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Apple corporate staffers have returned to Apple Park, one day a week
Paul_B said:jcs2305 said:
Seriously? ......Link648099 said:Imagine being so mentally fragile that being around your coworkers scares you. This is why we say leftist wokism is a mental illness. It's normalized agoraphobia.
Wokism is cancer and it spreads like cancer.Paul_B said:Xed said:
Are you saying that discrimination, especially racism, is just the natural order of things and people should just accept their place in society?Paul_B said:
Wokism is cancer and it spreads like cancer.jcs2305 said:
Seriously? ......Link648099 said:Imagine being so mentally fragile that being around your coworkers scares you. This is why we say leftist wokism is a mental illness. It's normalized agoraphobia.
What exactly is Racism, many studies have indicated that children are inherently NOT racist, but if you hurt my loved ones or steal my property, vengeance will occur, child or adult. Think. Wokism is a cancer of the brain.As a man of color I have been highly alert to racial prejudice and situations of discrimination in and out of the work place my entire life. I remember a time when woke was actually just a question asking if you were asleep or not. So calling it a cancer of the brain because people are finally becoming aware of the ignorance around them is just a bad look. Just because people waking up to things makes you and other uncomfortable or you are tired of hearing about it doesn't make it bad or a cancer... my god what the hell are people so afraid of?Allow me to tell you about racism is since you seem to need enlightenment ..- Racism is having your best little buddy growing up call you the N word whenever they were mad and it didn't seem like a big deal
- Racism is not being able to take a girl you've know for years to a little high school dance because her parents are afraid of what people will think.
- Racism is a random man approaching you as a 10 or 12 year old kid asking if they had pools for your kind back down closer to my house because they don't want our kind polluting their pools.
- Racism as a friends mom you have known for 15 years of your life comment that you were becoming very handsome.. to bad there isn't a nice "colored girl" you could go out with.
- Racism is having a friends father say he Ni**** lipped a cigar like it was just normal conversation... with a whoops as an excuse.
So I do agree 100,000% that children are NOT inherently born racist.. this type of hateful shit is taught and made to seem "normal" by ignorant and bigoted parents, neighbors and society.. and people are tired of it!
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Apple considers dropping face mask mandate for Apple Store staff
Meir Medical Center has 780 beds, most rooms accommodate three to four patients, 1 m apart with separation curtain partitions between beds. Starting in March 2020, patients have been encouraged to wear surgical masks. Although use was inconsistent, it was enforced during patient–staff encounters for both sides. On the dedicated COVID-19 ward, dedicated staff members worked with full personal protective equipment (PPE): N-95 mask, face shield, gown, gloves and hair cover.cgWerks said:
It is a different situation. A patient in the hospital is likely quite sick and coughing, etc. The mask will stop a good portion of droplet based transmission. However, since Covid-19 spreads via aerosol as well, the mask won't help much there. The store worker is mostly going to be exposed to aerosol spread, not droplet like the nurse.GeorgeBMac said:Bad move for the staff. They face infection everyday. They need protection.Would you tell a nurse to not bother masking in the face of a patient spewing disease?
That said, most of the real-world evidence - primarily done in hospital settings, with influenza - shows masks haven't helped much. A lot of that likely applies to Covid-19 as well. If you want to see how easily Covid-19 spreads even with the use of full PPE, this Israeli study is quite telling:
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.39.2100822#html_fulltext
(it also shows how useless vaccination was, as well)
So the setting of this study you provide is in close quarters ( 1m = 3.28 ft ) and admits that the actual use of masks was inconsistent. Close quarters for extended periods of time and not using a masks consistently is the very example of how to spread COVID. wow...
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FTC sues to block Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm
darkvader said:rob53 said:If this acquisition is allowed it makes no sense why Apple’s App Store is being forced to open up. Apple has every right to run its products the way it wants to. Nvidia owning ARM affects multiple computing companies not just its own.Nvidia owning ARM is a terrible idea, and should be stopped.And that has NOTHING AT ALL to do with Apple and their app store. Apple has NO right to run MY iPhone the way it wants. It's MY iPhone, not Apple's iPhone. And because it's MY iPhone and not Apple's iPhone, Apple should not be allowed to have any say whatsoever about what software I choose to run on MY iPhone. If you want to only get software through Apple's app store on YOUR iPhone, that's your right. But neither you nor Apple should have the ability to stop me from getting software from any source of my choosing.And the same thing goes for in-app purchases. MY iPhone, not Apple's iPhone. It's only Apple's until they sell it. Then it's MINE, not Apple's any more. It's well past time for Apple's app store monopoly to be busted.With the average knowledge level of users and the amount of personal info on your device at any time most people have zero business loading apps from anywhere they please. Do you realize how easy it is for a malicious app to gain root access to your device? Parents hand their kids their phones all the time to play on. Between kids loading whatever they want and older or inexperienced users doing the same.. it would be a nightmare. These same users would ultimately blame apple when they have their bank accounts stolen from or their device is not operating correctly because of malware on THEIR device. Think about how many millions of infected Windows machines there are in the wild right now from just the users I mentioned? Kids loading what they want from god only knows where on the internet. Older folks or inexperienced users falling for the amazon scam and granting remote access to someone in another country that hold their machine for ransom?I jailbroke for years my own devices and friends and the number one thing I told people not to do was load pirated apps from the app store. There were so many cool tweaks to add from developer in the Cidia store to make your phone behave and look unique. THAT was the reason and the fun of jailbreaking. I didn't mind paying a small developer a few bucks for a tweak they they work on and maintain on their own personal time. Not to steal apps from some shady ass store to save 99c? Other folks who decided to do that got bank info stolen or worse... as well as a device that needs to be wiped and restored as new.As far as in app purchases go.. I pay for most of my non apple services outside of the app store and their 30% surcharge. Youtube premium I pay $9.99 directly to google through paypal.. it is 12.99 a month through the app store subscription billing. Disney+ bundle is paid for the year after creating an account online. Shudder is another one paid for the year outside of the app store. IMHO all developers should just pass the 30% onto the customer via the monthly pricing. Let's just be upfront about it. Here is the price you can pay, or here is the price you can pay for the convenience of using the app store for billing and initial downloads and updates which all come from Apple servers.If this hurts or is unfair to smaller devs than Apple should adjust the percentage for those smaller devs until they reach a certain monthly monetary threshold. If they never get that big they can't held to that 30% charge. It can't be free, but it needs to be fair in proportion to what they generate. I think they may do something similar to that now with smaller devs, but I could be wrong?
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iPhone 13 Pro will get 1TB option & new 'AirPods 3' will not replace AirPods
Apple now has their own 3 headphones styles for those wanting the convenience and ease of use within the ecosystem along with premium sound. Beats these days seem to be moving toward the Android crowd that want the Beats name and an Apple product, but don't want to commit to IOS devices or the ecosystem. I think this evidenced by the new Beats studio buds. Totally new chip instead of the H1 used by the Apple airpods line that allows Android users one touch pairing.goodbyeranch said:
Cool man. And over ear headphones were a Beats product, not an Apple prodcut. Then they were. Go figure. Have a nice day.crowley said:
AirPods Max were never a Beats product. I doubt they'll mix the lines, they both have markets that they're targeting, and that's a useful distinction.goodbyeranch said:
For premium design and features, just like they did with AirPodsMaxcrowley said:
What purpose would that serve? They seem to doing well enough on their own.goodbyeranch said:I see Apple folding the PowerBeats Pro form factor into the Apple brand at some point.
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Apple fires employee who spoke out on workplace issues, cites alleged leak
genovelle said:
I literally called them last week and was on the phone for a good while resolving an issue. Parts of the conversation was about hurricane Ida that had just hit us and there was no sense she was on the clock. At all.thinkman100000000 said:
You certainly have a lot to say after one whole week on the job. I've used Apple support for nearly 3 decades and without exception, all support personnel spent however much time was necessary (sometimes days!) to resolve my issue. During this time it wasn't unusual for me to have casual conversation with them. Given how many of them sincerely loved their job at Apple (many of whom had worked there for ages), I have to wonder about this one-week-wonder.welshdog said:
I worked for Apple a total of 5 weeks as an iOS At Home Advisor (phone tech support). Four weeks of that was training which was great. The actual work was too stressful and I had to quit. One factor was the shocking amount of monitoring they did on me while I worked. One time after a call, I was doing the cleanup (notes etc.) and I heard a voice calling my name. A window opened on my iMac and my manager appeared wanting to know why I was taking so long. I was not used to that sort of oversight. Every employer I had ever had in my life gave me the responsibility to get the work done without someone standing over me. There were a lot of rules including shutting off the iMac when done working and not using it for anything until the next shift. Even if it was related to my work, like checking my schedule for example, was not allowed. Plus then there was this whole complex system of demerits you got for being late, or going to a doctor's appointment or anything else related to life in general. None of this is unique to Apple of course, but it is alien to me. At age 64 and retired, I do feel very sorry for people stuck in this sort or corporate gulag. I could not do it and won't even entertain the thought of working for a large corporation ever again.s.metcalf said:What she describes sounds (unfortunately) typical of most corporates and is very believable. I can imagine working for an employer that has such a comprehensive—even overwhelming—employee monitoring capability, and an internal crack squadron of “ threat officers” (the so-called Apple Police) would be stressful, even without employer problems. You’d want to consider that when negotiating a salary with Apple, that’s for sure.
Not convinced airing your grievances on Twitter is the right approach, however.Wow it's amazing how far you two are going to defend Apple and discredit the OP. OP never said anything about having to rush his call, he said the after call notation was when he was asked why he was taking so long. Which is typical of call center work and the insane amount of micromanaging that takes place.One time after a call, I was doing the cleanup (notes etc.) and I heard a voice calling my name. A window opened on my iMac and my manager appeared wanting to know why I was taking so long. I was not used to that sort of oversight.As far as engaging in small talk... Dead air is a no no in most customer service call center work. It is taught to make or engage in small talk so that the customer doesn't just sit and listen to silence.
