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Re: Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by bartread »

jedberg wrote: post #70
savanaly wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Apple is the richest company in the world, and instead of paying their engineers top wages... If that sentence caught anyone else's eye, know that it caught mine too and I did a quick sanity check. [0] It does seem that Apple is falling a bit short of other top companies, especially for the upper levels. [0] https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook/Apple

Anecdotally, everyone I know who works for Apple is paid below market rate. They justify it by reminding you that “you get to be part of the mission”. I know one guy making market and he’s in the video streaming product group.

> They justify it by reminding you that “you get to be part of the mission”.

That reminds me of the post from a few days ago on HN: "#### you: pay me!"

I think there comes a point in many (and I'd hope all, but I don't think it's true) peoples' careers where they realise that, in business, money talks and everything else is sadly just chatter.

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Post by patates »

egeozcan wrote: post #60
komali2 wrote: post #32

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> Midrange laptop I mean, a topped out x1 carbon is pretty much the non-macbook business laptop, so this is a bit unfair.

People have a special affection to soldered-on memory that tops out at 16GB?

I think this is a good point against calling a computer professional device in 2019 - or was "business" meant from a pure quality/design /luxury perspective?

I know we aren't talking about servers but not-self-serviceable hardware with strict limits is what I usually associate with mid-range, not professional users, not even prosumers.

That laptop costs around 2000€ though. The price itself is enterprise-level indeed.

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Post by jypepin »

jedberg wrote: post #70
savanaly wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Apple is the richest company in the world, and instead of paying their engineers top wages... If that sentence caught anyone else's eye, know that it caught mine too and I did a quick sanity check. [0] It does seem that Apple is falling a bit short of other top companies, especially for the upper levels. [0] https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook/Apple

Anecdotally, everyone I know who works for Apple is paid below market rate. They justify it by reminding you that “you get to be part of the mission”. I know one guy making market and he’s in the video streaming product group.

same here. and my friends all tell me "it's a good thing, because you know everybody working here are passionate". He told me that while he was paying for his lunch at the Apple cafeteria because they don't even get free lunch. I was very surprised.

Re: Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by BuildTheRobots »

tobyhinloopen wrote: post #145
std_throwawayay wrote: post #72

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> MacBooks are worse now than they were since 2015. I won't upgrade until they get rid of the TouchBar. I would rather go back to Windows than use that stupid TouchBar. For me, the keyboard kills it. It feels cheap. It almost feels like there's no keys at all like the glass surface that is rumored to come. I'm sure that's great for people who are media consumers but producers of media and software often like to have…

Exactly my complaints. Awful and notoriously unreliable keyboard. The missing HDMI and USB-A are also stupid but at least it can be solved with a dock or dongle. Broken keyboard cannot be solved, and they break all the time. Lets hope the 16” 2019 will fix at least the keyboard...

I'd suggest that "solved with a dock or a dongle" is just as awful a fix as "why not bring a usb keyboard with you".

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Post by tobylane »

C1sc0cat wrote: post #149
tobylane wrote: post #105

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China has people no longer willing to pay for iPhones. Everywhere else it's not changed much year on year. There was great demand for stock buybacks, Apple resisted for a while. I'm surprised to hear a need for 512GB storage, I'd be interested to know how that's used. The upgrade to XS is only minor from the X according to the reviews I've seen/seen summarised. A yearly upgrade isn't common, isn't their target.

I am sure the brokers who arrange the buy backs love them - all that nice $ Personally id rather have the dividend myself - that's real cash in my account not some vague if we spend x billion the share price might go up.

They did that too.

>Apple said Tuesday it has returned $275 billion in total capital to shareholders since 2012. ... Apple said it would be increasing dividends 16 percent to 73 cents per share.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/apple-buybacks-q2-2018.html

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Post by huffmsa »

docker_up wrote: post #41

Apple appears to be coming to some sort of head at this point. This is speaking as someone heavily invested in Apple products and shares. Their iPhones have reached a peak, where it appears people are no longer willing to pay so much for them. They are too damn expensive, with nothing to justify their costs. I am one of the morons who upgraded to the XS, but only because I needed the 512GB storage. If not for the inc…

iTunes appears to have stopped getting updates around 2012. The long description for podcasts appears in a tooltip bubble ~20 characters wide. It's unusable.

Ive must have burnt out.

Re: Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by [deleted] »

jamesb93 wrote: post #92
blihp wrote: post #77

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Consumers. (i.e. casual computer users who aren't terribly demanding in any particular dimension) Unfortunately they've been flocking in for the 'just works' Apple reputation as it is being un-earned by Apple. But for many in this group, it's probably good enough vs. what they were using before.

You sound like someone who has never had to deal with the horrific experience that is ASIO drivers. People use Mac because CoreAudio is great and obviously windows can't be trusted in a live setting due to the many already documented issues that it has with updating/crashing etc.

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Post by NateEag »

jakub_g wrote: post #126
setquk wrote: post #110

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I disagree with this actually. I've had a MacBook for a number of years and bought a new one (a 2018 MacBook Air). The keyboard on it was awful and stopped working properly resulting in duplicate key hits. I was also fighting half of the OSX software at this point. Mail was getting buggy, iPhoto is just horrid and I'm not even going to start writing the massive rant about Pages / Numbers. Alas I took the MBA back and…

> Also comparing OSX to windows, you can actually mostly drive windows from the keyboard without resorting to hand warping shortcut combinations reminiscent of Megadrive Streetfighter cheat codes. As a long-time Win user, having wrist pain, this is the killer thing for me. Everything about a Mac feels extremely unergonomic to me. Many things are not doable from keyboard at all. AFAIU most of the Mac developers do all…

You may find Control-F2 helpful.

It focuses the menubar, at which point you can navigate the menus by typing/arrow key, Spacebar to focus, and Enter to select.

It helps me avoid a lot of mouse usage.

...come to think of it, I should probably give that a binding on my ErgoDox somewhere.

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Post by jclardy »

docker_up wrote: post #41

Apple appears to be coming to some sort of head at this point. This is speaking as someone heavily invested in Apple products and shares. Their iPhones have reached a peak, where it appears people are no longer willing to pay so much for them. They are too damn expensive, with nothing to justify their costs. I am one of the morons who upgraded to the XS, but only because I needed the 512GB storage. If not for the inc…

> I wouldn't have upgraded and I know for a fact there is really no difference after using it for several months.

No difference between what? X and XS? Sure. But in the same way that there is “no difference” between 6/6s, 7/8. It’s a speed bump (which from the X isn’t really relevant unless you use your phone for everything), camera improvement, and display improvement. All things that are noticeable if you have the two phones side by side, but that you will forget about in regular use.

I do agree on everything being too expensive now. All the MacBook lines are about $200 more than they should be, and the same goes for iPad. iPad now has much more amazing hardware compared to the mac lines, but it is hugely limited by its software.

With Apple’s recent leadership changes I think we are going to go into another era of lower cost hardware (while still keeping the newly formed top end, like the xs max.) All while they try to find what will sustain growth in the company post-iPhone.

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Post by graeme »

jamesb93 wrote: post #95
8fingerlouie wrote: post #83

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When it comes to (smart)phones, you don't really have much choice. You either consent to being exploited by Google, or you pay a pound of flesh to Apple. As for the pricing of the phones, nobody is forcing you to upgrade every year. I've done that ever since the original iPhone came out, but when i bought the X, i also decided to only upgrade every 2-3 years to justify the cost. MacBooks are a sad story though. I'm "…

I don't understand what people are talking about when they say they get gouged by phones. Mine cost 180 USD in 2016. I still use it everyday and I get over 10 hours screen time. The issue is people conflate everyday devices of utility with fashion products (Apple, Google Pixel).

They didn't say people are gouged by phones. They said:

>You either consent to being exploited by Google, or you pay a pound of flesh to Apple.

Meaning you're in camp 1, unless you've run lineageos or something similar. Also if you're just on the regular os, a $180 phone from 2016 probably doesn't get security updates at this point.

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