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What blows my mind is that when pretty much every competitor to Air Tags doesn't have user replaceable batteries, Air Tags DO. Not exactly what you would expect from an Apple product. I think that's shocking, and awesome. Not a fan of the trackers that you basically have to throw out after a year, or subscribe to in order to get new ones. 

30% YoY growth and this “misses” expectations?

what the fuck has this world come to. 

This was a filthy, unprofessional, agenda-driven interview by Business Insider. A sampling of the Qs posed, meant to shit on Apple and elicit negative responses. In 90% of the cases, the interviewee didn't bite. I've never, ever seen a less professional interview with so little journalistic integrity and contempt for objectivity. He actually disagrees with and argues with the interviewee whenever he says something positive about the working environment or Apple, and tries to swing things back to negativity. 

BI: So why is Apple not promoting these people?
BI: I struggle to understand why Apple wouldn’t promote from within.
BI: How do the staff internally talk about that? The retail staff can’t afford the products.
BI: But it’s still the case that the majority of the people working at the store simply cannot afford the products on a regular basis.
BI: Do staff talk about how ridiculous it is to work for Apple and not be able to buy anything?
BI: Do Apple employees regard this as political in any way? Because this is how inequality works. You’re selling devices worth thousands every day and you’re not being paid enough to live in a one-room flat near the store.
BI: £8 an hour — that is sad.
BI: Is it like a cult?
BI: There’s almost a Thought Police aspect to it.
BI: At Business Insider we give feedback to people, but we don’t have a ritual where I’m forced to give positive and negative feedback to every single employee every single day. That would be insane.
BI: Wow, it’s like Maoist China where you sit in a circle and critique your comrades.
BI: So let me just show you this massive, beautiful phone, a Samsung Galaxy Note 5, in ivory gold, with a stylus. You don’t look at this and go, “Wow, if only Apple could design a phone like that”?
BI: So you’re being paid £7 an hour, and a customer comes in looking for, say, a cable, and you’ve upsold them into a sale over £100,000. And there was no bonus or recognition for this whatsoever?

Case closed. This interview was nothing but a hit job meant to generate a few clickbait quotes. 

I've been to dozens of Apple stories, in many cities and countries. If employees are truly unhappy, they do a hell of a job hiding it, since they almost always have the best attitude and the most enthusiasm and helpfulness I ever experience in ANY store. 

Fuck CVS, and fuck Walmart. Consumers don't want this trash. This is just contempt towards the consumers, intentionally disabling Apple Pay even though their machines support it, to push their own insecure,
unintuitive garbage. 

What a fucking clown. If you actually have a vision, and have thought about something for more than 30 seconds, you will push through the initial criticism/rage/challenges/uproar and get your vision implemented. It's clearly Musk has neither the vision nor the capacity, and is simply throwing shit at the wall and changing his mind every day based on God knows what. I doubt at this point he even understands why he wanted to buy Twitter in the 1st place, apart from his laughable and superficial "freedom of speech" narrative. He's slowly understanding how complex and nuanced things are, and how probably everything he believed is false. Because he's a narcissist that always thinks he's the smartest person in the room even while he has zero insight or experience in the topic at hand. 

darkvader said:

lam92103 said:

Shes right you know. All this has just proven that there are no technological reasons to stop this. Only financial ones

Of course.  But of course the irrational fanbois will say you're wrong.

Her argument is fucking nonsense. If you had even the faintest idea about the actual subject matter, you would easily acknowledge that this is, in fact, a security issue. 

 And of course, the first step to proving your rationality is claiming that anyone who disagrees is an "irrational fanboi", right?

 Fucking pathetic. 

voenixrising said:

What I find more interesting is WHY is Foxconn still using Wndows XP?!?

Windows XP is still widely used in factory settings. 

Just passed by an Apple Store to buy my 4K Apple TV (it was completely packed) and played around with the iPhone 8 (which was sold out). Its really a gorgeous phone, the glass makes it look and feel that much better. Portrait mode is also really need, and the UI is very slick. I'd buy this phone ASAP, if I wasn't considering the X.

Don't we get this fucking rumor before every SINGLE iPhone launch? "Severe" manufacturing issues, then it goes to sell 10M+ in a weekend. But hey, let's do it again this yr, just in case. One day, its bound to come true. 

sog35 said:

No wonder I have not seen any Samsung ad bashing Apple lately.......

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Same with Google.  Dropping Bing for Google for Siri search.

Timmy is finally playing chess instead of checkers.

How the fuck is "Timmy" (love how you love to use that nickname in a condescending fashion, as if he's beneath you in some way) "finally" playing chess instead of checkers, when Apple has been using Samsung components in its phones since the very first iPhone, and Samsung has always made billions doing so? What exactly has changed in Apple's strategy so that it is akin to "checkers vs chess"? What are you even talking about? How come your posts never make a lick of sense? Why do you contradict yourself every 10 seconds?