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  • Paddle raises $200m funding, delays its risky in-app purchase alternative

    chadbagchadbag
    I’d like to point out that Paddle is not flushing close to $300M of investor funding down the porcelain throne.  According to the article they primarily do business to business payments and this in-app system is just an add on to their mainline business.   I would assume that the funding raised is for their complete business and not just the in-app stuff. 

    I agree that would be a flush-a-roo down the ringer.  
    darelrexjony0

  • Customer trapped in Apple & FedEx blame game over lost Apple Watch

    chadbagchadbag
    Thieves abound everywhere.  I ran an online store and took an order for an expensive package deal (over 1600$).  I normally shipped Fedex Ground but this customer wanted UPS COD.  I sometimes had customer for whom Fedex service in their area was non existent or sucked so was used to the occasional request for UPS.  I shipped the package fully insured by UPS.  The package disappeared after being scanned at the end station package sorting facility. 

    It was obviously an inside job.  I couldn’t get ahold of the customer once it disappeared and I never heard from him again.  He had the tracking number and either he or his accomplice watched for it and stole it.  UPS paid the insurance and I tried to get them interested in the details since it was obviously an inside job but they weren’t interested.  

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    in this case in this article, if I were Mr Son, I would have counted up all the hours spent on hold or otherwise spent trying to jump through hoops and explained to the Apple Corp relationship guy how many hours had been wasted and what my normal pay rate was…   Let them make an offer against that. 
    scstrrf

  • No, Apple Music isn't pushing Spotify out of the iPhone dock on purpose

    chadbagchadbag
    This is an example of the law of unintended consequences in software engineering.   You make a change but don’t fully recognize all the “intertwinedness” of the systems so that a change, like deleting “system” apps and reinstalling triggers stuff that you didn’t realize would happen so didn’t test for. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple hires labor-busting lawyers to fight employees' efforts to unionize

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    I’d like to point out that the statement that companies in Germany work hand in hand with unions in Germany, with unions having a seat on BoD etc of Germany companies, is not true. 

    What is true is that workers can organize a “Works Council” (Betriebsrat), whether or not they are unionized.  The works council is represented in the company (BoD etc) and works with the company in work rules etc.  There are certain things they cannot do which unions can. I don’t remember the details.  Wikipedia has an article that goes over some of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council   

    Works councils are often populated with union members as they tend to gravitate to such things but there is no requirement to be a union member to get elected and be on the council.  

    They tend to take Union national guidelines for policies and work rules and similar and try and implement those, modified for the local circumstances and in cooperation with the company.  

    I worked at Digital Equipment GmbH (DEC Germany) in Munich a little over 30 years ago and witnessed it. They (Betriebsrat) had nothing to do with salary and wages but did negotiate  work rules (we worked 40 hours a week but had a 37.5 hour work week and banked 2.5 hours a week time off in addition to the 30 days of vacation).  (Another example was not being able, in most cases, to require weekend or nights work of those whose shifts were normal workweek day shifts, which irritated the foreigners at the place to no end as it meant we couldn’t do system upgrades at night or on weekends but had to have complicated procedures to do live upgrades during the day).  They also affected severance IIRC. 
    JWSCFileMakerFeller

  • Apple's user privacy stance has caused problems for internal engineering teams

    chadbagchadbag
    As long as the data that is being correlated doesn’t leave the device then there would really be fewer issues.  Some of these things might be doable anyway.   None of them are things I care about anyway (meaning the feature, not the privacy data). 
    lkruppjony0watto_cobra