sree

Eric_WVGG said:

Does anyone find the proprietary M1 chip kind of shady? Or rather, the proprietary pairing API that M1-equipped hardware can use to seamlessly pair with iOS devices?

I find it a little unfair that it is literally impossible for third-parties to make Bluetooth audio equipment that works as well as AirPods or Beats, and an antitrust argument of Apple using their control of one market (iOS devices) as leverage over another market (accessories) is pretty straightforward.

(This isn't quite the same as MFI, IMO. In MFI, the specs are out there, all you need to do is apply to be a partner and get your hardware approved and pay the fee.)

anonconformist said:

sree said:

rob53 said:

Epic is full of epic user problems. Just talk to any medical receptionist who’s had to transition to Epic. Why would Apple even consider wasting their money buying out this company? Work with them but be able to ditch them whenever they want to. 

I worked as a developer at Epic early in my career.

Extremely outdated tech from the 1970s that nobody else in the world is using (like the MUMPS language etc.). Most of the effort at the place goes into managing that historic tech. I left because I would have been unemployable in the software industry after working there for a few years (though it was obvious that I could have earned a lot and it was going to capture the market). 
Then there is the development processes inspired from microsoft - deliver first and fix later. 

EPIC was the first reasonably sized company who had a fairly comprehensive product ready when the EHR market caught heat in the 2000s. So, it zoomed past everybody else in market share. The software is unbelievably rickety inside.

I have a coworker that was a bit more recently a developer at Epic, and I have other sources of information to know that while they're not using something so old as MUMPS anymore, they still have a codebase the size of a modern complex GUI OS written in a language that's been End Of Lifed for over 10 years now, that's not got support for threading, and the Epic software is its own health-related platform unto itself.

And yes, if you were to find yourself employed to maintain/extend the old codebase in its current primary language, that would make you unemployable in doing anything else other than working with ancient codebases in dead languages, typically chosen by companies that are too cheap to do things the right way the first time in a language that has a long-term future.

AppleExposed said:

GeorgeBMac said:

AppleInsider said:

Apple received low marks for customer satisfaction, issue resolution and empathy of store staff to customers and their problems, with 60 percent of respondents calling employees of authorized shops "arrogant," the report said.

"The entire process seemed very transactional and non-personal, which isn't expected from a brand like Apple in the rest of the world," said Tapuriah.

Arrogant:   That has been my impression in at least half of my visits to my local Apple Store.   The "I am right and you are wrong" mentality is very strong -- even when asked why their "facts" differ from those of another Apple employee from the same store!   During one drawn out issue of a defective phone being replaced I received 4 different answer from each of 4 different employees -- and each of them insisted that they and only they were correct.   That's arrogance.  

In fact, in my last visit to that store I thanked the employee for not talking down to me.  That's how common I have found it to be.  (Again, roughly half the time)

(But that is only in the one store that I frequent -- and I have never, ever experienced any arrogance during any online interaction (support or sales).   Not even a shred of arrogance -- quite the opposite actually).

Transactional & Impersonal:   I seldom find this.   But when I do, it is only after being handed off to somebody charged with taking my money after I have decided to buy a product or service.   But, other than that, it is almost always the exact opposite:  Very warm and personal.  

I met an Apple hater from India and he was one of the most arrogant stupid mother**ckers I had ever met. He claimed the Secure Enclave did not secure user data and laughed every time I explained how computer chips worked. I think he thought I was talking about potato chips because he found my knowledge on the subject so funny yet he knew ZERO about chips. Literally nothing about them.

So I can't blame those Apple employees if that's the attitude in India. Plus look up any scammer video on YouTube these people are complete sh**. I'm starting not to like Indians. Has nothing to do with Apple and all to do with attitude.

They also have this weird thing when you beat them in an argument they start making random noises. It's like when a kid says "LALALALA!"

GeorgeBMac said:

And, with that, Microsoft left Apple in the dust.

GeorgeBMac said:

Nearly a decade ago they developed an OS that works either in touch-screen mode or touchpad mode.   And, since then they have proceeded to refine and perfect it.  

Meanwhile, Apple is stuck back a decade or two ago where you still need to buy and carry two devices:  One for touch-screen and one for touchpad mode.

The Windows OS provides freedom to the user:  he can use touch-screen when that works best then switch to touchpad when that works best.

Apple is lagging behind.

GeorgeBMac said:

Apple is lagging behind.