aknabi

themacpro said:

Apple glass... lol they'd never play second fiddle to Google so blatantly 

If i had to guess?

"iSight"

"iSee"?

I've had the since day one... they're great *EXCEPT* for:
 
1) Almost 50% of the time one of the sides won't pair/connect after removal from the case... have to put them back in, close lid, open and put them back on. I've been hoping for a fix on this given they use the same chip as the AirPods (which are rock solid)

2) Many times when putting them back in the case you they may not charge... then on next use you see that one side has drained. Hopefully the seating mechanism has been made more robust.

In general I feel like the AirPods team gets the best and brightest, where as Beats seems to get less APPL love... but no evidence to back that up, just a hunch from experience with both brands in use.

Having worked in the same environments for other tech companies (and currently in a health tech one) that have worked/works with IT and devs from  Wipro, Infosys, and Accenture... I'm not surprised at this... those three firms are a Trifecta of bozonity... they're armies of B & C players that convince upper management that their A players and bill as such.

We currently have a Wipro team that we're stuck with for the remainder of the project... they're so bad that we've removed all tasks from them and overloaded ourselves  (one "senior dev" didn't know about the $JAVA_HOME env var! An iOS "senior dev" that put the entire code in a view controller! IT that totally misconfigures/screws up the VPN and in this WFH time we're out for a day a week while they sort out the messes they keep creating)... as far as we know they're now just updating their social media posts or gaming for the remainder of the project (and more productive for the project than when they were actually working on it). And of course no one can raise the issue because politically the execs that screwed up need to be protected.

Every few years the contracting team is killed off and proper folks hired... the exec who brought the bozos in leaves... then in a few years some execs + bean counters repeats the cycle...

I'd assume Apple has the same issues with the internal IT/dev folks having the same frustration I do (and having to covering their execs/bean counters butts)

I would hope Apple would maintain their "only A players" fanaticism... but I know for a fact from friends still inside that just ain't the case anymore

This lawsuit should be one of the canonical examples of why the losing party should have to pay the legal fees in the US (like much the rest of the world)... it would stop these masses of lawyers crawling out of the sludge to find some reason to sue anyone with piles of cash to settle nonsense lawsuits... but would allow valid, winnable ones to go through (though not perfect).

I work with a major health tech firm and the amount of crap and expense we have to go through in product development just because there are lawyers who do nothing but look at the company for any possible lawsuit to make a buck by settling (not to mention hindering innovation). It's disgusting

I'm not the first to mention this, but it's very plausible that the core ARM team (pun unintended) is cranking away on final delivery for the Mac ARM processors... I know Apple has virtually infinite resources, but there are only so many rock star processor architects/designers and their going need their A+ game to go up directly against Intel's core lineup (again pun unintended)