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Why is Apple not a "good" company?
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tiny Asian fingers?
What? It's not me saying that, it's Sony
Seriously though it's probably more to do with stability. You know the government won't collapse the next week and the factories won't be taken over by rebels and China will always play ball if you dangle enough money in front of them.
http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/letter-from-scott-turow-grim.html
Its clear that he intentionally mislead their fact checkers so they'd let him on the air.
Apple is actually doing a better job than most of the companies using Chinese factories, and this guy tried to make a name for himself by attacking a popular product line with a believable story regarding worker exploitation, and This American Life fell for it.
That sucks, because I like TAL. But I saw this guy on Bill Maher a month or so ago, and I had a very hard time believing a single word coming out of his mouth.
I am having a very hard time grasping what Apple could have done to rectify this situation... and the guy who trumped up a more horrific version of it for his false version of the situation at Foxconn isn't helping anyone.
TAL has been extremely classy about this. They sent an email out to all their contributors, put a long explanation up on their website/social media and did an entire show as a retraction. If anything, I think they're coming away from this with their credibility enhanced.
They also put out a press release to call attention to it. I found the retraction/correction on the front page for the online editions of The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Sun-Times the day it came out. You know what you can't find on the front page for the online editions of any of those publications? The retractions or corrections that they have to print for their own content. This American Life takes its retractions and corrections more seriously than every other news media outlet in the nation combined.
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Seems like some good support why Apple is not as "good" as other companies.
The list is bullshit.
There was still some debate as to whether or not comparative commercial success in a given market could determine whether a large company was "good", or at least "successful good" in a given region, but in any case, Samsung's market share in China, expected to be the largest smartphone market eventually, is three times that of Apple. Apparently, limited availability is part of the issue, which speaks a lot more to poor decisions in the long run than the more desirable "there just aren't enough of them everywhere!"
Of course, Samsung has garnered more than its share of animosity as well, but there it is. But by this time, the usually "Oh, knock offs are sucking away all our sales" excuse doesn't cut it--Samsung and every other company has to deal with the same issue.
Still dominating the tablet scene, I'd wager.
It's time we accept that Enterprise doesn't mean a damn thing to Apple any longer.
And why should it? They are making money by the boat-load. The OS is getting closer to the mobile OS and management of Lion clients with a Lion server hinges on tricking the system into using 10.6 server tools. I can't imagine that 10.8 will be an improvement.
I wonder if the majority is iPad 1 users.
Well, the group of applicants is self-selected (you must be "nominated" and then choose to respond) and the ratings are based on self-provided information subject to "verification" and is weighted heavily towards "management's attitudes" and "reputation" and "written programs" as opposed to actual results.
So, basically, it's nonsense.
Maybe there's more to it, but it's not easily available on their website.
So long as graphic designers and marketing people exist there is going to be some awful patchwork system to support their device choices.
The retraction didn't even make it into my NYTimes RSS. This is literally the first I am hearing about this. That is shameful on the part of the NYTimes, since it ran a full series of articles on this issue.
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing." -- Andrew Jackson
I don't think the NYT based their stories on this guys testimony, though. I think they did their own work.
Well, to be fair, TAL runs a either a single or a handful of stories per week, compared to who knows how many a major newspaper runs. Plus the Apple story was the most popular one in TAL's history.
I just preferred when the awful patchwork system was being produced by Apple.
Even if they allowed virtualization on non-Apple hardware, I'd be more than halfway to a decent solution.
The TAL retraction episode actually talked about that.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
Ah. Haven't heard it - was I right?
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-11/u-s-files-antitrust-lawsuit-against-apple-hachette.html
And reading comments about this on the internet is pretty entertaining. People have no idea what price fixing is.
"As great as the iPad is, shouldn't it be, you know, better?"
My knowledge of such things isn't strong, but I'm just thinking form-factor wise that if the iPad is virtually indistinguishable internally from the iPhone or iPod, with four times the size in real estate, shouldn't the iPad be more awesomer?
If they settle, they pay out, what, 10% of what they made off the extra cash from price fixing? Then they pretend to fix the problem, but reinstate it in a different way as soon as possible?
Nothing infuriates Apple dedicates more than referring to an iPad as just a giant iPod Touch. Except for calling it the iTouch.
In all honesty, I don't really care about how bad of a company Apple is, because they seem to be about as depraved as any other major manufacturer. The part that bothers me is how weird the cult gets in white knighting for them.
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That's probably because Apple relies so much on brand identity.
And I don't know why Apple hasn't settled, because this is about as open and shut a case as it gets.
as a 'casual' apple user who just owns an iphone and a macbook, without the lifestyle to support being a total apple devotee... never before have i owned a product where people would give me shit for it. i mean, calling apple fans smug- with that being the entirety of your presentation- seems a little weird. that smugness that (i admit) some of the fanbase possesses is largely interlinked with the existence of a huge number of angry, self-satisfied torvaldsdian neckbeards who give me shit for liking the products this one company makes. i like my guitar just as much as i like my macbook but since no one lords how customizable and 'for power users' their guitar is, and talks about how i'm a sucker for paying this much for my shiny, 'hamstrung' guitar... i never have arguments about my guitar!
which is to say there are lots of idiots who fuel one another's idiocy. one serves as a counterpoint to the other.
Apple is the only company I know where customers treat the company's record-setting profits as if it's some sort of victory for them as customers.
Whenever I go to the gas station, I don't hear a single person saying "OMG, it's so awesome that Exxon made $JUPITER last year! I know $4.50 a gallon adds up, but it's worth it if it means that Exxon has a bigger market cap than other energy companies. Suck it, solar power!"
Form factor is married to functionality.
If you had a wristwatch with all the power of your desktop, you probably aren't going to play WoW on it, even if it had the muscle.
The split panel interface, and larger data entry apps, and content creation apps... and definitely some games (Like Sword and Sworcery and the upcoming Baldur's Gate Re-Release). These things demand more screen than even a 4" phone could provide.
True, so I guess my issue is just size disparity. Something four times the size of something else should be X more times powerful/whatever, right?