Posts by dh87

Bidding now at $155,000.  I calculate a day of Tim Cook's time is worth $155K/0.75*8=$1.653M, and a year at 225*$1.653M=$372M, almost exactly what Apple paid Tim Cook last year.

Quote: Originally Posted by drblank  They'll have to have mulitple sensors around the car.  This stuff is STILL years away.   If you look at the Google car, they have that MEGA expensive and...

Maybe this forecast is right.  It says that Apple will sell 215,000,000 iPads in 2017.  With an ASP of $650 and 30% margins, that's $42B in profit.

  Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor      I don't blame Apple for trying to get the best terms it can in the system that we have.    But at the same time, I think...

Quote: Originally Posted by cvaldes1831 If you're insinuating that Apple should be planting apple orchards, well, you're wrong. Apricots and other stone fruits are the historic crops in this part of Santa Clara County. The street...

Quote: Originally Posted by Sevenfeet This has been discussed in some financial circles when the question is posed "Why isn't Apple in the Dow Jones Industrial Average", in other words the top 30 stocks traded. Apple...

Quote: Originally Posted by Vadania I never understood why people didn't upgrade... It's only $30. Actually, I got it as a gimme because I bought my new iMac right before Lion came out, but still... $30.... really? Lion's...

Didn't Aperture 3 only used to require 10.5.8? Aperture 3.2.1 requires 10.6.

David Gelernter wrote a paean to Apple for the NY Times Op-ed page, when Apple was a doomed company in the 90's. The article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/11/op...p=7&sq=&st=nyt Here's a snippet: ...

An alternative way to look at the Android-Verizon vs. iPhone-ATT matchup is to consider the reasonably likely alternative that i-A simply defeats A-V, the same way that Apple defeated every iPod challenger, including ones that were doing...