Roger Fingas
Apple on Friday launched donations to the American Red Cross via iTunes and the App Store, spurred by the flooding in Louisiana which has forced thousands of victims out of their homes and caused widespread property damage.
People can donate in increments of $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, or $200. Apple notes that the full amount of each donation will go to the Red Cross, but that charitable givers can't use any existing iTunes credit.
Apple will often enable iTunes donations for well-publicized disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes. Just this May, Canadians were able to send money to the Canadian Red Cross for relief of the forest fires around Fort McMurray, Alberta.
The Red Cross has become Apple's de facto partner for iTunes donations, despite the presence of other charities in global relief efforts.
Charles Martin
Christine McKee
Oliver Haslam
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Makes it easy and quick to donate. Visit App Store, couple of clicks, and you are done...
People still live there? Ever since Katrina I thought people would've run far away and never turned back. With rising water levels worldwide, many of the coastal communities will eventually be submerged and insurance companies should refuse to insure dwellings in these areas.
The first two thousand dollars donated will go towards plane tickets for Obama and Hillary who, unlike Trump, appear to be having trouble getting there.
This is, of course, assuming that planes can be arranged to pick them up directly at the golf course and asylum respectively.