March Madness

Wiping the drives of decommissioned laptops and PCs is an extremely LOW priority for large enterprise IT departments. Not only have those units been depreciated on their corporate taxes, but also spending hours cleaning them up to resell for pennies on the dollar is hardly worth it to a company making billions of dollars.

Apple has been dealing with corporate IT for over 4 decades and is fully aware of this process. Apple even has their own large enterprise IT department, and experiences this, too.

A more reasonable policy would be for Apple to make the Activation Lock time-limited (like, for 6 months or a year) UNLESS the owner reports the device as stolen. If the device was reported as stolen then Apple can make the Activation Lock permanent.

From the large enterprise IT departments I've seen, cleaning up old laptops that aren't being re-used by the enterprise is a very, very low priority. Like, I've seen walls of old laptops, stacked and waiting to be cleaned. The value of the laptops has been depreciated, and reselling them for pennies on the dollar is hardly worth the effort for a company making billions of dollars per year.

Also, indoor air conditioning is about that old, and it didn’t become ubiquitous until around the middle of the last century. My parents grew up in a world without indoor AC, and once they had it they refused to go anywhere that wasn’t air conditioned (we lived in hot, humid southern Louisiana).

It sounds like “rat patootie,” am I right?

I'm thinking that future work will be in levels of AI interaction.

At the lowest level, the AI is doing everything and you're just there to clean up after it. Think AI robots running restaurants; humans are just there to clean, maintain, and restock.

At the highest level, you're a highly knowledgeable industry professional consulting with your AI bot, who is writing various analyses on your behalf, and you're there to make the final decision on spending (because humans don't trust AI to spend blindly).

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