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  • Apple correcting Siri "abortion" search issue uncovered in 2011

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    If someone asks to search for an abortion clinic, then they should be provided with locations of actual abortion clinics. 

    Seems simple enough.

    If I search for gas stations nearby, I get gas stations.

    If abortions are legal in your Country, State/Province, then an abortion clinic should be as accessible via Siri results as a gas station. 




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  • Apple culture hinders recruitment and talent retention efforts, report says

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    "A pain point for a lot of people with Apple is they can't talk about what they're working on, which hinders your social status in a way," Sultan said. "You want to put on your LinkedIn that you're working on the latest iPhone, but you absolutely can't. It's interesting Apple can retain top talent at all. I don't know how. They keep you sort of locked up."


    It's for a good reason (it's one of the keys to Apple's success.) Do these idiots not get it? Like, it's 2016. The raison d'être for internal Apple "secrecy" has been known for years, and it has already (long ago) been proven to be an incredibly successful strategy. Yes, everyone seems to hate it, the media loves to sneer at it, but the proof is in the PRODUCT and PROFIT. For years and years and years now. 

    Or is it that this generation of millennials MUST advertise almost literally every damn thing they're doing and put themselves on display?? For the sake of WHAT, exactly? Is discretion for the sake of your CAREER not good enough anymore?    smh 

    Apple culture hinders recruitment and talent retention efforts, report says


    "Apple culture" is the very reason for Apple's success. Once you let go of that culture and water it down, the competition will do everything in its power to steal, copy, and otherwise completely destroy your mindshare, market position, and patent portfolio. You can kiss Apple as you know it goodbye. A little more openness, Tim Cook style, is great. A little more transparency. But Apple can't cross over that line, no matter how much they like to play right up against it now and then.  
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  • Apple sells 74.8M iPhones, rakes in $75.9B in revenue in company's biggest quarter ever

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    I really don't see anything that needs to change drastically – that is, apart from the usual flow of change at Apple. There have been peaks and troughs in Apple quarterly performance (re: unit sales) in the past. iPhone sales are at an all time high, and coming off a holiday quarter, with the iPhone 7 still way over the horizon, it looks perfectly normal for Apple to lower guidance a little. Even if it's for the first time in x-number of years. Because this isn't 2010. Apple devices, at their price and margin points, have saturated the market up to their ability as price and margins allow (for now, anyway.) This is only concerning if Apple has no plans for growth. And it's lunacy to assume that they don't. 

    Services will naturally get stronger. It's a matter of course. They *have to* be stronger. I'm quite sure Tim and Jony know this. Apple Watch OS will as a matter of course improve. Just like iOS. Just like OS X. It's the Watch OS' what, first year on the market? Improvement is a given. 

    All of this will naturally sort itself out. Apple is not Microsoft, where the culture of the latter is totally inimical to meaningful, effective change. Apple *already* has a peerless, stable, evolving ecosystem in place, with an entire family of products that exploit it and work together seamlessly. No one else in the industry has the ecosystem/hardware/software infrastructure that Apple does. It's these *basics* (the fundamentals that Apple has always nailed) that should inspire continued confidence. 

    All the worry is much ado about nothing. Save it for there also-rans, like Microsoft and others. They're the ones that actually need it. 
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  • Apple sells 74.8M iPhones, rakes in $75.9B in revenue in company's biggest quarter ever

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    Can I say it this time? I've never had the pleasure. 

    Doomed™
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  • Apple's 'Project Titan' at crossroads, team in hiring freeze, source says

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    Rumours about an unconfirmed product rumoured to be in development, with no fixed release date.

    The only reasonable reaction this news story is...  no reaction at all. 

    Because nothing actually happened. 
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