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  • Apple employees disgruntled over return to working in offices

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    JFPotts said:
    Whiny Babies making three figure salaries complaining about where they have to park their tush during business hours. These people don’t live in the real world.
    If I was making $999 or less, I’d complain too. 
    crowleyasdasd

  • Apple calls Meta hypocrites for nearly 50% commission on VR purchases

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    I’ve been calling out similar hypocrisy and ignorance for years.  Back in the physical software days, when most software products (and virtually all from smaller, independent software publishers) were distributed to retailers via distributors like Ingram MicroD, you generally had to give them a 52%-55% discount AND you had to take back returns.  

    Apple’s 30% take has always been a bargain.  
    baconstangjony0watto_cobra

  • Tim Cook rails against bad privacy regulation & sideloading in keynote speech

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    Tim Cook tells users how to live their lives and limits what they can view in apps?  That’s news to me.  Please give specific examples.  

    Because I don’t know of a single website (including violence and porn) that can’t be accessed by Safari.  And there are no limitations on Apple’s other apps either. 
    watto_cobrajony0

  • Former supply chain buyer's fraud and kickbacks cost Apple $10M

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    It’s hard to understand how this happens in a company like Apple which must have all kinds of controls.  Even the kickbacks should have been implied because kickbacks aren’t “free” to a company — they result in being charged more.  And Apple supposedly controls product costs quite rigidly. (Although they spend ungodly amounts of money on facilities and other things.)

    Many decades ago, I got a job at a large media company because my predecessor got caught taking kickbacks.  And they were able to catch him even though this was before much computerization because the way the acquisition process worked was that first we’d have to do a purchase request, which had to have three competitive quotes and it had to be signed by one’s boss as well as their boss (and sometimes even more up the line, depending upon the level of spending). 

    Then it had to be approved by the purchasing department, which had their own chain of approval.  Once approved, only then did you complete a purchase order, which they re-approved and sent out.  Once you received the order, you signed off on a copy of the P.O. and then the company got paid.  

    Anything that was going to be capitalized went through a similar but more rigid process as those were expensed to different budgets. 

    They also had a policy of never again doing business with any company that  paid a kickback. 
    viclauyyckillroywatto_cobra

  • Apple is 'ungodly well-managed,' says Berkshire Hathaway vice chair

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    jschussler said:
    And yet somehow, 20 years later, iTunes/Apple Music still a bug-ridden, poorly designed app you can't avoid if you have Apple devices.
    There are some things about the app I don’t like, but bugs?  I’ve never detected a bug in iTunes.  It’s always just worked.  

    On the other hand, since I finally upgraded to the latest version of MacOS, I had to upgrade from Office 2011 to Microsoft 365.   And it’s a piece of crap.  I don’t understand how an app gets worse after 12 years.  
    watto_cobra