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An Apple Vision Pro successor may need to be tethered to an iPhone or Mac
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Late 2025 for M4 Mac Studio & Mac Pro seems more certain now
Apple is killing me on these slow, late, or never refreshes on higher-end desktops. I was stuck on a Mac Pro 2010 until 2022, because the 2013. Mac Pro didn’t meet my needs for expansion and ports, then I was waiting on used 2019 Mac Pro deal, when they moved to ARM, then I could wait any longer for the ARM Mac Pro, so I had to settle for a Studio. I was hoping to get an M2 Mac Pro 2nd hand after an M3 or M4 refresh, but It’s looking like I’m Going to be stuck on a Mac Studio until at least 2026 or 2027. -
New video highlights ongoing struggles between Apple and union members
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.This is the problem right here, people think that because someone works retail, they're not worth a good living wage. Retail employees are the number one way Apple directly interfaces with their customers (outside their products, which indirectly interface). The retail stores help people choose what they need, and help them with issues and repairs. It's a critical part of the business. Steve Jobs knew this, that's why he created the stores. The store are one of a major keys to Apple's success when rebounding as a failing company in the late 90s / early 2000s.Ultimately, the world has developed a poor understand of how a company SHOULD work: all employees should get a fair share BEFORE profits, If you're not doing that, you're doing it wrong. Apple nets hundreds of billions of dollars a year (not gross, but net). That means they've failed to properly pay their people, and have decided to hoard that money. Everyone who contributes to the success of the company deserves resect and properly compensation. However, we live in a world where labor and retail jobs are looked down upon. This isn't the Roman Empire, retail employees are not plebeian, and should be treated with the same level as respects as everyone else in the company. Everyone has their own strength, and someone who's helping a customer decide which MacBook is right for them is as important to the puzzle as someone who designed the MacBook or decided the differences between them.Also note, this is NOT JUST ABOUT MONEY, it's about scheduling and flexibility. People can't pick up their kids from school or take 2 days off in a row. That's insane, and frankly should be illegal.[Before you make any assumptions, I'm not a real employees, but a technology consultant. I work with the business teams at Apple, and Apple corporate. I see what kind of work everyone at Apple does, things mostly probably never even know about. Mostly, I just see that our modern economical systems are broken, based on greed, and ultimately unsustainable in the long term.] -
System Settings getting shuffled again in macOS 15, among other UI tweaks
What they did with Settings was shameful. I imagine Steve Jobs would have thrown a Mac at someone had they demo'd Settings to him. They wanted to unify macOS settings with mobile, but the problem is: they went in the wrong direction, System Preferences with significantly better. I'm mobile setting app has been a mess since the original iPhone. Granted, using something more like System Preferences on an iPhone, small screen would be difficult, but having a big panes on an iPad would work nicely.
Ultimately, the advantage of System Preferences was that you can easily see an entire overview of all your settings in one shot, and then drill down, categorically, to where you need to go. System Preferences always had room to be improved, but System Settings is poorly laid out, with things hidden in places that they don't need to be, and overall takes longer to get down into settings, if you can find them.Apple switching from System Preferences to System Settings a clear case and change for the sake of change, and a demonstration that the software team, or at least the UI team, have lost their way. I'm not his beating on Apple for the sake of beating on them, mostly just worried that they've been going in the wrong direction for years, which is particularly bad, because I originally preferred the Mac it's clean and concise design philosophies. Those philosophies have continued to be strong on the hardware side (well, not counting the hiccup of poorly designed machines from 2016 to 2001, lack of a larger screen, iMac, and the fact that they don't really understand what a Mac Pro should be anymore), but, overall, I see the software side of thing severely lacking, with a lot of bad design choices, and the inability to keep up with bugs and instability.I think Apple seriously needs to stop the yearly refresh to their operating systems. I know that's going to be difficult on the mobile side, but it would serve them well. Moreover, I think it'll be critical on the Mac side. Releasing a completely revamped desktop OS on a yearly cycle has given us a much less stable system, with unfinished features, and a development team that's being forced to look to the next version, instead of fixing the current version. I think it ultimately comes down to the fact that the marketing people, and the business people, are running the company now, not the developers, and the creatives. -
OLED iPad Pro owners discover grainy display problem