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Tesla's Elon Musk backs Epic, calls App Store fees a 'de facto global tax'
crosslad said:But hypocritical coming from someone who made a fortune with PayPal.Without taxes, there wouldn't have been government loans that helped Tesla and SpaceX to establish themselves, and make Musk rich.No money from government contracts to send his rockets into space, or subsidize his satellite broadband service.Nor would there be free roads and bridges that Tesla owners utilize, but don't pay gas taxes to support.Oh, and no DARPA, no IP, and no internet.Of course, taxes are bad, and Musk, like his billionaire peers do as much as they can to pay as little as they can.See? He's on your side, fighting for you, against the evil corporations like Apple! Just like Tm Sweeney.
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Apple employees threaten to quit as company takes hard line stance on remote work
dysamoria said:The anti-worker hostility shown here is callous, presumptuous, and generally appalling. None of you have any idea what any of these employees’ lives are like.
The reason Apple wants to force every worker into being on site for a certain percentage of time probably has a lot more to do with making sure their insanely expensive building/campus isn’t sitting empty, because that would be embarrassing for a company that cares a lot about their image.
It’s been noted that people don’t like working there. Open floor plans and glass walls/doors suck for actual humans and productivity. The main building is like the Powermac G4 cube and the trashcan Mac Pro: all form; poorly-considered function.
Then there’s the basic fact that the 40-hour workweek and officespace culture is just plain unhealthy.
Instead of being bitter about what you see as “entitled” employees who should get shit on just the same as you do, maybe think about trying to raise the bar for EVERYONE (which includes yourselves). Stop licking the corporate boot and acting like you’re living vicariously through the boot wearers.Apple has three large campuses -- Apple Park, Infinite Loop, and Campus 3, plus owns vacant land to build a fourth adjacent to the SJC airport, as well as occupying scores of other small buildings scattered around Cupertino, Sunnyvale, and the surrounding area. Not to mention campuses in Sacramento, and in other states, like Austin and Boulder.If "the" reason for Apple's position on remote work was to keep its buildings full of people, it could realize huge savings by making remote work permanent for many of its employees, consolidate its offices, reduce its footprint, and lease obligations.Yet it's not doing that, and even with the capacity added by Apple Park, couldn't accommodate all of its workforce in its home area by consolidating to its campuses, and also reap the benefits of having everyone under common roofs, instead of scattered around to small buildings like it does now.Apple has never had a reputation as a great place to work, relative to places like Google and Facebook, or startups and their perks, but like them, it stands out on a CV, which makes up for a lot of the minuses.Even Google has lost its shine, and there is unrest within its ranks regarding work policies going forward, so Apple is not alone. These are the large, old guard companies of tech now, and if, like IBM during its heydays, you don't feel like wearing a jacket and tie to work, it's probably better to look elsewhere where you can be more comfortable, or with a more flexible culture.
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Chip shortage to get worse before it gets better, says Intel CEO
waveparticle said:The people that know the detail are hiding facts. Who are the suppliers of auto chips? No one is willing to tell this fact.Renesas is a big supplier to the auto industry. It had a fire in its main factory back in March, which did not help things. It also contracts production to TSMC, which, we know is quite busy, and prioritizing good clients like Apple. The recent Covid outbreak in Taiwan has also affected production there, including important suppliers needed for that production chain.Most of the chips used in vehicles aren't sexy, like computer CPUs and GPUs. They're smaller microcontrollers, which may be based on Arm and PPC (Moto/Freescale) architectures, but built on older processes and undergo more validation testing. They have to be more conservative, because, even now, vehicles aren't frequently patched like computers and devices are; once they're made a part of a component like a engine ECU, or body computer, they're pretty much set for the life of the vehicle, running the firmware they were originally shipped with. They also live a harder life, in more varied environments in terms of climate and RF exposure. But, with more and more glass cockpits and other tech elements in new cars, chips more like computer CPUs and GPUs are seeing more frequent use.Storms in Texas also affected Samsung's factory, which produces controllers for drives and displays, which also perform more specific functions, like the automotive chips.Not sure why the press keeps quoting Intel, which mostly deals in CPUs and such, or why it thinks it can speak for everyone else making the chips in short supply that they don't. The people who aren't guessing, and can provide better insight are those from TSMC, Renesas, Samsung, or others like STMelectronics.Product X isn't on shelves because Intel is falling short on supplying I5s and such to manufacturers. It's all the little supporting chips that are the issue.
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Upcoming USB-C standard more than doubles power delivery to 240W
j2fusion said:If it maintains the 20V specification then it would have to push 12 amps through the cable. That would require something like 14 gage wire to carry that kind of current. That means thick heavy cable unless they push the voltage up to 48 volts to keep the current 5 amp draw. I followed the link to the USB-IF and couldn’t find any details.Apparently, it will be 48 volts, so it should be manageable. FireWire came close, at 40 volts.However, the fun will be if this adds yet more cable types to the roster, and if there will be 60W, 100W, and 240W cables.USB-C may have been the One Connector To Rule Them All, but all that has done is shift the complexity to the cables.
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Advertisers flee to Android as majority of iOS users opt out of ad tracking
Jobs held the belief that "…customers don't know what they want until we've shown them."Then, in 2010, he said this:"Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for, in plain English, and repeatedly. That’s what it means. I’m an optimist, I believe people are smart. And some people want to share more data than other people do. Ask them. Ask them every time. Make them tell you to stop asking them if they get tired of your asking them. Let them know precisely what you’re going to do with their data. That’s what we think."Advertisers may be objecting, and some users may even be asking why it took Apple so long, but it is adhering to those long held principles.Some may have wondered, once the internet became mainstream, and embraced by the world as an amazing force, how long it would take before it became corrupted, by greed and/or malice, and find the balance between its positives and negatives reach a sort of equilibrium, or topic for debate. I did.Thanks to companies like Facebook, and the online ad industry in general, I guess the answer ended up being about 25-30 years.
