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Apple earned $90.15B in fourth quarter of 2022
Apple did NOT earn $90.15B in fourth quarter of 2022. That is their total revenue. They earned $20.72B, for a profit margin of 22.99%.
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'iPhone 14' may have eSIM-only option, but it won't be universal
I transferred my U.S. service from a physical SIM to the eSIM on my iPhone a few years ago, before traveling out of the country to a destination where (nearly?) all phones work from prepaid SIM cards. When you need to refill, you go to a shop (which might be just a counter in someone’s home) to buy a card with a refill code. Then you effectively text the code to the cellular carrier and your refill amount gets added to your SIM card.
There is NO way that you are going find a way to enable an eSIM card in that country. (Even here in the U.S., it required a visit to the carrier’s store to move my service from the physical SIM card to the eSIM.) Completely removing the physical SIM from the iPhone would be a huge step backwards, which would make iPhones completely unusable in certain countries.
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Republican bill seeks end to 'warrant-proof' encryption
“[S]trong encryption is a vital cog in the data privacy machine that, if weakened, leaves users vulnerable to attack.”These senators do not seem to understand 1) the technology they are trying to undermine is critical to a myriad of lawful activities like on-line banking and 2) criminals have the option to use other encryption method [besides those built into Apple’s devices and software] that will not be affected by the proposed bill. I am all for tracking down criminals, but not at the expense of every other user of encryption-dependent technologies.
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IBM seeing great returns on over 277,000 Macs and iOS devices issued to employees
6502 said:I love Macs and have had one at home for 25+ year. But, I rely on Excel a lot at work and Excel just sucks on a Mac, and it's just not worth emulating it when I can just use a cheap W10 machine.
Ummm, no. Microsoft developed Excel for the Mac, and later ported it to Windows. It is still a native application in MacOS and “emulating” is not required. If you really have had a Mac for 25+ years, you would know that Excel on the Mac used to be much more advanced than the Windows version and in more recent years the updates have not always remained in sync. Given the capabilities of Excel for Mac, you’d have to be doing some rather esoteric edge-case tasks in Excel in order for the Windows version to offer any advantage.
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Delta's new plane lets you use AirPods to listen to movie audio in-flight
United Airlines has had the ability to connect Bluetooth earbuds and headphones for several years, and they seem to be adding it to more of their fleet as time goes by.
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Apple spent 'billions' on revamped Maps service
Apple Maps has improved significantly over the past few years. They are also very responsive when I submit issues with either the map or directions, often notifying of their fix within a couple of days from my submission.
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Apple Park worth $4.17 billion, is one of the world's most expensive buildings
I think you missed the point. Apple—via all types of taxes paid at the city, county, state and federal levels—is among the entities that pay the most total taxes in the entire country.mpantone said:
The Feds don’t collect property nor sales tax. They collect income tax.apple ][ said:
Forget that tiny county.AppleExposed said:
"Apple was reportedly the County's biggest property taxpayer in the 2017-2018 fiscal year."
Apple is one of the biggest taxpayers in the entire USA, if not the biggest.
The state collects income tax too (at least here in California) as well as sales tax.
The county collects property tax as well as a supplemental sales tax. Apple’s property tax assessment also contains supplemental parcel taxes for various state, county and city bond measures.
There are many kinds of taxes and they don’t all go to the same place.
Note that Santa Clara County is one of the largest California counties by population and thus in the nation. Moreover with the large amount of wealth (mostly from the tech industry) it is the most affluent county on the West Coast. It’s not such a tiny county.
It has nothing to do with the relative significance of Santa Clara County, which is one of 3,142 counties (including county-equivalents) in the United States. Apple is a big taxpayer not just in Santa Clara County, but in many places and at many levels of governmental taxing authorities.
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Despite what you may have heard, don't write off the iMac just yet
The Apple M3 chip is great and I’d eventually like to move from Intel to Apple Silicon, but there is no current match to my 27” 5K 3TB iMac in screen size or in storage. The iMac is a great (and well-proven) design so I’m not looking for major changes in the physical design, but I do not want to go backwards in screen size or storage to upgrade to Apple Silicon.
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After an over 12-year run, Apple has discontinued the 27-inch iMac
This is disappointing, unless it will be replaced in the near future. One of the best features of the iMac has been the large screen. If the 24” is staying as the smaller screen size, maybe we could get a 30” iMac? -
Despite Thunderbolt, iPad to Mac communication is still a mess
With an M1 iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) and an Intel iMac, using the Thunderbolt cable is consistently flaky (with regular failures) just trying to sync or update iPadOS. I have to downgrade to the (theoretically slower) USB-C cable to be confident of everything working properly.
