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I doubt the opening line of this piece:  "no one" is training engineers any more?  So MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, Cal-Tech, Purdue, etc., have just dropped engineering from their curricula?  I doubt it.  I expect those schools have minted more engineers in the past 10 years than during any prior decade.  Now how many of those students are American is another question.

That is slick.  Watch that video.

This addresses the awkwardness of touch screen laptops in such an intuitive way that in a few years when everyone has copied it we'll forget that it wasn't obvious until Apple did it.

bdonovanw said:

SpamSandwich said:

linkman said:

To counter those that are saying that Apple should make most of the store employees salaried: in the US they are covered by federal labor and wage laws and because of the nature of the tasks the employees do most of them must be paid hourly. See https://www.flsa.com/coverage.html

Nonsense. All store employees could be fired and rehired under salaried compensation.

No. You're wrong. Re-read the information provided at the link. Most Apple Store employees do not meet the requirements to be classified as exempt.

Exactly.

https://www.flsa.com/coverage.html

Employees whose jobs are governed by the FLSA are either "exempt" or "nonexempt." Nonexempt employees are entitled to overtime pay. Exempt employees are not. Most employees covered by the FLSA are nonexempt. Some are not.

Some jobs are classified as exempt by definition. For example, "outside sales" employees are exempt ("inside sales" employees are nonexempt).

SpamSandwich said:

Looks like they should fire half the retail staff and put everyone on salary instead of hourly. Would make the security checks go faster and there would be no overtime pay.

That's not the way the overtime laws work.  The department of labor determines what types of job are "non-exempt" from these labor laws and that's it.  So Apple couldn't simply say that "salespeople are now salaried."

dewme said:

So, some guy gets his few minutes of fame and brief access to a bully pulpit to thank his supporters and possibly call the world to action for a noble cause, and he uses this opportunity to whine about his personal issues with a keyboard. 

Wow. 

Misleading headline notwithstanding, it wasn't during his Oscar acceptance speech.  It was just a comment made during an interview.