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#AppleToo receives nearly 500 stories of workplace issues in four days
lauriel said:I have no doubt some of the complaints and grievances may be true but being a General Manager of 350 in a hotel I can say it is impossible to keep everyone happy and also rely on every manager supervisor and staff members to do the right thing all of the time. My experience tells me that the biggest complaints generally come from workers that are not performing in their job. Good and happy workers rarely complain !No doubt there are probably legitimate complaints from Apple workers, like there are for any company, especially one with 147,000 full-time employees (per 2020 10-K), which helps put the number cited in perspective.
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Apple attempted to hire Google deputy search chief Ben Gomes
fastbagger said:I thought these companies signed a no poaching agreement?The big Silicon Valley tech players did collude, and agreed not to poach from each other.That resulted in an antitrust action from the DOJ and a civil lawsuit.
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Apple details user privacy, security features built into its CSAM scanning system
The irony is if Apple had not made a big deal of these features, it probably would have been subject to a lot less scrutiny and criticism. As noted, other companies already do take measures against CSAM, and have for a long time. A bit of opaqueness, like the way it has handled subpoenas for iCloud data and such, wouldn't have generated as much attention or blowback. San Bernardino was only a thing because the FBI made it a thing. Apple wasn't the protagonist in that dispute, and fought back only because it had to.Traditionally, Apple has been deft at avoiding hot button issues, and other dilemmas, by "not going there," but the company has made a rare misstep this time, and worse, is doubling down on its stance.Even worse, it has proven the doubters and skeptics right, has made of mockery of that infamous ad it placed in Vegas, and damaged its credibility, which is hard to build, but easy to lose. Nobody to blame but itself for this one.However well-intentioned, or morally justified, it has taken a philosophical leap from its former position. People are getting bogged down arguing the hows, but It's the principle that is the heart of the dispute, not the tech or its execution.It's baffling. Perhaps the company's success has caused the leadership to become too myopic, believe that their way is the right way, and the only way, and forget how to read a room. No company stays on top forever; that's the cyclical nature of things. It will be interesting to see if that chapter marks the inevitable decline the company will experience.
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What you need to know: Apple's iCloud Photos and Messages child safety initiatives
yojimbo007 said:ORWELLIAN!
Besides absolute invasiveness what do they hope to accomplish with this??… it will solve nothing!
Ones who have these tendencies and know that they are being watched.. they will simply circumvent it by using other platforms and Avoid Apple iCloud or Apple all together.
Including those who just cant stand the totalitarian approach of big tech and Apple‘s increasingly invasive walled garden ( feels like the a walled China )
This is a horrific pr/pub/buisness move by Apple… it feels Orwellian ! It Is ORWELLIAN !
Dont do it Tim…. this will alienate everyday normal people who value privacy!
(its not to the best interest of the share holders! )If the 1984 commercial was remade today, it would be hard to argue against the notion that Apple would be cast as the figure on the screen, not the hammer thrower. It has been building up to that for a long time.Arguing over the statistics and techniques is missing the point -- privacy means what one keeps inside their box is known only to themselves, and those they share it with. Not to others who will now monitor the box and try to infer what is inside, by whatever means and however supposedly accurate they may be. The cops won't be going down the street knocking on every door and looking inside without reason, but they will be driving by with a scanner, sniffing for patterns and treating that as a proxy for probably cause.It would be naive to think that the rulers in certain countries, especially one powerful one with a market too large to ignore, aren't rubbing their hands in glee over having another potential tool to apply to their existing surveillance state. Want access to our market? Our laws say that requires measures, of our choosing, using our standards, to ensure the safety and security of the people.Others, like the media cartel may be thinking, "Fingerprints? Yeah, we got those. How can be make better use of them?" Hmmm.Apple has climbed the mountain, and has stood firmly at the top for a while. But get to close to the edge, and it's a long way down.Disheartening to have to concede that Scott McNealy was right, all along.
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Unfinished AirPower unit shown off in new video
elijahg said:
You sure about that?flydog said:
A charging puck "with 3 spaces" is not remotely close to AirPower, and there is nothing on the market currently that is functionally equivalent. AirPower was designed with 20 coils so that it would not be necessary to align a device exactly with a coil for charging. Obviously 20 coils creates heat problems that aren't an issue with just 3 coils.elijahg said:Interesting that the charging animation was left in. Seems they finished the iOS software but never could get the charger to work properly. Which is pretty unfortunate since there are now AirPower style charging pucks available with 3 spaces. I wonder if there were limitations due to the nonstandard AW charging which they couldn't work around. Leaving things like this in the OS though is where exploits stem from - rarely used software that's not fully tested. It should be removed.Zens (with the Liberty) would also disagree. Not as sophisticated as Aira's (integrated and fan-less) technology in Nomad's Base Station Pro, but both are shipping products.Both come at a price that a lot of consumers probably aren't willing to pay for the incremental benefits they provide.No doubt AirPower would have cost a pretty penny as well.Many people get along fine with the commodity chargers plucked from Amazon.
