elijahg

timmillea said:

The usual argument has played out between those who just want ports and power versus those to whom beauty and form matters. Jobs thought design so paramount that he gave Ive equal status to do anything he wished in the entirety of Apple. This is what Irked Tim Cook, before Jobs died and certainly after. Ive was, in the Apple scheme of things, Cook's superior. Cook is more focussed on giving customers what they say they want - ports and power. Hence the Mac Studio. Ive imagined products that could not even be built and categories which did not even exist before Apple realised them. Tim Cook is a logistics man, not a dreamer nor appreciator of form. 

The M2 MBA is another example. The iconic and practical wedge shape of all previous MBAs, very expensive to manufacture (or copy) due its complex stacked battery arrangement, was sacrificed to save money. An Apple crime if ever there was one. 

The ports and power people have taken over. Beauty, dreaming and perfection are dead at Apple. 

JP234 said:

elijahg said:

JP234 said:

enacting policies of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will benefit Apple Inc. in the long term through hiring and promotion based solely on merit, not race, class or religion.

Enacting policies of forced inclusion and diversity is the exact opposite of hiring solely on merit, and therefore will not benefit Apple whatsoever. It forces recruiters to discriminate against highly capable white male applicants to reach some arbitrary diversity target. If these targets were representative of the workforce it would be a noble objective, but they are not. To be anything but representative of the workforce is discriminatory, but apparently discriminating against white males is fine. 

Women are underrepresented within Apple relative to the population, but not the workforce. There are simply very few female engineers in the workforce. Generally, the number of women who enjoy engineering is tiny compared to men. Arbitrary targets wont fix that, it needs to start in schools. 

In a company like Apple there is very rightly very little discrimination against underrepresented groups. Asian men are very much over represented for example - because they make brilliant engineers, but no one is complaining about that. 

Ponder this: what has this brand of racism cost this country? What great discoveries has our country lost because our ancestors relegated people to slavery and servility, or detained American citizens in internment camps or reservations. All because their skin didn't conform to your vision of the ideal? Sadly, we'll never know, will we?

JP234 said:

enacting policies of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will benefit Apple Inc. in the long term through hiring and promotion based solely on merit, not race, class or religion.

charlesn said:

It seems like EVERYONE has reported on "SSD-gate," i.e., the slower SSD speed specs for the 512GB configuration for the MBP. (Which follows the previous outrage over slower SSD speeds in the 256GB configuration of the M2 MBA vs the M1.) And we know that the slower speeds in the MBP are the result of a 1x512 SSD configuration instead of the 2x256 configuration used in the M1 MBP.  Further, we know that the change in configurations was driven by tightening supplies and higher prices for the lower capacity 128GB and 256GB chips. But the question NO ONE answers is the most important one for prospective buyers: what's the real world impact of these slower SSD specs on the work done by a typical buyer of a base model MBP 14'? I'll go further with that question: is there ANY real world impact at all? I suspect it's so minimal as to go unnoticed in actual use. 

Yes, I'm sure that if you threw a workload at it that was more typical for the buyer of higher spec'd MBPs, then real world differences might show up. But those buyers aren't buying base model MBPs, so what's the point?