Engineers often see no value in what marketers do. This video is what they don't do.

It stuns me how bad many engineers are in basic communication.

Made something? Dont start with a long, protracted "This is how i built it from step 1". Show the damn thing! Then tell me how you built which i will be interested in only if the product is good to begin with.

Wait, you are somehow sure that no marketer was involved in making this video? Seems unlikely

Chess players still play chess.

It's not even remotely comparable.

Chess players are more like athletes. You need to be top 0.01% to make a living. You also need to start at a very, very young age.

If the future for commercial artists/composers is comparable to chess players then the GP is doom already.

>You need to be top 0.01% to make a living.

The point was that people do it for the enjoyment of learning and improving, not because they are compensated.

> Game devs will go with what they can afford and who can blame them?

From the GP. They clearly expect to be compensated.

Only a tiny fraction of artists, and not even necessarily those you would call the best ones, are making a living of their art/performances/work.

So yes that is still comparable.

I grew some mushrooms at home for the first time. Ate one at 8pm at a concert tonight. Its now 3am and despite taking melatonin, I cannot get to sleep.

That’s normal. Best to just relax maybe have some food/drink and eventually you’ll sleep but it’s not a party drug if you’re gonna work the next day or something

Apple is still a hardware company. A loss of revenue from software and services sales is far from ruinous for Apple.

Should I be blocked if I ask Claude Desktop to lower the prices in all of my Craigslist ads by 10%?

I recognized her name when this story dropped. She’s been on an Apple vendetta for some time.

People can be right and on a vendetta at the same time. The only thing relevant for this heading is: does the EPA report point at an actual problem?

No

This does not seem to align with what the report states. The report lists 19 potential violations.

19 potential violations, most of which were mislabeled and unlabeled things or poor storage habits and addressed (meaning they aren't violations).

The rest of it was things being managed under state/local rules that should have been managed under federal rules which Apple still has time to fix and make them not violations.

I do not think it is fair/honest to focus on the mundane findings, then use that to debase the entire report.

but it's a strong indictor

I do not think that is reasonable to believe that because a report has some mundane findings that it indicates that the whole report should be dismissed.

all of the findings are mundane

I do not think that can be so confidently asserted entirely one way or another with the information we have now, unless we have in our midst someone who is an expert in reading EPA reports.

As a proud owner of multiple Apple™ products I can assure you this report is totally trivial. Apple™ has never and will never do anything wrong!

At what point does legitimate whistleblowing become a vendetta?

As yet, none of it is legit

When other notable Apple whistleblowers have to file restraining orders against them because Gjovik makes up more lies and then doxxes their family?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/04/05/appletoo-founders...

https://nypost.com/2022/04/03/apple-whistleblower-movement-t...

https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ScarlettvGjovi...

Gjovik is self-publishing this for a reason, multiple journalists tried to corroborate her constantly changing story, and when the media interest disappeared she had a w̶e̶l̶l̶-̶p̶u̶b̶l̶i̶c̶i̶s̶e̶d̶ somewhat-infamous-in-Apple-circles meltdown and in an increasingly implausible conspiracy allegation attacked multiple former allies for being out to get her, many of which have remained silent.

When the Apple fan boys say so.

Where did you get the music to train on? And how hard was it to get permission?

There are a myriad of reasons why living in a LA beach city is preferable to the SFV. The beach is there. The weather is better. You’re closer to LAX.

Yes. There are lots of us on enterprise controlled systems and can only install apps with homebrew.

No one becomes a billionaire from hard work. Typically some amount of theft, fraud, misery or abuse is involved.