This should be expected. You screwed the guy, you got screwed in return.
Be happy that he has not yet left and offer him $300k - $400k as a bonus if that work is so important.
> IT has searched his OneDrive, laptop, etc., and we can't find a single shred of code/documentation on these ideas.
Ahahah. Is anyone surprised that a smart engineer knows what he is doing?
What are you talking about? Microsoft courier never launched, Microsoft band was cancelled, Microsoft Kin phones were killed, Windows Phones were killed, plus their entertainment division has lots of cancellations. Microsoft cancels things all the time.
Apple's got its own cancellations, maybe less noticeable stuff like their routers and cinema displays. But the photography world still mourns Aperture.
Well I want to make a startup but dont want to to get wrecked by Facebook or Google or Apple. I guess I'll wait until lawmakers break them. Or else they dont deserve innovation.
I really hope Apple dies and burns. They have good PR but thats it. They lie and deceit developers just like Google. Bait and Switch.
There should be government regulation of Apple, Facebook and Google. These corps are just too big and control our democracy.
Apple is starving innovation by deliberately not supporting many thing on the Safari iOS browser and prevents competition illegally by restricting 3rd party browser engines.
Taking a 30% rent on purchases is blatant theft. More people need to speak out. #AppleRentSeeker
Because Apple is unable to increase revenues, it's now trying to increase by using uncompetitive tactics and illegal restriction of competition.
What does iOS Safari not support? It uses WebKit, so more or less full technical/js support, it has ad blockers, tracking prevention, a built in password manager that uses the iOS keychain... not sure what else I’d really want for web browsing.
This will cause a permissions fatigue. Only the most sensitive things should have permission. The usage of these capabilities is large enough that it should not be behind a permission.
If we went down this path, I think that the any permissions dialog would come at the end of a very long PR campaign and feature ratcheting to get developers to update their sites to not need the permission unless absolutely necessary. Sort of like what's happened with the deprecation of Flash.
Just my two cents: Climate change threats are being over-hyped by those people/companies who stand to benefit from "green" energy/society.
These orgs are spreading propaganda to high-school teens by telling them lies sprinkled with a bit of truth and causing them to protest because the teens on average cannot make a better judgment then people with decades of experience.
Nothing is going to happen. I for one wont hold my breath.
For what it's worth, it seems the companies that have been benefiting from the not "green" tech and society have been and still are spreading propaganda to minimize the fear/awareness/etc of climate change.
I mean, look at Trump and this coal stuff. Look at how much money Oil companies spend on this. One large difference, I think, is that the money being spent by the oil giants is influencing the opinions of fewer, but more powerful, people, such as congress-persons and other political figures.
I guess technically your guess about nothing happening is as good as anyone's, but it really doesn't seem like that is the case. I'd love for climate change theorists to be wrong and actually it turns out that the Earth is fine and we haven't caused irreversible effects to the climate and planet, but wouldn't you rather we work on cleaner energy and be wrong, than do nothing and be wrong?
> IT has searched his OneDrive, laptop, etc., and we can't find a single shred of code/documentation on these ideas.
Ahahah. Is anyone surprised that a smart engineer knows what he is doing?