radarthekat

22july2013 said:

GeorgeBMac said:

22july2013 said:

tmay said:

... Stupid.   Very, very stupid.

The post above is chock full of misinformation.
Given the many times that I have countered George since he has been here, I'll spare you the details. Do your own searches on the details.

It's actually entertaining whenever GBM speaks. I always wonder how he's going to defend brutal dictatorships, and he always manages. I would like to have seen him defend the dictatorships back around 1940.

I wish websites like this would have a way we could block certain users from being seen by us. I know a few people would block me, but I think GBM would take top spot.

I don;t defend "brutal dictatorships".

But I do object to instigating totally unnecessary wars.

All we have to do is guarantee that NATO will not threaten Russia by moving into (another of) its neighbor(s).

But, we instead favor war.   Economic war (at least for us).  But still, war.

Who is going to pay for this war of ours?   As usual, it will be us.

But, I am sorry if the truth does not support your war mongering imperialism.  Perhaps it is YOU that should be blocked?

Firstly, I never said your posts should be blocked from anyone else but myself. I said I wanted to be able to block your posts so that I don't have to see them. Your constant stream of defending dictators is very tiring to me.

And yes, I would fully support your desires to block me from your own view. In fact, I'd be happy to do it myself if this website allowed me to do that.

Click on the poster’s name at the top of any of his comments, click to open the drop down arrow at the top right and select Ignore.  You will no longer see that poster’s comments, unless quoted by other posters.  

It’s just so…. what’s the word?  Ah, Skeuomorphic.  Been a while.  Lol 

coastalgathering said:

Until you’ve worked in Apple retail you have no idea what the day to day looks like. 

14 years and I have had many years that I loved my job..I would not of stayed so long if I hadn’t. 

You meet amazing people that are so intelligent and creative. Life long friendships. Both co-workers and customers. The customers are part of our communities. The products are amazing!  You are allowed to bring your unique and diverse best self to work everyday. 

Until it all changes…like everything good it comes to an end. 

If the pandemic didn’t teach most of us that life is short, who wants to slave in the retail stores so Tim Cook can build is trillion dollar dreams! 

The hours are tough! Everyday you work different  shifts, no set schedule! Your availability has to be open. Your life is not your own. No time for your family on the weekends or evenings, No seniority!  The environment is loud and intense, try standing in those “special”floors for 8 hours a day. 

Getting yelled at by a different customer then the  pre pandemic customer. Cause the community customers are now far and few between. 

Being told good job on your time management, now take on another customer please, now working with 2-3 customers at the same time in the genus bar. Yearly performance review for the last 12 years has been . 24 cent increase!!! 

At a Meets expectations .54 cent increase at a Exceeds expectations! 

The story can go on and on…but until you do it you’ll never understand what a underpaid tough job it is.  

I am grateful for many things, it’s just not an easy job anymore. Now that I am an older employee, I feel I have no job protection and it’s harder then ever, I don’t deserve to just have to walk away and “find another job” this was my career, I have gave it everything, sacrificed my family times to build this career . Now at 55 I can look and see it wasn’t worth it. 

Post pandemic has opened my eyes to life is too short to give it all up to  

Too short to give up to Apple or to any employer.  Did Apple tell you at the start of your career with them that there would be a promotion track off the retail floor?  If they did, then you should have left when that didn’t materialize after a number of years.  If they didn’t then it’s on you making the assumption there was upward mobility for you away from the retail floor.  In that case you need to, at some point, re-evaluate your career path.  You clearly haven’t been happy with the raises, and I don’t blame you; 24, or 54, cents an hour doesn’t enhance a person’s life.

I went through a re-evaluation in my career and here’s how that went.  I have a high school education, self-taught in electronics and programming and technical writing.  After six years in a small startup run by a Harvard MBA, I felt I was doing work far above my remuneration.  So I went to him and I stated my case.  I told him that I felt I was grossly underpaid, that I’d leave it to him to decide if he agreed, but if he decides I’m not underpaid, then that places the decision back in my hands.  And then I quietly reminded him that I know very well how-to make decisions.  Two days later I got the biggest raise you can imagine, plus stock options.  I remained with the company and a few years later he and I went on to found another software company together.  

crowley said:

Being able to buy an app once and have the purchase be valid across platforms does have an appeal.

And that’s possible today.  All Sweeney has to do is honor a purchase that was made on the Apple App Store when a user later moves to Android, for example.  He could credit that user the amount (after any App Store commission paid) that Epic received from that user for that app purchase and apply it as a discount when the user chooses to cross to another platform.  Of course, he fails to mention that fact.  

Xed said:

I can't wait to see what an M-series chip in the Mac Pro setup is going to do.

You mean a WS series chip, as that’s what I anticipate the nomenclature will be.  All hail the WS1.