iPhone 4s - this is the same model that the San Bernardino Jihadists had, and where the FBI took the help of an Israeli company to crack it. The Turks could do the same, rather than risk locking it forever.
I'm just wondering what they'd do had the Jihadist upgraded to iOS 8 or above, or had the Jihadist had an iPhone 5 or above? Incidentally, was any iPhone recovered from Amri - the Tunisian Jihadist from Berlin who got killed in Milan?
San Bernadino phone was a 5C running, IIRC , iOS 8. It had a Secure Enclave chip. Way different.
You don't need dongles for most things, you simply get a new cable that has USB-C. I greatly prefer being able to use any of the four ports for anything - charging on either side is really nice, as is choosing which side I want to connect cables to.
All USB-C was absolutely the right choice to make now, going forward it will be way better for people to have four high speed ports rather than waste a single space on a USB-A port.
Permanent ice is actually a rare phenomenon in the history of the Earth, occurring only during the 20% of the time that the planet is under an icehouse effect.
Humans as a species do not have any serious ability to harm the planet. We can easily make it completely unsuitable for human life, however.
Sorry, both are outside of the abilities of the puny Hu-mons, absent Nuclear War.
"Long story short, we're currently melting the wall that's helped stop the seas boiling for all of these years."
Yes, that bullshit is what passes for "science" on Slashdot these days and if you dare to point out that bullshit is bullshit you can be blacklisted as an "anti-science" nazi for failing to show proper piety to the religion of Global Warming -- oops I mean "Climate Change".
There are an awful lot of people out there hanging on to the last generation of non-glued MBP's, especially the 17" model, which has enough pixels and inches for legible side-by-wide windows, enough space inside for 2x storage devices, 16GB RAM capability, lots of ports, and a screwed-on bottom to enable in-house repairs (i.e. replacements of failing drives, fans, and so on, so that people can be back to work in an hour or two rather than waiting on Apple for service).
I know that we will not go to the newer MBPs for these reasons—and are probably going Linux with one of the Chinese hardware brands, as we are an SaaS firm in which most aren't keen on having to work in Windows, without the *nix-like command line and development environment.
Have fun with Linux on mist laptops... Actually, just have fun with Linux...
Did you miss that one of those ports is needed for the charger?
My Late-2011 17" (bought in mid 2012) has EIGHT ports: power, ethernet, firewire 800, thunderbolt, three USB 2.0 (3.0 didn't happen until a few months later, only one old-school Mac Mini got it before The Solderening), and an ExpressCard slot (which usually has an SD card adapter in it).
But at least they still have the headphone jack. Not that I use mine, because the little switch inside it sticks, and I always have to tickle it with a toothpick to turn off the optical output after using it with an actual headphone plug.
And that's on top of fully replaceable RAM and SATA SSD. And an optical drive. And a big-ass screen.
So now thanks to "courage" and an obsession with thin, the new "pro" model has half as many ports as the top-of-the-line model from five years earlier. I'd be less unimpressed if they had just added two USB 3.0 ports.
Look, I have a 2012 non-retina 15" MBP. I specifically chose it over the retina MBP because it had MagSafe power, Ethernet, TB/MiniDP, FW 800, 2 X USB 3.0, Audio/Optical I/O, SuperDrive. It also had n SD slot, but I really didn't care about that. It also had replaceable RAM and HD/SSD. So I get what you are saying.
Having said that, I'd STILL rather have the 4 USB-C/TB 3 Ports (I'm still with ya on the RAM and HD/SSD, though); because I can purchase a TB3 Hub/Dock from OWC that can turn any ONE of those Ports into ALL of those Ports my 2012 MBP had (incl power), plus HDMI and (an additional) audio I/O (13 ports total). A bit pricey at $279, but there are many other, slightly less ambitious hubs/docks for far less money. But the OWC Dock neatly demonstrates the sheer volume of I/O that even just ONE of those USB-C/TB3 Ports can "breakout" to. And the MBP (15") has FOUR of them...
I'm writing this on my first-gen Surface Pro, which I bought in the summer of 2013 - It's still going strong.
Three years on, how can Apple still not have a touchscreen and stylus on their computers?
Because nearly TEN years ago, Apple tried it and hated it.
In fact, they even have a Patent filing from 2010 that looks JUST like the "amazingly innovative" Surface Studio.
Honestly; do you really think that the leader in Touch hasn't built dozens, if not hundreds, of touch-Mac prototypes?
I know something is wrong when a Dell XPS 13 actually is better than Apple's offerings. In fact, it actually is a better MacBook Pro than what Apple has, because it has two USB ports in addition to a USB-C port, a high res screen, and a recent (as of this year) CPU/chipset. Of course, Windows 10 may not be as nice as OS X to some, but it gets the job done.
My Hewlett Packard Spectre 13 has three USB-C ports and includes an adapter for HDMI and another adapter for more traditional USB-A. My only complaint has to do with the soldered RAM limited to 8 GB; these days a notebook computer should have 16 GB as a minimum given the small cost differential for manufacturers. The lightness of the HP Spectre 13 is a blessing and it fully supports GNU/Linux. For memory-intensive data analysis tasks I can remote into a server whether physical or virtual these days.
Impressive!
HP included $10 worth of USB-C adapters (woohoo!), and limited the RAM to 8 GB. How in the FUCK is that better than the 2016 MBP?
It feels like any hardware/software decisions they make with Macs have been alienating pros... Taking forever with significant hardware refreshes, non-modular hardware design, elimination of useful ports and connectors, Final Cut Pro X
The only Intel Mac to have a "modular" hardware design was the original "cheese grater" Mac Pros.
The "Elimination of useful (to you) ports and connectors. That's asinine. USB-C/TB3 is the epitome of "useful", now, and even more so in the future.
Final Cut Pro X. Give it a rest. Most of that was corrected long ago. And that was during SJ's tenure, anyway.
Well, but it's not. The empirical evidence is against you. Apple's sales are swimming against the stream of declining PC industry sales and profits.
I don't use laptops, but let's take what you say as true: reduced ports (true, though everything will be USB-C eventually anyway), non-upgradeable (indisputable), crummy keyboards (subjective).
Obviously these things are either not dealbreakers or they're things that people actually want. The tradeoff for a light laptop is worth it. Or for a stylish laptop. Or just for a laptop that runs OS X. I think they really believe that these are the best choices to make to appeal to the broadest audience, and it's hard to find fault in that reasoning so far.
I would guess that's what the deal is with not updating the Mac Pro and Mac Mini, though those are bad long-term bets if you ask me. I've owned Mac Minis and a PowerMac and iMacs, and while they're a lot less important to me now than they used to be, taking them away is guaranteeing the slow decline of your development platform. I'm not sure what the end-game is with discontinuing those lines, but I don't have a lot of optimism for the plan.
Isn't the issue with the 'mini and the iMac (and the reason the 2016 MBP was restricted to 16 GB RAM) is the fact that Quad-Core Kaby Lake's aren't out yet, as were promised originally by Intel (or may just now be coming out)?
And as far as the Mac Pro goes, I heard that there is an updated Xeon in the works that Apple is likely waiting for, too, but the news is much murkier on that...
Apple can't release designs with CPUs that they can't purchase yet.
Port usage is different too among most consumers - most folks have long ago begun switching to bluetooth and wifi to connect stuff. Printers nowadays are wifi-connected, so what's the point of having a dedicated printer cable port? Geek sticks? Okay, we'll still need a USB port.. but that's about it. Camera/SD cards? USB adapter, as always, or just use the USB cable, or...
What is wrong with you? The four USB-C/TB3 Ports are a Godsend for "tinkerers"...
Besides a Parallel Printer port (and even that may be possible), name me one reasonably-popular port (one that you would find on most laptops made in the past 5 years) that the USB-C/TB3 port can't be easily and relatively cheaply adapted to? Heck, I think you can even buy USB-C to SATA adapters! Yep, just found two on Amazon for $20 (one was actually $17).
USB-C to USB-A. Under $7.
USB-C/TB3 to Ethernet. $14.
USB-C/TB3 to HDMI. $12.
USB-C/TB3 to VGA. $11
USB-C to 9 pin Serial (RS-232C). $20 (says it's "Mac Compatible")
And of course there are ALL sorts of little "hubs" and "docks" that have various combinations of the above ports, too. Some are as little as $10, some as expensive as $279 (for THIRTEEN ports from ONE USB-C/TB3 Port!)
Oh, and if you need SD, how about an SD/microSD USB-C reader for $10.
And for sharing data with your friends, you can get "Geek Sticks" with USB-A on one end, and USB-C on the other for as little as $15 for 32 GB.
So, did I miss anything?
And unlike other laptops that may have ONE HDMI port, ONE VGA Port, ONE Ethernet Port, maybe TWO USB 3.0 Ports, and (these days) likely ZERO Serial Ports, with FOUR Identical USB-C/TB3 Ports, I can have a MINIMUM of FOUR of ANY of those Ports (and if we're falking about USB 3.0 Ports, more like SIXTEEN).
Given he built an iOS application, there is an entire home control integration framework in iOS, I am currently using it. My home also responds to voice controls (fairly efficiently at about 90% success rate) and can turn lights on/off, alarm, thermostat and computer control.
I've been working on these things as a hobby for the last 7 years, voice control and all. Initially using X10, now with Insteon and ZWave as well. Nothing new Zuckerberg and my house costs probably 1% of yours.
Everything except the facial recognition can be easily thrown together with HomeKit, a HomeKit-compatible "bridge", various off the shelf peripherals, and some scripts living in the Bridge.
The facial recognition is probably something he had contracted, or a mire expensive than mere mortals can affor, but still "off the shelf" system that merely provides a "switch closure" that runs yet another Bridge script.
Not so amazing for someone with his money. And 95% is not even amazing for you and me.
I would be surprised if they didn't have the time officially listed as an unpaid break. If that is the case, they should also get paid for the time they worked.
Then be prepared to be surprised; because if Apple had done that, this would be a CRIMINAL case.
Lunch breaks are unpaid. This is a fine for not giving employees an unpaid lunch break as mandated by law. Not compensation for failure to pay them for time worked.
Except any employer with hourly employees tracks their time. To be able to pay these employees, they have to know when they started and stopped work. So Apple should be able to look at those logs and see who worked 8 hours without a lunch break. Simply force them to turn over the logs and then the court can work it out.
Work WHAT out?
Unless Apple automatically clocked them out during the times of their "missed" breaks, (which WOULD be illegal, let alone tortious, under pretty much all state laws), THERE IS NO LOSS.
How on earth can it be so little? Let's say you worked there 5 days a week for one year, and you were denied a 30 minute lunch break on every shift. That would be around 130 hours of your time... or $1300 per employee per year... how does that become $95? If the practices were in place for 5 years, that could be $7500 for a full time worker who was there the whole time.
Here's how.
Generally, Hourly employees are required to "clock out" during lunch breaks, and some employers even require employees to Clock Out during short breaks as well. This is pretty much universally accepted as legal (and customary) everywhere in the U.S.
So, while state law may have mandated the BREAKS, it almost assuredly did NOT mandate that they be PAID breaks.
This means that the employees were actually earning MORE than they would have if they HAD been taking their (unpaid) breaks.
So, since Civil suits are based in "making you whole", which generally is restricted to either " injunctive relief" (making the other side stop doing something); and/or "monetary damages" (making the other side give you money that their actions wrongly cost you), the "Plaintiffs" likely didn't have much (or maybe even no) "money" case at all.
So, the money award likely just represents a negotiated settlement where Apple essentially told the court "our bad"; but, since the "Plaintiffs" (Complainants) really weren't deprived of any MONEY (in fact, the opposite), unless the state law had some sort of monetary penalties built-in, they really weren't due ANY MONETARY "relief" AT ALL, sorry!
Maybe not a fashion statement.. But I know people who have them because they feel they are "cool" and love to have the latest gadgetry.. It's kind of the same thing.
Maybe your friends are that vacuous and shallow; but the people I know (as well as myself) buy Apple products because of their utility and freedom from malware annoyances.
By the time you are ready to replace that SE, there won't be a single decent smartphone, iOS or Android, that will have a 3.5 mm Jack. Not a single one. Sorry.
I would tend to bet almost the opposite—that not a single cell phone manufacturer except Samsung will follow Apple's lead by the time you're ready to replace that SE. Here's why:
Sales of iPhone 7 have lagged behind the iPhone 6s according to multiple reports.
Apple didn't even manage to pick up very many sales after the Note 7 train wreck. Those sales mostly went to other Android devices.
iOS continues to lose market share to Android at an alarming rate, because their sales are shrinking while the market grows.
Other manufacturers are continuing to release new product lines with headphone jacks.
In other words, all evidence strongly suggests that Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack was a mistake, and slumping customer sales are a reaction to what consumers perceive as the long, slow decline of a once-beloved product line. IMO, the only question that remains is whether Apple will double down on stupid or recognize and correct their error in their next design.
According to the analyst quoted in this Slashdot article, as much as 50% of GN7 Owners have, or planned to, switch to an iPhone 7. Considering that means completely changing platforms for the user involved, that's a very high number. Even the "more solid" number of just under 30% is pretty high, considering it's a platform-change.
The iPhone 6s is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, due to the recently-decreased price and increased memory. So it is probably picking-up some budget-conscious iPhone users. But I think the iPhone 7 is still more popular than the 6s. And in fact, it is. So there's another lie of yours disproven by facts...
iOS Marketshare Plummeting: Not according to this article from just a week ago, which states that iPhone 7 Marketshare Growth is the strongest, and overall market share is the highest, in the U.S., and not so bad in other places (e.g. #2 in China, #1 in the U.K.)., than it has been in two years. That sounds like anything but dire sales figures to me...
Other OEMs are continuing to release new phones with headphone jacks: Considering the development and agency-approval timeframes for these products, I'm not surprised. But let's take a look at the next update-cycle, shall we?
So, try harder at your Hater bullshit next time, willya? It was hardly even challenging exposing your bullshit for exactly that.
Actually I would say like what Google does with the Nexus lines. I also carry around an iPhone for work; I don't care how much updates they get, they still suck. And in fact, somehow their updates always manage to break shit even though I only have first party Apple apps installed.
Ok, so for the.04% of non Slashdotters that have a Nexus (which are now being abandoned I hear), maybe Android is ok (but still statistically. Much less secure than iOS), but for the rest of the victims of Android, not so much.
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You might recall that M$ and Cyanogen "partnered up" sometime around April 2015 . . . so I guess this is step three of
"Embrace. Extend. Extinguish."
I got punish-modded for saying that exact thing about a month ago.
iPhone 4s - this is the same model that the San Bernardino Jihadists had, and where the FBI took the help of an Israeli company to crack it. The Turks could do the same, rather than risk locking it forever.
I'm just wondering what they'd do had the Jihadist upgraded to iOS 8 or above, or had the Jihadist had an iPhone 5 or above? Incidentally, was any iPhone recovered from Amri - the Tunisian Jihadist from Berlin who got killed in Milan?
San Bernadino phone was a 5C running, IIRC , iOS 8. It had a Secure Enclave chip. Way different.
You don't need dongles for most things, you simply get a new cable that has USB-C. I greatly prefer being able to use any of the four ports for anything - charging on either side is really nice, as is choosing which side I want to connect cables to.
All USB-C was absolutely the right choice to make now, going forward it will be way better for people to have four high speed ports rather than waste a single space on a USB-A port.
Finally! Somebody listening to my preaching!
Say again? :-)
LOL! It's a "My UID is lower than yours" war!!!
[Popping popcorn]
Anyone with a cursory understanding of climate over the geologic ages knows that ice at both poles is rare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth
Humans as a species do not have any serious ability to harm the planet. We can easily make it completely unsuitable for human life, however.
Sorry, both are outside of the abilities of the puny Hu-mons, absent Nuclear War.
"Long story short, we're currently melting the wall that's helped stop the seas boiling for all of these years."
Yes, that bullshit is what passes for "science" on Slashdot these days and if you dare to point out that bullshit is bullshit you can be blacklisted as an "anti-science" nazi for failing to show proper piety to the religion of Global Warming -- oops I mean "Climate Change".
Exactly.
Probably a couple decades.
If the earlier lesson with the "Sandboxing" requirement deadline is any indication, we're talking a few months, not a few years...
. . . .it's not like Apple has a good record on SSL/TLS. Heck, other reports are noting that the Apple Store itself re-directs https connects to vanilla http connections.
This is NOT Rocket Science. . . .
Obviously, they had significant grumbling from the Dev. community.
But this is like when they pushed-back the Sandboxing requirement a few years ago: It will happen.
How about a little less negativity, and a little more support for Apple at least attempting to drag Devs. into using more robust security?
There are an awful lot of people out there hanging on to the last generation of non-glued MBP's, especially the 17" model, which has enough pixels and inches for legible side-by-wide windows, enough space inside for 2x storage devices, 16GB RAM capability, lots of ports, and a screwed-on bottom to enable in-house repairs (i.e. replacements of failing drives, fans, and so on, so that people can be back to work in an hour or two rather than waiting on Apple for service).
I know that we will not go to the newer MBPs for these reasons—and are probably going Linux with one of the Chinese hardware brands, as we are an SaaS firm in which most aren't keen on having to work in Windows, without the *nix-like command line and development environment.
Have fun with Linux on mist laptops... Actually, just have fun with Linux...
But..
Try to plug in the headphones that come with the new iphone 7 (with a lightening plug) into your laptop. You can't. Their ain't a dongle for that.
There might have been; but it doesn't seem to exist anymore.
So, did I miss anything?
Did you miss that one of those ports is needed for the charger?
My Late-2011 17" (bought in mid 2012) has EIGHT ports: power, ethernet, firewire 800, thunderbolt, three USB 2.0 (3.0 didn't happen until a few months later, only one old-school Mac Mini got it before The Solderening), and an ExpressCard slot (which usually has an SD card adapter in it).
But at least they still have the headphone jack. Not that I use mine, because the little switch inside it sticks, and I always have to tickle it with a toothpick to turn off the optical output after using it with an actual headphone plug.
And that's on top of fully replaceable RAM and SATA SSD. And an optical drive. And a big-ass screen.
So now thanks to "courage" and an obsession with thin, the new "pro" model has half as many ports as the top-of-the-line model from five years earlier. I'd be less unimpressed if they had just added two USB 3.0 ports.
Look, I have a 2012 non-retina 15" MBP. I specifically chose it over the retina MBP because it had MagSafe power, Ethernet, TB/MiniDP, FW 800, 2 X USB 3.0, Audio/Optical I/O, SuperDrive. It also had n SD slot, but I really didn't care about that. It also had replaceable RAM and HD/SSD. So I get what you are saying.
Having said that, I'd STILL rather have the 4 USB-C/TB 3 Ports (I'm still with ya on the RAM and HD/SSD, though); because I can purchase a TB3 Hub/Dock from OWC that can turn any ONE of those Ports into ALL of those Ports my 2012 MBP had (incl power), plus HDMI and (an additional) audio I/O (13 ports total). A bit pricey at $279, but there are many other, slightly less ambitious hubs/docks for far less money. But the OWC Dock neatly demonstrates the sheer volume of I/O that even just ONE of those USB-C/TB3 Ports can "breakout" to. And the MBP (15") has FOUR of them...
I'm writing this on my first-gen Surface Pro, which I bought in the summer of 2013 - It's still going strong. Three years on, how can Apple still not have a touchscreen and stylus on their computers?
Because nearly TEN years ago, Apple tried it and hated it.
In fact, they even have a Patent filing from 2010 that looks JUST like the "amazingly innovative" Surface Studio.
Honestly; do you really think that the leader in Touch hasn't built dozens, if not hundreds, of touch-Mac prototypes?
I know something is wrong when a Dell XPS 13 actually is better than Apple's offerings. In fact, it actually is a better MacBook Pro than what Apple has, because it has two USB ports in addition to a USB-C port, a high res screen, and a recent (as of this year) CPU/chipset. Of course, Windows 10 may not be as nice as OS X to some, but it gets the job done.
My Hewlett Packard Spectre 13 has three USB-C ports and includes an adapter for HDMI and another adapter for more traditional USB-A. My only complaint has to do with the soldered RAM limited to 8 GB; these days a notebook computer should have 16 GB as a minimum given the small cost differential for manufacturers. The lightness of the HP Spectre 13 is a blessing and it fully supports GNU/Linux. For memory-intensive data analysis tasks I can remote into a server whether physical or virtual these days.
Impressive!
HP included $10 worth of USB-C adapters (woohoo!), and limited the RAM to 8 GB. How in the FUCK is that better than the 2016 MBP?
It feels like any hardware/software decisions they make with Macs have been alienating pros... Taking forever with significant hardware refreshes, non-modular hardware design, elimination of useful ports and connectors, Final Cut Pro X
The only Intel Mac to have a "modular" hardware design was the original "cheese grater" Mac Pros.
The "Elimination of useful (to you) ports and connectors. That's asinine. USB-C/TB3 is the epitome of "useful", now, and even more so in the future.
Final Cut Pro X. Give it a rest. Most of that was corrected long ago. And that was during SJ's tenure, anyway.
Well, but it's not. The empirical evidence is against you. Apple's sales are swimming against the stream of declining PC industry sales and profits.
I don't use laptops, but let's take what you say as true: reduced ports (true, though everything will be USB-C eventually anyway), non-upgradeable (indisputable), crummy keyboards (subjective).
Obviously these things are either not dealbreakers or they're things that people actually want. The tradeoff for a light laptop is worth it. Or for a stylish laptop. Or just for a laptop that runs OS X. I think they really believe that these are the best choices to make to appeal to the broadest audience, and it's hard to find fault in that reasoning so far.
I would guess that's what the deal is with not updating the Mac Pro and Mac Mini, though those are bad long-term bets if you ask me. I've owned Mac Minis and a PowerMac and iMacs, and while they're a lot less important to me now than they used to be, taking them away is guaranteeing the slow decline of your development platform. I'm not sure what the end-game is with discontinuing those lines, but I don't have a lot of optimism for the plan.
Isn't the issue with the 'mini and the iMac (and the reason the 2016 MBP was restricted to 16 GB RAM) is the fact that Quad-Core Kaby Lake's aren't out yet, as were promised originally by Intel (or may just now be coming out)?
And as far as the Mac Pro goes, I heard that there is an updated Xeon in the works that Apple is likely waiting for, too, but the news is much murkier on that...
Apple can't release designs with CPUs that they can't purchase yet.
Port usage is different too among most consumers - most folks have long ago begun switching to bluetooth and wifi to connect stuff. Printers nowadays are wifi-connected, so what's the point of having a dedicated printer cable port? Geek sticks? Okay, we'll still need a USB port.. but that's about it. Camera/SD cards? USB adapter, as always, or just use the USB cable, or...
What is wrong with you? The four USB-C/TB3 Ports are a Godsend for "tinkerers"...
Besides a Parallel Printer port (and even that may be possible), name me one reasonably-popular port (one that you would find on most laptops made in the past 5 years) that the USB-C/TB3 port can't be easily and relatively cheaply adapted to? Heck, I think you can even buy USB-C to SATA adapters! Yep, just found two on Amazon for $20 (one was actually $17).
USB-C to USB-A. Under $7.
USB-C/TB3 to Ethernet. $14.
USB-C/TB3 to HDMI. $12.
USB-C/TB3 to VGA. $11
USB-C to 9 pin Serial (RS-232C). $20 (says it's "Mac Compatible")
And of course there are ALL sorts of little "hubs" and "docks" that have various combinations of the above ports, too. Some are as little as $10, some as expensive as $279 (for THIRTEEN ports from ONE USB-C/TB3 Port!)
Oh, and if you need SD, how about an SD/microSD USB-C reader for $10.
And for sharing data with your friends, you can get "Geek Sticks" with USB-A on one end, and USB-C on the other for as little as $15 for 32 GB.
So, did I miss anything?
And unlike other laptops that may have ONE HDMI port, ONE VGA Port, ONE Ethernet Port, maybe TWO USB 3.0 Ports, and (these days) likely ZERO Serial Ports, with FOUR Identical USB-C/TB3 Ports, I can have a MINIMUM of FOUR of ANY of those Ports (and if we're falking about USB 3.0 Ports, more like SIXTEEN).
Given he built an iOS application, there is an entire home control integration framework in iOS, I am currently using it. My home also responds to voice controls (fairly efficiently at about 90% success rate) and can turn lights on/off, alarm, thermostat and computer control.
I've been working on these things as a hobby for the last 7 years, voice control and all. Initially using X10, now with Insteon and ZWave as well. Nothing new Zuckerberg and my house costs probably 1% of yours.
Everything except the facial recognition can be easily thrown together with HomeKit, a HomeKit-compatible "bridge", various off the shelf peripherals, and some scripts living in the Bridge. The facial recognition is probably something he had contracted, or a mire expensive than mere mortals can affor, but still "off the shelf" system that merely provides a "switch closure" that runs yet another Bridge script. Not so amazing for someone with his money. And 95% is not even amazing for you and me.
I would be surprised if they didn't have the time officially listed as an unpaid break. If that is the case, they should also get paid for the time they worked.
Then be prepared to be surprised; because if Apple had done that, this would be a CRIMINAL case.
Lunch breaks are unpaid. This is a fine for not giving employees an unpaid lunch break as mandated by law. Not compensation for failure to pay them for time worked.
Precisely.
Except any employer with hourly employees tracks their time. To be able to pay these employees, they have to know when they started and stopped work. So Apple should be able to look at those logs and see who worked 8 hours without a lunch break. Simply force them to turn over the logs and then the court can work it out.
Work WHAT out?
Unless Apple automatically clocked them out during the times of their "missed" breaks, (which WOULD be illegal, let alone tortious, under pretty much all state laws), THERE IS NO LOSS.
How on earth can it be so little? Let's say you worked there 5 days a week for one year, and you were denied a 30 minute lunch break on every shift. That would be around 130 hours of your time... or $1300 per employee per year... how does that become $95? If the practices were in place for 5 years, that could be $7500 for a full time worker who was there the whole time.
Here's how.
Generally, Hourly employees are required to "clock out" during lunch breaks, and some employers even require employees to Clock Out during short breaks as well. This is pretty much universally accepted as legal (and customary) everywhere in the U.S.
So, while state law may have mandated the BREAKS, it almost assuredly did NOT mandate that they be PAID breaks.
This means that the employees were actually earning MORE than they would have if they HAD been taking their (unpaid) breaks.
So, since Civil suits are based in "making you whole", which generally is restricted to either " injunctive relief" (making the other side stop doing something); and/or "monetary damages" (making the other side give you money that their actions wrongly cost you), the "Plaintiffs" likely didn't have much (or maybe even no) "money" case at all.
So, the money award likely just represents a negotiated settlement where Apple essentially told the court "our bad"; but, since the "Plaintiffs" (Complainants) really weren't deprived of any MONEY (in fact, the opposite), unless the state law had some sort of monetary penalties built-in, they really weren't due ANY MONETARY "relief" AT ALL, sorry!
You know, or just buy a different brand because Android.
We aren't all limited to one handset manufacturer.
Watch as all your choices of phones with 3.5 mm jacks diminish to none.
Maybe not a fashion statement.. But I know people who have them because they feel they are "cool" and love to have the latest gadgetry.. It's kind of the same thing.
Maybe your friends are that vacuous and shallow; but the people I know (as well as myself) buy Apple products because of their utility and freedom from malware annoyances.
I would tend to bet almost the opposite—that not a single cell phone manufacturer except Samsung will follow Apple's lead by the time you're ready to replace that SE. Here's why:
In other words, all evidence strongly suggests that Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack was a mistake, and slumping customer sales are a reaction to what consumers perceive as the long, slow decline of a once-beloved product line. IMO, the only question that remains is whether Apple will double down on stupid or recognize and correct their error in their next design.
According to the analyst quoted in this Slashdot article, as much as 50% of GN7 Owners have, or planned to, switch to an iPhone 7. Considering that means completely changing platforms for the user involved, that's a very high number. Even the "more solid" number of just under 30% is pretty high, considering it's a platform-change.
The iPhone 6s is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, due to the recently-decreased price and increased memory. So it is probably picking-up some budget-conscious iPhone users. But I think the iPhone 7 is still more popular than the 6s. And in fact, it is. So there's another lie of yours disproven by facts...
iOS Marketshare Plummeting: Not according to this article from just a week ago, which states that iPhone 7 Marketshare Growth is the strongest, and overall market share is the highest, in the U.S., and not so bad in other places (e.g. #2 in China, #1 in the U.K.)., than it has been in two years. That sounds like anything but dire sales figures to me...
Other OEMs are continuing to release new phones with headphone jacks: Considering the development and agency-approval timeframes for these products, I'm not surprised. But let's take a look at the next update-cycle, shall we?
So, try harder at your Hater bullshit next time, willya? It was hardly even challenging exposing your bullshit for exactly that.
Actually I would say like what Google does with the Nexus lines. I also carry around an iPhone for work; I don't care how much updates they get, they still suck. And in fact, somehow their updates always manage to break shit even though I only have first party Apple apps installed.
Ok, so for the .04% of non Slashdotters that have a Nexus (which are now being abandoned I hear), maybe Android is ok (but still statistically. Much less secure than iOS), but for the rest of the victims of Android, not so much.