“Some of the most important things in life cannot be measured,” Walker said during a moderated talk alongside Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environment, policy, and social initiatives at the Fast Company Innovation Festival. “I saw a major philanthropist’s website, a new multibillion-dollar foundation. And the headline said, ‘If it can’t be measured, we don’t fund it.’ And I thought, What a shame,” he told the crowd. Nonprofits in many cause areas typically provide donors with bang-for-your-buck statistics about how their money gets spent to build trust or loyalty. People with money to give away have many options, the theory goes, so it’s important to show them how it will be well spent. But both Walker and Jackson said that some types of socially good impacts are less quantifiable than, say, the number of seeds planted to grow food, or vaccines delivered to help people. These often deal with fundamental values … [Read more...] about How Apple and the Ford Foundation go beyond metrics in quantifying their impact
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Apple Might Ditch Intel In The Macs in 2020
Oct 25, 6:49 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Technology By Ashraf Eassa 10/24/18 AT 12:43 AM Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), which has a strong internal chip development organization, "is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Corp."That story led to a meaningful drop in Intel's shares.This article originally appeared in the Motley Fool.Last week, Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst with TF International Securities, published a research note (reported by MacRumors) in which he lays out his expectation that Apple will, in fact, swap Intel chips out for its own processors in the Mac "starting [in] 2020 or 2021."Let's take a closer look at his reasoning.Four key pointsThe first reason he gives is that "Apple could control everything about the Mac's design and production and … [Read more...] about Apple Might Ditch Intel In The Macs in 2020
Apple Watch Band With ‘Variably Illuminable’ Parts In The Works
Oct 25, 6:52 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Technology By Corazon Victorino 10/23/18 AT 6:06 PM Apple appears to be working on a new type of Apple Watch band, one with indicators so that wearers won’t need to look at the display of the timepiece to check their activity status and updates. A new Apple patent published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday presents information on upgraded watch straps for Apple Watch devices. Entitled “indicators for wearable electronic devices,” the document describes how Apple is planning to incorporate indicators into the watch band. According to the patent, the band that is in the works has “variably illuminable” portions that are connected or controlled by the main device. This means some parts of the band could light up in varying degrees of brightness. This way, there’s going to be a specific indicator for … [Read more...] about Apple Watch Band With ‘Variably Illuminable’ Parts In The Works
Why Google Is Willing To Pay Apple $12 Billion Per Year
Oct 25, 6:47 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Business By Adam Levy 10/25/18 AT 6:33 AM Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) receives a lot of money from Google just for making it the default search engine in Safari on iOS and macOS devices. Last year, the Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) company reportedly paid Apple $3 billion for the preferential placement. That number may have tripled this year, according to analyst Rod Hall as reported by Business Insider (link behind paywall). Hall says that number will rise to $12 billion next year.This article originally appeared in the Motley Fool.Apple has listed licensing revenue from deals like the one it has with Google as the first source driving growth of Apple's services revenue. That revelation in an SEC filing was a change from last year, when it listed the App Store first. That change suggests licensing revenue is growing extremely … [Read more...] about Why Google Is Willing To Pay Apple $12 Billion Per Year
A former Facebook executive called out Apple CEO Tim Cook’s hypocrisy over privacy
Former Facebook security boss Alex Stamos criticised Tim Cook’s hypocrisy after the Apple CEO launched a blistering attack on firms that flout user privacy. Stamos pointed to Apple’s trade practices in China, which block privacy-enabling features like end-to-end encryption and installing VPNs. He said for many tech companies, China is an “ethical blindspot.” Tim Cook launched a blistering attack on tech companies that flout user privacy in a speech on Wednesday, but a former Facebook exec has accused him of not practising what he preaches. Although Cook did not name Facebook or Google, they were a clear target of his remarks in Brussels, where he said that people’s data is “being weaponised against us with military efficiency” to “enrich” companies that collect the information. But Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former security chief who led its internal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, … [Read more...] about A former Facebook executive called out Apple CEO Tim Cook’s hypocrisy over privacy