razormaid

hodar said:

Assume there is a ~50/50 split of political affiliation.

No matter who you support - you will offend half your user base.  Now, as the CEO of a company, my goal is to sell as much of my product as possible.  To do this, I market the hell out of my product (nice job), I build a quality product (nice job), I support my product with outstanding after-market support (nice job) and I keep my PERSONAL LIFE out of the public eye (WTF are you doing, Mr Cook?).

I don't care what you do in the bedroom.  That is YOUR business, not mine.

I don't care who you vote for, that is YOUR business, not mine.

When you make it public domain - you provide a reason for people to hate you, and by extension, your product.

Let's ask some basic questions, shall we.  Is the CEO of (Coke, Pepsi, Ford, Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Toyota, Dell, Nike, Whirlpool, Mars Candy, Hamilton Beach, McDonalds - looking around my office ...) straight/gay/bisexual, Atheist/Christian/Buddhist/Wiccan/Satanic/Moslem, liberal/conservative, white/black/Hispanic/ ....

I don't know ... they don't advertise .... and most everyone else doesn't know (or care) either.  And because of this, they don't alienate any customers because of it.

They sell products.  And that's the bottom line.

THANK YOU. We've l had some very intelligent responses today but you win!  Best response so far.  

techprod1gy said:

I can't sit here and say I am a huge fan of either candidate. We all know that Clinton has done some very bad things and we are just going to overlook them because some don't like Trump. What is this world coming to? I would rather have someone I don't care for but is smart and not a crook with a solid moral compass than Hilary. I still think this country is great but is in a desperate need of a reset.

I couldn't agree more!  Why not try a business person to fix the business of America. God knows politicians can't. 

The problem with trump is he says these supposedly outrageous things. THATS NOT THE PROBLEM. The problem is.. 4 or 5 hours later after the "shock" we've been taught through politically correct wears off... all the sudden that's not that crazy. I mean he said something that made everyone spit out their coffee. But back home in your house you start understanding "he's saying what a lot of us are thinking but been conditioned to not think and certainly never ever ever say out loud."  Why is that?  What happened to my freedom of speech?  How was that taken away  shrewdly by people with louder voices and bullying tactics. Paula Dean has the right to say whatever the hell she wants. Look what "they" did to her? Look what "they" are doing to us?  I have the right to be as vulgar as I want or as kind as I want. It should not be policed by anyone ever!  Anyone reading this not getting that concept is part of the "you can say whatever you want as long as I approve it first" bullying group trying to silence freethinking people everywhere. 

Yes my battery went from 100% at 7am to 4% by 12:15pm. NOT GOOD
And it was just sitting in my pocket.  No APPs open.  "Raise to start" option turned off
I literally sent a screen shot to engineering 3 every 15 minutes showing how quickly it was dying.

Lets hope it fixes it.

 Apple should run the same type of ad but running the surface pro focusing on the "sleep of death" where the surface pro can't wake up where Siri keeps asking "what's wrong? wake up! what's wrong?"

Surface Pro 4: Sleep of death
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/27/sleep_of_death_windows_10/

rob53 said:

Will this MacBook Pro actually be a "Pro" model or another space handicapped laptop? I need a new Mac, my iMac from early 2009 isn't going to run macOS Sierra so I need to figure out whether I want to buy a laptop and an external monitor or another iMac. I use my iPhone on the road but there are things that just won't work easily on a phone or an iPad. A laptop would be easy to take on the road but unless it's capable of doing all the things I do on my iMac, it won't be worth it.

Will the AMD GPU be speed/performance limited because of its size? Will Apple be forced to use a speed-limited CPU because of cooling and battery life? 

As a developer and beta tester I can tell you right now your 2009 iMac not only runs macOS 12 Sierra flawlessly it is lightning fast too. And I'm running memory eating music and video software too boot. If you have private questions about anything else feel free to ask away at this address:  razrmaid@aol.com 

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