Are you sure that you followed the whole story? "With all that philosophy you're going to give one kid an iPad and add to the bottomline of one of the richest

Are you sure that you followed the whole story? "With all that philosophy you're going to give one kid an iPad and add to the bottomline of one of the richest corporations in the world." seems to indicate that you believe that he's buying (or bought) an iPad to send it off to the 3rd world. That's - erm - quite wrong. From all I can tell he - wrote a script to tell him that more than $ X is on the card - transfer money to a gift card by going to the counter (he was sitting in a StarBucks) - repeat - he said he got $625 (on two cards, it seems those top out at $500) His initial blog post used the iPad 2 as link bait and said 'You could buy an iPad with that cash!'. Afterwards he put these gift cards on eBay and claimed he'd give the return to charity. No iPad in sight. No money to Apple. So - posts like yours are showing that this is a very emotional thing. It's not helpful to jump in and bash people though, especially if you misunderstand the situation. Correct me if I failed to understand you?