Kalewa - Slashdot User

Comment You breaking apps will stop Apple? (Score 2, Insightful) 177

by Kalewa on Monday January 12, 2009 @06:07PM (#26423911) Attached to: Here Comes iPhone Nano, But Not In the US

Do you honestly think Apple would give more than a passing thought to inconveniencing programmers?

Here's how it would go.

Launch Day: Programmers are notified that they will have to rewrite their programs to work on the Nano. Everyone whines, bitches, moans, and claims that the Nano will fail within weeks without programmer support. A lot of them vow not to buy it or program for it.

Fifteen minutes later: The first fart app for the Nano is ported.

A week after launch day: Programmers of apps that make obscene amounts of money grudgingly announce that they're working on porting their apps.

Six months after launch day: The Nano 2nd generation is announced. All apps have either been ported, or portable equivalents have been written.

You know that's how it'll go down.

Submission + - Dell Punishes Workers By Closing Call Center

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @08:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: After employees at Dell's Roseburg, Oregon call center filed a lawsuit about violations of state and federal labor law Dell responds by closing the call center and stating "the closure has nothing to do with a lawsuit filed by employees of the Roseburg center in February". This act in itself seems to be another violation of labor law due the closure being a retaliatory act.

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