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  • Tim Cook says return to office work plan is 'the mother of all experiments'

    darkvaderdarkvader
    COVID proved what we all really knew anyway:  If you work in an office, your job can be done without leaving the house.  It's time to end commuting for office workers forever.

    Hey, here's a thought:  Maybe it's time to mandate commuting pay.  If an employer decides a job can't be done from home, then that employer must pay the employee for time spent commuting.  That way people who really do have to be physically present get paid for ALL the time spent in work-related activities. 

    JaiOh81muthuk_vanalingamlordjohnwhorfindoozydozenravnorodomgrandact73jcs2305

  • Apple fails bid to get 'Think Different' trademark restored in EU

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Why is Apple trademark trolling about an ad campaign that ended 20 years ago?

    If they'd wanted to keep "Think Different" as a trademark, they could have kept using it.  They didn't.  And trademarks have always been "use it or lose it".
    bonobobravnorodomjony0

  • After Jony Ive's departure, Apple's design philosophy is slowly changing

    darkvaderdarkvader
    22july2013 said:
    Even without Ive, Apple still can't build an acceptable mouse.

    I like the current mouse.  Sure, I wish it had a USB port instead of the idiotic Lightning port, and I wish that port was on the end so you could charge it while using it, but as long as it's charged it's the best mouse on the market today.
    9secondkox2jony0

  • After Jony Ive's departure, Apple's design philosophy is slowly changing

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Ive was fine years ago.  But somewhere around 2003 he just stopped trying. 

    Apple's best ever laptop design was the FireWire PowerBook G3.  Quick-remove battery, an optical/floppy drive bay that could be used for a second battery (and if you did put two batteries in, you could change a battery while you were on battery power, no need to ever be plugged in if you didn't want to be).  And it was black.

    Today's MacBooks are completely uninspired.  After years of nothing but thinner rectangles, at least they're finally getting thicker again, but they're still uninspired rectangles, they still have batteries that are a PITA to change, and the thin fetish got us soldered RAM and storage too.  Oh, and that stupid notch.

    The iMac G4 was an amazing design.  The iMac G5 and everything after have been uninspired.

    So yeah.  Ive burned out around 20 years ago, didn't have the good sense to quit, and Jobs/Cook didn't have the good sense to fire him.
    avon b7

  • Apple Store opening in Wuhan teased with wallpaper release

    darkvaderdarkvader
    I found it.


    oneaburns