Apple Is Racist?!?
A woman in Alpharetta, Georgia, was denied a sale by an Apple Representative on grounds that she was from Iran. The story goes something like this: the woman was trying to buy an iPad and was speaking Farsi with her uncle. An Apple representative approached her and asked the young woman what language she was speaking. She told him it was Farsi, and that she was from Iran, after which the employee refused to sell them anything. He said said that it was Apple policy not to sell products to Iranians: 'I just can't sell this to you. Our countries have bad relations." Sahar Sabet, the young woman, left the store in tears, feeling "hurt and embarassed". Why exactly did this happen? According to Apple, the employee was simply following the company's commitment to US policy which states that " the exportation, sale or supply from the U.S. to Iran of any Apple goods is strictly prohibited without authorization by the U.S. government". ...