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  • AT&T plans first price hike in years for older single-line, family plans

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    If it's not related, why are you posting it here in a thread about AT&T?  
    fred1

  • Apple's self-made modem is a massive challenge, but with big rewards at stake

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    Fred257 said:
    Thank you for this insider look. I have been following AI since 1997. This kind of story is what AI used to give once a week. This is the first excellent future looking story I’ve read here in over a year. The person who wrote this needs to be in charge of AI. The rest of the stories are for morons..
    Curious how many "future looking stories" you think there are on a daily basis to be written at AI?  Do you want every story to be one?  If there aren't any that day (or week, or month) should the pages of AI remain unchanged and stale?  
    ravnorodomscstrrflollivermuthuk_vanalingamradarthekat

  • A Moscow court has dismissed Apple's antitrust investigation appeal

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    Of course Russia wants to portray they are the victim here.  It plays in with their misinformation campaign that they're liberating Mariupol (instead they destroyed it and killed everyone who couldn't escape), and that the West is the bad guy.  I agree -- Apple, unplug from Russia.  Any income from that country is blood money.  
    uraharaInspiredCodekillroyravnorodomqwerty52jony0

  • New York Apple retail union organizers are asking for $30 an hour

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    Madbum said:
    Xed said:
    Madbum said:
    I have no words. We are all human being but I just cannot accept there are people this stupid 

    so every employee gets $30 regardless, so what is my incentive for working hard? And what is the incentive for the slacker to work?
    For me, it's a fucking work ethic. For you, that seems to be something very different.
    Well if one has a fucking work ethic, they won’t need a union
    Maybe they do when they work for one of (if not THE) richest companies in the world and live in the most expensive city in the US and said company doesn't pay them a livable wage.  
    ronnsconosciutodarkvader

  • New York Apple retail union organizers are asking for $30 an hour

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    lkrupp said:
    $30/hr is ridiculous for a retail worker. Here’s a radical idea. Apple Store workers should be paid on a draw+commission basis. No sell, no eat that week. That’s how I started (in1977) out selling musical instruments in a mall store. I got what was known as a ‘draw’ salary every month that went against any commissions I made in sales. My draw as $750/mo so if I sold enough product to earn $1000 in commissions I got $750 a draw check + $250 commission check. If the next month I only sold enough product to make $500 in commissions I still got my $750 draw but was now $250 in the hole so the following month I had to sell enough to make $1000 commission just to break even. Quite an incentive to work hard and sell, sell, sell. It quickly separates the men from the boys (and the women from the girls). 

    But somehow I think the entitled little pricks today would think that’s slave labor or something. They want $30/hr? For what? Standing around and showing people where the iPhone cases are? Trying to explain to some idiot why their iPad screen will cost money to repair because they dropped it and don't have AppleCare?
    Sales-based commission at Apple.  WOW!  That will make going into an Apple Store just like ... walking onto a car dealership lot.  PRESSURE.  ATTITUDE.  MORE PRESSURE.  TACTICS to make you buy accessories you don't need.  What a great idea.  

    For everyone else who thinks $30/hr is Penthouse-level pay, in expensive cities (like where I live) it's barely enough to get by.  One paycheck might pay for rent in a cheap apartment, the other paycheck goes to utilities, gas for the car, car payment and groceries, insurance, etc. (with some leftover for going out every now and then).  Oh, and maybe afford a nice (not great) big screen TV to watch pro sports "athletes" make MILLIONS of dollars PER GAME.  Who here likes Pro Sports? 
    sconosciuto