Apple celebrates Pride weekend with rainbow Apple Watch bands for employees

The tech giant handed out the gift to employees to mark its 30th year being associated with Pride weekend.
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As Tim Cook and others from Apple prepared to join in Sunday's annual Pride parade in San Francisco, the company gave employees a special, limited-edition rainbow-colored watch band to commemorate the event. 

As pointed out by 9to5Mac, a Reddit user posted an image of the watch band along with a letter from the company marking its 30th year in association with Pride and calling the watch band, "a symbol of our commitment to equality."

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Images of the watch band also started popping up on social media.




Cook, who has been open about his life as a gay man, and how his decision to come out could positively affect others, also posted about Sunday's parade as a large contingent of Apple employees marched in the event. 



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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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