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Apple Once Again Taking Extended Thanksgiving Break as Tim Cook Applauds Employees' Work
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It's not that old. Its gradual disappearance has just started. It's still in use current products. I'm not on my Mac right now but I believe that's still the logo displayed in About this Mac in Mountain Lion.
But Apple is doomed, they should be working everyday until the sun stops spinning trying to rectify the mess that they are in.. Gosh, the thought of them having a break when they should be figurin out how to deliver my iPhone is unbearable.... Right?
Right...
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Right...
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Not ALL of the employees.
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Oh please, you're entire post is ridiculous. Corporate office employees are the sales support. When they are off enjoying their holiday the retail stores have limited support. And for the record without sales the corporate lazies wouldn't have a paycheck. Obviously you've never worked in a retail sales environment. Don't even attempt to convince me you have, I can tell you haven't.
and it's pretty damn clear you've never worked in as a "corporate lazy" if you actually think that people working in corporate, R&D, legal, accounting, and the entire whizzbang are "corporate lazies".
many people in the corporate area that you call "lazies" got to the corporate area by years, thousands (hundreds of sometimes) in education, who work long hard hours to HAVE products, the necessary channels for the products, the business to run the products and the whole shebang.
Retail is important. But you could run Apple without the "genius" bars and the retail chain.
you couldn't run apple without the corporate chain.
That is a great way to boost morale - show people that all of them mean something to Tim and the company.
Could it just be that some people are fine with the current size and don't want jumbo screens?
Could it just be that Apple decided what they want to market how and the consumer tells them when they are right by either buying or not?
Could it just be that your opinion is unfounded, as you don't know one margin of any Apple product or their internal calculations, R&D expenses etc.?
Could it just be that you are guessing totally wrong?
If I were lucky enough to work at Apple, I would have a difficult time pulling myself away from my work. I wonder how many people actually take the vacation time? I don't consider myself a workaholic, but I love my job and haven't taken any vacation (outside of national holidays) in the past year since graduating. That being said, I would absolutely love to be a designer at Apple. Perhaps someday. They could pay me in iPhone 6's for all I care. Who needs food and shelter when you have a pre-release iPhone 6?
Could the reason for selling the same screen 2 years in a row be that Apple orders enough screens for 2 model years thereby reducing overall cost?
I think there are a ton of things coming out between now and Thanksgiving. Certainly new iPads and the Haswell MacPro Laptops will come out. Also the Mac Pro and with it a 4K Monitor. By the end of November Apple folks will have really earned the time off.
Big deal, Apple makes billions each quarter. This is pocket change. What he should to is raise the salaries, especially the salaries up in China where all of their products are made.
This just seems like, ''oh he's a good guy, let's buy even more from his company.'' ^^
This just seems like, ''oh he's a good guy, let's buy even more from his company.'' ^^
I dont know, there are a lot of l33t g33ks that would love a retina 17-er.
I know I'd buy one over a ne Mac Pro in a heartbeat if it took advantage of a wider chassis to include a hybrid drive set up, premium discrete graphics and maybe an extra TB or USB3 port or two.
I'm betting they come out with a "champagne" Mac Pro first though.
No. No one places a two year bet on an order as large as this. Also two years of iPhone sales is way past the size where you get serious economies of scales. Apple buys in huge bulk for these screens every week. They already get the best prices just based on a one month order. There is no need to bundle two years worth of orders.
Apple is using smaller size because it fits in pocket and fits in hands. Android is doing large models so they can put in larger batteries and because they can't manufacture as small as Apple.
Allow me to finish, if you will:
...thousands of people have jobs and money to feed their families and make a living while thousands more line up outside of the gates every time they announce more hiring, as unemployment and poverty run rampant in those rural areas.
It is already hard for the MacPro to run a retina screen at 15". It would be even harder at 17". I just don't see it happening. The trend is toward small and light. Smaller and lighter is how Apple differentiates itself from the other hardware companies which can't match them in this regard. The 17" goes in the other direction.
I guess never is too hard a statement. I agree the 17" would sell. But it would be a very niche product. 12 and 13 inch laptops vastly outsell 15 laptops. 17" would be a further drop from 15".
Sorry to hear
, but hey believe me I knwo from personal experience - unemployeed & happy is much better than employed and miserable, and it looks like you are in that situation so good for you!
I dont consider myself a work-a-holic either. In fact, I really dont' want to spend hours of untold hours sitting in the office. it's tiring brainnumbing, eyestraining work.
But i"m like you. in the last two years, I've taken a total of 2 weeks combined vacation / lieu and sicktime. My boss actually pesters me almost daily now that I should take time off. I can't easily afford a trip or to do anyhting, So i can't justify taking time off to sit at home and do nothing, when I could be here anyways and being productive.