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Paul Buchheit reports via Common Dreams
An emotional response to any criticism of the Apple Corporation might be anticipated from the users of the company's powerful, practical, popular, and entertaining devices. Accolades to the company and a healthy profit are certainly well-deserved. But much-despised should be the theft from taxpayers and the exploitation of workers and customers, all cloaked within the image of an organization that seems to work magic on our behalf.
1. Apple Took Years of Public Research, Integrated the Results, and Packaged it as Their Own
2. Even After Taking Our Research, Apple Does Everything in its Power to Avoid Taxes
3. Overcharging Customers
The manufacturing cost of a 16 GB iPhone 6 is about $200, and with marketing it comes to about $288. But without an expensive phone contract with Verizon, AT&T, or one of the other wireless carriers, the cost to the customer is at least $650.
4. Underpaying and Mistreating Employees
5. Apple Has Figured Out How to Spend Most of its Untaxed Money on Itself
Apple's View:
The tax-avoiding, research-appropriating, cost-escalating, wage-minimizing, self-enriching Apple Corporation has, according to CEO Tim Cook,[1] a very strong moral compass.
[1] Link in article redirects.
(Score: 2) by khchung on Thursday May 21 2015, @12:21AM
Or you personally could commit to submitting 1 non-crap article per day.
So, rather than discuss the relative merits of the *actual choices* currently faced by the editors, you choose to, instead, basically just say "put up or shut up". Is it any wonder that some would choose to just leave? As NoMaster did?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 22 2015, @02:57PM
Take a look at the submissions using the link at the upper-right corner of the page. Those are what the editors have to choose from. If we, the SN community, make that list long and full of "better" submissions then the editors have a lot more to work with.
If NoMaster pans the submissions of others and does nothing himself to submit better articles, even going so far as spending 5 minutes to send one in on a regular basis, then speaking for myself, yes, it's "put up or shut up." I have spent a lifetime organizing, building communities, etc, and pandering to tantrums is quite counterproductive. First, it's demoralizing to the good people who volunteer their time to get no thanks, only barbs like NoMaster's hurled their way; they say to themselves, "Why should I bother?" and drop out. Result: the community dies. Second, it rewards free-riders. Third, it enables willful sabotage (I could drop a link to the NSA & GCHQ's leaked playbook on how that's done, but you can google it yourself). The person who criticizes an endeavor like Soylent from a positive place, and who wishes it to improve and thrive, will put skin in the game. Those who do not will behave as we have seen NoMaster do.
In short, don't complain about the cooking unless you're prepared to do the cooking, yourself.
Washington DC delenda est.