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Apple uses Towson store as a warning against store unions
I agree. If you believe that Unions are bad, then have a think about how you came to that point of view. I’ve been taught that unions are bad my whole life, through education, the press and my family’s beliefs. But, I then remember that much of this is because those points of view have been peddled by big corporations and governments that are paid off by the same.JP234 said:
Absolutely the oldest corporate anti-union trope. It was BS in 1920 when Stone Mountain Coal Company of Matewan, WV hired goons from the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency to beat, pillage and murder union activists. It was BS then, and it's BS now. Without organized labor, bud, you'd be working 6 day, 80 hour weeks, with no pension, no sick leave, no raises, and no overtime. You would be paid in company scrip, which you could only use at the company store, to buy your own supplies and equipment, food, drink and everything else. You'd pay the rent on your company housing to the company store, and at the end of your 80 hour week, you'd owe more than you made. Your children would get sick from drinking company milk that is cut with water to save the company money, and laced with formaldehyde to keep it from spoiling. Get injured on the job? Too bad, here's your walking papers, and your pay is docked for leaving early to get stitched up.politicalslug said:Basically the unions benefit the worst employees and hurt the best ones. Sorry, but you guys got what you wanted. Enjoy the union!And that's just the beginning. If you trust that employers will treat you fairly out of the goodness of their hearts, or from "enlightened self interest," history is a great indicator that you're very, very wrong.Unions, in my experience, are run by people who have a genuine desire to fight for workers rights, and are the only way to ensure that workers have some leverage against firms who can, and do, put profits ahead of workers.However, if you believe that companies should only pay employees a as little as they can regardless of the companies’ profits, and that 1.5% of pay is ‘a racket’, then I won’t convince you.
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Satechi reveals 200W 6-Port USB-C GaN charger at CES 2023
I’m interested in people’s thoughts as I’d love a single, powerful, compact multiport charger that I can take anywhere. My concern is that Li-ion batteries prefer a slow charge, in order to keep the temperature down and extend battery life.
It seems to me that these high powered chargers will force batteries to charge at the highest speed possible, which will surely degrade the batteries faster. I would love to see a charger that allows me to choose the charging rate, or maybe a choice in iOS to select a charging speed (because sometimes fast charging is super useful!). I guess this is also true for Apple Watch, iPad and Mac.
I currently use the lowest powered apple charging plug possible (the oldest usb-a iPhone charger I own) to charge my iPhone every night via MagSafe to encourage as slow a charge as possible in order to extend its life as much as possible.
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Developers cautiously welcome prospect of third-party app stores
Absolutely right. EU is acting in the best interest of the big companies who are pushing this change, not small developers and not consumers.foregoneconclusion said:
It's the other way around. Users benefited from iOS and the App Store having a different approach from desktop operating systems. Software prices got significantly cheaper. Security was improved. Smaller app developers getting the same contract terms as the titans of legacy desktop software made for better competition.avon b7 said: Users will benefit from having more choice and that choice obviously includes choosing not to use third party stores. It is a win win.
The EU is going to find all this out the hard way, unfortunately. Forcing iOS to become a Windows/macOS clone won't help consumers at all.I am struggling to see the upside, other than proving that Apple have worked EXTREMELY hard on security and privacy and this will only validate their approach.I don’t think the average person has any idea how hard it is to keep software security flaw free. Who is going to allow their ‘third part apps’ access to their camera, photos, location data and contacts?I’m interested to see how this plays out.
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USB-C on iPhone is good - but not as an excuse for a bad law
I think this has become very polarised. Do we ‘do what we are told’ or ‘do what the F we like’? Well, bad stuff happens in both scenarios, and sometimes some agreement and compliance is a good thing. Hence agreed laws not to kill each other, countries banning CFC’s, environmental protections to stop irreparable harm to our shared planet, banning slave/child labour etc. The idea that governments shouldn’t legislate ‘private companies’ at all is as ludicrous as saying governments should be allowed to dictate everything we say or do. Sadly we live in an increasingly polarised world where we fight for one side or the other… to be right or to be wrong.As for lightning and usb, that’s what we are here to discuss, right? The consistency of lightning (and the previous dock connector) vs previous phone and device connectors is worlds apart. Apple really has massively minimised confusion and e-waste, and other companies followed.I am all for being all usb-c, for I too dislike carrying multiple cables. But, I can see why apple have resisted, as the lightning cable has always been a ‘receive power’ and ‘functional device’ end. What happens when I plug my iPhone into my AirPods… does the phone charge the AirPods, or vice versa. Or what if I plug my phone into my iPad… it isn’t completely clear once you move to usb-c.And what happens when I plug a non-compatible game controller into my phone… will the average user know what to expect… will it ‘just work’?
All things that have likely made apple resist. I, personally, am expecting a lot of conversations with leas tech savvy relatives and friends about how you know what happens when you plug x into x…
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USB-C on iPhone is good - but not as an excuse for a bad law
Your message was so unnecessarily condescending, I felt compelled to reply. In the UK we elect a government, we don’t elect a leader. Hence ‘prime minister’ not ‘president’.ova said: By the way, is the current UK prime minister elected by the people? Did not think so.
