Foul Tech Sours

Is the cost of a system worth the price of convenience? This question is something that I've been ruminating on after a brief discussion with one of my close friends. Scenario: My close friend, let's call her Kitty, has been applying for jobs. One particular company, a small to medium sized company (464 stores with 11,800 employees as of 1 October 2015), allows interested applicants to view open positions online. Kitty found several positions in which she was interested and proceeded to apply. Now, you would expect, like many systems, that Kitty would be redirected from the company employment website to some sort of under-thought, poorly customized employee application system powered by Oracle (you know, Taleo? Yup..it's Oracle). In this instance, that was not the case: She provided her email address and was then emailed  a fillable .PDF application which she was expected the send back electronically to the company email address provided. Pause: They want Kitty, the...

At this point, I am pretty sure that most people are not unfamiliar with iOS: Apple’s mobile platform. Generally, from release to release, the platform has stayed the same, adding a few enhancements at a time.   On June 10, 2013, iOS 7 was publicly unveiled at the Worldwide Developer Conference. This version of the platform is supposed to go beyond the mere additions and enhancements we are used to seeing from Apple, and is supposed to introduce something “different”. Considering Microsoft’s flop after trying to be “different”, it is safe to say that people do not like change and “different” is a gamble. Although Apple hype beasts (that’s what I call them) might be excited to have an iOS 7 download party in the fall just because it’s new, some of us that are a bit more tech savvy (or have common sense anyways) might be a bit more skeptical before just upgrading from iOS 6 to iOS 7.   To prepare this group of people, Apple provided some of the major differences that users ...