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"I Quit Apple"
By: Neumatic Date: April 9, 2015, 12:06 am
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There was an interesting article on Digg and Reddit, a blog post
by a former Apple employee describing how terrible the work
environment was there
HTML http://roadlesstravelled.me/2015/04/06/why-steve-jobs-motivated-me-to-quit-apple/.<br
/> Honestly, I'm shocked, especially after reading Nolan
Bushnell's book about Steve Jobs, but honestly I think this
might explain why computers seem to be stagnating. Particularly
in the world of hardware.
Is there a middle point between dismayed and shocked? When I
was looking at laptops yesterday, it was SD'ed by the options,
because there were basically two: either a smaller version of
what I had before, or one the same physical size but with no
disc drive, HALF the hard drive space (HALF!) that I had before,
and a thousand more. On top of this, the newest MacBook coming
out will have ONE port and that's it, ONE, Thunderbolt (not
USB), so you can't plug anything in while it's charging. It's
part of this trend where they're making the things as sleek and
small as possible that they're just trimming down instead of
building up, not just shrinking hard drives, but also using iPad
chips instead of laptop chips, etc.
It just feels like Apple stopped designing, you know? They're
slimming down the parts as much as they can, but there hasn't
been a proper device they've done in ages that's made me take
notice. The laptops all look the same, the iMacs look... they
look like they can't stay up, the iPhones all look the same (and
like the iPads).
This seems like an unrelated rant but honestly, reading that
blog makes this all make sense. I mean, what kind of output do
I expect from a company that functions like this?
Maybe I'm being a bit too critical, maybe I'm pushing too much
of my own standards and desires onto them, but they're the
leaders, everyone follows them, copies their design aesthetic or
tries to operate counter to them. I just feel like I'm hungry
for something to turn my head again. I might also be biased
because I'm binging "Halt And Catch Fire" and they're all on
about reinventing the PC, so...
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Re: "I Quit Apple"
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 9, 2015, 3:07 am
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I can't imagine a more hostile work environment that came under
Steve Jobs. As for Apple itself, I have never owned anything
Mac-related. The closest I came was a few months ago when I was
actively searching for an iPod. But that never came to pass
because it was just too much money for a used product. As for
laptops, I know what I want out of my next system and I thought
I was going to get it with Surface Pro 3. That didn't pan out.
Waiting to see what SP4 will offer. If that too fails, at least
there are more alternative Hybrids out there now to level the
playing field. That's where I am at the moment.
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