anantksundaram

leavingthebigg said:

To Khosla....

What do you believe in?

LOL... good question. This is the guy who spent a fortune (and 12 years) with a mega lawsuit he filed over the fact that ordinary people might try and cross his private beach while they traversed by foot from one public beach to another.... The same guy that the NYT called “... aggressive, shameless, obsessive...” over this issue: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/technology/vinod-khosla-beach.html

And he presumes to give Tim Cook advice on social conscience and empathy. Give me a break.

Spoiler alert: The Supreme Court (yeah, it went all the way to the SCOTUS) threw out his case, i.e., he finally lost.

The reasons are obvious. Visitors who are company stakeholders (e.g., suppliers, employees from other parts if the word, journalists, people showing up for Apple-hosted conferences and meetings, etc.) will find it far more efficient to stay on campus, for lots of reasons. 

France is making a serious mistake. They will have to withdraw it. They’re using this as a means to signal to fellow EU countries, who are not in a mood to follow France’s lead. And they think that the US is beleaguered and in no mood to hit back. They couldn’t be more wrong. 

The butterfly keyboard was an unmitigated disaster. 

Yeah, the big HomePod was SUCH a hit, we need a small one.