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Apple will try to talk its way out of a $40 billion fine on Tuesday
slurpy said:40 BILLION? That's fucking insane. How much money does Apple Pay even make Apple? I think it's almost negligent. It's more of a value added feature for their ecosystem.Pure insanity. Meanwhile companies that engage in actual egregious shit get no punishments, or pathetic slaps on the wrist. -
Don't try to sneak an Apple Vision Pro into Germany, the import cops will nab you
bloggerblog said:A Vision Pro could be your personal computer, just like bringing in a laptop or an iPad. Is this only for residents of Germany, are tourists exempt?
Since the Vision Pro is not available outside the US, it's essentially a clear case. You'll have to pay the taxes (19% in Germany if you declare it ... if you didn't it's twice that for punishment).
On the plus side: The honest importer will most likely financially not be worse off, than waiting to buy the product in the EU for final EU pricing (likely to be around 4800EUR). Even if he payed sales taxes in the US. Because the Apple EU prices are usually even way higher than US Price + EU Sales tax. Just did a little check on an iPad Pro you end up paying US Price + 19% Germany Sales Tax (EU sales taxes can be as high as 24%) + 17% on top because Apple can. -
Apple Hardware Engineering VP DJ Novotney exits for Rivian
obiwanbill said:Haha … you obviously don’t listen to their earnings calls or read their financials.
TSLA is the most profitable car company, by far! I don’t own a TSLA and frankly I find their interiors quite spartan. However, many are willing to accept that and ❤️ their cars because of all the things TSLA does well … software updates, ALL electric, FAST and for the hope they deliver on Level 5 autonomy.
When they do … Profits go to the moon! 🚀
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Apple Vision Pro earns prestigious Black Pencil design award
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Apple's iPhone assembly automation goal has hit some bumps in the road
You forgot the political dimension here as well. With millions of Chinese workers manufacturing directly or indirectly for Apple, they are a force of interest to the Chinese officials. I guess they have quite the influence on the PRC government.
Now Apple is moving out of China and also adding some automation, which could lead to hundred-thousands of no longer working Chinese and that at a time where PRC unemployment rates are rising!
If Apple pushes for more automation in China, they'll face a mountain of trouble in China. The fact that PRC government started forbidding to carry iPhones for any government worker (in the office) was just a warning shot and already lead to revenue loss in China.
(Now add the convicted felon tRump as #47 and his loud anti-china-rethoric and Apple will face significant headwind in the PRC!) -
Why AAA games promoted by Apple flop in the App Store
Let me guess ... they release AAA-Games months after the console/PC release and are wondering why people are not/no longer interested in buying the game for the iPhone!? Of course that makes no sense/even less if they charge a high list price for old games.
Also, based on my own experience ports usually are horrible, so I wouldn't touch them with a long pole.
Where are the AAA-Games that are Apple First?
I would also guess, that the whole Apple Game fetish will eventually die/disappear like the other 3(?) times they promised to push for games, that never shown any lifesigns. -
Apple Vision Pro sequel stalls as work on cheaper consumer headset continues
I just don't get it. OK Apple has the first time used the AI moniker wow big deal.
Who was the first to equip all it's (major compute) hardware with AI support in Hardware!? Apple.
Who has been continouusly implemented features once they are ready for prime time, privacy and are actually useful? Apple.
Who has for years an in house team for AI? Apple (yes okay and others).
Who is surprised!? Those braindead MBAs that just don't get that ML is an AI technique.
But hey as a stock holder I'm good.
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Apple Music Classical adds thousands of booklets to album listings
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Apple charms investors with record $110B stock buyback, dividend hike
Kwikiwi said:I am not a big fan of stock buy backs for Apple. The main issue I have is that Apple has to take out debt to buy the stock back and it has gone from being debt free to having over $100 Billion of long term debt that now costs over 4% to service. Yes they generate lots of cash and are able to service the debt but things can change rapidly in the tech industry and that could be a problem in the future. If they did a better dividend scheme, say 50% of all net profit paid out as a dividend the return would be very healthy and by it's nature always serviceable and they could reduce their long term debt substantially. I know dividends create issues when so much of the profit (greater than 54%) is generated overseas and that a lot of people will go on about lazy balance sheets, and I understand their thinking, but I would rather they had bigger cash reserves, less debt and did some better acquisitions than so much in buy backs. Having said all of that I am very fortunate to have done well from my shareholding in Apple over a 20 year period and extremely grateful for that - I just don't like the massive buy backs.
It's the separation between 'making good products success will come' and 'make shareholders happy and get out in time before things get bad'.
So right now they have a good run, money is coming in, no crisis in sight. That would be the time to save up, pay up and make sure you've got resources should things turn bad. If Apple had worked in the 1980ties the way they do now, they would have gone bankcrupt in the 90'ies.
Still remember Steve Jobs from an Apple internal Comm-meeting in 2001, where he came up with exactly that point. Yes live is bad (2001-3 have been harsh times after the .com bust and 9/11), but Apple works its own buildings and is debt-free, so we still have room to play. Essentially betting the company thrice (iMac, iPod, iPhone), was what enabled Apple to come back from the crypt. If they were in debt working from a leased headquarter at that time, Apple would have been a blip in history.
But hey stripping a company of its resources has and puffers has been the way to ruin companies since the 80's, so sm -
iPhone 17 Pro Max to get exclusive 12GB RAM, vapor chamber cooling
nubus said:Why limit memory to large displays? On iPad Pro the memory is linked to storage. Apple could do the same on iPhone.
Based on this it seems 16 is about the base model (3nm, 8 GB) while 17 will focus on Pro (16 Pro will get Wifi 7 and Advanced 5G of no current use).