Xed

Synth2 said:

1. ARM wouldn't exist without Apple--ARM started with the Newton.
2. Apple publicly invested >$700 million in ARM just before their IPO a couple months ago--could that have possibly helped their share price go higher?
3. Apple and ARM agreed to a long-term deal (till 2040!) just before their IPO a couple months ago--could that have possibly helped their share price go higher?
4. ARM could have held out for higher royalties before agreeing to said long-term deal just a couple months ago, but they didn't. Hmmm.  
5. Apple does all design and fabrication of their hyper-customized "ARM" chips. ARM does very little. Apple has an “architecture license” with ARM, which allows the company to design its own cores using the ARM instruction set. In other words, Apple does all the heavy lifting in producing their highly customized ARM chips.

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Xed said:

apple ][ said:

I'm just going to pretend that I didn't watch the first minute or two of the keynote and ignore any politics.

How horrible that someone considers human rights of others. This wouldn't be political to you if you started believing that people of color deserve equal rights.

It's political crap and I reject it.

darkvader said:

Because Apple likes to charge highway robbery prices for cables.  They always have.

The chances that's in any way significantly different than any other Thunderbolt cable are ZERO.  It's a standard, anybody building a cable is going to use a similar design. 

twolf2919 said:

I watched the introduction and couldn't help but laugh when I saw this thing: like a mix of ski and scuba goggles - bonus: the "see through" eyes that seem slightly larger than real-life LOL.  Then I noticed the tether that every shot tried so desperately to hide - in hair, scarfs...anything.  By the time I saw the price I already knew this was DOA - the $3500 was just the flowers on the grave.

Don't get me wrong: from a technical perspective, Apple did an amazing job.  But this product is done in by its form factor - nobody wants to be even more isolated than they already are by wearing dorky goggles, tethered to some batteries in your pocket no less - and by the lack of a killer app.   You heard the word "replace" a lot during the presentation - it can "replace" a large screen TV (not mentioned, of course, is that it can only do so when you're alone)...it can replace multiple monitors so you can work with more of your apps (of course, interacting with those apps is a lot more clumsy than with a physical keyboard and mouse/touchpad)....I kept looking for the metaphor that best fits this product as presented - "jumped the shark" came to mind.  Apple just threw everything it had at the board and hoped that something will stick to make this product succeed.  But I really don't see a standout feature I'd pay $3500 for.  Heck - I don't see a standout feature I'd pay $1000 for.  Now - if this had been presented in a nice pair of stylish AR glasses without an insane tether to an external battery, I might have been convinced....wait another 3-5 years, I guess.

foregoneconclusion said:

The 2017 tax cuts that CEOs used for stock buybacks are due to expire. These are the same tax cuts that the Fed predicted would increase inflation. Go figure…

applebynature said:

Can one company agree to their terms or negotiate with them one on one rather than waiting for the whole industry to negotiate an agreement? If so, Apple should give them favorable terms and get them to end the strike against only Apple. Then Apple would be the only production company actually producing scripted fiction in the entire industry and it could work out in Apple's favor. We know they have the near-limitless pocketbook to do so. I honestly don't know if this is even feasible or if I'm being naive here, but to me it sounds like that could be a good path for Apple.

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

ronn said:

I don't need a debate. The choice is that clear: A proven track record for VP Harris who is up against a convicted felon that will do anything to avoid jail. All that talk about President Biden's cognitive decline while the traitor clearly has lost the few marbles he had. MSM want him to be as foul as possible to garner clicks and $$$.

You clearly haven't watched a single source that shows Trump talking actual points to think like that. You are being manipulated.

lordjohnwhorfin said:

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Trump winning its a given at this point.

The world needs it.

The world needs a felon with 34 criminal convictions who is incapable of stringing two sentences together in charge of the US? I don't think so.

9secondkox2 said:

slickdealer said:

ssfe11 said:

Clueless idiot. Oh and btw Springfield do you know that your pets are getting eaten?  Fido is being roasted up right now. Smh you can’t even make this stuff up!

You do realize that body cam footage has been leaked online, right?  

Some people have TDS so bad they forget the things actually going on, like untold numbers of Haitian migrants eating the towns pets. Horrid stuff.

oh. But trump mentioned it so it must somehow be wrong like Kamala filling out a questionnaire showing support for sex change operations for illegal aliens in prison. It sounded so ridiculous, because such a thing would be, and yet, turns out Trump was right again.