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  • Apple's latest security update is important, but the mass-media response is unhinged

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    dewme said:
    Apple should consider setting up some form of opt-in notification service to allow Apple to directly communicate with customers regarding software and firmware updates. Apple’s lazy push update model coupled with the arbitrary Chicken Little media response to some but not all security updates means that the vast majority of Apple’s customers are getting “notified” about updates via third party sources. I get the vast majority of my update triggers here on AppleInsider. I’d even be okay with Apple coding the severity of updates using some sort of model, like red (immediate), yellow (at your earliest convenience), blue (optional) - or some other scheme. 

    I don’t care how Apple does it, but I’d vastly prefer to get important information about updates directly from Apple rather than anyone else. If I have to subscribe to notifications via iMessage and/or Mail, no problem. This should not be a technical limitation. I get notices from Apple when an artist in my Music library releases a new single or album, so why not get a notification when my device needs a security update? 

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    I guess Apple does a poor job of publicizing it, but they have a security announcement mailing list: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce/ .

    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Apple continuing full-court press against retail unionization efforts

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    Madbum said:
    If these already very highly paid with industry leading benefits and very replaceable Apple retail workers wants to unionize in this economy, they do it at their own risk

    i know about 100 very computer and Apple literate 18 year olds from the high schools in my area that just graduated and would love to work at Apple .

    other retail workers simply do not get the benefits Apple workers get. 

    Stupid stupid greedy people will get what they deserve 
    Most people working at Apple Stores, which is where the organizing is going on, are anything but "highly paid." You're thinking of the engineers who work in the flying disk-shaped building in Cupertino. For wage slaves like the ones in the Stores, a union makes sense.

    And actually, union workers (there are probably two or three left) who were hired by Safeways in my part of the country before about 1985 have similar benefits, and better pay. Though admittedly they don't get discounts on Apple hardware.
    darkvaderronnAlex_Vpfhreak

  • Apple continuing full-court press against retail unionization efforts

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    davgreg said:
    Unions are poison.
    Apple should go to court and challenge the Wagner Act itself. That would finish off unions in the US.


    When did a shop steward rain on your parade?

    Unions, plain and simple, balance out the money of the business owners with the numbers of the employees — without whom the owners would have no products or services to sell.

    Before unions, most employees worked 10 - 12 hour days, six days a week, with no holidays, no health insurance, no retirement savings plan or pension, no workers rights of any kind — except to be fired. And then there was child labor. And the "right" to die in a fire because the business owners chained the fire escape doors closed because too may people were daring to take breaks to get a breath of fresh air.

    Please don't post such ignorant comments unless you can back them up with facts.
    ronnFileMakerFellerAlex_V

  • Data recovery is now possible from Apple Silicon systems - at a cost

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    geekmee said:
    “ I don't backup anymore. I have all my relevant data in iCloud. Hopefully Apple doesn't screw up.”

    Ditto. I think cloud services has made backups a thing of the past. And Apple has too much riding on all their products. At some point, you have to move on and decide to worry about something else.

    And if you don’t want to pay for cloud services, then you’ve made a decision, to be stuck in the past.
    If you really believe that cloud services back up everything you store on them to the 99.9% reliability level, you’re either purposefully ignoring published reports of data loss in the cloud, or just living in cloud-cuckoo land. You should always have two or more ways to access copies of your critical data. Either way, I guess, it’s a “decision.”

    Since iCloud storage serves many purposes, it’s unclear whether it’s optimized for data integrity for backup purposes (as opposed to say, Backblaze, who make most of their money off backup services), or what its history of data loss has been.
    watto_cobraviclauyycmuthuk_vanalingam

  • The cheesegrater Mac Pro could still be the best Mac ever made

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    Having used (for work) various PowerMac G5s, cheesegrater Mac Pros, and the "Mr. Fusion" Mac Pro, I can state that they all were good in their day for one application or another. If you had a variety of tasks, the 2013 Mac Pro, with its large number of ports and GPU/memory configurations, turned out to serve our needs better than the cheesegraters did. I'm certain the reverse was true for many people, especially those who couldn't bend their minds around the fact that Thunderbolt was a game changer, and external enclosures linked by it worked at PCIe speeds.

    I also owned a cheesegrater Mac Pro for home use (mostly for work), and found it incredibly useful — until workflows with ~ ten thousand times as much data/unit time made it obsolete. The world moves on, and thankfully, so does Apple.
    dewmewatto_cobrakillroyFileMakerFeller