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New study finds Mac most secure & cost competitive in enterprise workplaces
Other than the data that now powers Cisco's TCO calculator and is publicly available. That's a rather big deal.macxpress said:We've known this for years...nothing new.
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Unity's self-sabotage with pricing will be a long-term problem for Apple
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French Apple Store staff will strike as iPhone 15 goes on sale
It's worth remembering that the headline of the amount of increase in pay (7% requested, 4.5% offered) does not include the period over which that increase will be applied. Inflation at ~4.5% NOW is not going to be covered by a 4.5% pay increase over three years; a 7% pay increase over three years may do just enough NOW to offset the worst of the present increase in expenses that workers are incurring.Marvin said:
In some respects they are keeping up with inflation. The average inflation in France is noted between 4.7-5.8%:beowulfschmidt said:
Yes, Apple should definitely not keep their pay up with inflation. How stupid is that? /sCesar Battistini Maziero said:Why do they choose to this right at a launch.Apple should just. fire all of them. I'm sure many would jump in joy for getting hired at an Apple Store.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/french-inflation-higher-than-expected-august-57-2023-08-31/
https://www.inflation.eu/en/inflation-rates/france/historic-inflation/cpi-inflation-france-2023.aspx
Apple offering 4.5% on a salary should cover costs from inflation because not everything a person spends their salary on has gone up in price nor by the highest level of inflation.
If an Apple employee in France gets a 40k euro salary:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Apple-Apple-Genius-France-Salaries-EJI_IE1138.0,5_KO6,18_IL.19,25_IN86.htm
according to this, their take-home is 70%:
https://salaryaftertax.com/fr/salary-calculator
Around 28.4k (2360e/month). 1k rent, 500e food, 300 expenses/utilities/transport, 560e savings.
If the salary goes up 4.5% = 41.8k, take-home is 29.4k (2450e/month). If costs went up 6%, they'd go from 1800e to 1908e so savings after costs would be 542e.
If people are living paycheck to paycheck and spending every cent, they'd have to cut back a little. 2360 x 1.06 = 2501 euros vs 2450 take-home at 4.5% pay rise. 51e/month down (4-5 McDonald's meals per month) if inflation affected every expense they had at the worst level.
One of the problems with these protests (like pay gap protests) is that people don't bother crunching the numbers, the activists are misinformed and just start yelling about it and spread their misinformation to other people who get annoyed about the misinformation. People in France also seem to like protesting so I'm sure most of them are happy to get on board with it but Apple could easily send each of them an email from accounting explaining how their offer counters inflation.
A rate of pay rise being lower than inflation doesn't necessarily equate to a pay cut, that only happens if the costs an individual has go up by more than their take-home pay rises.
There's only so much expenses can be reduced, after all. Your rent is always going up (and moving to a "cheaper" place often means other unpalatable trade-offs like security, safety, increased commuting time, fewer shops for quality food, etc) and there's a minimum amount of food required for survival.
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iOS 17 is probably hitting your battery hard today -- but that's expected
It seems odd that updating the Spotlight index database is not reserved for times when the battery is being charged.
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'Fortnite' refund applications open for $245 million Epic settlement
One game developer charged for this behaviour, thousands to go.
