jbilgihan

sparkled said:

Hi churn and low number of paid content possibly due to lack of “normal” content.

What is “normal content ”?  Simple: it’s content not dripping in left-leaning woke-ism.  About the only show that isn’t featuring LGTBQ characters/plot lines or black actors >13% of total is Ted Lasso.  Everything else is a democrat advert.

You had to go there.  Is there a certain amount of comments you have to post on sites per day complaining about representation?  Not your cup of tea to see shows with less white people in them, fine.  Don't go and complain about it. Makes you sound kinda bigoted. 

Going from this list: https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/originals/ I got to Losing Alice before I got to anything that resembled what you complained about.  Continuing past it yields nothing else aside from a Documentary called "Out on Television".  So one show has some LGBT (ladies love story) out of all of the scripted shows and one is documentary.  That's two shows with LGBT issues.  I count 7 shows either starring black people (Documentary or non-fiction) or telling black stories.  So a total of 9 which blacks or gays. 5 shows have women either the focus of the documentary or fiction program. We are at 14. That leaves 38 programs that are indeterminate (nature, documentary, or have white males as their leads).  Sorry that isn't enough for you.

Beats said:

Does it even mean anything?

How can Apple be worth almost a quarter less than a few weeks ago?

They had a stock split. 

tyjon31 said:

The description of the new iMac strongly suggests that the SSD can not be upgraded by the end user. That is frankly a showstopper for me since the SSD pricing (> $1K for 4TB!!) are easily double what you can buy online. A very disappointing decision on Apple's part.

Thunderbolt and external drives/ssds are an easy fix.  keep the drive in the machine for OS. etc.  

The MS Store in Century City (LA) was always busy.  I think they had a bunch of Surfaces, Xbox, Oculus Rigs, etc. and appealed to the industry around them.  People could order and pick up a new computer quickly.  You could go in and try out the Xbox.  Want a full on Oculus setup to pick up and walk out with - they had it.  

As far as the Apple Store - always people milling about who don't have any business being there.  No crowd control, no place to wait for service.  Since doing away with the genious area Apple made it harder to figure out where to go to get support.  In order to fix that they have an employee hanging out at the front.  Apple has made some mistakes in retail over the last 5 years.  Someone else mentioned that it is their ecosystem that keeps people involved and engaged.  I can't stand the retail store and try to go as little as possible.

randominternetperson said:

I doubt the opening line of this piece:  "no one" is training engineers any more?  So MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, Cal-Tech, Purdue, etc., have just dropped engineering from their curricula?  I doubt it.  I expect those schools have minted more engineers in the past 10 years than during any prior decade.  Now how many of those students are American is another question.

The article noted that learning is different from doing.  Sure there are maker-hobby collectives but learning high end design requires doing and that doesn't seem to be happening anymore.