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> Apple employees..get to do some really meaningful and impactful work. Meaningful and impactful in what way? They make phones, that’s it. They are not solving
by throw93 4y ago
> Apple employees..get to do some really meaningful and impactful work.
Meaningful and impactful in what way? They make phones, that’s it. They are not solving some big world issues. World won’t end if we don’t get phones with bigger screens and better cameras every year.
> Some would even argue that Apple (and other big tech companies are OVERpaying...)
No. None of the tech companies are overpaying, they are in fact underpaying. Employees get a tiny fraction of the profit they generate. They are not even paying the taxes they’re supposed to.
> It is also worth noting that bonuses are customarily paid when the business is doing better than projected, but Apple's revenues were down 5% in 2022.
Apple made $117.2 billion in profits in 2022. Surely they can pay their employees bonuses and better wages in general if they want to.
- birdyrooster 4y agoLogic Pro and Final Cut Pro are used to make an enormous of excellent art and are really expressive tools.
- guluarte 4y agoand so the cameras used
- coldtea 4y agoSo are Cubase, Pro Tools, Live, Premiere, DaVinci, and tons of others, so?
- birdyrooster 4y agoI wasn't responding to how do they compete, the claim was "Meaningful and impactful in what way?" The bar to answer the question was low and I met it.
- coldtea 4y agoI don't think "more of the same" meets the bar for "meaningful and impactful".
- birdyrooster 4y agoThose products are significantly different than each other and have their own pros and cons. It's a straw man to say that they are simply "more of the same".
- cornstalks 4y ago> They make phones, that’s it. Oh come on, you’re not even trying to have a fruitful discussion. You don’t have to love Apple, but at least put a sliver of effort into the discussion.
- ramraj07 4y agoI’m not an apple basher and spend thousands a year on them, but what exactly are they at this point other than a commodity tech company? They’re not going to space, saving the planet or transforming technology (any more).
- throw93 4y agoThat’s why I asked meaningful in what way. Meaningful to me is something that improves quality of life for majority of people like vaccines, cure for terminal decease, better public transport etc. Making a $1000 phone sadly does not fall into same category. Apple did push the industry with personal computers in 80s and better smartphones in 2007 but since then it’s been very incremental improvements.
- thehappypm 4y agoSmartphones have been instrumental in helping the third world enter the information age, and Apple kicked that off.
- aaomidi 4y agoWith these phone prices? The third world got kicked off with the cheap android devices…
- signatoremo 4y agoWhich wouldn’t have current form and functions had iPhone not exist.
- nervlord 4y ago[dead]