grDrama

My opinions not the red fruit. Starbucks fueled sarcasm galore. My Current Role: Genius Technical Expert Pro. Watching this Union thing develop.

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

Congratulations on being promoted to “associate”! https://t.co/7igEhaJeTp

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

@mymixtapez Isn’t this is like the equivalent of women’s push up bra? 🤣

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

Microtransaction Era of Social Media

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Meta has launched paid subscription tiers for its main apps:

Instagram Plus - $3.99/month
Facebook Plus - $3.99/month
WhatsApp Plus - $2.99/month

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

The guide in here has some good suggestions with dealing with battery life issues. One thing I would add to the list is to make sure Location Services is set to While Using or Never. You’ll have to follow her (AI) thread for all the suggestions.

[Aina @Aina_Ai2]

I WALKED INTO THE APPLE STORE LAST WEEK WITH AN IPHONE TOO HOT TO HOLD.

“IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH IT?”

THE TECHNICIAN RAN EVERY TEST. EVERYTHING CAME BACK NORMAL.

THEN HE LEANED IN AND SAID SOMETHING I’LL NEVER FORGET:

“THERE ARE 2 SETTINGS TURNED ON INSIDE YOUR IPHONE RIGHT NOW THAT ARE SLOWLY COOKING IT. APPLE TURNS THEM ON BY DEFAULT. THEY QUIETLY SHORTEN YOUR IPHONE'S LIFESPAN.”

I ASKED THE OBVIOUS QUESTION:

“SO APPLE IS WEARING OUT MY OWN PHONE ON PURPOSE?”

HE DIDN’T ANSWER.

HERE’S EVERYTHING HE SHOWED ME IN THE NEXT 5 MINUTES (SAVE THIS 🔖 YOUR IPHONE WILL THANK YOU):

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

@Jay30BG4eva I like the Japanese version too. They have an entire middle school looking for them around the school 🤣

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

Happens at Apple Retail all the damn time! They also promote the most incompetent ppl too. Regular managers want to be Senior Manager, Senior Manager want to be Store Manager and so on. They all have their agendas. #appleretail #appleanons

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

I’m sorry but this is hilarious to me 🤣

[E X X ➠A L E R T S @ExxAlerts]

ALERT: Man arrested after putting his Cybertruck in ‘Wade Mode’ and accidentally sinking it in a lake in Grapevine, Texas.

Officers responded to a call about a Cybertruck sunken off of Katie's Woods Park Boat Ramp at around 8 PM.

Authorities say the driver put his Tesla in ‘Wade Mode’ and shortly after driving into the lake, the car shut down and began taking on water.

All passengers in the vehicle were rescued, and the driver, who remains in jail, was charged with operation of a vehicle in a closed section of park/lake, no valid boat registration, and numerous water safety equipment violations.

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

This is hilarious. Whoever did this I give you my 👍 🤣

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

@LindaLominger

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

Who Did this? 🤣

[Aaron @aaronp613]

White smoke seen from Apple Park to signify a new CEO

[vxdb @vxdb]

Veritasium Exposes a Tap To Pay Flaw That Lets a Payment Terminal Steal $10,000 From a Locked iPhone

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

One of them happens to be a unionized store 🤔

[9to5Mac @9to5mac]

Full story 👇
https://t.co/vN0Iv3OJr3

[Phil Traut ᯅ @SpatiallyMe]

THIS is how you do an Apple Museum.

I got invited to the exclusive opening of the Apple Museum in Utrecht, which felt like the perfect way to celebrate 50 years of the company that has shaped my life for the past 16 years.

But this is not just another collection. Through their unique displays, the museum conveys the core values and philosophies of Steve Jobs: seeing art in technology, approaching concepts in new ways, and paying attention to the smallest details. I couldn’t stop smiling.

If you’re a fan of Apple, this is not only a must-visit, but probably one of the greatest Apple experiences you’ll ever have.

Shot entirely on Apple Vision Pro.

[TBPN @tbpn]

Apple's Eddy Cue reveals the logic behind charging $0.99 a song when the company launched iTunes Store in 2003, despite the fact that Apple would lose money at that price:

"There were two keys to $0.99 that we really believed in, and people didn't see."

"Number one is when the price is $0.99, and it's consistent, you never have to think about price."

"The second thing was that people could never do that, because at $0.99, if you're charging a credit card, you would lose money. Because credit cards have a fixed fee and a percentage that you pay."

"Well, the fixed fee and the percentage you pay on a $0.99 song was like a quarter, and the vast majority of the [rest of] the money went to the labels. So every time we'd sell a song, we'd lose money. Nobody wanted to do that."

"What we decided to do is, as we were building this — and it was a huge discussion, because we would lose a ton of money — we said, 'Look, this thing is amazing. You're not going to buy just one song, you're going to buy a lot of songs.'"

"'And when you do that, instead of closing the transaction on every single one, why don't we just combine them over a period of time? Let's keep the transaction open for a period of time — let's call it 24 hours, or 8 hours. And everything you buy, we're just going to give you, then we're going to charge you at the end.'"

"And that's exactly what happened. Very few transactions were just $0.99. Most of the transactions were multiple dollars. And the fixed fee didn't matter."

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

lmfao fucking genius move by Apple.

Siri now becomes the #1 AI model without ever running its own model or spending a dollar on training 😂

let me explain:

- Claude, chatgpt, gemini can now plug into Siri’s 2.5 billion users

- so Siri becomes the default interface for AI chatbots = gets ALL the credit

- Apple will likely tax 30% of all chatgpt, claude subs via appstore = more $$$$$

- Apple becomes the distribution layer for everyone else’s AI. taxes the app layer

- oh and apple STILL HAS ACCESS to gemini’s model weights to build their own fucking foundation model 😂

silver lining for anthropic: they’ve been behind in consumer users - now apple gives them access to 2.5B of them 👍🏽👍🏽

the AI economy will run on ios and apple and they barely lifted a finger to do it

genius

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

@oscarf00 They don’t care about troubleshooting anymore, they want us to upsell to new phone/ipad/mac, sell accessories, sign ppl up for Services, add Apple Care, get biz intro and do all that in 15 minutes.

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

As I was going through the headcount of who all got fired in the Genius Bar at my store, I don’t know if it was a coincident, but everyone genius who was fired were the last group of ppl who actually had gone to Cupertino for Genius training! #appleanons #geniusbar #applepurge

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

@fruitharvester I think it was bucuz all the ppl from one ARS that had closed went to another store so they had to meet headcount after a year. Of course, management all said nobody’s job would be in jeopardy but you can’t operate at one store with almost twice the staff with the same budget.

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

@creativeproZAC Damn! Hope you’re better. Yea they tell ppl that all the time until you run pass the allowable limits for being gone.

[grDrama @DepotGenius]

Has this been happening at your store? So in the past 5 months they’ve fired 4 Genius, 2 Tech Expert, 1 Expert, 1 Pro, 1 Manager, 4 Specialists. Aside from the Specialist, all of them have been with the company for almost 10 years all older in their 40s & 50s. Ageism?