The Orlando Sentinel:
Liam Rosenfeld could tell something was up.
As the 16-year-old walked into the Mall at Millenia’s Apple Store on Tuesday, he saw a swarm of employees and customers buzzing around a kiosk. When he approached, the crowd parted, and there stood Apple CEO Tim Cook.
“I was not expecting that at all,” said Liam, still flush and grinning ear-to-ear after meeting Cook. “It was such an amazing surprise.”
This had to be insanely exciting for this 16-year-old and what a great thing for Cook to do.
Damn, lol why didn’t I go to Millenia yesterday :/
Because the “stores are too crowded and no one goes there any more….”
How did Apple know the kid would be there?
Also, something he said makes me very sad: “There aren’t many things you can get into in high school and use it to move toward a career path,” said the young man who was born into a century that no longer values non-STEM skills.
I like how my Apple International Plaza is always crowded—CONTINUOUSLY for almost 20 years now!. (I was one of its first customers to wait outside the mall since 5 am, the day of its first opening).
I bought a new Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad a couple weeks ago, and one of the keys started to be intermittent. I brought it in yesterday, got to speak with a Genius in a few minutes, he paired it with his Mac, didn’t see the intermittent, and then told me he’d give me a new one.
It’s not the largest store, and they didn’t have one in stock to give me then. But he said they should be getting one in today. I got an email notice that it had arrived. I drove 20 miles to the store, waited a few minutes, and somebody brought the new one out and handed it to me! Done! Good job!
I’d love to meet Tim Apple in person someday, too!
I’m not laughing. Public education has been crippled, by degrees.
While STEM education is valid, the relentless crowing about STEM as a “path forward ” is troubling.
Our current situation shows a world of clueless engineers and ruthless and self-serving politicians and extremists. We used to teach Civics. I know,. You’re laughing. But we were more civil then.
Also, your hero, step Jobs was not a scientist. He came from the liberal arts.