{"id":63854,"date":"2018-04-23T07:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T07:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=63854"},"modified":"2018-04-23T07:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T07:33:24","slug":"apple-seen-slightly-beneficial-society-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-seen-slightly-beneficial-society-facebook.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple seen as slightly more beneficial to society than Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple seen as slightly more beneficial to society than Facebook<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

A SurveyMonkey\/Recode survey suggests that people think Amazon has the most positive impact on society of the major tech companies<\/span><\/p>\n

When I say “tech companies,” is the first thought entering your head: “My, how they’ve made society better”?<\/span><\/p>\n

I only ask because of a survey published Sunday that asked 2,772 American adults which tech companies make the most positive impact on society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Performed by SurveyMonkey\/Recode between April 8 and 9, the survey threw up some fascinating conclusions.<\/span><\/p>\n

You might be struck by the fact that Amazon came at the very top, with 20 percent of respondents choosing it as the most positive societal contributor.<\/span><\/p>\n

I might suggest that this implies contemporary Americans view making things easier and cheaper as the most positive contribution to society a tech company can make.<\/span><\/p>\n

I confess to being more fascinated, however, by the fact that Apple received 11 percent of the votes, while Facebook got 10 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this at a time when Facebook is being vilified seemingly in every stratum of society, all the way up to Congress for its alleged laxity when it comes to your personal data.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Apple CEO Tim Cook commented in a recent interview that he would never allow his company to get itself in the heinous situation in which Facebook finds itself, because, one inferred, it was a more moral company.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apple and Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Amazon declined to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another conclusion from this survey is that there’s a fair sprinkling of division as to which companies are really good for us. Or even to us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google came second with 15 percent. Apple’s 11 percent put it third. Oddly, Uber scored higher than Netflix, Twitter, Snap and, oh, Lyft.<\/span><\/p>\n

What were these people thinking, I hear you cry. Or feeling, perhaps.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, you could also choose to take solace in the responses of 20 percent of these 2,272.<\/span><\/p>\n

They all selected “none of the above.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Cambridge Analytica: Everything you need to know about Facebook’s data mining scandal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-has-only-a-slightly-more-positive-impact-on-society-than-facebook\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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