Jessee Michael

I was in San Francisco for a friend’s wedding and a job interview, and the one day I had free I decided to finally make my pilgrimage to 1 Infinite Loop. I parked in visitor parking and walked to the company store. The place was absolutely dead, and when someone finally came to ring me up, they apologized because the site had just launched so everyone had gathered to see it go live. I may have made the last physical purchase on hallowed grounds before the online store came to life.

A building that 99.99999% of the world will never see in person or use is more design-worthy than every advancement of an iPhone, or AirPods or Watch as mentioned?

I have to admit, I'm not sure having separate Mac apps for different types of media is a step in the right direction. I get offloading iOS apps and Apple wanting you to sync through the cloud, and there could always be a lightweight desktop backup app. But having one repository for *media* files just makes more sense to me, like iTunes or Plex.

The privacy issue with Google and Amazon concern me a bit (we have two Alexa's), but damn if they don't work way better than Siri does. Apple has totally dropped the ball on this, IMO. I only use my AppleTV for iTunes purchases and mirroring, because our 3 y/o Roku is still far easier to use and doesn't drop signals like ATV does. I'm afraid these units are still just after-thoughts, instead of products with iPhone-like attention behind them.

As someone who does business in China at the factory level – and while CERTAINLY not trying to defend bad working conditions – many workers come from the outer provinces and prefer to work as many hours as possible, to make as much money as possible to send home or bring back with them. The overtime pay, which is relatively recent, is something many workers hope for. I know of a factory that simply shut off the power so that workers could not stay for overtime shifts. We can't just put 21st century benefits on a country that was hardly in the 19th century not so long ago.