Apple Launches 'Today at Apple' Classes Around the World

[/V\acpower]

Even more pretentious is teaching useless skills like art. I'd be okay if they taught actual useful skills like being a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

WTF ?

Art is life, Art is what humans want to consumes and do.

If you define useful as "something that let me obtain something else", well yeah, Art is often not "useful" because Art is very often the "something else" you want to obtain, which show how ****ing important it is for peoples.

 

[e-coli]

Even more pretentious is teaching useless skills like art. I'd be okay if they taught actual useful skills like being a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

If this comment is the future, I don't want to be around for it.

 

[nick42983]

Looks like androgyny and multiculturalism will be in ample supply.

 

[Murphintosh]

Even more pretentious is teaching useless skills like art. I'd be okay if they taught actual useful skills like being a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

jasonklee, your profile says your occupation is playwright, a profession that is in the arts!

I'd rather see a play that was written by an engineer and performed by doctors on sets designed by lawyers than one by a playwright who thinks it's useless to have artistic skills.

 

[jasonklee]

jasonklee, your profile says your occupation is playwright, a profession that is in the arts!

I'd rather see a play that was written by an engineer and performed by doctors on sets designed by lawyers than one by a playwright who thinks it's useless to have artistic skills.

Sorry, I was just messing around, poking fun at those naysayers who need—need—to castigate Apple for doing X and not Y.

 

[ApfelKuchen]

The Apple Store is such a bizarre place to go learn how to draw, though. Is it primarily an art class or a class about showing you technological tools you can use to create digital art? Is it taught by someone with an artistic background, a technology background, or both? The class description doesn't say one way or the other.

Maybe Angela will prove the naysayers wrong...who knows? It's clear they've put some money into this idea of making the Apple Store a "gathering place". If it doesn't pan out, they'll still have plenty of cash in the bank.
[doublepost=1494968202][/doublepost]They really should have some other coding classes besides "Kids Hour: Sphero Maze Challenge".

I would love to learn the core fundamentals of building an iOS app. Apple seems like a logical place to go to learn about that. If someone took what they learned in a class like that and turned it into a successful app, it would benefit both the developer and Apple. Teaching people new skills so they can go to work and make you more money -- now that's a smart idea, Apple!

These are one-off classes. Coding would require a series of classes, at the least. In terms of effective use of resources, a large variety of one-off classes can serve far more individuals and interests in the same amount of space and time.

 

[dysamoria]

I doubted the apple pencil before trying it.. Once I actually used it I was amazing and how accurate it was. I felt like I was writing on paper.

It's nowhere near writing on paper. The tip is way too slippery.

 

[Zaft]

It's nowhere near writing on paper. The tip is way too slippery.

I meant accuracy actually.

 

[^^BIGMac]

Sorry, not a fan of "group training" like this. Meh.

 

[Nausicaa]

What an extraordinarily sad comment.

GUYS I THINK IT WAS A JOKE!

 

[tongxinshe]

....at a store? You're saying that you want to learn how to be a doctor or lawyer...from a retail store?

You have no way to learn how to be an artist from a retailer, either.

The original post obviously means to have "Today at Apple” show some efficient ways of using the Apple products for day-to-day work of doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc., assuming that you already have the necessary knowledge of the regarding profession.
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The Apple Store is such a bizarre place to go learn how to draw, though. Is it primarily an art class or a class about showing you technological tools you can use to create digital art? Is it taught by someone with an artistic background, a technology background, or both? The class description doesn't say one way or the other.

Maybe Angela will prove the naysayers wrong...who knows? It's clear they've put some money into this idea of making the Apple Store a "gathering place". If it doesn't pan out, they'll still have plenty of cash in the bank.
[doublepost=1494968202][/doublepost]They really should have some other coding classes besides "Kids Hour: Sphero Maze Challenge".

I would love to learn the core fundamentals of building an iOS app. Apple seems like a logical place to go to learn about that. If someone took what they learned in a class like that and turned it into a successful app, it would benefit both the developer and Apple. Teaching people new skills so they can go to work and make you more money -- now that's a smart idea, Apple!

What you are talking about is called “Apple University” (or some name like that), which Apple opened two by now, one in Italy and one in Indonesia. I won’t hold my breath to lucky see one in my neighborhood.

 

[NT1440]

You have no way to learn how to be an artist from a retailer, either.

The original post obviously means to have "Today at Apple” show some efficient ways of using the Apple products for day-to-day work of doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc., assuming that you already have the necessary knowledge of the regarding profession.

But you can learn to draw using Apple's product

I'm under no illusion that these are meant to do anything other than get/keep you in the ecosystem. As to your second point, I see Apple expanding their partnership with IBM to deploy apps (and therefore training on them) for just those such fields.

 

[britabroad]

Even more pretentious is teaching useless skills like art. I'd be okay if they taught actual useful skills like being a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

Oh. My. God. Are you serious? Yes, Apple are total dicks because they're not teaching you how to become a doctor. How dare they just teach you how to get the most out of their products? 'I will never buy an Apple product unless it teaches me how to fly a plane'. Wow.

 

[dysamoria]

I meant accuracy actually.

Edit. Wrong reply button.

As for accuracy, I think the tip is too round and large for accuracy to mean much. It's consistent but there's no sense of where I can expect the mark to appear based on the tip.
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GUYS I THINK IT WAS A JOKE!

You never know with all the libertarians in tech forums... ;-)

 

[macmarco]

Seems experiencing it personally is the best way to evaluate if Apple's plan works or not. I have just registered a Photo Walk session of coming Sat in HK.

So. I have attended photo walk session at HK. Photographer
Edward Barnieh introduced his pics (mostly taken with iphone) and ways to look at cities. Group of about 10 (excluding apple staff) were then lead to two spots at Causeway Bay. At the end, a brief editing session with VSCO completed the photo walk.

 

[caskin8a]

So. I have attended photo walk session at HK. Photographer
Edward Barnieh introduced his pics (mostly taken with iphone) and ways to look at cities. Group of about 10 (excluding apple staff) were then lead to two spots at Causeway Bay. At the end, a brief editing session with VSCO completed the photo walk.

Gotta hand it to you, that's a cool shot.