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Apple remembers Queen Elizabeth II with homepage takeover
jcc said:Why?! Her forefathers raped and pillaged countless people all over the world. Did no one take any history lessons? Did Tim Cook not study history??Besides, name any forefathers from anywhere who did not have a history of dastardly doings. You won’t find any, if you really have read history widely or honestly. Humans of all races, tribes and ethnicities around the globe have for many thousands of years treated neighbors and strangers alike quite brutally. Perhaps hundreds of thousands.
That doesn’t mean we can’t try to live up to our more noble and kinder instincts. She was certainly flawed, as are we, but traversed most of a century trying to be a better version of her family history. -
Decade-old Apple Car project may be completely dead
toddzrx said:Somewhat surprisingly your post is the first to discuss what’s been going on in the EV market over the last 6 months. Apple is canceling the car because reality just set in across the EV auto landscape: all the rich people who want one have largely bought one, government subsidies have mostly run out, repair costs are abysmal on an EV because even the slightest accident can cause fire risk in the battery, leading to increased insurance costs, and public charging costs have gone up. Of course there’s the ever-present issue of long charge times/range anxiety/charge station availability. EV’s are the first large scale product that the public is having to deal with and consider in their economic choices in the government mandated “green revolution”, and the EV’s are losing. -
NBCUniversal ad exec Linda Yaccarino will be the new Twitter CEO
cgWerks said:
Sorry, that's total baloney. A few people left. Advertisers virtue-signaled and have been returning. He probably did vastly overpay, but he seems to have done that at least partly in principal (which, makes him a hero for that aspect, at least).mark fearing said:
What? It’s doing well? Half the audience or more left it. Advertisers left it. He bought it, overpaid because of ego, and they will write it off as it falls apart.
As far as overpaying "in principal" (I assume you mean "principle"), rich people, even Musk, don't do that, that's why they're rich. They use their wealth to leverage the best deal. Hmm, he didn't do that. We assume he's extremely wealthy because we are told he is, based on evaluation of his properties. Of course, until someone writes him a check, it's just an evaluation, not cash.
As far as SpaceX being successful, absolutely. Profitable, maybe not. According to Motley Fool, they made 0,2% on $1 billion in revenue. Tesla, on the other hand, is quite profitable--but the profit right now is from selling regulatory credits to other auto makers, not from selling cars. -
Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...
I'm not sure how promoting their important environmental achievements is considered "virtue signaling" (which is apparently code for "I disagree with whatever that is"). Regardless, you can have the exceedingly dry product pitches that have been the norm since Jobs, or you can have a little creativity mixed in. The skit was OK, and it beats having Tim Cook read the same data in front of the camera.
We all miss the showmanship of Steve Jobs, and, it must be said, his interaction with the live audience. These canned presentations, very well done though they are, are kind of boring, especially for an incremental product intro. -
Mac shipments collapse 40% year over year on declining demand
charlesn said:OH PUH-LEEZ.... yet another "Apple is doomed" IDC estimate. Yawn. Honestly, Apple Insider, it's a disgrace that you publish this as "news" instead of "fiction." As the saying goes, if I had a penny for every fake doom headline about Apple published by IDC, I'd be a very wealthy man. Once again, when Apple actually releases its Q1 earnings in a few weeks. we will see that this is utter nonsense as we always do. -
EU launches mass DMA violation probes against Apple, Google, and Meta
nubus said:freeassociate2 said:Also, I’d like the EU to open up all transportation systems to third party availability, with no tax subsidies. No more government monopolies.
EU forced competition on rail in 2010 and the postal directive has opened competition on letters as well. We do add subsidies as needed, but we let real companies compete on services and pricing. No USPS or Amtrak here.
Per Investopedia: "Amtrak receives considerable subsidies from both state and federal governments but it's managed as a for-profit company. This isn't unusual. No country in the world operates a passenger rail system without public support."
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Epic Hackintosh project gets 3D printed Mac Plus body
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What's Apple's Vision Pro killer app?
andyring said:I have no idea if this kind of thing is Apple's "target market" or not but here we go...
I think this field in general will explode for the training realm. I'm not into gaming and hardly ever watch a movie.
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This type of thing is where I believe the future of VR is headed. -
Apple sat at a crossroads of indecision that led to Project Titan's slow death
sbdude said:Xed said:rob53 said:Apple was correct in dumping Project Titan. They don't have any expertise in building any type of car. They would need land and millions of dollars worth of manufacturing equipment. If they wanted to buy Rivian for a fire sale price to get manufacturing facilities and some expertise, I might go for it but they'd need to do a lot of work on fixing Rivian's vehicles plus come up with a respectable sedan. There is room for an American EV manufacturer, Tesla can't build all the EVs without building several more manufacturing facilities.
Land and millions of dollars available, you say? How could they ever manage that. LOL -
Australian court is the latest to attack Apple on behalf of rich corporations
avon b7 saidIn fact I question the whole notion of this supposed Jobs claim.
If people were taking notes, it's because it was, always has been and still is normal to take notes at meetings. Even at Apple. Anywhere.
The simple fact that someone stepped in and basically told them to stop taking notes, when they had already started, raises concerns.
Think about it for a second. Jobs is there. People are taking notes. Where's the problem? What pushes you to tell them to stop a completely natural process? Even if you are Jobs.
There is no decent reason to tell people to stop taking notes. Literally zero. And the one given only serves to highlight the concerns raised.
Even at that point in time Apple was a multi billion dollar operation.
But more to the point, notes, real or not, from meetings in 2008 are irrelevant to the current court case, as are initial projections of financial benefits. The why's and how's of the pricing set up in 2008 are irrelevant, because the issue is whether there is some consumer/developer harm being done today. Given that 30% is an often-applied charge in the retail markets, which vendors have to accept or go elsewhere, that charge is not unreasonable for what is provided.