I’m not sure about the methodology here… Apple has a huge retail workforce that almost certainly plays a role.
ETA: Sort of analogous to Amazon’s warehouse workforce.
I couldn’t find it in the source, but I assume they’re only counting people who _have_ left these companies? Otherwise growing companies with a higher percentage of newer employees would be heavily penalized.
Even discounting the warehouse staff, my general impression is that Amazon is one of the harder FAANGs to work at. People I know who went there mostly didn't last terribly long. The few that did stay all got out of the AWS org very quickly..
Re: Apple, I have a similar but less extreme impression of their engineering org.. but don't know anyone there/from there.
Notice for example MSFT doesn't show up as a high churn shop.
The individual citizen (!) who lobbied tirelessly for this bill tried to get a broader version passed in the previous session. Unfortunately as bbanyc45 points out there was too much opposition from entrenched interests for that to pass. So he tried again (which is pretty admirable), this time using narrower language.
The preview video (linked elsewhere) shows the ability to add an Extension to run a specific workflow using iOS Profiles. I'm pretty sure that functionality isn't present in the released version.
Can you not create a home screen link directly to the app?
<10 minutes of playing around with the workflowFEC418 url scheme>
Well darn, it looks like you can't. That's crummy. I thought I could get clever with `history.pushState`, but that doesn't let you change the URL scheme without a security error. It looks like this is the best way to do it on iOS.
There's a pretty straightforward SMS confirmation thing you can enable by logging in to your Square account. Tested and it seems to work well. Also note that the weekly transfer limit is $250 if you don't verify yourself, so the risk is somewhat limited.
The only reasons not to get one are (1) Not-great hardware, if you love top-of-the-line stuff, it'll fall short, (2) Sprint's network is pretty sucky, and you can't roam onto Verizon like I believe you can with regular Sprint, (3) Virgin Mobile doesn't allow VM forwarding so you can't easily use Google Voice for Voicemail.
On the other hand, it's a nearly-pure Froyo experience, the battery life and performance is great, the plans are dead cheap, it has awesome hardware buttons not crappy haptic capacitive ones, a Market install of "Quick Settings" opens up the Wifi Hotspot feature. Seriously, $25/mo?!
Anyway, I bought one, and coming off an old iPhone (and AT&T), I think it's great so far. Might have to reevaluate after I spend some time out of the metro area and away from Interstates.
Right on. "Company announces Y, but Where's Z?" is just like the "Is X is a Y Killer?" template that does nothing more than drive page views and indulge the author's preconceived biases. The tech press is the worst!
Yeah, I feel like a lot of distributed startups have had these 'video portals' going at one time or another. I know we have.
Generally use drops off (in favor of standard one-on-one or one-to-many videoconferences) after the novelty ends. Primarily because the fidelity sucks and there are better uses for a large monitor, like watching YouTube videos during lunch.
There are some rough edges (like the SMS sending screen, yuck) but what I'm impressed by is how performant the app is on my old-ass 3G. It seems to open faster than the SMS or Dialer apps do. Probably 'cause it was developed back when the 3G was cutting-edge!
ETA: Sort of analogous to Amazon’s warehouse workforce.
I couldn’t find it in the source, but I assume they’re only counting people who _have_ left these companies? Otherwise growing companies with a higher percentage of newer employees would be heavily penalized.