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Five years after Steve Jobs: an Apple with the courage to say 'No'
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Matte black iPhone 7 undergoes brutal scratch, bend test in new video
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Genius Bar doesn't hire retired Apple engineer, fires up age discrimination debate
While there are pretentious arrogant bigots like Vinod, he is wrong.
I have as good ideas as I had 30-40 years ago, though they have decreased somewhat due to lack of environmental stimulation (retired 14 years ago).
I have better ideas than Apple sometimes, even living in a non tech environment. Something they patented last spring, I tried to give to them no strings attached in 2011, but lawyers you know..., and I an outsider.
And age??: a few months ago I got hired by Apple, even with no prior customer service exp in the sense of the job that I was hired for, and I am 73 now. It is for a college job too, for which one would expect a preference for 18-20 year olds. And another bone: I am over qualified (PhD, MIT and though somewhat embarrassing, Stanford too), but I WANTED the job and didn't push "oh I am so great", and/or deserving. I think that I am blessed to work for Apple.
It is heavy customer service, a bit like a "Genius", and I can assure you that 30 years ago I wouldn't have been hired for it. Not the "no experience", but the no prime customer service personality, and I was an outstanding engineer then, as good as Scheinberg, or maybe better being at top of my field. But certainly NOT qualified for Apple style customer service (which I greatly admire and am proud to be a part of). -
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