What about that great 1984 commercial?
(a) It was an ad, not a political platform.
(b) Even as an ad, the message was "Give average users the ability to use computers, don't just have them for technical people and businesses" which Apple still abides to this day. It wasn't about the same message as 1984 the book.
Who we choose to work for and where we spend our money are the two primary powers every individual wields.
Unfortunately, that's just not true. The vast mahority of people on lower income cannot aford to be choosy with who they work for. A great many higher earning software developers (HN's usual market) are in the same position.
I agree that encouraging the few people who can afford the luxury of being choosy to vote with their feet is a good thing, but don't assume everyone has that same "primary power".
Once you start taking family commitments, salary requirements, type of company etc into consideration, the pool of available jobs is certainly reduced.
If there is a positive from Covid, I'd hope is the acceptance of full remote work as an option or at most token office presence (e.g. Once every other week)
FWIW, my question about job switching was very much tongue in cheek as by now I'm not that bothered but the first few weeks were a massive productivity sink, more so than the usual when one starts in a new company with a different stack, etc...
Just use your own device, nobody will be the wiser
Companies need to be held accountable, regardless of who buys their stuff. Stop blaming common people for the crimes of megacorps.
And this is not the first time Apple is kowtowing to Chinese government. See the Apple cloud deal in China which needs to store data in Tencent cloud or how Apple blocked an app in HK letting users know where the police is. Nothing has changed in now Apple is operating here.
You can symbolically decide to boycott the company and not use it's products, but in the case of apple and their systems, this does a lot more damage to the individual than the company.
(tongue in cheek) and have you seen the alternatives?!?!?!
(if you only knew how many corrections I had to make to these couple of sentences I have just written to correct the mistakes introduced by my "excellent" MacBook Pro keyboard)
- 16 Inch Screen - 8 Core i9 (16 Threads) - 4TB SSD Storage - Screen resolution is 4096x2560 @ 60Hz
I write code that uses all 16 cores and is able to search data at 2.5 Gb /s reading from the SSD, which is as far as I can tell close to the hardware limits.
Who's got a laptop that has this much CPU, RAM and fast SSD Storage with the same or greater screen resolution? If it exists, I really wanna know.
I had a windows gaming laptop about a year ago which had close to this specs, but I used it for a month and it started slowing down because it was overheating, and then eventually it just started getting insanely hot and then powering off (Its was one of those "Predator" gaming laptops), it couldn't even handle 2 months of heavy coding abuse from me (and it was super heavy physically too), it was very disappointing.
That said, the Macbook screen is brilliant and others don't always compare.
the real thing that puts me off leaving the Apple world: MacOS. I've tried to go back to WIndows and the experience was dreadful for software engineering.