carthusia

waveparticle said:

So it took 7 years for Apple to put out M1? Any effort before he joined Apple?

Apple acquired P. A. Semi in 2008. I would guess they began their transition efforts at that point or earlier.

I order as much as I can from Amazon, weekly, and I never pay for shipping. I opt for free shipping that often is listed as arriving in a week, but which almost always arrives no more than 4 days after purchase.I don’t need lightbulbs or snow boots in two days. I have Apple One, therefore, have no need for Prime Video or Music. Also, I stopped buying books on Amazon in an effort to support independent online booksellers.

We have FreshDirect food delivery, which is about the same annual cost as Prime, for truly unlimited food deliveries. I order fresh food from there twice a week.

I had become a Prime member a few times since the service began, due to free trial membership offers. Every time I did the numbers on shipping costs and, surprise, found that $0 for shipping is less than any dollars for shipping. There is no need for me to pay for Prime just to have the broad selection and convenience of Amazon.

I just snatched up a 14" 16GB/1TB SSD. With education pricing and tax, it was just over 2k. Considering this should last at least 5 years, I consider it well worth the wait. It also is the first Macbook Pro I have ever bought. Usually I go for a minimal specced Air. I prefer a bit more future-proofing nowadays and much more capability. 

She was amazing in her all-to-short role in No Time to Die. It'll be nice to see more of her.

levi said:

awilliams87 said:

$3 billion? Still view this as a ridiculous acquisition.

Assuming all 13 million subscribers pay $10/month Apple Music (built on the Beats platform) is generating $1.6B in revenue annually - which alone would probably justify the price. For comparison Apple Music has a little less than half the subscribers of Spotify which is valued at $8-9 B. Further Apple sells a lot Beats hardware which at a high margin. Beats hardware alone is arguably a several hundred million to billon dollar business. $3B by most metrics is a reasonable price.

Yes. Beats was estimated by Tim to bring in $1B per year. I imagine with the additional marketing and sales muscle, beats hardware brings in much more revenue that that. then, on top of hardware, you can add the profit from the Apple Music subscription revenue.

rogifan_new said:

cali said:

Thought you were done crying about the Beats deal months ago.

Yeah, if the Other category makes any money it's due only to Apple Watch not Beats, ever. /s
Beats hardware alone makes over a $1Billion a year. Heck, one year they made over a billion with $0 in advertising. If that isn't valuable or worth $3 billion then nothing ever will be to the anti-Beats critics.
Heck, I can't help but grin when someone wearing Beats headphones pulls out an android.

Apple could have built a streaming service on their own but Iovine IS the master deal maker. It surprises me how many people don't know who he is on tech sites.
You always complain that Eddy Cue has too much on his plate and it affects quality but suggest he make all the deals at Apple Music too?

Hey I'm just going by Apple's earnings call where Luca said the increase in "other" category was over 100% Watch. That means iPod, Beats and accessories are down sales wise. Notice too that Apple rarely talks about Beats headphones and rarely features them on the front page of apple.com.

It may be more likely that the over 100% increase of "Other" from Watch can be explained more by a precipitous decline in iPod than in Beats.