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Mar 03, 08 - 09:52 am Comment from: Jings

Financial soundness is a 3!! With zero debt and over 18billion in free cash? What the hell?

What the hell has social responsibility to do with running a for profit corporation?

In a country where the entire medical system is run by socially irresponsible, for profit companies, you want your computer manufacturer to be socially responsible?

I don't get it.

Mar 03, 08 - 10:20 am Comment from: Spark

@Jings
There are some that believe Apple is making a mistake holding that much cash. Maybe those people read the question as, "Makes sound financial decisions."

Mar 03, 08 - 10:26 am Comment from: GizmoDan

How Apple ranked in 8 key attrbutes of reputation:
Innovation - 1
People management - 1
Use of corporate assets - 3
Social responsibility - 5
Quality of management - 3
Financial soundness - 3
Long-term investment - 3
Quality of products/services - 1

MDN: Tell us what the scale is. 1 to 5? 1 to 100? Makes a difference.

and yet my apple stock is down to $122 a share??? There is no reason for it to be this low... people need to stop selling and start buying

:D

Mar 03, 08 - 10:51 am Comment from: HotinPlaya

This was a link from the article, good stuff

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/29/news/companies/amac_apple.fortune/index.htm

Mar 03, 08 - 10:54 am Comment from: HotinPlaya

" says Jobs, in the belief that if you make something "really great, then everybody will want to use it."

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/29/news/companies/amac_apple.fortune/index.htm

@ GizmoDan:

The information you requested is right there on the first line you cut and paste from the article into your feedback:

> How Apple ranked in 8 key attrbutes of reputation (scale of 1-5, 1=best, 5=worst):

Honestly, man, you must have actually deleted it from your response in order to make the post you did. It's right there in black & white, with the word "attrbutes" misspelled & everything.

Mar 03, 08 - 11:55 am Comment from: alansky

Honestly I can hardly believe how lame this list is. It looks to me like size/profitability were virtually the only considerations. How else does a company like Microstiff get on the list? Admired for what? The same for 3M: Admired for what? Price-fixing? Using dangerous chemicals?

Mar 03, 08 - 12:19 pm Comment from: theloniousMac

@AL

Yeah, who wants a medical system in which the incentive of profit pushes people to compete and excel offering more and better treatments. Yeah. The whole medical system should be run by the government, attract government types to work there. You know the types, the lackluster mediocre folks that can't make it in business.

Mar 03, 08 - 12:20 pm Comment from: theloniousMac

@AL

I just pictured a hospital full of those government people who handle airline security.

Mar 03, 08 - 01:07 pm Comment from: Lurker_PC

Here's the link to the full article -

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/29/news/companies/amac_apple.fortune/index.htm

For ZT - Don't bother checking the top ten, you're down at Number 16.

Peace.

Mar 03, 08 - 02:23 pm Comment from: qka

Social responsibility - 5

They must be drinking the Green(Peace) koolade.

Apple's #1, right behind #0.5, Microsoft... eh, Zune Tang?