If I had the cash I would buy it just for the novelty.
Samsung (the company) should buy it, place it in a decent frame and display it in HQ Reception.
Beer coz it's Friday and I have a whole week off work to look forward to.
Cheers...
Life must have been pretty tough as the only Apple employee named after the fruity firm's arch enemy. But don't feel too bad for Sam Sung of Vancouver, Canada, because he's set to make a small fortune simply by selling his Apple name badge. Auctioning my old Apple Sam Sung business card on eBay for charity http://t.co/ …
Crumbs. It's up to US$80,000 (at time of typing). That would cover the bar bill for Apple and Samsung's patent lawyers for at least one night.
Joking aside, great that it's going to charity and hole it makes much more. Might change my name to Power Mac g4 Cube and apply for a job at Samsung.
Hmmm....
I think it's great that people want to help charity (you know there's a but coming), but, it's much better (imho) if people actually check their money is going somewhere useful first.
Children’s Wish Foundation International doesn't appear to spend that much actually making dying children's wishes come true, somewhere around 10% of donated money;
http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/
http://www.charitywatch.org/articles/childrenswish.html
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3490#.U-S6bdJDuPw
Shame really, imagine taking that $80k and instead of giving 90% to fund a charity and 10% to the kids, you could find some kids that need it, talk to them 1:1 and do some real good. Not that I have anything to brag about, less that 5% of my salary goes to good causes (although I have checked those ones out - Wateraid, SOS Childrens Villages and Oxfam for example)
Sam Sung lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is donating the proceeds of this auction to the BC and Yukon branch of "The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada". The Tampa Bay Times did some digging into the financial records of "Children's Wish Foundation International", which is based in the USA and has a similar sounding name but no other connection with TCWFoC.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1184275/statement-by-the-children-s-wish-foundation-of-canada-regarding-recent-cnn-tampa-bay-times-investigation
I don't know for sure that Sam Sung isn't donating $80,000 to an organization made up of lizard aliens who want to steal all of our planet's water, but it doesn't look like he's sending to to Florida so that's okay.
The most surprising thing about this is that Apple's lawyers haven't slapped him with an injunction to prevent him from exploiting their intellectual rights in the t-shirt and business card, not to mention them doubtless considering that it's all still Apple's property.
If Apple did stop this sale then they would get a load of bad publicity. Striesdand Effect and all that.
Apple (good or bad) do donate a lot of time and effort to Charity. Tim Cook takes part in the Pride Day.
Apple could do the right thing and not only let this continue but donate an identical amount that the items get sold for to the same charity (as long as Samsung does not buy it... )
Then again, there is no accounting for the stupidity of Lawyers whose only thought is to line their own pockets.
Children Icon naturally.
"Striesdand Effect and all that."
The "Streisand Effect" isn't a general synonym for bad publicity- it refers specifically to cases where the attempts to *censor or suppress* information end up backfiring, making it far *more* visible and well-known than it would have been otherwise.
In this case, Apple would (hypothetically) not be trying to cover anything up per se, so it doesn't apply.
Well what else did we expect from Jasper, never one to knowingly give up the opportunity to sneer at the efforts of others who are actually doing something constructive.
Then again, the article was written by someone who can't even get the basic facts right, failing in the very second sentence - "But don't feel too bad for Sam Sung of Vancouver, Canada, because he's set to make a small fortune simply by selling his Apple name badge." It's not until much further down that our valiant hack actually grudgingly concedes that Mr Sung will not make anything from the sale, as he is donating all the proceeds to charity.
Journalistic integrity - would be nice occasionally...
*sigh*
You can't blame Jasper for being jealous
I may dislike his /writing style/, but I deem it unfair to attack the /person/. I personally don't know him, and until I meet someone face to face I try to stay away from such conclusions (in the majority of cases you'll discover you're wrong anyway). Just my two cents.
Really? I'm commenting on his journalism which seems to me to consist of minimally rewriting press releases in an inflammatory way purely to generate page views in the comments section. In other words, a form of trolling - at which he is very successful, it has to be said.
The white thing that goes around your neck is a Lanyard. It tells the customer the name of the wearer and contains space for business cards. Supposedly designed by Sir Jony, like all other plastic Apple products, it has a weak spot and cracks easily.
An EasyPay is a payment device comprising an iPod Touch and a Chip/Pin Reader (depending on country). EasyPays cost several hundred pounds each and are not allowed out of the store.
So that would be why whoever made the white thing that goes around your neck went to the trouble to screen print easy pay onto it and Sam thoughtfully put an apple business card in the bottom right corner of the frame. If you are going to sneer at least look at the fucking picture.
" If you are going to sneer at least look at the fucking picture."
I did, I used to have one of those with my name on it and it is what I said - just a name badge/business card holder. The one in the picture is advertising EasyPay for customers - using your iPhone and iTunes account to make purchases in the store.
This is an (old model) EasyPay for comparison: http://gadgetynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Apple-EasyPay.jpg
Selling items that don't belong to you is a criminal offence
Doing so for charity does not make it legal.
Thank you for that wisdom. Of course, Mr Sam Sung is of such limited intellectual capacity that he has entirely forgotten about this.
Alternatively, as the names are PRINTED on the badges they'll be impossible to recycle, and it is thus possible that Sam has asked Apple if he could have them, and mentioning the intention would have made certain that any person with even a shred of feeling for good PR would have agreed to that.
Respect of the guy to come up with the idea, and respect to the manager who had enough braincells to recognise a good idea when they came across it.
Wow. And you know all these people personally so you can make such a sweeping statement without feeling embarrassed?
On the plus side, you have qualified for most clueless statement (so far) of 2014 which is not bad going for your first ever post - did you specifically join just to make that comment? Congratulations.