but a "every foxconn employee gets an iphone at cost" would be a good policy, imo, even if none of them would ever take foxconn up on it.
― dayo, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
idk the big labels seems pretty flush despite all the reactionary whining
lol you are insane
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 October 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
i dont think stet is proposing that the foxconn workers actually buy an ipad, or whatever, i think he means that "can this worker afford the thing he or she is making" (just in, like, numerical terms) is a good way to think about it
― max, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to stop shitting on the thread and get back to Jobs stuff, not computer/Apple industry..
― ( ) (mh), Friday, 7 October 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
Start casting the movie:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/sony-pictures-acquiring-apple-icon-steven-jobs-book-for-feature-film/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
the article mentioned that foxconn workers make about 1100 CNY a month, which is not a lot, but it's not that much less than what college grads in china make fresh out of college, if we're speaking comparatively
― dayo, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
noah wylie really does look a LOT like yung jobs
― max, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Final scene of the movie will be Scoble watching the very same movie on his iPhone7S or whatever, a tear down his cheek.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Total revenues for CDs, vinyl, cassettes and digital downloads in the world dropped 25% from $38.6 billion in 1999 to $27.5 billion in 2008 according to IFPI. Same revenues in the U.S. dropped from a high of $14.6 billion in 1999 to $10.4 billion in 2008. The Economist and The New York Times report that the downward trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future[8][9] —Forrester Research predicts that by 2013, revenues in USA may reach as low as $9.2 billion.[8] This dramatic decline in revenue has caused large-scale layoffs inside the industry, driven retailers (such as Tower Records) out of business and forced record companies, record producers, studios, recording engineers and musicians to seek new business models.
and this is just the big 4. smaller labels, retail chains, and mid-level artists have all taken huge hits to their incomes. this is not "reactionary whining" it is a fact.
anyway, there's other threads for this.
xp
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 October 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
thx for the knowledge, dayo
― ( ) (mh), Friday, 7 October 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
re: free iphone,it'd probably be more efficient to give every foxconn employee the difference between what they'd fetch from the secondary market as a bonus.
in that article about working at the apple cafeteria, was a little blown away by the 6-figure+ engineers buying exactly $12 worth of soda to extract full value of their meal plan -- total 3rd world behavior, or at least starving college student behavior.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, maybe this is a totally acceptable set-up. I suppose there are Westerners who work in factories and could never afford to own the products they make, too, like say at Boeing or Rolls-Royce. It's just a feeling, is all.
― stet, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
where was the cafeteria link?
― stet, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of wonder how the music industry compares to 1990 instead of 2000, because even without the consideration of online distribution and piracy, things were looking incredibly unsustainable by 1999.
― ( ) (mh), Friday, 7 October 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
like, I was considering taking an english teaching job in beijing, which would have paid about 4000 CNY a month. I think 4000 CNY is on the high end of starting salaries for fresh grads, unless you graduated from a top u. I think salaries of 1500-300 are more realistic for fresh grads? that is, if you can even find a job - china is graduating far more people than the job market can handle, is what I've been reading.
― dayo, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
total engineer behavior xxp
― max, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Friday, October 7, 2011 4:09 PM (1 minute ago)
haha, you don't know many engineers, do you?
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 October 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
xxxxp
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsprd82GM61qk7pano1_500.png
― max, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
I know a foxconn engineer that was so paranoid about bringing me inside the campus, that he brought our mac burgers OUTSIDE the building to eat.
cafe expose:www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/27/apple-cafeteria-caffe-macs_n_983053.html#s374554&title=Aaron_Lefkove_New
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'm a software developer and one of my coworkers admitted that he's had to force himself to stop counting the number of steps to the cafeteria and the number of stoplights on the way to work. He used to know all those numbers off the top of his head.
Engineers: you may not have aspergers symptoms, but you are sure a hell of a lot likely to
― ( ) (mh), Friday, 7 October 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
So I guess Jobs's last public appearance was the Cupertino city council thing where he got approval for the new campus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuz5OmOh_M
I suppose it works as a legacy.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
thanks! xp
― stet, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
I keep forgetting about Pixar as well, they've got a tribute up:
http://www.pixar.com/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
k, no worries
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
LOL
http://www.regretsy.com/2011/10/07/healing-through-tragicrafting-steve-jobs-edition/
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 8 October 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
I'm friends with the author of that op-ed piece, and his FBook status update is "Received my first sincere, legitimate death threat today."
― per metal injection (Eazy), Saturday, 8 October 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, October 7, 2011 7:17 PM
yo thanks for the heads up -- i hadn't seen that yet
― markers, Saturday, 8 October 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
(sincerely hadn't seen that yet, surprisingly)
love that picture too
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/10/steve-jobs-new-yorker-cover.html?currentPage=all
― markers, Saturday, 8 October 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
New Yorker readers trying to be funny in the comments section is soul-crushing
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 8 October 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
I think heaven uses Flash ;)I think heaven uses Flash ;)I think heaven uses Flash ;)I think heaven uses Flash ;)I think heaven uses Flash ;)
― een, Saturday, 8 October 2011 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
Apple Talked to City's Police Days Before Steve Jobs's Death
Karen Gullo, ©2011 Bloomberg News
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. security officials met with police in Palo Alto, California, this week to notify them that Steve Jobs was close to death, a spokeswoman with the police department said.
Following the meeting, the police devised a plan to put patrols in the area around the former Apple chief executive officer's Palo Alto home once they heard from the company that he had died, according to Sandra Brown, the spokeswoman.
The Apple representatives told the police department there was "a possibility that it could happen this week," Brown said in a phone interview. "It's common sense for us to work together. If you think about who he was and his contribution to the world, people might come out in masses."
Jobs, who resigned as Apple's CEO on Aug. 24, died Oct. 5, the Cupertino, California-based company said. Jobs, 56, had been diagnosed in 2003 with a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and underwent a liver transplant in 2009. Apple unveiled the latest version of its iPhone, the product that accounts for almost half of the company's sales, on Oct. 4, the day before his death.
Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman, declined to comment about the police meeting.
Jobs lived in a home that was modest, for a person of his means, on a public street open to pedestrians and traffic. The extra patrols were necessary for safety reasons, Brown said.
'"There are other people here in town, they have compounds and walls," said Brown. "He didn't want to have security around."
Apple was supposed to inform the police of Jobs's death before making a public announcement so the department could prepare, said Brown. Instead, police learned he had died when the company issued a press release at about 4:30 p.m. local time on Oct. 5.
As it turned out, Brown said, only about 40 people showed up around Jobs's home that day.
"Here's a guy who's a billionaire and lives in a regular neighborhood, not behind a gated estate with all the security guards," said Bruce Gee, a former Apple employee who drove up from his home a couple miles away. "On Halloween, people go trick or treating there like everyone else."
Mourners gathered at Apple stores around the world and took to the Internet and social media to express their grief.
At the San Francisco Apple store near Union Square, Steve Streza, 24, stood holding an iPad displaying Apple's homepage image of Jobs and the words "Steve Jobs: 1955-2011."
"Macs were the reason I got into product development," said Streza, a developer at readitlater.com who grew up with Mac computers. "If it weren't for Steve Jobs and Macs, my life would probably be in a completely different place right now."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/06/bloomberg_articlesLSOFTS6K50XX.DTL#ixzz1aC1QqKr2
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 8 October 2011 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
This is great. A smelly 18-year-old Jobs gets a job at Atari, and nobody can bear to work with him, but they don't want to lose him either so they create a nightshift. He's the only one who works it: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/37762/Steve_Jobs_Atari_Employee_Number_40.php
― stet, Saturday, 8 October 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
saw lots of candles, flowers, little shrines (with actual apples, photos of Jobs, etc), hundreds of handwritten notes, & lots of weepy looking people in front of the apple store on 14th St in Manhattan last night
people need to get a grip
― geeta, Saturday, 8 October 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
people be lovin their ipads i guess.
weird as somehow who has been using apple products since 1983/84 (still have a photo of me opening the box to my 1st apple iie) i should be first in line, but i dunno the deification of this complex dude seems deeply suspect.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 8 October 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
deification of anyone is always suspect imo
― Like Iraq (latebloomer), Sunday, 9 October 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
I tried to convince you all but no.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 October 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
Talkin' about you or Steve Jobs?
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 9 October 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
Me of course. *self-genuflects*
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 October 2011 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
surprising that it didn't leak out how close he was to death
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 9 October 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
sorta figured the answer was "pretty close" when he resigned, but one does not like to attract the Evil Eye by saying such things
― ,(.__.)/ (silby), Sunday, 9 October 2011 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know if this is the right time and place to say so, but i heard from a friend who's friend worked as his pa for about 6 months (source was actual first name basis friends with the pa himself, so genuine 2nd gen silicon valley network info iirc) that he was extremely hard to work with.
on the other hand, osx, iphones, pixar, personal computers even... maybe i kinda don't care if he was hard to get along with. dude contributed some real genius to the world, and it's appreciated. RIP.
i hope the bioflick captures some of that dichotomy though, it would make the story more interesting. and frankly, genius-world-changers are kinda entitled to a bit of a pass on the social graces thing imho.
― messiahwannabe, Sunday, 9 October 2011 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
nah, he's rotting in hell next to mother theresa and pol pot
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Sunday, 9 October 2011 08:26 (twelve years ago) link
wired: "As a child of the sixties who was nurtured in Silicon Valley, his career merged the two strains in a way that reimagined business itself. And he did it as if he didn’t give a damn who he pissed off. He could bully underlings and corporate giants with the same contempt. But when he chose to charm, he was almost irresistible."
seriously, it's always nicer when our geniuses are personable, but... dude. toy story! ipods! etc etc
― messiahwannabe, Sunday, 9 October 2011 08:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zUIjFxR_jYg/To4BJdSL-aI/AAAAAAAADDk/4LvXshQ78C4/s640/Steve+Jobs.jpg
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Sunday, 9 October 2011 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
as opposed to hp toshiba etc?
more from wired: "Jobs also took LSD in those years, and would claim that those experiences affected his outlook permanently and positively"
him and bill gates both!
― messiahwannabe, Sunday, 9 October 2011 08:34 (twelve years ago) link
idk about you guys but isn't it kind of convenient that he died just when these wall street protests are making headlines?
Steve Jobs. Jobs Vets ET. Votes Jebs...hmmm
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Sunday, 9 October 2011 08:35 (twelve years ago) link
Apple Iphone
Help A Popin
Who is this mysterious A. Popin?
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Sunday, 9 October 2011 08:38 (twelve years ago) link