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  • Apple's Director of Machine Learning exits over return-to-office policy

    I LEFT APPLE BECAUSE OF THESE ARROGANT SMART ASS IDIOTS WHO LOVE THE MOINEY - PRESTIGE AND OF COURSE ARROGANCE.   That and the fact SJ was no longer leading the company, Tim is great, but I don't like accountants, Forstall would of been my choice.  We are currently getting pinged by Apple folks that want a remote position, and while we fully understand the concern over Covid and 'better offers' the reality is that Ian was just a director and IMO should be in a research position - maybe at university where he can teach and experiment at his own pace.   That is another problem at Apple - hire 1000 hope that 8 contribute. The rest are more worried about getting their children into the right schools and planning their next vacation to brag they work for Apple.  The innovation is gone - Apple will of course survive and bring forward new 'things' - maybe Cars, maybe more content, maybe more something HOWEVER, vulnerabilities in their silicon, products that kind-of-work, services that kind-of- work(maps, siri, etc) and a host of really cool features NOBODY really knows about except the engineers.  What happened to providing consumers the best of the best ?  I don't know anymore - my iPhone, my Macs, my watch, my Homepod, my earpods all kind of let me down every day and the didn't happen when the MOST VIABLE PRODUCTS were being developed at Apple.  So when employess are making news that they don't want to come back to work and are quitting - great go do what you want to do - Eddy, Tim, Craig Joz, et al IMO try to instill the spark that once ran the company - and knowing that there are all kinds of issues to deal with beyond Covid - when news of a director leaving the company makes news something is just bad business all around - who cares - shareholders like me ?   Of course it matters because its about time to clean out the managers, directors and staff that really don't contribute - I mean Ian was a smart individual and should of remained in research - but a Director ?  
    Reduce the workforce - now is the time, find those that are motivated to contribute - not just show up every day to the ivory tower and figure out what is for lunch - or sit on video calls while ski-lifts go by in the background.  I mean even I think about how nice it would be to sit in Aspen and work from my home every days - but in the end your RTW mandate is IMO reasonable and if I was an "IAN" I'd wonder what I would do next in life - start a company and think you can sit at home and build a company 'remotely' in a world where investors are going to want a founder to do what is needed to build that company. MOST OF ALL - who cares its not like an 'Ian' was a major contributor, after all 'what AI at Apple - lol. 
    entropysdewme