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sirdir said:

How is this a story? Any other flash would have done the same. 

Yes. It’s just incidental that it was an iPhone.

But goddamn... What a terrible situation for child & parent(s). ☹️

Also: the claim of the corporate culture being one of interaction and accidental connections is pretty disingenuous when it’s been repeatedly brought to light that Apple’s internal efficacy suffers from obsessive security and silo-ing of projects and teams.

The anti-worker hostility shown here is callous, presumptuous, and generally appalling. None of you have any idea what any of these employees’ lives are like.

The reason Apple wants to force every worker into being on site for a certain percentage of time probably has a lot more to do with making sure their insanely expensive building/campus isn’t sitting empty, because that would be embarrassing for a company that cares a lot about their image.

It’s been noted that people don’t like working there. Open floor plans and glass walls/doors suck for actual humans and productivity. The main building is like the Powermac G4 cube and the trashcan Mac Pro: all form; poorly-considered function.

Then there’s the basic fact that the 40-hour workweek and officespace culture is just plain unhealthy.

Instead of being bitter about what you see as “entitled” employees who should get shit on just the same as you do, maybe think about trying to raise the bar for EVERYONE (which includes yourselves). Stop licking the corporate boot and acting like you’re living vicariously through the boot wearers.

fumi said:

Lots of woke Snowflakes at Apple and all these tech companies. They need to see what other people have to endure to make a living.

FFS, stop throwing around the word “woke” when it has absolutely no contextual relevance (or meaning) to the subject matter.

The conversion explanation is a good one. I know the USA is largely and invisibly metric, except for mapping and such, but I rarely encounter Celsius. I hadn’t considered that the weather services might be using it behind the scenes and converting for Fahrenheit using Americans, but it makes sense. That’s how a lot of things are actually done (using the better system behind the scenes, and converting for end users and the bulk of society that refuses to adapt).

The fact that some users see 69° suggests what I’ve guessed for some time: Apple uses more than one data source for weather info. Weirdly, it seems to differ from widget to app, and from OS to OS (which you can see when multiple devices and apps/widgets show different values at the same time).