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  • #AppleToo publishes first five stories of harrassment, discrimination

    peter pintopeter pinto
    Do these employees need a better employer? Or do they need parents? At least 3 of these 5 stories seem to suggest that they need a mom or dad to sort stuff out at their work place.

    It’s not that I haven’t seen stuff like this before. But to have had bad experiences at work and then turn to Apple with the blame is extremely childish in my opinion. It’s probably the first time these people are outside an artificial “safe space”, where teachers and parents make sure that every child is seen and heard - but that’s how life is. The parental preferential treatment stops when you become an adult. 

    As I wrote: I’ve seen this before, but mostly with parents calling me, demanding preferential treatment for their now adult children. I tell them all that their children are now adults, and that as adults, they have agency and a responsibility to them selves and their own life. I suggest Apple react in the same way.

    It goes without saying that all allegations concerning abuse, sexual harassment or racism should be investigated. 
    dewme

  • A12Z chip in 2020 iPad Pro confirmed to be recycled A12X

    peter pintopeter pinto
    So Apple releases an absolute monster of an iPad in 2018, decides to do a slight upgrade with the same chip in 2020 - and people break out the pitchforks?

    iPad Pro 2020 release is closely connected to the new Apple Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro. How would it have been received if Apple released that keyboard and NOT an updated iPad Pro? Not that well, I imagine.

    ”But they should have delivered a new iPad Pro with the newest A13 chip!” Maybe so, but they chose not to. Did Apple lie about that? No. Is there a real problem here? No. 
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  • Editorial: Steve Jobs would have been proud of Tim Cook's Apple News & Apple TV event

    peter pintopeter pinto
    I honestly don't believe there are many Apple 'haters' among tech journalists. 

    But there are contrarians. Journalists who deliberately pose an anti-thesis to any given Apple product or narrative. Why has this been on the rise the last ten years? Because now Apple is the behemoth, and that almost automatically places journalists in a situation where they have to be not only critical to Apple - but in direct opposition. 

    Which is a sad state of affairs to be honest. Because then Facebook can do all its shit vis-a-vis privacy. Google can get away with how Android looks right now (hint: security on Android is a fucking mess) etc. 

    So when Apple News+ is presented, Casey Newton from Verge just immediately writes it off with a snarky remark. The same guy who's writing about how bad the news industry is treated by Facebook. Well Casey, here's an attempt at doing it better - maybe try it out before posting your unfounded opinion? 

    But again, I don't see these journalists as haters - I just wish they had better analytical skills and waited for more information before passing judgement. 

    That said, the lesson identified for Apple should be this: When you invite tech journalists, have something they can try out or watch. Because they friggin' HAVE to write something, when invited to an Apple event. If they don't, their magazine/publication loses money. 
    tenthousandthings

  • iWork app updates coming with improved Apple Pencil support and new iOS features

    peter pintopeter pinto
    Like most others, I also use Microsoft Office at work. 

    But iWorks is just so much easier to use! I think I use 10% of the functionality in Office. And designing a page layout in Word is not intuitive at all. With Pages, it’s so much easier. 

    And it’s the same with Numbers and Keynote - especially Keynote. So easy to use compared to PowerPoint. 

    Oh, and btw: You need a subscription to use Office on the bigger and/or newer iPads. 
    watto_cobra

  • Editorial: A disappearing computer so big it's invisible

    peter pintopeter pinto
    There is no doubt that Apple Watch is a big deal. After a somewhat rocky start (and Nilay Patel of The Verge wrote a really excellent review of the first Apple Watch), the Watch is now a fully functional wrist-computer, with a heavy focus on fitness/health and notifications. 

    But the potential for the Watch is so much more, especially regarding health. Not only as a heart rate monitor (which is already huge), but also in becoming a glucose monitor. However, this is also somewhat problematic for tech journalists: It's much more fun to write about some new gimmicky "killer" feature (like the recent VR fad) than it is to write about diabetes patients and how to help them. In fact, it almost feels like Apple is trying rather hard to keep introducing useful technology in people's lives, while tech journalists try to keep the narrative rather nerdy (articles about tech, written by techies for techies). 

    Let's be real here: The current Apple Watch health functions are already close to being revolutionary and adding a non-invasive glucose monitor function (approved by government health organisations) to the Watch will be a gigantic leap forward. We're talking a health monitor attached to millions of people and with the potential to be reporting health data back to health scientists, with both cardio and glucose data. For many, it will be a life-changing tech improvement, making the introduction of the iPhone look like the presentation of a new toy. We're talking stuff that will save people's lives on a massive scale, both in the present and in the future. 

    At the same time, tech journalists report with true excitement about voice assistants, which only real job is to make the owner buy more stuff from Amazon or gain intel to Google (the biggest advertisement company in the world) - or about smaller bezels on a smartphone. The Apple Watch simply makes companies like Amazon, Samsung and - to a certain extent - Google look like minors, trying to play adults. 

    I hope that tech journalists pick up on this and turn on their brains for this new reality: That consumer technology is transcending into areas previously reserved for very expensive and specialised medical equipment - and probably also other areas previously reserved by expensive and specialised equipment. Oh wait - this has happened before (PC stands for Personal Computer, as opposed to the mainframe that dominated before), but as Apple develops their health products and services, the potential for life changing tech is huge and the impact on people who consider themselves to be computer illiterate will be equally huge. 
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