tehabe

tundraboy said:

There is no information whatsoever in the article that indicates whether intimidation occurred or not.  Any post claiming it happened or not merely reveals the poster's own ideology-driven prejudices.

Not in the Appleinsider piece, but in the linked Bloomberg piece the situation is explained more in depth and what Apple did what could be seen unethical:

In complaints filed last week with the National Labor Relations Board, the CWA accused Apple of violating federal labor law by forcing workers in Atlanta and New York City to attend “captive audience” meetings about unionization.
Existing precedent allows companies to hold such meetings, but the labor board’s current general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, views them as inherently coercive and illegal. And she’s pursuing cases that could change the precedent.

DAalseth said:

Apple might be doing something unethical.
It’s also possible they didn’t have the support they thought they would and the vote was going to fail.
Without more information it’s hard to tell. 

Probably due to the unethical tactics by Apple the union vote was going to fail. Also if Apple were this ethical company they would accept a union w/o a vote. (This is not just about pay)

Not really surprising, Apple is able to sell their devices with a higer price than other brands. I'm pretty sure you can see the same with Mac vs. PC sales. Also, the hardware of an iPhone is really nice, iOS makes the switching hard for me.

Beats said:

tehabe said:

lkrupp said:

gatorguy said:

Based on somewhat recent events I'm nearly convinced there's some intense behind-the-scene pressure from various agencies around the world that is leading Apple to compromise privacy plans, whole another big tech is forging ahead anyway and paying the consequences in antitrust actions on two continents. 

Yeah, let’s all switch to Android/Chrome so we can be safe. Coffee snorted out of my nose when I read your b.s. post

Except that Chrome let you encrypt Chrome sync data with an separate passphrase. It is embarrassing that Apple is dropping this feature.

Yeah dude a company known to hack users and who makes 80%+ of its money off user data is the safe route.

Funny how Google doesn’t get the same reputation as Facebook for the same practices.

Also can you give me your bank account info? I’m gonna encrypt it. 

The sync mechanism is part of the open source Chromium project, so if Google wouldn't really encrypt on the device it would be known by now and fixed. I could find one bug report about that the passphrase can easily be bruteforced, but it is marked as fixed. Also unlike Apple, Google is much more open to comments, bug reports, and input from outside the company. Recently I reported a few things which are outdated in Apple Maps, none was updated so far. Like general bug reports, which either are ignored or are marked as duplicate so that I'm out. Fixes will come or not. I like my Mac but Apple is weird.

lkrupp said:

gatorguy said:

Based on somewhat recent events I'm nearly convinced there's some intense behind-the-scene pressure from various agencies around the world that is leading Apple to compromise privacy plans, whole another big tech is forging ahead anyway and paying the consequences in antitrust actions on two continents. 

Yeah, let’s all switch to Android/Chrome so we can be safe. Coffee snorted out of my nose when I read your b.s. post

Except that Chrome let you encrypt Chrome sync data with an separate passphrase. It is embarrassing that Apple is dropping this feature.