Posts by bwik

In 2010, Steve Jobs insulted the writers of useless fart apps. Little did he know, just ten years later, fart apps would sell billions of copies and become the MOST VALUABLE INDUSTRY IN TEH WORLD......

What is the best Windows 7 based iMac alternative? I am suddenly curious.

Sure.... Right now AFAIK the rate for this is 15% of long term gains. I presume this is all long term so our friend here clears just about $12 million after taxes, assuming he paid nothing for it. (Not sure). B Obama has already...

Certainly a great time to sell AAPL stock. Low capital gains taxes and $350 a share. Well done sir.

AI, thank you for expanding on my earlier comments. I am not a fanboi. But it is clear that tracking is the norm -- the legal requirement -- for US cellphones. So this is basically all a howling cry about nothing.

Quote: Originally Posted by hittrj01 Never mind the fact that the term "app" was never widely used before Apple started using it, and the fact that nobody had a centralized "app store" before Apple did. Other than...

I support Amazon's argument. Legal weenies might say Apple has a trademark. Indeed they might. Speech of generic terms strongly supercedes any trademark. We have a first amendment, it supports use of generic terms by anyone, end of...

Quote: Originally Posted by muppetry GPS location data is not transmitted unless a call is placed, and the default setting is only on 911 calls although it can be user enabled for all calls. That was required by the FCC some years...

Interesting, all cell phone companies know where most of their customers are, at ANY time, and ANY time in the past. This has helped to find missing persons in the past, using the GPS encoded pings of the victim's cellphone. This has...

What is Apple supposed to do? Buy all its electricity from f***ing wind farms? While normal Americans do not? Greenpeace can go get a life. I am an environmentalist but AAPL is doing what they can. Using coal electricity in the...