Yes, they made a ton of money. By gouging us, basically. And we pay it!
― markers, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
Why not stop the dividends and pay your retail employees more or something.
― markers, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
because until publicly-held companies cease being held to pull the most profit possible, people will be paid the minimum amount the market demands
― mh, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't mind so much if they weren't increasing the iPhone prices and still skimping on memory. Some straight gouging, that.
― stet, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Tim Cook is in the midst of a European tour. This photo from his tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum caught my eye. You can feel the solemnity.
― schwantz, Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
And just think, he makes six figures writing this crapola.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 26 February 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
Take a first generation iPhone. Now imagine if you could upgrade it to today’s A8 SoC. It’d be better than it was before, that’s for sure. But it’d still have a low-resolution non-retina display. It’d still be stuck with EDGE cellular networking. It’d still have a crappy camera that couldn’t even shoot video. Etc. The “computer” inside Apple Watch isn’t centrally important. Everything is important. The health sensors, the display, the battery, the Taptic Engine, the digital crown, the networking capabilities, everything.
This is bizarre. He doesn’t realize that a system-on-a-chip is a system-on-a-chip (e.g. “sensors” and “networking capabilities”).
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
lol
― mh, Monday, 9 March 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
I mean, he's right for the display and sensors, but the "motion coprocessor" or whatever they have been selling it as would be part of that SoC for sure
― mh, Monday, 9 March 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
Let's not confuse Grubes with someone who knows about computers, or what words mean
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Monday, 9 March 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
he wrote a famous perl script
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 March 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
Loool "taptic engine".
velocity engine >>>> taptic engine
― stet, Monday, 9 March 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, March 9, 2015 10:28 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ziiiiiing
― mh, Monday, 9 March 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kWcLqPo.png
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cMYKp27.png
Bringing back a classic
― 龜, Friday, 20 March 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
10 years ago we ha
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 20 March 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Bingo.
Woof
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 26 March 2015 03:11 (nine years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/04/06/felons-apple-campus
could not the explanation for why this is “unusual” simply be that it’s more expensive to conduct background checks for every worker?
ok
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
lol i literally just sent him an email about that
doesn't often write something that dumb
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 6 April 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
included in my email was a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow haha oh jeez
lol fight the good fight, survive solely on claim chowder
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
this reminds me of something ive wondered about him for a while remember when there was that prototype iphone that gawker got a hold of and the cops got involved and some bloggers were speculating that apple pressured the police to investigate and he wrote this post that was all APPLE DOES NOT CONTROL THE POLICE U IDOTS DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKS and then later it came out that the heads of a bunch of big tech firms had a direct line to this police task force that they lobbied to have set up and in fact apple did pressure the police to investigate
did he ever retract/comment on how he was wrong about that / did anyone do a sick ass claim chowder on him
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
all i know is he loves cops, martinis and the yankees
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 6 April 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
when you put it that way, he really is the worst
― mh, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
stanley kubrick, david foster wallce, and the rolling stones
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
i like how he picks one thing from each category and is all this is the best and it is the best because the people put infinite care into the details, to him everything is craft and he does not understand art at all
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Hah I never realized that that might be the common thread linking his interests
― 龜, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Like how close is he to snapping and going Room 237 on all of us
geez he's even more insufferable when seen through that lens
― mh, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
rm 237 is way too imaginative for him hes more of a analyze each shot / equipment used / tell us why they were the perfect choice / never notice that the odd cant tell if hes joking tone is what animates kubricks films
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
david foster wallace is of course the singular writer of choice for guys like this who are looking for empirical proof that someone is the best artist
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
being a yankees fan not from new york is too perfect too
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 April 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
i like DFW
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 6 April 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
sure so do i
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 April 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
none of these things are necessarily bad, but if you are the guy who speaks only of liking these things you are bad
― mh, Monday, 6 April 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
otm
― brunch technician (silby), Monday, 6 April 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
since he's a Yankees fan from Philly probably means he's a DH apologist
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/04/06/the-obama-doctrine
this is such a baffling paraphrase of the quoted passage
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Don't forget James Bond and the Dallas Cowboys
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
I read the new SJ bio. I think Gruber has a higher opinion of it than I do.
― markers, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 03:39 (nine years ago) link
I thought it was better than the Isaacson one
― mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 03:47 (nine years ago) link
I’m not sure I agree. If someone were to ask me which one to read, I’d recommend Steve Jobs. Becoming Steve Jobs had weird pacing problems, I think. The coverage of his early years didn’t seem nearly comprehensive enough. A lot of input from Avie and Jon later on in the book, but very little from Cue. Nothing from Schiller? Some from Cook, but perhaps not enough. The Iger stuff was good. Some repetition, perhaps a lot, from stuff I’d read before. Gruber said there’d be “sensational” stuff in the book, didn’t he? Besides the Tim Cook liver incident, there wasn’t anything that fit that description. We’re never going to get a perfect SJ book. Then again the market for the type of book I’d want would be very small. (Think: multi-volume shit.)
― markers, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 03:55 (nine years ago) link
Unfortunately, I don’t think my destiny in life is to be SJ’s Robert Caro.
But someone better do more interviewing of the principals before they all die off and get some more books out there.
― markers, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 03:56 (nine years ago) link
Where’s Phil Schiller’s take? Someone find Scott Forstall! Tell me more about what happened inside the company from, like, mid-1997 to mid-1998.
Gruber would think a description of what Jobs' farts smelled like was "sensational"
― mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 03:56 (nine years ago) link
Exactly what did Jobs do, step by step, in excruciating detail, to save the company during those months. Give me a book just about that, with interview with everybody in it!
― markers, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
A whole volume on the development of the iPhone!
I think those wouldn't really be biographies, more oral histories of the workplace.
― mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 03:58 (nine years ago) link
Btw: https://instagram.com/p/084wz7hHQ5/
― markers, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 03:58 (nine years ago) link