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I agree it’s unacceptable. I happened to work there for both periods before and after 2009 at large flagship locations. What a different that policy made. It wasn’t just once a day. It was every time you left the building. If you smoked during a 15 you would have to wait in line potentially to get out. Then lunch, then again for the other 15 and then when you left for the day. After big all hands meetings it would take even as long as half an hour sometimes to get out.

It wasn’t the bags that made a difference it was that you registered all your Apple products and they would check the serial numbers of them all every time you left, for everyone so the security guy had his spreadsheet and would lookup every single device you were leaving with. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like now with AirPods, Apple watches, iPhones, let alone the employees that liked to bring an iPad or work laptop to do other work during breaks.

darkvader said:

Wage theft in the US is costing employees billions of dollars every year.  It may even be the biggest total theft loss that Americans suffer.

It's absolutely unacceptable that any company refuses to pay employees for time that they are forced to spend on the employer's premises.

Any company doing this should have to pay not only the stolen wages but significant punitive damages, and there should be prison time for executives who put policies in place that result in wage theft.

Fraud is just a whole other level in China. I remember in China seeing someone buying something in a convenience store and the cashier literally checking not just every single bill, but dropping coins, equivalents of pennies even, on the counter to listen to the tone that the coins would make as a way of detecting fakes. Also, I remember seeing repair fraud when I worked at an Apple Store 7+ years ago and reporting it to management. They just shrugged. The same shady looking guy with a coke nail came in every single day and when we looked him up was visiting every single store in the area everyday to get his iPhones that somehow looked fine but never turned on, swapped out. I figured he was washing serials for stolen iPhones. This was before activation lock mind you.

Apple makes so much money it took them years to notice this and still it's a minor impact to their bottom line. It's amazing the scale that this reached in China though.

rcfa said:

Illusive said:

So they want us to buy untested rubbish so then can alter it as they see fit with every update? No, thanks. Long live sandboxing!

Sandboxing is OK for random office software, but it’s useless for almost all utilities.

For the same reasons an iPad Pro is a joke in name, because anything that carries the restrictions of iPadOS is never “pro”; a iPad that could switch paravirtualizing VM between macOS (with iPad UI in a separate space or running as catalyst apps) when docked with the Magic Keyboard, and iOS-only when undocked, THAT could call itself “pro”.

But tools for development, data recovery, AV capture/redirection, file management, backup, network management, penetration testing, etc. etc. can’t run properly in a sandbox, and these are the things Pros need and use.

Indeed. And Rogue Amoeba, as reputable as they are, even though I would say their software is high quality, perhaps because it relies on deeper access into core audio, I’ve always found their products a bit unreliable. Fantastic when they work, but drive you nuts when you try to rely on them for say audio production. Moreover, they kind of sell the same product three different ways (audio routing from the menubar, audio routing in fake sound cards, audio routing between apps) and pretty frequently hit you for paid upgrades (I still prefer that to subscriptions I suppose).

I’ve somewhat given up on them and just use an actual sound card now…

crusader97b said:

So the way I read this, is if I subscribe to Apple News+ but not the publisher directly it will
open up the article that is behind the publishers paywall in Apple News

Yeah I first noticed that I was getting a note at the top to open an article behind the paywall in Apple News+, which is obviously a great win, but it stopped working all of a sudden today. Strangely it still works on Big Sur,

On a side note, whether or not publishers are happy about this feature, it drives me crazy that for example I do directly pay for access to a newspaper AND pay for Apple News+ That grants access, BUT the publisher site constantly makes me login. Having Apple make this easier is a good thing for the user.