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Samsung Galaxy fire blamed in evacuation of Southwest flight
I predicted this on day 1 of recall!mpirate said:If confirmed as a REPLACEMENT Note 7, which appears to be the case, this could be REAL bad for Samsung.
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Apple considers locations in Seoul for first Korean retail store
I would expect Samsung to build a near replica across the street, similar to Microsoft but not as busy.
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Some US airlines prohibiting use of any Samsung phones in wake of Note 7 recall
I really believe there are way more than 35 incidents and for that matter you can already count on phones marked with the S will have problems too because it's too hard to part with the money so why not throw a few hundred thousand bad ones in. Samsung will just say it was just an accident "some accidentally got in the wrong boxes. " Quality control is often told to overlook, lie, and ignore issues because sales/management wants to just ship and this is the exact thing they are trying to prevent a devastating hit to reputation and sales. -
Genius Bar doesn't hire retired Apple engineer, fires up age discrimination debate
I have been an software applications engineer for sometime and I am near 50 and can say most engineers like him would be poor communicators toward the public because we would probably give you a life story of how and why we developed the functionality. We are typically not social talkers.freerange said:
Hard to believe the there are morons on this site that would indicate a "like" for this comment. If the customer is the most important in the eyes of Apple, providing the best possible customer service at the genius bar should be the priority. And most certainly there would be no such thing as an "overly qualified" candidate. The comment is beyond stupid, and arrogant. This candidate would also most likely be a role model and source of knowledge and training for the rest of the genius team at the store. But maybe you're too young and smart to figure that out on your own.asdasd said:In Scheinberg's case it might well have been over qualification for the store. I'm sure he could walk into another job in Apple. (He subsequently became a CTO at a game company).
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Inside the 2016 MacBook Pro -- CPU choices
I think a vast majority of MBP users could care less if their laptop is missing the 3% performance boost from the newest Intel processor. The people that should really care would be people trying to do large CAD assembly design, animation, computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis but of course they let offload that work to supercomputers. It seems like 90% of people interested in CPU cycle times are gamers trying to up their friends by the latest rig they put together. If I see a room completely filled with the most renown physicists of our time or NASA engineers using MacBook Pros I have to say I'm in great company!altivec88 said:
I disagree.sockrolid said:
All of this hand-wringing (and loss of pro users) is the result of Apple's dependence on Intel.AppleInsider said:So, which processor?
Apple is choosing to neglect the Mac. period.
Intel has upgraded the Xeon E5 chip found in the MacPro twice. With Kaby lake released, the current MacBook Pro is again 2 generations back. If we want to blame intel, All of Apples machine should be at least running the latest processors that intel provide.
I don't have a problem with a lack of upgrades if the whole industry has the same issue. I blame Apple because their competition is selling systems today with cpu's that are 2 generations ahead and graphic cards that are 3 generations ahead.
So I don't buy this "intel is the problem, they need to switch to Arm". No... Apple is the problem. Match what the competition is selling, add your 10% apple tax and everyone will be a happy camper. To pay the 10% apple tax on 3 year old tech makes even the die hards look at PC's.
