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sirlance99 said:

lkrupp said:

Okay, doctors, nurses, first responders, healthcare workers are overworked, NOT Apple employees working at home. All this article has done is make Apple employees look like mewling quims (thank you, Loki). 

I so agree with you here. Seriously, screw these pansy Apple workers complaining. Doctors, nurses and more are literally RISKING THEIR LIVES every time they go to work for over 13 hours a day as they see people die right in front of them. They have no right to complain. 

Ah, the old 'someone else has it worse, so you should shut up' argument.

kestral said:

There's a price for every decision we make. If you decide to have kids, you pay the price of your own decision, not someone else.

I really don't think that this is a standard expected situation is it? And capitalism needs workers for the future as well, society needs children. Or maybe you'd like them all to be imported from Mexico, India, China and so on?

ihatescreennames said:

How is it different for Apple employees who are working from home with kids than it is for anybody else working from home with kids?

Despite not having to commute an hour each way my wife is putting in MORE hours working from home than when she goes to the office. Similar to Apple employees, she is in a global business and is constantly talking to people overseas, in Europe and Asia. 

Yes, having children while working from home presents different challenges. Those same challenges exist for most of the people she is communicating with day and night. People understand because they are living it, too. 

1. This is an Apple-oriented website, so they talk about Apple. 2. Your wife should be strict with her working hours, particularly in this situation, if only for her own mental health and general wellbeing, nevermind working for free to make someone else more money. It is your job to remind her of this and to get her to stop and have a break and to to spend time with the family. If she has an evening call, then she can free up time in the day to compensate. 3. The issue really is when you are a parent, and your managers/supervisors are not parents, and simply cannot understand what this situation is like - combining childcare, home-schooling and normal work, in a stressful situation. If Apple are still expecting a full day's work out of employees, then everything they say about being supportive is just that - words, without meaning. 4. A lot of people in the comments simply have no understanding or compassion.

So eight Firestorm cores and four Icestorm cores (for low-power tasks, idling, background tasks, etc). But no word on the GPU, which will have to be pretty meaty to compete with next year's Intel/AMD offerings - but 5nm should give Apple some power headroom.

If you have a child who will be using the tablet, the Fire 10 with the kid stuff added on is a big bonus. Also for media consumption it works fine. Issues IMO are that Android/FireOS have weak tablet apps (even the better apps like browsers, often websites will appear in mobile form, not desktop) where you want to be doing real work. Ultimately, for $180 (over twice the price) more, the iPad is a far better overall device - better screen ratio, better hardware everywhere, and better for real work. If you can afford the iPad then get it instead of this, even that A10 will beat this octa-core A55 (I would presume that's the configuration). And that's where this comparison article is weird. The price points are so disparate it's hardly a valid comparison, unlike the more expensive Samsung tablets that might be more powerful than this device, but still have the Android Tablet Ecosystem problems, making an iPad victory easy, and fair.