Did you ever meet Johny Ive?
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saltesc@lemmy.world 4 months agoThat’s wrong. Also, from the perspective of a former Apple employee, you’re deluded. The stuff we’d see and use your data for; most of it was to use it against you in ways you wouldn’t realise. No idea what other areas did with it, but my area wasn’t even that evil.
cashews_win@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
saltesc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, but I did get an email from Tim praising my good work.
We thought it was bs, so immediately spent the rest of the day investigating it. I worked in JAPAC region, so we checked in with our networks around Singapore, Japan, HK, and Australia. Sure enough, he did it regularly. At the time I had gotten a few internal awards and it was assumed they’d get passed onto him along with pre-written text, and then just sent it or it was sent from his internal email. It was meant to be inspiring but was really transparent, especially since you realise how it all works inside.
Most of the data I tracked was customer volumes and contact reasons for online sales, iTunes store activities, and tech support (AppleCare, Apple Online Store, Apple Authorised Service Providers/Resellers, iTunes Store, and every now and then iCloud services specifically if it was clashing with Microsoft Exchange profiles placed on iOS devices by the employer organisation). Most of the customer and account data I dealt with was…pretty much everything associated with making and maximising a buck—since it’s probably clear by now I was in the service delivery part of the beast—plus all the strategies to do it, specifically tracking their success. While that obviously meant I dealt with a lot of iOS too, I’d only communicate with dev to indicate what reported issues were tending so they could prioritise fixes. Generally critical issues would be parked for non-critical issues if they were generating high points of contact or hitting the media. Rarely I’d speak with Cupertino since this part of the world’s HQ did SD in Singapore and non-reguinal issues that impact globally (ignoring carriers, licensing, etc.). When I did, it was raising issues in the region that may encroach US embargoes, they’d want to know immediately instead of delay through regional HQs.
stoy@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I just saw the other comment, and have edited my post.
I am sure Apple uses my data in a lot of evil ways, I never said they didn’t, I said that an Apple account is less terrible than a Facebook account.
saltesc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m not a former Meta employee, so I can’t say. But from what I know, I wouldn’t be so confident in your conclusion.