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Madbum said:

narwhal said:

I think the Apple Store employees SHOULD organize, but I take the press releases from the unions with a grain of salt. Very big grain. Also, are employees who join the union ineligible for management positions? That could be a big disincentive to joining the union.

There is no worse time to unionize when the economy is cratering …. Apple stores in small locations are now a loss leader, they should be closed and salary saved

DAalseth said:

williamlondon said:

Petersen said:

... maybe the show wasn't woke enough for apple ??? 

Oh ffs. [rolls eyes]

Still waiting to find that example of someone who uses the term "woke" but doesn't mean "I'm a bigot".

Exactly. You know that meme: Show me you’re XXX without saying you’re XXX. Well, woke is one of those words that does that. It’s permanently tainted. Unless they use it in the sense of “I woke up this morning” they come across as a bigot and about as smart as a bag of hammers. 

JinTech said:

AppleInsider said:

Apple has announced a new Apple Music service, but it's not the classical one it's promised for before the end of the year. Instead, it's Apple Music Sing, which leverages Apple Music's lyrics to provide a Karaoke-style experience.

Read on AppleInsider

When did Apple ever promise the Apple Music Classical service to be released by the end of the year? I do not even recall them announcing said service, let alone promising a release timeframe.

sagan_student said:

bloggerblog said:

When Jobs introduced Siri he said it’s going to be a conversational AI assistant. I know it could be hard to do, but it’s been 10 years! Siri had a huge head start, it should be better than the competition in every way. 

While Apple may have appeared to have a bit of a head start, Google had the advantage in most ways over Apple. The foundation that Google could build their assistant off of came from their work with predictive search, scanning the worlds books, digitizing and cataloging everything else, and all the work done with targeted, personalized ads. All Apple had as a potential base to build off of was, IMO, finder. Apple’s business model and all their learnings over the years are not very transferable to the creation of a voice assistant; Google’s (and Amazon’s and even Meta’s) are transferable. Using this as a potential predictive model; if one knew Microsoft’s business model, could they have predicted where they would fall in advancement of Cortana? I would say yes. Microsoft did try to pivot a bit with the release of Bing, but they were over a decade behind Google in Search. 

I use Siri daily, and while she has gotten better, the more proficient and comfortable I am becoming with speaking my thoughts instead of taking the slower time of typing them down, the more aggravating it is as I hit up against more boundaries of her abilities. I do hope that the work that they have been doing with Maps and Siri suggested search results starts to expand Siri’s portfolio. Luckily for Apple, I really don’t know what I am missing, yet, as I am invested in their ecosystem and most of my immediate and extended family and friend groups are too. Those that are using Android, are not using Okay Google in any meaningful way either. But for how much longer… I do hope Apple steps up their game in this area and soon too. Perhaps the release of a significant upgrade will be coincided with the release of their AR headset? 🤷‍♂️🤞

Cheers.