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Over $700 million in imports by Apple, Samsung & others held up by India e-waste authority...
Firstly, No country comes close to the US as far as solid waste generation is concerned. US tops the world and creates about 6-7times as much as India. (So, no india is not one of the worst polluters in the world. They are significantly better than US with three times the population and one-sixth the solid waste).maestro64 said:First we have no idea what Apple product are being held, ie refurbish products or true e-waste which everyone jumped to due to the picture in the article.
If it is e-waste, companies like Apple and others do not handle their own e-waste this is all handled by third-party recyclers. Most of them will try and separate plastics from metal and electronics, they usually try to incinerate the electronics to get to the gold, silver and copper use in electronics.
India being one of the worst polluter in the world, you can understand why they do not want someone else's waste. But China for the last 20 yrs made lots of money recycling US recycled materials. China is at the point they no long want others people waste since they generate so much of their own. This is leaving the US with a big problem, we all recycle every day with single stream recycling and there are very few operations in the US which can separate the single stream material so it use to go to China. As of this year most of our recycling material goes to a land fill or is being incinerate to generate electricity it not being made into new product like it did when it went to China. Even glass these days is going to the land fill, because US consumer like their clear glass very clear they do no like it cloudy when recycle glass is mixed.
Secondly, please read the article fully. The clauses have been in effect since December 2016, and the agency has been giving repeated 6month extensions to companies to comply. They finally put their foot down. And lastly, it is obvious the companies are not serious about e-waste disposal. If an authorized e-waste disposal center does not know that they are the authorized e-waste disposal center for a company, one can imagine the scale of neglect by the companies.
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Apple Music subscription reduced in India in response to Spotify and YouTube Music launche...
Its not the profitability. Its the lack of local content.tipoo said:Damn, 99INR is only 1.91 Canadian dollars, if that's sustainable and profitable in India it just goes to show how high services margins are in the western world.
While apple music (and spotify etc.) might have good international content (i.e. western music) they have very little local content. Especially old local content. A few years down the line maybe they will build up their library enough but as of now there is very little and the growth in content is very slow. I had subscribed to the service for a year and then decided to unsubscribe.
(For those who don't know, there are over 50 fully active languages in india, with about a dozen languages having a full-fledged music and movie industries.)
So, local language content is extremely important and many times determines the success of a service. There are many alternative music services like Saavn or Gaana which provide the desired content.
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Apple's apology for small amount of 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard failures still isn't enough
Sorry dude, I am as much of an apple user as you can find, but the butterfly keyboard issue is just nonsense. Every person I know who bought a mac laptop in the last 2-3yrs had to get it replaced due to the keyboard. just last month, my friend got the new macbook air, and in one week the character 't' started misbehaving. Either he would get 'tt' or none at all about 30% of the time. Luckily it happened before the warranty ran out, so they replaced the laptop. He has his fingers crossed now.randominternetperson said:Wow, what a critical and hard-hitting piece of journalism.
What I got from that is a small percentage of people who have recent MacBooks end up with keyboard problems, and those users should "go get it fixed."
Oh, and also, the small percentage of users who had problems with keyboards before 2016 was (perhaps) half the size.
And, for some reason Apple should "apologize" for not creating perfect, faultless devices.
Shrug. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro and I love it and am in the "large percentage" of users without a problem.
This is the third generation of the butterfly keyboard, and it is still failing in all the same ways. As engineers we usually call something like that a faulty architecture. Apple needs to change it, but are unable to do so I think due to the thickness with old keyboards.
Infact I am holding out on upgrading my pre-butterfly keyboard macbook pro, until apple fixes this issue once and for all.
The best keyboards currently out there are on lenovo laptops, and that is not something I am happy about and neither should apple be.
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Healthcare tech firm Epic Systems says it won't consider any Apple buyout offer
I worked as a developer at Epic early in my career.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.
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. -
Poor customer service is tarnishing Apple's image in India
So, you like saw two indians and decided not to like them .... nice attitude. Irony died somewhere in there...AppleExposed said:
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.GeorgeBMac said:
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.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.
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.
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!"
