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by rbarooah 15y ago
How is that not just a made up caricature? What single example of Apple's marketing can you show that suggests anything of the sort? The only marketing materials I've seen from Apple that say anything about how the products are made show Jo
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by rbarooah 15y ago
How is this different from asking for your Gmail password?
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No, and I'm genuinely curious to know what rhetoric you think I'm using and what you think they are using it about? All I'm saying is that it would be better for them to not dress things up as a breathless scandal, until they've properly
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Yes, crying wolf: playing on people's fears that there could be a problem in order to gain attention.
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I guess that would apply equally to companies who botched their statement of apology but actually took a lot of steps to improve things. The point is that over time this makes the apology itself moot.
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It would if it was just a rote statement that they hadn't thought about. A bit like the call centers which effusively state "I'd be more than happy to help you with that" after each thing you say to them.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If this isn't an example of all that's wrong with the tech press, then what is? It's certainly true that the new iPad gets quite warm where the iPad 2 never did - I've experienced it myself playing 3d games. However, what's up with the biza
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by rbarooah 15y ago
This a good analysis. I wonder though whether over time this kind of understanding is just going to become a formula or best practice that ends up being handled by a PR department. If it does, then how will we detect an authentic apology fr
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I emailed them a complaint a month or two ago, and someone from Tim Cook's office phoned me back. What exactly are you trying to complain about?
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The problem with that is that if you are poor, and there is no 'somewhere else' to work then you have no freedom.
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It's not a valid criticism, it's pure ad hominem.
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Unresponsive to what? Their results suggest that they are making things people want.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Have you looked at Apple's supplier responsibility report? It's two clicks from their home page and lists basically everything that was true. (e.g. underage workers, aluminum dust explosions)
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'd be fascinated to know why this got downvoted: Is it because it's cautious about the effectiveness of an untested design of Apple's? Is it because it suggests that Apple might be forced to change their policies? Is it because it implies
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You haven't explained how the inertia was overcome before. Nor have you explained what you think would replace OO if not for the inertia. So this is basically a contentless argument that says people are stuck on OO because they are irratio
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'm not so convinced. There was a time when most people had grown up with procedural code. OO offered enough promise that people moved over to it and developed things like Cocoa or Java. If people aren't moving on, it's not simply because
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Another reason it endures is the large collection of mature and easy to use libraries available. Of course this is something of a chicken and egg problem, but a very present one.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
We don't actually know how safe Gatekeeper keeps users yet. It's never been deployed. I don't think it's inconceivable that they'll eventually add that option to iOS, especially if some killer apps start to appear on Android that would be
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It's sad, but the world contains coders who have ill intent towards everyday users. Apple's solution has many downsides, but it is aimed at solving a real problem.
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There's nothing in their fact checking about "exploiting the backs of the poorest".
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This seems like it might be a decent Android competitor to the iPod touch, which is actually a pretty smart move.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It's not just the amount of pay that people are having difficulty with - it's the relative difficulty of finding work. Coders are in demand at the moment, so we don't have that problem.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
By 'naysayers', do you mean people spreading false statements?
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Daisey tells horrifying stories including one of a guy with a useless and twisted hand from making iPads. Those create a very impression different from the one that we're left with. I'd say that for the most part what Daisey adds beyond th
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What makes you think the conditions he describes are true?
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Are you seriously suggesting that he was telling the truth the in the original piece, but is now lying in his retraction?
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Mike Daisey admits to the fabrication.
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I assume you are aware that software is currently a booming industry, unlike most of the rest of the economy (other notable exceptions being finance and medicine).
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If the iPad 3 retina display really does pose a problem to web bandwidth, this piece would have been more interesting if the author had said at what point in the future there will be sufficient bandwidth.
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Strangely, instead of cry-babies, I saw people making a cogent argument that the costs of moving are high and the job market is very uncertain, and that under those conditions the risks of moving to a place without an adequate support netwo

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