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… Further complicating the rollout was the way Apple stores had altered their hiring and staffing over the years. Under Steve Jobs, Apple had prided itself on having well-staffed stores with highly trained employees. …
… Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email Back in 2021, Apple launched its Hide My Email tool, which as the name suggests, allows people to sign up for online services using an email address that isn’t linked directly to them. …
… A separate triennial credit of $200 toward the purchase of audio gear has led to a scramble to purchase Apple AirPods and other headphones. …
… Widening pay gaps among employees, courtroom losses for the company, and mandatory role changes for hundreds of top engineers have also contributed to what employees view as a uniquely grim atmosphere inside Meta. …
… So Apple never made a search engine, right? Search is one of the biggest businesses in the world. Apple never made a search engine, but Google pays Apple billions of dollars to be the primary search engine on the iPhone. …
… To help run their OpenClaw experiments continuously, people have been buying up Mac Minis, and Apple can’t meet demand. OpenClaw users with subscriptions to the standard Claude chatbot were burning so many tokens that Anthropic started forcing them to pay extra. …
… But the changes brought by both of these announcements were underwhelming to say the least, and to say the most, we should point out that about a month ago Apple agreed to pay a settlement of $250 million for a class action lawsuit that basically said that Apple intelligence is not that intelligent. …
… We don’t quite know, because if you’re not working, you’re not paying taxes. If you’re not paying taxes, Social Security, Medicare doesn’t exist. …
… If you're already bought into the Apple ecosystem with iPhones or iPads, MacBooks have several software features such as AirDrop and Universal Control that are legitimately convenient, and Apple makes some of the best laptop hardware in the game. …
… The agreement follows an option that SpaceX secured back in April, which gave it the right to either pay roughly $10 billion for a partnership or acquire the company for $60 billion later in the year. They went the second route, obviously, but why? Why'd they do it? What was up with the timing, Zoë? …