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  • Finding a perfectly sized Apple Watch band may get easier in the future

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    A good way to create a database of the physical attributes of customers hand and wrist.

    useful information when you’re in the business of designing wearables like wristbands, watches and maybe even rings or gloves for VR headsets.
    michelb76entropyswilliamlondon

  • Apple retail, HR chief pushes back against union drives at Apple Stores

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    tyler82 said:
    Unions wouldn't be attractive if these companies (that are worth trillions) would just pay their employees living wages and provide them health, retirement, sick leave, and vacation benefits (you know, like every other developed nation). 

    Indeed.  Apple supplies all those benefits to its retail employees in other countries.

    frantisekbyronl

  • Apple a 'compelling name' for riding out current market conditions, analyst says

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    While in other news, rain is wet and the sun is bright.
    lolliver

  • Australian man alleges all of his iOS and macOS devices have been persistently hacked

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    “If there are any current or former Apple employees that post here, I’m sure they can tell you similar stories of people who have mental issues and think they are being hacked.”

    Indeed.  I had a guy come in who claimed his flatware had hacked his Mac and wanted a new computer.  He also said his original installation DVD had been modified.  I said this was not possible but he didn’t believe me.

    I had another guy always going in about the files on his computer that he didn’t recognise,I showed him the same files on all our store computers but he wasn’t happy.  I showed him how to download “Little Snitch” and sent him in his way and never saw him again.
    stompywatto_cobra

  • Apple-backed lobbying groups accused of fighting climate legislation

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    Fossil fuels alter economies tremendously, they've facilitated the growth of the modern age, brought nations out of poverty, saved countless lives by freeing up resources and manpower to study science, medicine, etc.patchythepirate said:
    Alex_V said:
    ...if Mr. Cook genuinely cared about climate change why would he purchase a ten thousand square foot home, presumably for one person...?

    Whataboutism. 
    Lol. I can't believe people actually think this is some sort of rebuttal. Embarrassing.
    Alex_V said:
    Good, I hope it’s true. Anyone that has any sanity left should be opposed to this bill, for many reasons, climate nonsense being just one. Climate is purely a political issue and a way to manipulate economies. Even if you failed grade school science and somehow believe that extremely low levels of gaseous plant fertilizer is somehow bad for the planet, the political efforts to reduce CO2 do nothing. 

    The graphic that you shared thoroughly undermines your comment. The scientific conclusions are clear, human-induced climate change will be devastating. 

    And pray tell: just how do “they” manipulate economies? Did fossil fuels not forever alter economies? Or, are you a Saudi, desperately worried about the future of your despotic little petro-kingdom?
    Huh? How does it undermine my comment??

    Why are you putting "they" in quotes?

    Fossil fuels alter economies tremendously, they've facilitated the growth of the modern age, brought nations out of poverty, saved countless lives by freeing up resources and manpower to study science, medicine, etc.

    Am I a Saudi? Are you high?? Your responses to everything seem incredibly childish.
    "Fossil fuels alter economies tremendously, they've facilitated the growth of the modern age, brought nations out of poverty, saved countless lives by freeing up resources and manpower to study science, medicine, etc."

    Do you understand that both your statement and "    fossil fuels are pumping heat-trapping gasses into the atmosphere causing global-warming" can both be correct?
    Alex_VDogperson