Say what you will about ad tech, I think there’s no denying these are “serious” tech companies.
Their wifi was pretty ok though. I went a month or so without noticing that my personal usb nic had stopped working after an macOS update (needless to say, I'm not a fan of macs after experience using one at that job).
Work is done at a desk with a large display (or two) and a network port. The laptops come out for meetings, not coding.
Some people prefer hiding with their laptop and coding, but I find the added latency of wifi when using remote desktops is painful. Code is _not_ allowed on the laptop's storage.
Some people who do use laptops as primary machines will have a dock to let them use the wired network and large displays.
It depends on your job function, for sure, but I had to download multiple large device images each day, and having a 10G link was pretty convenient for doing that.
-written from my wifi connected laptop at Netflix
Apple basically just sells boutique whitegoods.
If any of these companies ceased to exist, it wouldn't inconvenience anyone other the shareholders.
true, hn'ers obviously excluded :)
> but you aren't putting food on tables
i tend to agree, but then again, most "value" is created by businesses that revolve around unnecessary things.
And the employees.
Staircase's ramp here at home is beautiful but the metallic balusters acts as a Faraday cage. Wife's MacBook M1 doesn't have an ethernet port either but she's using a little USB-C hub providing ethernet (and connection to a proper monitor): I think these adapters cost like $25 or something (my brother had one laying around and just gave it to me).