sandor

SpamSandwich said:

sandor said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-china-made.html

But when Apple began making the $3,000 computer in Austin, Tex., it struggled to find enough screws, according to three people who worked on the project and spoke on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality agreements.

In China, Apple relied on factories that can produce vast quantities of custom screws on short notice. In Texas, where they say everything is bigger, it turned out the screw suppliers were not.

Tests of new versions of the computer were hamstrung because a 20-employee machine shop that Apple’s manufacturing contractor was relying on could produce at most 1,000 screws a day.

The problem is that our manufacturing in the US is, in many respects, 20+ years behind.

The 7 day a week, 3-shift factories closed decades ago, the level of ability needed in a factory worker today has moved beyond the capabilities of those once employed in factories lost to NAFTA & there is no incentive to train, no government push for better education.

Just like in the past, we are in a day that CEOs take extra millions, leaving America's workers stagnated, stranded & on the cusp of financial insecurity (40% of Americans cannot cover a $400 emergency)

...meanwhile the chumps at Davos don't understand why they should be "penalized" for making over $10,000,000 a year... 

That’s a bunch of socialist propaganda. The better alternative is to have all business and hiring decisions handled by a powerful central government, right? LOL. No.

mac_128 said:

AppleZulu said:

Amazon Prime is worse, but I wish they'd both get rid of the 'digging through the bargain bins' UI. Finding things you'd actually like to watch is a lot like the experience of digging through bins of discount DVDs at War Mart. There may be some real gems in there, but you have to dig through a random pile of hundreds of titles of  d-list junk just to find the handful you'd like to see. 

The only reason to push all that stuff up to the top of the pile is to create an illusion of a larger size of selection. For me, it does the opposite. It creates a perception that there's not much quality content available at all, and when I suddenly find some buried higher quality selections, I'm amazed that they're even there.

From what I've read, that's by design. They want customers to feel like they've discovered something, and along the way, they actually may end up sampling things they wouldn't have otherwise -- like most of Netflix' original programming.

mac_dog said:

No accountability whatsoever. The morals/integrity of this country are swirling in the toilet. 

A simple apology accompanied with an, “I’ll take necessary steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again...”

randominternetperson said:

sandor said:

Being a professional who has used Apple's professional products for the better part of 15 years, and still has racks of fibre arrays, XSan & Mac Pros feeding off of them, i wish Apple would just pull the band-aid off.

They only desire to be a consumer company, and no longer consider any advantage to maintaining the mind share of the creative professionals.

It does make bottom line sense, and will trim the supply line quite a bit. But i am sad to know that the decade + of running OS X Server for web services, mail, calendars, OD, etc, is now at an end.

We were the users that happily paid $999 for OS X Server, and rejoiced in the simplification of complex, capable Unix tools that Apple created with Server. We are creators and the idea that we were also capable of running and managing our tools was the promise that Apple sold us, and it worked, until the past three OS revisions that quickly chipped away the self-sufficiency. 

Move to the cloud and catch up with where IT has been going for years.  Running your own servers makes little economic sense nowadays.  And therefore Apple selling such servers makes even less sense.