Ondrej Holzman During Monday's keynote, a woman appeared on stage for the first time in Apple's history. Tim Cook invited model Christy Turlington to demonstrate how she uses the Watch while running. But this is far from the company's last step towards maximally diverse companies in terms of the origin and gender of employees.
Apple's head of human resources, Denise Young Smith, in an interview for Fortune she revealed, that the Californian giant is going to invest $50 million in nonprofit organizations that help women, minorities and war veterans make their way in the technology sector.
"We wanted to create opportunities for minorities to get their first job at Apple," said longtime company executive Young Smith, who took over as chief human resources officer more than a year ago. Before long, she was hiring people for the business part.
According to Young Smith, diversity extends beyond ethnicity and gender, and Apple would also like to recruit people with different lifestyles and sexual orientations (CEO Tim Cook himself revealed that he is gay last year). At least for the moment, however, he will focus mainly on initiatives helping women and minorities.
Apple therefore decided to invest money in a non-profit, for example Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which supports students, especially from black universities, to succeed after graduation. Apple also entered into a partnership with a non-profit National Center for Women and Information Technology and wants to advocate for a greater number of female employees in technology companies.
According to Young Smith, Apple's mindset is that they can't innovate without "being diverse and inclusive." In addition to women and minorities, Apple also wants to focus on war veterans to provide them with technology training, for example.
... well, if they fix the App Store and iTunes - where you can't make purchases or manage your Apple ID at the moment, it will be PERFECT ...
And if the minority steals another Apple product from me, will they support me too?
I don't want to be rude, but this is not it http://9to5mac.com/2015/03/11/itunes-connect-down/ much more important right? I haven't been able to log in since this morning, but there's no mention of it here... :(
http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/ Not much telling info from Apple about the outage, just a timeline...
I can't comment, otherwise I would be labeled a racist and xenophobe. So I just hope that some clever African-American woman of the religion of Allah fixes the broken iTunes store immediately and I don't lose 13 apps when syncing my iPhone. They are really demented. One day a person wants to connect it to a computer to download a few songs and it informs him that the authorized PC is no longer authorized and let me authorize it, otherwise it will also delete my applications and purchases. What about it not working for them. The main thing is that they rush and erase and raise prices... Oh, and they support minorities...
So I try and try to update apps and still nothing… Not even here https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/ No change. Heck, it happens even in better families... :)
Already in the techno world, there are a lot of blondes and redheads who made the technicians sick, and it's not because of their perfumes... Well, let's go Apple - if there are more of them, it will surely be nice....
Apple is becoming a pretty stupid company, 'nuff said.
And you thought communism and socialism didn't stand a chance in America! :)