California is different than many states in the USA. In many places a non-compete agreement can stop you from going to a competing company. That doesn't just affect entrepreneurs, it affects all employees. The end result is employees can't change jobs as easily and wages are depressed. Non-solicitation agreements have a similar effect.
I don't think I'll ever root for companies enforcing non-compete or non-solicitation agreements. But, if Apple can prove that this guy was working/soliciting for his new company on Apple's time or while using Apple equipment then they may have a case, but it should be a limited case.
Exactly. Why do they need to know categories of websites? They should be collecting the things your computer is doing from a technical standpoint. Then I could be convinced that they were trying to learn how to improve their products from an engineering perspective. As it stands CIP looks like a way to use the large installed base of their products to improve the marketing/partnership side of their business.
I work for the federal government. Another team in my organization is using it for contact management and some other CRM tasks. They are very happy with it. My team is developing a custom dashboard prototype for leadership. Our results are mixed. Please note that I've only been working on this project part time for about 4.5 months, so I'm far from an expert.
Basic entry and view forms are very easy to create; Basic reporting is very easy, as well as basic charting. But the provided charting components can only be customized up to a point. For example, you can set the color of chart segments by value for pick-list fields, but not for calculated fields, and only for certain types of charts.
Salesforce is a big, complicated system and it takes a while to learn. If your needs can be met by their built-in Sales or Service modules then it may be a great choice. If your needs can be met by a 3rd-party add-on, and you're willing to pay extra for that, it may also be a good choice. If you want to recreate your custom business logic in Salesforce then you may want to hire a consultant.
Salesforce also has a lot of pricing and licensing options, so you would need to be careful about making a purchase before you know all of your needs and understand the different license types and pricing tiers.
Just as alarming for me is that Facebook engineers don't seem to understand risk management:
"In this situation what we’ve found is these passwords were inadvertently logged but that there was no actual risk that’s come from this. We want to make sure we’re reserving those steps and only force a password change in cases where there’s definitely been signs of abuse."
Inadvertently logging passwords is a risk. If those logs were accessed then that's a bigger risk. Signs of abuse is an issue. There is no such thing as an "actual risk", there are just probabilities (and possible consequences). Once a consequence happens, it is no longer a risk -- then it's actual.
Yes, and the Ptolemaic Kingdom was a Greek kingdom founded by Ptolemy I Soter, a companion and historian of Alexander the Great. He started the kingdom after the death of Alexander.
I understand how the "value argument" influences the initial price of a good, but once it is out in the market demand should be taken into account. If a product's supply is (practically) infinite and its demand is low, then the price should be low. Anything else smacks of poor business decision making or price fixing.
I don't think I'll ever root for companies enforcing non-compete or non-solicitation agreements. But, if Apple can prove that this guy was working/soliciting for his new company on Apple's time or while using Apple equipment then they may have a case, but it should be a limited case.