Mac Rumors reports that Apple Inc. has announced that it
[...] will be expanding its "Today at Apple" educational sessions to all of its 495 retail stores around the world in May.
The free sessions, which have been offered at Apple's flagship Union Square store in San Francisco since last year, will cover topics such as photography, videography, music, coding, art, and design.
The article says that some stores have been remodelled to accommodate the seminars.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Adamsjas on Thursday April 27 2017, @05:16PM (7 children)
Yet another thing Apple Groupies can spend their (and their employer's) money on.
Laserjet Diplomas Emailed to your iCloud account,
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @06:55PM
People who buy Apple products are also paying for these educational events; people are choosing to associate with Apple, and some of them are undoubtedly proud to contribute to this, dare I say, "public good".
Of course, some of us think it's a waste of time, or that money could be spent teaching more interesting topics, etc. WE don't have to pay for those events; we aren't forced to contribute to Apple's system of education.
That is what separates Apple from a Government: Apple allocates resources by agreement, rather than by imposition. (Of course, if Apple's "community" is sufficiently powerful, then it becomes almost all but impossible to exist in a way that doesn't somehow cater to its wishes, but that doesn't prevent people from saving up their resources in order to forger their own path instead.)
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday April 27 2017, @07:40PM (4 children)
Yep :)
However, it's a good thing. If Apple Subjects actively choose to improve themselves, at the cost of greater vendor lock-in, they will be asking *ME* less questions about Apple products and technology. Of which, I couldn't give two shits about. I would love Apple taking the reigns and making their subjects educated and informed. Some of that knowledge really can be applied to other fields, and especially, other BSD type systems and platforms for video, music, and art.
That could make a big difference between them and the Microsoft Surveillance Targets, aka MS customers, and their woefully lacking skills in using or maintaining a computer. Which is not a terrible thing since that fact has employed many of us.
Is Microsoft giving away free courses in brick and mortar establishments so that people can learn how to use Microsoft products better? That I would love, since most of IT is moving away from supporting their mass surveillance platform. I abhor receiving questions about Windows 10 and inform everyone that I will stop supporting Windows after Windows 7 becomes EOL.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:30PM
So what's the rub? What does Apple have to gain financially from this? Are they collecting customer data during these sessions? The people who attend those sessions are already Apple fanatics.
An easy answer is that it's just a shitshow to upsell more software/features. Do any of you have any additional answers to the above questions?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:07PM (2 children)
The Microsoft policy should really be.. Need help with a Microsoft product? No problem, I will help you upgrade to Be-Es-Dee or some sane Linux.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday April 28 2017, @12:55AM (1 child)
Funny, I just got through having an argument with a client. They're still a little bit upset I dropped Microsoft from my support options and refuse to create anything using it.
It went like this:
ME: Well, it's not a viable business decision for me. All that telemetry and tracking means that your data is shared in realtime, possibly pushed to the cloud if you are not careful, and Microsoft will mine it. I cannot trust Microsoft to either protect that data, or not forward it to the NSA.
THEM: Don't care. Got nothing to hide. They can do my work for me then. My business data is not *that* important.
ME: *eye roll* - That's fantastic, but I'm not yet ready to say screw it and stay naked forever. Still a little bit shy. Going to have to at least attempt to create secure platform. When you get pwned and your business data is in the wild, along with all of your customers, you might change your mind.
ME: No. I absolutely will not consider doing anything with Windows 10, and no, it's not an option to just use Windows 7 till they cave. Newer processors are only going to be supported with Windows 10 going forward, 8.1 if we are lucky. Win 7 is left out in the cold. I will support Windows 7 to an extent, but don't expect me to keep asking questions forever. At some point, I will start telling that I don't know. Cuz I won't know.
THEM: So how do I use Microsoft Word then?
ME: Don't
THEM: *cries* *vomiting* *complaints about the pain*
I ended up telling them the most I could do for them is to create a thin client using BSD that allows them to use Google Docs, or Office365.com with a browser. My only option for them. Otherwise, stop torturing me and find some Microsoft tech that still loves MS. Good luck :D
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 28 2017, @01:48AM
Why does it matter to you if their data is stolen or similar?
Anyway, Microsoft software is a problem in that whatever you learn. They have a tendency to drop it and create something new for no reason other than to push a new sales. So you have to regularly throw away all you have learned along with any tools. Then it's the retarded way to do simple things and no ability to check sources or fix them. So it causes frustration and perhaps more important it won't develop your skills. It's just another change for it's own sake, repeat ad infinitum.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @08:06PM
Yet another thing Apple Groupies can spend their (and their employer's) money on.
FTFS (emphasis mine):
The free sessions, which have been offered at Apple's flagship Union Square store in San Francisco since last year, will cover topics such as photography, videography, music, coding, art, and design.
So, how much is this free weekend?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @05:28PM (5 children)
...I was told capitalism was bad??? Help!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 27 2017, @06:15PM (4 children)
To make use of any learned knowledge you have to use said products.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:37PM (3 children)
Well, if you're really bored and antisocial, you could get yourself and maybe some like-minded miscreants to put your collective dicks in the mashed potatoes and ask questions like, "Is it true that the Apple factory has nets because its workers try to commit suicide?" and "Do you have a recycling program so poor people can have a Mac too?" or adjust your photos to resemble blackface during photo editing demonstrations or edit in some grunting and breathing noises for your recording sessions?
Or the classic, just go in there and act like a tic-ing retard and if anybody looks at you weird just say you have a disability, so that reacting against you would be discrimination.
No joke, there was a guy in a linear algebra class at a community college I attended who would murmur to himself the whole time, whether or not the professor was lecturing. Nobody sat around him. If that were my kid I would have taken him out back and had 'im shot.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:49PM (2 children)
Hmm.. Recycling!
"Hey Sir, When the factory slaves commit suicide on the job. Do you adhere fully to your recycling policy by putting said worker in the meat grinder so that the other workers and the factory may save on food and use less farmland?" ;-P
"Hey Sir, I heard Apple products is all about Think(tm)ing and freedom, right? well so how do I add my own software to my iPhone?"
"Hey Sir, Apple is all about being green and environmentally friendly.. right? Then why do you hate [soylentnews.org] people that harvest old phones to reuse the parts?"
Of course to add to the fun.. Film at eleven and upload to some video service..
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:58PM (1 child)
I wonder if they throw you out if you try to follow the lesson on your Android phone.
Possibly using the SD card in place of iCloud uploads.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:10PM
Even better. Hack the iPhone such that it can support SD-card without rooting it permanently. Then call it SD-Cloud :p
"Hey Sir, No need for iCloud because iPhone already has SD-Cloud."
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 27 2017, @05:30PM (6 children)
Great now I can learn how to code new device drivers for OpenBSD right? :P
I'll expect the course on hacking iCloud accounts for juicy and porny details to be held. Together with jailbreaking iPhone and the hexview disassembler essence.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday April 27 2017, @07:33PM (5 children)
LOL!
No, I think they will begin pushing some moral assessment of jail breaking. How it is bad, makes Mr. Cook and the shareholders cry, and is a betrayal of the Walled Garden and their fellow ShinyHappy citizens.
Good Apple Subjects would never, ever, think of trying to break out of the Walled Garden. Freedom is bad, Garden is Good. Repeat after me, Freedom is Bad, Garden Is Good! :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @08:09PM (4 children)
To repeat after you: [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday April 27 2017, @09:38PM (3 children)
Well, it's either that or put up with the parasites forever. It's not like they provide anything valuable, and they are literally and provably killing the planet.
I'm proposing killing parasites so that humanity can not just survive, but evolve.
I don't feel one iota bad about promulgating their deaths. They wholly deserve them.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:04PM (2 children)
Yes, Venezuela and Cambodia are prime examples of such success! ;-)
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday April 28 2017, @01:09AM (1 child)
Not sure about success, only that is now required. I realize what I sound like.
There is no room anymore for negotiations, nor is there any room for hope. It's that bad.
I deeply respect and cherish all life. The fact I ask for it to end, and for it to end like that, is just indicative of how brutal the exploitation has been, how bereft of hope and change we all are, and just how much we are out of fucking time.
In all seriousness, if we killed them all TODAY, we may still not survive. The point of no return was some time ago, and they've shown that they cannot be worked with. It's a last recourse that I'm proposing, and that's what I feel is true. We are at the point of choosing the last recourse.
We've no other options left. If that makes me a monster, then so be it. I'm what this country made me.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 28 2017, @01:51AM
If your country made you bad. Perhaps another one is the answer?
I know USA is #1 in many aspects. But in many others it's a backwater.