. But it is necessary to point this out for reasons that should eventually be obvious to everyone as I continue.
I spend quite a bit of time and money in an Apple store. It is impossible for anyone who is honest not to notice that in a city as diverse as New York, there is a serious lack of diversity among the customers.
So my question is, is it time to address this, at least in a diverse city where a major store has a total lack of diversity? Do some groups of people simply have more access to technology than others because of the advantages (financial and otherwise) they have been given for many years now?
I am willing to pay a little bit more so that less advantaged people can have an equal shot at the new technology for a little bit less. To disagree with this is to say that only certain backgrounds of people deserve a chance at having the best access to apps and other items that can lead to jobs, interviews, etc.
One price simply does not fit all. Not when it comes to technology. Opinions?
Here in NYC white people are already for the most part in the minority. This is not the point of this thread. But it is necessary to point this out for reasons that should eventually be obvious to everyone as I continue.
I spend quite a bit of time and money in an Apple store. It is impossible for anyone who is honest not to notice that in a city as diverse as New York, there is a serious lack of diversity among the customers.
So my question is, is it time to address this, at least in a diverse city where a major store has a total lack of diversity? Do some groups of people simply have more access to technology than others because of the advantages (financial and otherwise) they have been given for many years now?
I am willing to pay a little bit more so that less advantaged people can have an equal shot at the new technology for a little bit less. To disagree with this is to say that only certain backgrounds of people deserve a chance at having the best access to apps and other items that can lead to jobs, interviews, etc.
One price simply does not fit all. Not when it comes to technology. Opinions?
OK Poe, why don't you go buy iPhones for all of the underprivileged minorities. As you hand them out I'm sure one or two of the "youths" will try and rob you of yours as well.
Last edited by Velvet Jones; 03-03-2013 at 06:27 PM..
OK Poe, why don't you go buy iPhones for all of the underprivileged minorities. As your hand them out I'm sure one or two of the "youths" will try and rob you of yours as well.
Actually I am in favor of doing what you said in your first sentence. I think that as long as there aren't enough people that would volunteer to do that, it might be time to make it law and not an option. Nobody is robbing me of anything. If I give it is because I want to give. Someday you will also give because I want you to give. With every passing day there are more people who think like me than there are people who think like you. You are going to give until you have virtually nothing left to give. Then you will know what it means to have less than you think you deserve. The time is coming faster than you think. I am only trying to help to settle the score before it has to come to that. This is what makes me right.
Actually I am in favor of doing what you said in your first sentence. I think that as long as there aren't enough people that would volunteer to do that, it might be time to make it law and not an option. Nobody is robbing me of anything. If I give it is because I want to give. Someday you will also give because I want you to give. With every passing day there are more people who think like me than there are people who think like you. You are going to give until you have virtually nothing left to give. Then you will know what it means to have less than you think you deserve. The time is coming faster than you think. I am only trying to help to settle the score before it has to come to that. This is what makes me right.
Here in NYC white people are already for the most part in the minority. This is not the point of this thread. But it is necessary to point this out for reasons that should eventually be obvious to everyone as I continue.
I spend quite a bit of time and money in an Apple store. It is impossible for anyone who is honest not to notice that in a city as diverse as New York, there is a serious lack of diversity among the customers.
So my question is, is it time to address this, at least in a diverse city where a major store has a total lack of diversity? Do some groups of people simply have more access to technology than others because of the advantages (financial and otherwise) they have been given for many years now?
I am willing to pay a little bit more so that less advantaged people can have an equal shot at the new technology for a little bit less. To disagree with this is to say that only certain backgrounds of people deserve a chance at having the best access to apps and other items that can lead to jobs, interviews, etc.
One price simply does not fit all. Not when it comes to technology. Opinions?
Have you ever taken a look at the demographic that is targeted by iPhone and Mac commercials? There is a very specific niche of people who they want to buy their over-priced products, and the underprivileged don't fit into that niche anywhere (with the possible exception of the iPhone, which imho is priced at about 3 times as much as it is worth).
Why don't the underprivileged buy Apple products? Because they don't have enough disposable income to drop the insane amounts of money that Apple wants for their latest gadget, especially when there are other, more affordable products out there which do the job just as well, if not better.
Actually I am in favor of doing what you said in your first sentence. I think that as long as there aren't enough people that would volunteer to do that, it might be time to make it law and not an option. Nobody is robbing me of anything. If I give it is because I want to give. Someday you will also give because I want you to give. With every passing day there are more people who think like me than there are people who think like you. You are going to give until you have virtually nothing left to give. Then you will know what it means to have less than you think you deserve. The time is coming faster than you think. I am only trying to help to settle the score before it has to come to that. This is what makes me right.
Repeat after me: Drugs are bad. Drugs are bad. Drugs are bad....
There isn't enough credible cohesion in your statement to even bother with trying to prove it wrong. It comes across as a rambling diatribe from a pot-addled hippie who wants everyone to have the exact same things, without realizing what the consequences of that Utopian vision would be.
Here in NYC white people are already for the most part in the minority. This is not the point of this thread. But it is necessary to point this out for reasons that should eventually be obvious to everyone as I continue.
I spend quite a bit of time and money in an Apple store. It is impossible for anyone who is honest not to notice that in a city as diverse as New York, there is a serious lack of diversity among the customers.
So my question is, is it time to address this, at least in a diverse city where a major store has a total lack of diversity? Do some groups of people simply have more access to technology than others because of the advantages (financial and otherwise) they have been given for many years now?
I am willing to pay a little bit more so that less advantaged people can have an equal shot at the new technology for a little bit less. To disagree with this is to say that only certain backgrounds of people deserve a chance at having the best access to apps and other items that can lead to jobs, interviews, etc.
One price simply does not fit all. Not when it comes to technology. Opinions?
Isnt that ready taken care of...obamafone.
you want a private company to do what; give away phones, jobs, stocks, stores?
If you want to help the poor buy them food or volunteer at a school. IPhones are not a necessity and would be a waste of resources.
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