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iPhone 11 selfie camera fails to crack DxOMark's top-ten list
80s_Apple_Guy said:In a world where most meetings etc are taking place via video conferencing, the front camera is pretty important to that.Or the one on the top/front of your laptop. Bandwidth and lag are what is important in a Video Conference. If I wanted top notch video for one then I have a DSLR ready and waiting but no one has complained about the quality of the camera on my ancient MacBook Pro especially if any images that need quality have been distributed prior to the meeting.I've never taken a selfie. I know how ugly my face is so I don't need reminding. Seeing it every time I use the bathroom is more than enough.
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Apple still depends on traditional American engineers, and is slowly losing them
It is not just Apple that is losing key skills. Almost all Engineering and Tech companies who contract out work are doing the same.Outsourcing to cheaper locations might be good for the beancounters (note... their jobs hardly ever go overseas) but the skills drain is immense.It happened to me twice. The last time I refused to train my Indian replacements. They had two people just to do my job.The experiences of the first episode made me think long and hard about training people who really didn't care about the job and who were unable to ask relevant or hard questions for fear of losing face with their boss.I have warned my grandchildren away from going into the IT business as there is no future for it in the west.
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Apple's anticompetitive behavior has 'gotten worse,' Tile tells congressional panel
CheeseFreeze said:The App Store is hugely anti-competitive.A 30% cut is ridiculous in 2020, and their ability to push their own software and reject others is also a clear example of that behavior, including the fact you can’t change your default email client, music software, navigation software, etc. Being a ‘third party’ always is second to ‘first party’ Apple.Try self publishing on Amazon. You have a choice of two deals. 30%/70% or 70%/30%. Take it or leave it. Many writers use the 70% to Amazon 30% to them. Looking at that, is Apple's 30% all that bad?
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How to factory reset a MacBook Pro, and when to do it
viclauyyc said:I am sure someone will still forget to backup after all these warnings.
also, please make sure you test your backup after you backup.
i lost 8 months of data after a bad crash. The Time Machine data is not useable, even I asked Apple for help. My 2 most recent CCC backup is also fail to load. I end up need to using an 8 months old backup from different drive.So please check your backup drive before deleting.That's why you should rotate your Backup devices. I use ten different 2TB HDD's for my Time Machine backups. I move to another one every week of the month. When it is a new month, the first device used gets put into fire storage and the oldest one there returned to the backup cycle. Before re-using it I test the integrity of the drive. I had one fail last year. I replaced it with a 2TB SSD.Backup integrity of user data is checked using an old Laptop that is a hackintosh. It is the only reason I keep it around.I note which drive is used when in a paper notebook that is kept in the fire safe.This may seem overkill but I like you got burned many years ago with backups of Windows systems that were useless when needed. I employed a 'rotating tower of hanoi' backup process that has worked for me for nearly 20 years. Most of my HDD's are left over from the days when I did Windows software dev so I know that for many, their days are numbered. I am trialling an M2 PCI drive now. Even with USB-3.0 the backup speeds are fantastic. Yes, it is expensive but what is your data worth especially if you make you living with your Mac?It will be the way of the future I'm sure.
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Why did Apple buy up another $20B in stock at record highs?
B-Mc-C said:Can someone help me understand why Apple continues to perform accelerated share repurchases from large institutions at significant premium to market prices (30%+) rather than just exclusively purchasing shares on the open market? I had always assumed it was because such massive open market buying would bid up market prices to about that same level, but as this article states, they were able to buy 40 million shares on the open market for $10 billion, versus only 30 million shares via ASRs for the same price. Not only are they rewarding the firms with enough power to pump and dump the stock, but they’re basically losing money by overpaying for those shares. What gives? Serious question.You raise a good point.This is my take on it.Buying back ONLY shares that are on the open market has the effect of increasing the power of the large institutions could have over the Apple Board of Directors. We have all seen what happens when and institutional investor decides that the current BOD of a company is not giving them enough return and they work with others to stage a coup in the hope of getting a bigger return for them and their investors or they sell out as part of a hostile takeover.By keeping the status quo in terms of the ratio of stock held by institutions and smaller investors (aka the likes of us) that keeps that risk down. It would not stop an institution from buying each and every APPL share that came on the market at market rates in order to increase their leverage over the BOD.At the moment, paying a premium for the stock bought from institutions is the price you have to pay to keep them on your side (for the moment at least).I'd like to see Apple reduce the power of the institutions in terms of the percentage of the total stock outstanding.
