tzeshan

GeorgeBMac said:

They didn't just jump in.   Those outside hacking groups have been in there hacking all along (from U.S based servers).

But, yeh, let's parrot the Microsoft excuse that they are the helpless victim of state sponsored cyberwarfare.  It fits neatly into the "I hate China" mantra and gets a U.S. company off the hook for again failing to secure their systems.

The U.S. has been the ongoing victim of cybercrimes for over a decade.  The crimes have been committed by foreign terrorists, state sponsored terrorists and by domestic cyberterrorists.   It is time, past time, that the U.S. establish a centralized organization to independently investigate such crimes and attacks (both in terms of who did it, why, and how -- as well as who left the door unlocked) as well as to develop ways to protect us from them -- including prison time for domestic cyberterrorists and repercussions for international ones (whether sponsored by a state or operating privately. 

We did not tolerate a president steeling data from a political opponent.  We did not tolerate terrorists blowing our buildings.  So why do we tolerate terrorists blowing up an organization's information systems and stealing their data?

Obviously more of the same will only get us more of the same.

... Oh yeh, never mind.   We definitely need more F35's and Aircraft carriers.  So we just can't afford to protect ourselves from the real enemies.  

For decades Microsoft has treated its users as sheep. Because its OS and applications are full of bugs. Mac fans knew this for a long long time. The end result is most Americans don't really know how personal computers work. The jobs are relegated to ITs, Then there is a conflict of interest. The national security agents are mostly computer idiots. To conceal their ignorance of personal computer, they conveniently blame all hacker to foreign governments.

M68000 said:

Hank2.0 said:

Hey Apple, how about moving 10% or more to the USA. How about some factories in places like West Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, etc? Heck, you can afford the $15/hr. That isn't so much for you.

Great idea

It is a bad idea.

yojimbo007 said:

tedz98 said:

What’s amazing is the decline of chip fab capabilities in the United States. IBM used to be a big player running their own foundries. They’ve basically exited that business. Intel is falling behind and can’t compete with TSMC. AMD has lost ground. US auto manufacturers have had to slow production lines due to chip availability issues. The US really needs to find ways to improve its abilities to create wafers and chips. Chip manufacturing capabilities are no where on the Biden agenda. That has to change.

Biden has  got to go .. that will solve much bigger problems..

Biden inherited the problems created by Trump. Biden is in office only two months. 

tmay said:

tzeshan said:

tmay said:

GeorgeBMac said:

tmay said:

GeorgeBMac said:

hexclock said:

tzeshan said:

yojimbo007 said:

tedz98 said:

What’s amazing is the decline of chip fab capabilities in the United States. IBM used to be a big player running their own foundries. They’ve basically exited that business. Intel is falling behind and can’t compete with TSMC. AMD has lost ground. US auto manufacturers have had to slow production lines due to chip availability issues. The US really needs to find ways to improve its abilities to create wafers and chips. Chip manufacturing capabilities are no where on the Biden agenda. That has to change.

Biden has  got to go .. that will solve much bigger problems..

Biden inherited the problems created by Trump. Biden is in office only two months. 

US chipmaking has been on the decline for decades. US companies have been outsourcing labor for years, so you really can't blame Trump for that, fashionable as it is.

You can blame Trump for shutting down the Chinese chip factories that we rely on.   The shortages are mostly in the types of chips that they made.   But, we shut down the factories and then whine that we can't buy what they want to sell.  

Bullshit, you can't blame Trump, and for once, get you head out of your ass, and do some online research, and you'll see that you are absolutely wrong.

The shortage had nothing to do with any entity or individual "shutting down the Chinese chip factories", simply because those were never shut down.

It has everything to do with the Pandemic, that slowed the auto manufacturing industry to a crawl, forcing these companies to give up their places in line at the component manufacturers.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/business/global-chip-shortages-carmakers/index.html

"A chip shortage

The supply chain bottleneck could end up hurting business. A much stronger than expected recovery in sales and production volumes has contributed to the crunch, but carmakers risk missing out on the demand uplift if assembly lines slow. When the pandemic forced automakers to temporarily shutter factories last year, leading semiconductor manufacturers reassigned production capacity to companies making smartphones, laptops and gaming devices.

"With lead times of six to nine months, the semiconductor industry has not been able to scale up fast enough to meet this unexpected growth in automotive demand," parts supplier Continental (CTTAF) said in a statement sent to CNN Business on Tuesday. The bottlenecks are expected to continue "well into 2021, causing major disruptions in Continental's production." The company said that an internal task force supervised by senior management is managing the "critical situation."

Automakers account for only about 12% of all semiconductor demand globally, putting them in relatively weak purchasing position, said Arndt Ellinghorst, a senior analyst at Bernstein.

Bullshit, you can blame Trump for shutting down Chinese chip factories, get you head out of your ass, and do some online research, and you'll see that you are absolutely wrong.

There you go again;

What Trump enacted is restrictions of IP necessary for Fabs 10nm and better. That has nothing to do with current, operating fabs.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/trump-cuts-off-chinas-top-chipmaker/2020/12/

"In the final throes of its presidency, the Trump Administration isn’t backing down on its tech war with China. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the U.S. Commerce Department banned the export of U.S. intellectual property related to semiconductor manufacturing over Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp’s (SMIC) alleged ties to the Chinese military.

“Entity List restrictions are a necessary measure to ensure that China, through its national champion SMIC, is not able to leverage U.S. technologies to enable indigenous advanced technology levels to support its destabilizing military activities,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told The Wall Street Journal in a statement.

The outright ban comes months after the Commerce Department announced it would require all non-U.S. chipmakers using American equipment, intellectual property, or design software to apply for a license to sell chips to Chinese chipmakers like Huawei and SMIC.

According to The Wall Street Journal report, SMIC along with more than 60 other Chinese companies will be added to the entity list. The list — effectively a black mark — restricts companies from exporting U.S. technologies to listed organizations without a license. However, where SMIC is concerned the Commerce Department has taken the extra step of adding a provision effectively baring the company from acquiring the technology required to produce 10-nanometer and smaller chips."

You seem to be conflating two different issues; the shortage on components from existing fabs, and the restrictions on advanced fab tech.

So some fucking research.

Let me explain if you can understand. Trump and Republicans try to stop China's economic growth. But China was already the largest consumer of semiconductors. Many chip companies lowered their long time capital expenditures. But the high tech growth did not stop. 5G, AI, and auto industry keep increasing their demand for chips. Now Biden is in office, the pandemic is nearing an end, the world economy is recovering, as a result the chip industry could not satisfy the demand. 

Again, the current shortages have nothing to do with Trump restricting technology transfer to China. That's all about future 10 nm and under foundries, but I do agree that the restrictions will have an impact on access to sub 10nm components by Chinese companies.

Still, and I have to keep pointing this out, if the U.S. and its allies see a threat from Xi Jinping and authoritarian China, why would they allow technology transfer that would absolutely be militarized?

As I expected you understand only 50%. I also said the growth of 5G, AI, and auto industry increase demand on semiconductors. I will add the proof that Trump repeatedly asked Cook to move iPhone manufacturing to US. He doesn't care in so doing Apple may lose its China market and further increasing its cost and sales in US. His actions discourage the semiconductor industry and they thought Trump is going to be reelected and his policy will worse for another 4 years. 

mac_128 said:

That’s why my octogenarian mom now has one. Glad to know it works as advertised.

I wonder if emergency services arrived before family members, and if so, whether they broke into the house to respond? I’ve often wondered what would happen in such a situation where the Apple Watch is doing the calling, not an actual person.

Maybe install a door key which can be unlocked by Apple Watch? 

sog35 said:

How is this a surprise?

Why would people want to buy a phone with a 3 year old design?  I mean seriously. If someone holds their phone for 2 year, this phone will have a 5 year old design at the end of their ownership cycle.

To release the same phone design THREE YEARS IN A ROW is the height of Apple's arrogance. But that's Tim Cook's Apple for you. The amount of mistakes this idiot CEO has made is ridiculous.

I hope this iPhone 6SS sells like crap. Hope the stock tanks hard by early 2017. And the board/shareholders wake up and fire Tim Cook. With a competent CEO who actually cares about growing the business and brand (instead of going on some dumb ass social crusade) this stock would be at $200 by now.

I agree with you CEO is inept but for various different reasons.  He failed to exploit the tremendous popularity and goodwill of iPhone to fend off competition.  He wants to look like a nice guy.  Maybe for the obvious reason he is afraid to be criticized. Android phones have 88% global market share.  It is much higher than iPhone primarily because of price.  Why Apple would not lower the price?  Lower price will increase sales have been tried and proven true.  Just look at black Friday sales.  Tim Cook may be afraid lower price will hurt profit margin.  If this is his reason his math skill is very poor.  Lower price will hurt profit margin.  But what is the concern?  Of course the concern is the stock price.  But will lower price cause stock to drop 30% or more?  This is where I see Cook and CFO are wrong.  AAPL PE ratio is only 13.  This is much lower than other Dow Jones stocks and high tech stocks.  Will the market drop the PE more because of lower profit margin?  I am willing to bet it will not, 

Apple is not smart enough. Doesn't Apple know patent won't protect it from thieves?  Patent is useful protecting it from the trolls.  So what is the smart way?  Apple should file the patents at the last minutes when the products are ready!

ireland said:

nolamacguy said:

tzeshan said:

maestro64 said:

tzeshan said:

There is a simple way to improve the iOS to make it more useful globally.  I can tell Apple if Apple can pay me as a consultant. 

I beat your solution is to give up profits to sell more widgets... When are the Business Schools in this country going to stop teaching it is always better to sell more at a lower price verses selling less are a far high price with larger margins. Since everyone in the market are leveraging the exact same supplier chain, Apple cost are no higher or less than another else's. No one had the cost advantage because they are making more of something. In some cases Apple unit costs are higher since Apple pays to ensure supply of parts.

No, your bet is lost. My idea is an improvement on Siri. 

ideas are worthless since theyre easy and without risk or difficulty. implementations are the only thing with value.

whats your idea?

Ideas have lots of value. It's just implementing said idea in a meaningful way is a whole lot harder.

My idea is easy to implement.  Apple is the most innovative company with tens of thousands employees.  This is why I think my idea is valuable. 

I don't think sog is a troll.  He has facts and reasonings. 

Don't be fooled by the rhetoric.  There is no strong demand.  Originally Apple planned to build just 10-15 million SEs for 2016.  Even if Apple build 5 million more SEs, the SE is still not in high demand compared to other iPhones.  Apple does not look plan to satisfy the demand at all even though the numbers are still small.  I have given up on Apple.