Why the new Apple iPad and iCloud still aren't green enough

greenbiz.com 08 Mar '12, 4am

Why the new Apple iPad and iCloud still aren't green enough

People expect a lot from Apple, and that means almost any announcement from the company results in some disappointed fans. Take the new iPad that Apple unveiled Wednesday, for example. Apple hasn't trumpeted its new iPad as a green paragon. But it appears that some clean-power advocates had hoped that the third iPad could ring in a cleaner new era for the cloud . Gary Cook, a senior policy analyst for Greenpeace, released a statement Wednesday expressing disappointment that the Apple didn't unveil a clean-energy-powered cloud along with its latest hot device. “For all the new features promised in the new iPad, Apple has yet to unveil the most important one: an iCloud powered by clean energy," he said in the statement. "Innovative tablet products like Apple's latest iPad use the 'cloud' to store photos, music and documents, and Greenpeace relies on this technology and embra...

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