danox

jamnap said:

If Apple had the visceral fortitude they would promptly and concisely tell the EU to f$&k off and start closing down shop and stop selling to any EU member country.  Maybe the folk there will rise up against the EU ruling class.  With the expanding Asia market Apple will not fall.  Sure, it will affect the stock market at first, but for Tim Cook to always tout "principles" he needs not to bow to the EU.  The USB/C issue is one thing, but this new EU demand will open Apple's Pandora's box.

Apple has to draw the line in the sand, all European Apple devices within the EU have no store included you sell just the core Apple software with the iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Apple Watch.

It’s time for those do nothings in Washington DC to earn their pay. 

Europe just represents about 19% of Apples total revenue, and when compared to other parts of the world, it’s falling, Apples revenue in Europe is about the same as the entire country of Japan.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/.      Select Chart App revenue by region

xyzzy-xxx said:

I hope this did not happen !

Jamie Dimon and Chase had to put down a lie that Trump told….. A business loser like Trump needs to associate with those that are better than him.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/04/jpmorgans-billionaire-ceo-didnt-endorse-trump-despite-trump-saying-he-did/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/politics/trump-dimon-false-endorsement.html

Nothing mankind does is green or necessarily good for the environment it’s basically called survival, the mere presence of 7 billion human beings and growing on the planet is the what that is killing the environment, and making plants and animals extinct, when a project like a goldmine that will dump mercury into every stream, creek, and river at the headwaters of the largest salmon fishery (Lake Iliamna) in the world and that project just lurches forward on to the operational state says it all. It can’t be said enough that the lake is more valuable as a reoccurring food resource, at this stage of the game and is basically irreplaceable.

The very concept of carbon credits it’s just bait and switch by the ruling classes, the largest salmon fishery in the world is up for grabs.  

It is mind blowing that not even that threat can stop it. (Half of all Sockeye Salmon in the world are taken from that lake).

https://kuow.org/stories/copper-versus-salmon-why-an-alaska-mine-matters-in-the-northwest

Appleish said:

From the country that instituted Brexit against popular opinion and had an unelected leader that was only in office for a few weeks, who destroyed hundreds of billions of pounds from their economy.

The majority of people who bothered to vote, voted for Brexit it wasn’t instituted against anyone, those who participated voted for it (democracy). If you didn’t show up on the pitch (voting booth) and vote against it in greater numbers you deserve what you got.

The next item on the Tory menu is eliminating the NHS and going to the American style healthcare insurance system, and insurance in America is falling apart everywhere, Housing, Health, Fire, Hurricane, Tornado, Flood, and Earthquake, those who are against government are going to want government help, a bail out maybe? 

The EU and Europe and general will just keep pushing until Apple finally says no, maybe the British can bring back industry and making stuff in their country? fat chance the upper crust, are all finance, lawyers, accountants, judges, landlords, aristocracy, tax dodgers and politicians. Just to bad the common person in Britain keeps falling for the upper 5% interests over their own.

Apple will be forced to regionalize their devices, Europe, EU, Britain and many other countries just will not stop, I believe Apple will be forced to have a basic core phone, similar to a gaming console in some parts of the world.

Bigger screen 27 inch to 32 inch, put the Mac computer components into an XDR enclosure with any Apple Silicon SOC in it sold, the form factor is King.

applebynature said:

danox said:

In patent, cases, such as this always challenge the patent validity upfront, because the patent office seems to grant patents for just about anything, their philosophy appears to be, people, companies or any other interested party should fight it out in court later. In short, the patent office doesn’t want to take any real responsibility.

I might add the upper division (the corpocracy ) actually prefers it this way, so change probably isn’t going to happen.

I think one of the main issues is that the Patent Office cannot do much other than "to grant patents for just about anything". They do not have an adequate system nor anywhere close to the adequate resources required to fully vet every single one of the thousands of patents filed each day. So yes, the courts are left to decide most patent disputes at a later time, mostly by design. I'm not saying it should be this way, but it's the way it’s True, truebeen for a very long time.

True, the system is designed for the 18th century, and in those days you had to have something that actually worked, and you had to demonstrate it to the examiners, now, however, someone presents an idea, some drawings and equation. You don’t have to demonstrate an actual working device. You just say here’s the application, here’s the fee give me my patent, and the patent office grants it, and then washes their hands, someday someone will actually build a fusion reactor, one that actually works, and they (the company) will be sued by all the idea, equation people from all over the world.

The Wright brothers went through that process, they built some thing that actually worked on the idea people just had paperwork. Took the Wright brothers years to finally get everything settled and at the end a large number of people in the public, thought they were the bad guys.

coolfactor said:

I never did get an iSight or Hi-Fi. Wishing I had, though.

The Apple hi-fi has a 3.5 audio jack, which means you can still use it today if you have one. Wired connections work that way too bad the original HomePod doesn’t have any, I wanted to buy a pair, but the lack of wired connections was a huge stop sign. Speakers good ones last for decades, Bluetooth/Airplay who knows?

Google is paying Apple for the default position in search because it eliminates competition from other companies, and because within the iOS/MacOS, Google makes more profit within the Apple ecosystems than they make in the entire Android ecosystem combined (a guess). In short, Google gets to kill two birds with one stone, the Justice department if they were doing their job would find out exactly how much revenue and profit does Google actually make in each ecosystem worldwide. (my guess is that Google is far more profitable within the Apple ecosystems than their own).

bobcubsfan2 said:

So "new" mouse with USB C. Is port still on bottom of mouse?

No one (the general public) cares other than the tech sites. The same applies to the lightning port and 60 Hz versus 120 Hz screens which is a big so what if you only have a 4K screen, the 4.5 K Apple curated screen is better than all of those 4K 120 Hz PC screens if you care about actual clarity on the screen and I’m not talking about playing games.

When did the M4 iPad Pro come out? According to Apple’s third quarter earnings report the iPad Pro was released six weeks before the end of Apple’s third quarter which means according to the numbers Apple sold more iPads than they sold last year at the same time. How is that possible?