All this Covid-19 situation of staying at home and working at home, makes me think that apple has a long way to improve it’s software and services. For a better remote collaboration between workers at home and also between families or groups. It would be great to have has well a good conference call software for the Apple Tv.
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Apple's Work on New Upcoming Products Progressing Normally as Employees Adjust to Telecommuting
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“How Apple’s Culture of Secrecy Poses Challenges for the New Work From Home Reality”
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“Apple’s Work in New Upcoming Products Progressing Normally as Employees Adjust to Telecommuting”
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“How Apple’s Culture of Secrecy Poses Challenges for the New Work From Home Reality”
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More readable than an Objective-C rebuttal.
Apple’s PR department hard at work to manage public perception. I’ll choose to believe the former article.
I work for Microsoft, the king of enterprise work from home, and even I’m having a tough time.
My wfh space is meant for early/late meetings and maybe wfh once a week. I would have bought a completely different home if I knew I’d be working from home for this long.
I work for Microsoft, the king of enterprise work from home, and even I’m having a tough time.
My wfh space is meant for early/late meetings and maybe wfh once a week. I would have bought a completely different home if I knew I’d be working from home for this long.
We should all stop using this term. It's ridiculous and doesn't make sense.
Totally agree. As someone who works remotely in normal times, I can tell you that YES were gonna find that some industries can do without as much in-person works. But working with a team, in-PERSON is a big deal. It can be absolutely invaluable, and it can't really be replicated via Skype/Zoom, etc.
“As early as later this year"
Wow that really narrows it down - thanks guys!
Wow that really narrows it down - thanks guys!
What evidence is there to back up this claim? There's a reason Apple built the space ship campus and don't normally allow WFH.
It fills the void and people understand what it means.
Come up with a substantially better one and promote it and maybe it'll get adopted.
We live in a world that commonly shows silhouettes of 50's era desk phones to indicate a phone, and icons of floppy disks to indicate saving files, when most kids have never seen a desk phone or floppy disk.
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Also, in this high-priority update, water is wet.
remember when the iMac was updated yearly. Remember when rumors said iMac would come on the heels of an iPad and Mac mini. Remember when none of that happened..
You can bet Apple and other developers are gonna go overdrive on collaboration and remote functionality in their software.
As much i'd i like to say "working from home with future Apple devices"would be the same as working in the office,i reckon there could more leaks due to working in this fashion.
Te only question i'd say, all this telecommuting sounds good, is a tad overblown..
It may hep more people work from home, and even change the landscape in the future, (and as much i'd beleive its has to take an outbreak like COID-19, to make changed), I still reckon everyone will be"business as usual" when this whole thing blows over...
In short.. I doubt it will change a thing. My parents on the other hand, think people will be more in depended...
Not a chance.. People will still go back to work, and maybe a few Apple employees *might* see tings differently, and telecommuting may be more common now thanks to this, most will not i think
It's just a virus... just way out of control. That's all.
Te only question i'd say, all this telecommuting sounds good, is a tad overblown..
It may hep more people work from home, and even change the landscape in the future, (and as much i'd beleive its has to take an outbreak like COID-19, to make changed), I still reckon everyone will be"business as usual" when this whole thing blows over...
In short.. I doubt it will change a thing. My parents on the other hand, think people will be more in depended...
Not a chance.. People will still go back to work, and maybe a few Apple employees *might* see tings differently, and telecommuting may be more common now thanks to this, most will not i think
It's just a virus... just way out of control. That's all.
It is different. One advantage of working remotely is that we write more things down, so everyone is on the same page without having to invite each one of them in virtual meetings.
The other advantage is have more time to focus on a single task without interruptions. Working in an open space can be challenging some times, I miss pair programming and people asking me a quick question, but I don't miss the continue noise of the open space at all.
Once the crisis is over I hope companies will at least offer partial remote to the employees.
In person interaction is important and I value it, but meeting at office 2-3 times per week could be enough for many teams. Less commute, less traffic, more time for healthy habits like going to the gym, and more time for the family.
If you work on hardware or on prototypes, remote may not be an option, but apart from Apple and its secrecy the majority of SW houses can work remotely. I have many clients I only seldom meet (maybe once a year) and many times I work for them at office for the entire day, so as far as they're concerned I could be at home, what's the difference?
I can tell you as a software developer, work here is progressing just normal. Maybe even better than normal, because people have no commute, and nothing else to do than doing their job (not going out for a dinner or a beer, or being dragged through a shopping centre by the wife), so some spent more time on the job.
I was missing a few things that were useful for development, which eBay and Amazon delivered promptly to my home. You just need professional developers and some focus.
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"poses challenges" - Challenges are there to be overcome. Moving from 10% working from home to 90% to 99% to 100% is absolutely a challenge. And it can be overcome.
I have been using "telepresence." Maybe because I'm eager for the day when we're just holographically projecting ourselves there.
Not sure what would be better. Tele is a Greek root word which means far. Telecommute isn't supposed to connotate telephone. Just that you are commuting to work from a distance. I suppose you could say telework or telefunction. Since you are working from a distance not going to work from a distance.
You could use an e- instead. Since it seems to connote the same idea just with computer tech. Without sounding so ole' fangled. E-commerce vs telecommerce or e-mail instead of telemail. You could say e-commute or e-work.
Then again. You could say someone operating a drone remotely is using telekinesis.
I just hope it makes Apple realize that some aspects of the OS need some improvements - especially SMB support on low-bandwidth/high latency connections like over a VPN. Really impacting some of our users.
I'm an engineer. I work 5x8 from home and have done for over a year now. (Most of the systems I manage and/or build are housed remotely.). I have no problems.
I am working from home and using MS Teams a lot - great product from MS. However I need new iMacs to be released so I can update this 2013 27in iMac which isnt used to being worked 12-15 hours a day.
I would love to see more collaboration tools from Apple but have to acknowledge that MS owns my enterprise so I am not sure how well or extensively I could use them.
I would love to see more collaboration tools from Apple but have to acknowledge that MS owns my enterprise so I am not sure how well or extensively I could use them.
Probably we should all consider whether working from home is likely to persist. I think it will and that may impact on the style of computer that people prefer to use. Could value more the fixed large screen, like iMac, rather than portable MBP? Not many working on crowded mass transport in future... On the other hand could be more individual cars, on autopilot, but then why are you going somewhere? Normality has changed for now.