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  • Apple falls to 36th place on Glassdoor's annual Best Places to Work chart

    sog35 said:
    Glass door is filled with losers who could not cut it and then bitch about it on the internet.

    If you want to work hard then Apple isn't the place for you. 

    Tim Cook is doing a FINE job 
    No, that's not what glassdoor is. Glassdoor is basically "I've already quit this job (and got a better one)"

    So the companies at the top of the list are the ones who try to retain employees, while employers further down don't try as hard, and the ones rated the worst are typically the kind of companies that keep pissing off their customers anyway.

    What is most likely the result for the decline are things related to the Apple Store's and not the company itself. Retail operations are often the largest source of negative feedback because people don't want to have a confrontation in the store, and instead make some customer support person miserable instead. Consider what Apple does at the store versus what they do online. 

    Now compare Intuit (quickbooks, quicktax, and mint.com) and Adobe (who people have permanent hate for the subscription CS model.) How much customer support do they have by comparison. 

    So Glassdoor, will reflect the customer support staff turn over more than it will represent the programmers and product development staff.
    dewme
  • Shanghai consumer agency reports spontaneous iPhone 6 fires, Apple refutes claim

    Soli said:
    No reason to believe that an Phone 6 undamaged by the user can't catch on fire, but I think it's more likely that the fire started with a poorly designed and made counterfeit charger.

    Don't buy this. Charging and current are all regulated within the iPhone, not the charger. The charger is just a dumb voltage supply. The real issues with chargers are things like poor insulation from line voltages which can pose a shock hazard.
    Have you seen the inside of a counterfeit charger?
    http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pricey.html
    Genuine: " The tiny NTC temperature sensor lets the charger shut down if it overheats."

    watto_cobra
  • Man recovers working iPhone 4 from bottom of Pennsylvania lake

    Thanks to an unusual set of circumstances, a Pennsylvania man is reportedly having a lost iPhone 4 returned to him in working condition, despite losing it at the bottom of a lake in March 2015.

    ...

    An Apple spokesperson claimed that the company often hears customer stories about iPhones surviving unusual conditions.

    The revival of Guntrum's iPhone 4 is all the more unusual because the iPhone 7, released just this September, is only Apple's first model to be marketed as water-resistant. That suggests that the Otterbox case was entirely responsible for safeguarding Guntrum's device.
    It's not unheard of for many pre "enclosed battery" phones to survive a freshwater bath as long as the phone was off. Smartphones are never really off, so the chances of it surviving are dependent on the water quality (eg salt water is guaranteed phone death unless it's a sealed case.) Mud and fresh water can be salvaged if the phone isn't damaged. Chlorinated/Ozone water (eg a public pool, hot tub) is a low survival rate since the pH has to be balanced and it goes acidic.
    quadra 610
  • Phil Schiller again defends Touch Bar MacBook Pro's 16GB RAM limitation

    macxpress said:
    Here we go again....needless 32GB debate Round 2!!!!
    Yup.

    Anyone who actually buys this years model of MacBook Pro is going to be disappointed when next years model will likely get 32GB ram and has better battery life.

    That said, most people don't need 16GB, let alone 8GB.

    Like, right now on my Windows 10 Desktop PC which had 32GB of ram, only 16GB of ram is ever really utilized. I have like 40 tabs open between three web browsers, and 70 tabs open in a text editor. For the sake of not destroying a SSD quickly, more RAM is preferred because it means the page file is rarely used. In fact I have it set to 0MB on my system. 

    Now what actually uses 16GB? Well first of all only 64bit applications can use it, which means that web browsers (which aren't completely 64-bit aware, nor are they multi-threaded) don't ever make use of more RAM even when it's available. The only application I have that is native 64-bit is Photoshop. Everything else doesn't have much or any advantage to being compiled 64-bit. 64-bit apps wind up a bit faster due to simply not having to go through the WoW32 layer.

    A Mac with 32GB or 64GB is overkill and unless you're dealing with Final Cut Pro with 4K videos (including editing videos from an iPhone 6S or 7) you're still not likely to be able to utilize it.

    Now, the fact that the RAM is soldered onto the MacBook Pro, means that you should buy the model with the most RAM because you will not be upgrading it. So if you need 32GB, wait for next years model, or don't use a MacBook Pro.
    avon b7macxpressration al
  • Boot Camp, Windows driver issue may be damaging new MacBook Pro speakers

    I have to wonder why MacBook users would use Windows on a laptop, that is a disaster in the waiting. I can understand the desktop due to the desire to not have to physically move machines around to use a new one, but on a laptop ... WHY are you using a laptop?

    It's a lot like the problem with Linux users. They cry about lack of support from hardware vendors, and then when a hardware vendor decides to release something that works with their OS (eg Realtek drivers) they complain why the manufacturer didn't release the source code instead. The Manufacturer is then blamed for not adhering to whatever rubbish be it power management or fancy feature buttons that the Linux user expects instead of oh... maybe just running the damn OS the machine came with.

    If you run Windows on a Mac Laptop, expect to have problems. Apple can not, and does not engineer their hardware to run Windows, it's engineered to run MacOS. If you can run Windows on it, fine, but you're going to lose power management and various other driver-specific tweaks that Apple made to the Apple driver on MacOS that don't exist in the generic driver Apple signed for use in Windows. Just be happy you can boot Windows at all.


    macxpress