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Apple Store (Ist)San Francisco -for the sake of manifesting money environmentally friendly electronic devices, the citizens of San Francisco have special standards against which products are worth buying. Unfortunately, Apple is not even popular products included in it.

San Francisco is a big city close to Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, United States. Ironically, citizens in the region to no longer buy users are suggested Apple products.

One reason is, because Apple didn't want to follow the Electronics Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). This is one of the standard in San Francisco that refers to products that are environmentally friendly.

Within these rules there are also several requirements, one of which is the marketed product must be dismantled by their owners, especially a lot of batteries containing hazardous substances to the environment.

This rule applies to computer desktops, laptops and monitors. As known, Apple ' lock ' all devices so it is not easy besutannya dismantled. In addition, Apple also threw out serfitikasi ' green ' from the ranks of its products.

"We are disappointed that Apple does not want to follow the EPEAT, and we hope the citizens of San Francisco no longer buy Apple products. Hopefully this could be the consideration they (Apple) to participate, "said Melanie's the Nutter, Director of the San Francisco Department of Environmental, quoted on the Wall Street Journal, Wednesday

Apple computer is indeed not very in demand in San Francisco, there are only about 2% are using Macs in the city. For instance in 2010 then the citizens of San Francisco spent USD 45.579 to buy Apple products, purchase computers that dramatically reached USD 3.8 million in the same year.