Edgecrusherr

Apple's insistence on not allowing OS Virtualization and Emulation on iPad/iPhone has been killing me for years, and makes no da*n sense, especially now that we have the M series SoCs on iPad Pros.

The ability to use Mac and Windows VMs for system and software testing on my iPad Pro would be such a powerful tool. It would be a huge deal in the IT and developer industry, and loved by gamers and tech enthusiasts.

The iPad would instantly become one of the best, if not THE best, products for development and so much more. So many people who aren't interested in iPads or Apple's mobile products in general would quickly change their minds. The iPad Pro has so much untapped potential, and is underutilizing the M series chips for just about everything except some video and audio work.

A device, that has great battery life, very portable, can use the simple and clean iPadOS interface, then fire up VMs for product testing, gaming, and more, all on Apple's M series SoCs would crush the market. If they don't do it, Qualcomm and their partners will continue to own the market on this, they just won't do it as well (you can already do this on Android and Windows, but The M series and iPads are much better designed, and iPads are used by more people in the tablet market).

Jamal_Jamal said:

Whenever I've hated a job like some of these APPLE employees have stated, I just found another job. Why stay if it is so bad?  If you are unqualified for a job you want, go back to school and make yourself more valuable to a company. Or just keep making excuses.

Some people have children, take care of family members, have disabilities themselves, are limited by location and transportation, and many other factors, so they may not be able to find another job, or take the risk of taking another, that may end up treating them worse or laying them off. Education is expensive (especially in the USA), not feasible for many people with other life responsibilities, and not everyone is able to learn easily.

Overall, no one should have to fight a company, that has billions of dollars laying around and talks about how important their employees are, to treat them well. Labor laws exist as a vital part of the American system, to protect from corporate greed, as we'd learn over the last 200+ years that large comoanies tend to put profits above human life. Locating back at American history, about every 50 years or so we need another labor moment to reset these companies straight, which is currently happening now.

Not true, and that is reflected in the salary the MacBook engineer receives which is almost certainly multiples of the retail employee. The MacBook engineer did a masters of engineering, followed by years of industry experience to rise to the top of his field. That's worth more... a lot more .... to Apple.

You mean the people who designed butterfly keys; who put a microcontroller in the laptops that gets burned out from leaving a USB hub connects all the time, and fries the soldered-on boot drive; who included a video display cable that's too short and eventually breaks; who put the charging port on the bottom of the mouse; I can go on. The retail people also help damage control of poor design decision. 

Now, I didn't say the retail should get paid what the person with an engineering masters gets paid, I'm saying they're important too. You need your hear to live, but you want your arms and legs to work. Engineers are like the heart, and retail are the limbs.

9secondkox2 said:

 If you want to move up, get educated and work your way up. 

Also, Apple tends to not hire up from within, so employees can't really work their way up. Apple tends to hire management and leads away from other retail companies. I know from working with Apple that most of their best and qualified retail employees get frustrated and disheartens, then leave the company for opportunities elsewhere. This is a terrible way to do business, as the relationships they these employees build with business customers and partners go to waste, only to need to be started all over again. I have a shared Excel sheet at my company where we keep track of our Apple business team contacts, because they change so often.

9secondkox2 said:

So you’ve got union members airing public grievances, but somehow apple isn’t allowed to complain about union bully tactics? LOL

Apple recently upped wages substantially. And now they want even more? It’s not like it’s not a fair wage. 

Retail workers thinking they’re engineers… 

apple being profitable doesn’t magically make your job more than what it is. 

Yes every employee counts. But there are levels. If you want to move up, get educated and work your way up. 

This is the problem with unions. They don’t believe business exists to make a profit. They believe business exists to make THEM a profit. 

It’s like King of Tulsa, but get low level employees to agree with what you’re doing because you toss them some scraps every now and then. 

Apple only raised the retail pay in May 2022 as a tactic to fight off unionization. This was after they started giving smaller raises than they had traditionally. They wouldn't have raised anything had unionization talks never happened.