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sparkpeasy | 7 years ago | on: Apple Names Deirdre O’Brien Senior Vice President of Retail and People

Just last week on January 28th Vogue Business ran a huge feature on Angela Ahrendts with an exclusive interview and photo shoot, and now this? Seems like weird timing with how "work in progress" Vogue characterized her work at Apple with the tone of the piece. https://www.voguebusiness.com/companies/angela-ahrendts-appl...

"After turning round the fortunes of Burberry, Angela Ahrendts is five years into reimagining Apple’s bricks-and-mortar presence. Vogue Business meets the tech behemoth's senior vice president of retail on the steps of its soon-to-be-unveiled Washington, DC, flagship"

sparkpeasy | 7 years ago | on: Slick Olive Oil Label Designed to Deceive

I find it's easiest to avoid a lot of these scammy practices without the mental load of double- and triple-checking labels by only shopping at places that stake their reputation on the quality and curated nature of what they carry.

Costco and Trader Joes are two great examples.

sparkpeasy | 7 years ago | on: US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty

I always wondered how Chinese sellers on Ebay could sell small toys and trinkets for less than a dollar with free shipping that took several weeks to arrive. It would cost more than that to send a small empty box between two addresses in the US.

sparkpeasy | 7 years ago | on: Direct Primary Care

"Direct primary care only works as a complement to insurance that pays for more catastrophic care like emergency room visits and specialists."

This is like saying: "I've found a solution to high auto insurance costs! You can save lots of money and pay directly for small fender benders! Oh, by the way, if your car is totaled, you'll need to find someone else that covers those very costly catastrophes."

sparkpeasy | 7 years ago | on: BuzzFeed News Asks Readers to Chip in with Donations

If only the journalists that reported these stories in 2017 at BuzzFeed were real:

* Helping to free an innocent man who'd spent 23 years behind bars

* Exposing the true scale of Russia's targeted assassinations in the West — and how UK and US authorities have turned a blind eye

* Sexual assault at Massage Envy

* A dirty offshore bank — and its blue-chip Western enablers and protectors

* BP's dangerous accidents in Alaska

* The US government's shadowy national security contractors

* Whistleblowers: FBI software contains Russian-made code

and more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/markschoofs/the-year-in...

sparkpeasy | 7 years ago | on: Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store

All this plus-it is so much easier to have all my subscriptions for apps in one place to know who I'm paying monthly, and to able to cancel them all in one place through Apple.

I'm tired of signing up for subscriptions and going through a series of dark patterns on a zillion websites to figure out how to manage and cancel my subscriptions. The worst is when there's one click to subscribe and they make you phone in to an annoying retention specialist to cancel.

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