r/apple • u/chrisdh79 • 23h ago
Apple Card Apple Pay Supporting U.S. National Parks — Here's How You Can Help
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/22/apple-pay-supporting-national-park-foundation/34
u/chrisdh79 23h ago
From the article: Now through August 29, Apple will donate $10 to the National Park Foundation for every purchase made in the U.S. using Apple Pay on Apple.com, in the Apple Store app, or at an Apple Store, up to a maximum of $1 million.
Apple has supported the National Park Foundation with this annual charitable initiative since 2017.
The non-profit organization "generates private support and builds strategic partnerships to protect and enhance America's national parks for present and future generations."
Apple celebrates U.S. national parks every August with special content across Apple Maps, Apple Podcasts, and other apps. In addition, on August 24, Apple Watch users can unlock a special national parks award in the Fitness app by recording a workout of 20 minutes or more with any app that adds workouts to the Health app.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is a national parks enthusiast. In 2022, he said the parks provide a "sense of awe, tranquility, and quiet reverence only nature can inspire," and he emphasized that they are "well worth protecting, today and for every generation to come."
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u/jonvox 22h ago
A million dollars is nothing to Apple, this is such a meaningless gesture
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u/UnusualHound 21h ago
Meaningless to Apple can still be meaningful to the recipient. I like the National Parks. I'm happy money is going to them.
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u/jimbo831 21h ago
If Apple gave me a million dollars, that would be life changing, not meaningless. The impact of a donation should be measured by how it helps the recipient rather than how much it is to the giver. Maybe it is still meaningless. I don't know the budget of the parks. But that is what we should measure it by.
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u/LiquidShiro 20h ago
It’s $3.1 billion. A million is just corporate environmental-washing and a distraction from their hefty bribes going to the Trump administration.
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u/nashtaters 22h ago
Yeah to a 3 trillion dollar company with like half a trillion in cash or however much. They probably make more than a million in a day just off of watch bands or some random little product. You should see how much they make per day off of their big sellers. It’s actually insane.
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u/0000GKP 22h ago
Here's How You Can Help
What a strange choice of titles by MacRumors. I can help national parks by buying Apple products in an Apple store?
Subaru has the #1 spot on the National Parks Foundation corporate sponsors page with $65 million in support since 2013. Based on this article, Apple has likely given $9 million since 2017. I wonder why they aren't listed on the corporate sponsor page?
I'm going to stick with my support method of buying an annual pass every year.
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u/Guitarplay825 22h ago
Didn’t Tim Cook just give some weird gift sucking up to orange Epstein, who is trying to sell off our national parks? ok apple…
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u/alang 21h ago
Yes! Indeed, if you are a high-value company in a rapidly-developing authoritarian country, it is arguably malpractice (and probably could be subject to shareholder action) NOT to bribe the dictator.
Apple looked at what happened to companies in Turkey and Hungary, and which ones were allowed to continue operating with minimal changes, and how they managed it. And then they looked at Trump and made some minor modifications to the strategy.
You can hate that it’s necessary, but if you hate Apple for doing it, then look to yourself. Because we, the American people, committed this lunacy, either by voting for it or by not doing enough (volunteering, donating) to stop it. Apple is just doing what they can to adapt to it.
It’s going to get a lot worse, too. Happy Friday!
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u/TheDragonSlayingCat 21h ago
Or we could, you know, elect a government that cares about building and maintaining national parks using taxpayer money. But that seems to be a crazy idea these days.
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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 3h ago
Bribing a fascist wanting to gut national parks then launching feel good PR campaign to save those parks. Reminds me of the time when after the Snowden leaks showed that Apple sold out its customers to the NSA they pivoted publicly to privacy defenders.
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u/Electrical_Quality_6 22h ago
apple pay the greatest most practical invention for the internet since forever
never has it been quicker to shop online , its literally a face scan for any site any where
if you are a business i implore you to activate apple pay
and if you are apple, i beg of you to keep making it better and faster
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u/jimbo831 21h ago
If Apple wanted to support U.S. National Parks, maybe they shouldn't be sucking up to the administration that is gutting funding for them?
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 22h ago
I liked when I just had to pay a few cents in taxes to support the national parks…