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cnocbui wrote: » When Apple gives away it's products for free, do let me know. Google doesn't give away its products for free. Its products are user profiles that are matched with ads. They charge a lot for our personal habits. Maybe I'm misrea…
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jfc1138 wrote: » Guess if from past experience you tend to beat up your watch: whack it into doorjambs and such on a regular basis. I only do so occasionally and the SS in Space Gray hasn't shown any effects so far.... I'm in construction. I have…
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I get the impression that Mr. Cook isn't motivated by personal wealth accrual. Legacy is tops on his todo list every morning. Wealth is the symptom.
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SpamSandwich wrote: » As I've written before, (and this is not investing advice...for anyone) I have a buy order in for $95, just in case the market panics/engineers panic that continues to spread. I consider anything close to or below $100 for AA…
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slurpy wrote: » Glad Apple responded to this horse-shit with real data. Predictably, troll-loving sites like Macrumors and theVerge have yet to update with this new info. EDIT: Oh, even worse they did "update it", by burying Apple's response a…
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So...if Apple sells bonds in Australia, can they repatriate the cash (to America), tax free, to fund the buyback? Or, maybe Apple is expatriating bonds to Australia so the cash doesn't have to be brought back because it's already here. Am I getting …
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macky the macky wrote: » Even more than public image; it's that large pile of cash that attracts politician/lawyers. "There's gotta be some damn way we can get our mitts on some of dat loot!" True. That cash on the balance sheet is more of a…
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I always pay more taxes than I'm legally required to. We all do, right? Shame on anybody, or any corporation, that figures out a way to pay less. Politicians shouldn't have to be bothered with writing laws. They are busy extorting campaign contribut…
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SpamSandwich wrote: » "Standards" are for machines, not outstanding people. Agreed. Funny, I used to be pro union. I was in a plumbing union for years. Great classroom training. Thing is, half of the class slept through stuff that I was fascinate…
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SpamSandwich wrote: » Why should "standard wages and benefits" be considered a good thing? If you're an exceptional employee, you'll want to be compensated for outstanding work and not be lumped in with a bunch of layabouts. Wrong, Mr. Sandwich. …
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quazze wrote: » I must be trippin'! I don't recall Microsoft selling 50+ million phones ever, let alone plummeting sales of 27.8 million in the quarter. For years as Microsoft tried to weasel into the smartphone market, they'd always hold around 1…
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robm wrote: » Leading to that filthy, filthy headline by Bloomberg which would have hit the trading desks about a nanosec after CapEx announcement was given. I refer to the CapEx cut linked to the failure of Apple to meet the well connected analy…
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I read a good explanation about that. As options expire, there's a lot of pressure, buying and selling, around the "max pain" point, often leading to an equilibrium right at "max pain". I didn't entirely understand the article and I still don't unde…
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What a great headline.
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81%. This is because my step-daughter got caught smoking weed. Her mom took away her iPhone which gave me the chance to upgrade it to iOS 8. What's with kids these days not updating their OSs.
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Your 957,000 number has been discredited. It's from a first time analytics firm, Slice, using dubious methodology. Even if you believe Slice, they said 957,000 PEOPLE preordered an average of 1.3 watches. That's 1.25 million, but the survey was U.S.…
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You changed my mind.
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You make good points, but my original comment was brief and lacked nuance. I believe Larry and Sergey deserve credit for not bowing to the demands of the authoritarian Chinese government. Yet, we can see that a more cautious and engaged approach, as…
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Wow. Clearly, Apple's relationship with China is symbiotic, rather than one-sided. Google must be gnawing it's fist with envy.
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Jesus wasn't a bigot. He accepted everyone. He didn't use religion to justify his personal prejudices, either.