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Apple inching closer to noninvasive blood glucose testing tech

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February 2023

JP234 said:

If this succeeds, it's going to transform the lives of diabetics. And be really, really painful for existing companies making the finger stick tests.

Incorrect. Non-invasive glucose monitors are already commonplace. Finger prick testing has been obsolete for years now. The only advantage offered by the Apple system is that it's been 2-3 years away for 6 years. Oh, wait... that's not really an advantage.

Apple employee petition demands flexibility against return-to-office policy

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August 2022

rcomeau said:

Not everything is measurable and companies that reply too much on measuring usually don't do anything creative. A lot of the benefits of being in person in groups are the random conversations that spark the ideas that changes things. KPIs (key performance indicators) are overrated.

Yeah. It's incredible that people don't understand that WFH arrangements will quickly descend into a dystopia of automated performance metrics where your boss is an algorithm and you can't even talk to a human. It would basically turn programming for Apple into working in a call center or Amazon warehouse. Gross.

Apple employee petition demands flexibility against return-to-office policy

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August 2022

mac_dog said:
Spoiled brats? I don’t know about this, as I don’t know the particular people involved. I’m glad some of you do.

If you want to be paid but don't want to do your job, then yes, you are a spoiled brat. That's enough info to make that determination. And yes, showing up is part of your job if your boss says it's part of your job. You don't get to pick and choose what your job is. Unless, of course, you are a spoiled brat.

I agree this should be handled with immediate managers. They would take the responsibility if their division fails to meet productivity requirements. They should be required to prove their increased productivity from home vs office. Simple enough to do and it’s measurable.

Doing a good job is about more than how many lines of code you write. It's also about the effect you have on your team. If you get your project finished and then spend your free time on slack organizing mobs to attack colleagues you've never met in real life over stuff they wrote 10 years ago, then you are dragging your team down no matter what your performance metrics say. That also goes for people making petitions.

Both sides should be open to the scrutiny that’s required to make this a fair arrangement.

Apple is open to you finding work elsewhere. There is plenty. Totally fair that that if you don't want to do a job you should quit that job.

Ultimately, Ventura and iPad OS 14 are likely the most lackluster updates ever for the respective platforms. The laziness lack of group cohesion caused by WFH is on full display. Apple couldn't even be bothered finding a picture of Monterrey or Ventura for the wallpaper. That's called calling it in and its emblematic of the whole Ventura release.

Apple design team shows off 'quiet and calming' Apple Park

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December 2021

DAalseth said:

Cathedrals were designed for the Church Hierarchy, not the people who actually arrived on Sunday.

I don't know where you got that- you've been reading some sort of anti-religious propaganda I guess. To get good acoustics, the ceiling has to be at least as high as the building is wide. You know, so the "people who actually arrived on Sunday" could hear. In order for the illiterate "people who actually arrived on Sunday" to be able to understand, things had to be shown visually via sculptures, paintings, and stained glass windows. To be able to see those visual lessons there had to be light. Since candles can't light a space that big very well that meant the biggest possible windows which lead to innovations such as gothic buttresses.

The design constraints above pretty much entirely made cathedrals what they are and are all about meeting the needs of "people who actually arrived on Sunday". People didn't toil away for centuries making cathedrals purely to please some bishop.