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Actually that may not necessarily be the case. Some sales could be attributed to a spillover effect; if the iPhone is sold out, another random phone that happens to be available and is "good enough" may just be the ticket.
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As long as this phone is restricted to North American markets, neither Apple nor Samsung has anything to worry about. That's because in Asia many people still buy their stuff off retail shelves. And having a retail presence seems to be anathema to A…
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Interesting that you brought up Dutch EIC… it is a corollary to Microsoft and Apple. Dutch EIC was formed later than British EIC though. And like Microsoft, it held a dominant position initially (think Microsoft in the 90s and 00s) but by the time 1…
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IMO the first supercompany is not Apple, but the British East India Company. At its peak it handled about half of the world's trade. And I seem to recall an apocryphal story about NeXT being the first full-robotized computer assembly plant. Can't …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider It wasn't until April that Samsung was able to deliver its Galaxy 5S with a similar fingerprint scanning feature, but reaction to the new model has been less than enthusiastic. Why lend legitimacy to Sams…
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OK Tanihwa, you win. Have you written your own compiler from scratch, and built all the programs that your company uses by yourself? If not then you really don't know what you're talking about. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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That last paragraph is wrong. iOS and OS X are not affected by Heartbleed. The CVE they linked to was "goto fail" which was patched in March/April, not May.
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Based on Apple's history, this is nothing. Apple went from 68K to PowerPC to x86; it is perhaps the only mega cap tech company that is able to transition their core product's CPU architecture not once but twice. Every other so-called "high tech" com…
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No particular reason for the rise. Conversely, any reason you can think of may be responsible. But markets, in general, demonstrate seasonality.
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Just read the quote above. "We put all things together and said let's just go for it". Samsung is the very antithesis of Apple's ethos that places the customer experience over everything else, which is why a lot of people find the former's actions r…
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You can. For American stock, the options contract is usually for 100 underlying shares. However there are exceptions like "mini" contracts for AAPL which only started trading earlier this year, for 10 underlying shares. In the specific example for…
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Who are these clowns? Jobs was replying to Cue's email, which states quite clearly: "The other point I want to get is lowering the price while the book is on the NYT Bestseller List. This will be hard to get because they will be losing an addition…
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Quote: Originally Posted by igriv I am a bit confused: what does this actually mean, since the device doesn't have 3840x2400 pixels??? It does what it says on the tin. You get 3840x2400 pixels on a screen that has 2880x1800…
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Can't believe no one here has brought up QuickRes. Because of the two graphics cards, you can go all the way up to 3840x2400. http://quickresapp.com
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@drblank Swatch is indeed still around, and is dominating its industry. Lots of watchmakers are dependent upon it for parts. http://www.economist.com/news/business/21571943-industry-ripe-shake-up-time-money
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I seem to recall Australia having very strict laws on advertising; this certainly qualifies as false advertising since Google maps has now been shown to be equally untrustworthy.
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Samsung really is scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And their legal team is hopeless; Apple's lawyers already stated that the F700 does not infringe, so why do they keep bringing it up as a comparison? Unless they're claiming that the iPhone…
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Quote: Originally Posted by thompr That's EXACTLY what the other poster WAS mentioning. No network connectivity => all processing happens locally => local storage and processing power must increase dramatically. Thompson Once upo…
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Siri should be on iPod nano. That would totally create a new market segment which Apple's competitors cannot even match. Imagine being able to place and receive calls on a watch-sized nano. Make appointments. Have it read your email etc. Track your …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider "Right now the majority of tablets are Wi-Fi only," Page Alves, Sprint's head of business services, said. "People use tablets in fixed locations." This article disagrees. My own anecdotal experience in …