Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide

Post by lmm » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 8:02 AM UTC

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> Xbox? Hmm, point. People tend to give video game systems more of a pass for historical reasons. > How did Epic fair trying to get around the Play Store? I assume they distributed non-Play Store APKs and it all quietly worked without any drama - that's how it is for Amazon, and how it's meant to work.

It was a complete failure.

Post by s3p » Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 1:51 PM UTC

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As a longtime apple customer, the quality and innovation in my M1 pro is absolutely in line with their old values.

Yes, I agree that hardware-wise they’re on top of their game¹. I was specifically thinking of software and services, like the trend of trying to upsell you to their services when using their apps or releasing half-baked apps which go against their own Human Interface Guidelines and are never fixed. ¹ Let’s see if that continues with Evans Hankey leaving.

Post by jquery » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 5:32 PM UTC

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Not everything is a conspiracy. It's very obvious that Musk cutting jobs at Twitter had them/him take the brunt of the news cycles about the job cut because it happened first. Each subsequent company has faced less and less blowback. I'm sure they've all been wanting to do this for a while but didn't want the headlines.

The remarkable thing is how little using Twitter actually changed. The biggest change from cutting a bunch of staff seems to be... increased velocity?