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red oak wrote: » Sam, where does the '$9B' projection come from? In europe taxation on local companies is quite heavy, if you sum up all kind of taxes you are easily above 50% (in italy about 55%). So, I think it depends on which tax rate they…
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anantksundaram wrote: » My own assessment of the Watch after four days with it (38-SS-ML)? 5.0 for ambition, 5.0 for hardware, 4.8 for thoughtfulness in design, 4.5 for Apple software, 3.0 for third-party software (all of which I have got rid of).…
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thewhitefalcon wrote: » Look, Pearson Education is a garbage company, with garbage products. This is widely known. Why is this Apple's fault? If the school district signed a deal with Apple (I'm not sure), and Pearson was a subcontractor wit…
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mstone wrote: » This survey is not very useful. So about one third of the developers currently working with any of the languages are not eager to continue working in that language. It seems that they are all about the same. A more useful survey wo…
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sflagel wrote: » It seems to me that three use cases have already been identified: 1. Health, including biometric tracking (don't care much about this) 2. Notifications (the most obvious one, I find that really useful) 3. anything that requir…
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tmay wrote: » Well, since the iPhone 6 renders internally at 2208 x 1242, and the S6 renders internally at 2560 x 1440, the S6 is rendering 1.3 times the resolution that the iPhone 6 Plus is rendering, so no, not "much" more powerful graphically, …
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Actually the numbers show that S6 has a similar performance with almost double pixel quantity. It means that from "smartphone" point of view iPhone6+ has moderately better graphics performance, while from "SoC" point of view, S6 is much more powerfu…
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sflocal wrote: » That being said, that country is one of the most corrupt EU countries, right next to Greece. Just like Greece, they just try to ride on the backs of other countries (like Germany) that actually have a stable economy. The Italian…
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For what is worth, Euro is falling because the European Central Bank this month started the "Quantitative Easing", basically printing euros and so weakening the exchange rate. US experience three rounds of QE (IIRC 2007, 2010 and 2012) and in fact U…
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clemynx wrote: » Let them all copy Apple without limit. Then when Apple disappears because people copy all its stuff, judges will wonder how that happened. You should remember when President Obama Vetoed ITC Ban On iPhone, iPads. In my opinion…
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gregnacu wrote: » Apple could do something like that. Invest in DDG, keep them independent, but retain the first right to acquire them if Google or Microsoft or Facebook tried to acquire them. Win-win-win. In my opinion the value added is in t…
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lkrupp wrote: » Told ya. It’s already started. Doesn’t matter what actually happened. Apple is the fall guy. It will be a C|net front page article in no time. You are right when you say that banks do wrong this time, but Apple did a poor job …
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maestro64 wrote: » I suspect that VISA will not extend their token down to an android phone which uses software to protect the token verses a hardware based solution. In my opinion VISA executives are interested in profits, not in brand wars. …
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scottyltd wrote: » Apple 'wins' patent for a head-mounted iPhone virtual reality display Wins? Other companies filed for same patent?? :-p A lot of patents are a joke: awarded just for an ugly drawing on paper, without any study nor prototype …
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thewhitefalcon wrote: » They should be able to pay this off with overseas cash as well, which is good. It is not allowed.
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bravadu wrote: » There's more, but not much more. Up to 19% total I believe. Yep, my understanding is: 19% on future foreign profits for all companies, and 14% one-time tax on all existing foreign cash (estimated about 2 trillion dollar).
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nasserae wrote: » 6.5% is better than zero since these companies will never bring that money back at the current rate. It could be good only if it is forbidden to hold cash in tax heavens in the future, else it will become a popular tax evading…
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jameskatt2 wrote: » Should Apple want to tackle the desktop with its own custom GPUs, realize that they will always be playing catch up and will always be slower than those from AMD and nVidia. The only reason for doing so is to save money in man…
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hypoluxa wrote: » Why the hell doesn't Apple just buy Nividia or AMD and get its desktops all the GPU power they need? I'm sure they could with one of them. Because purchasing Nvidia or AMD will reduce net profits o Apple. There are two scen…
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gatorguy wrote: » Reading between the lines I would think that means Apple is supplying iOS source-code to the Chinese so they can "assuage fears that its devices can be used for intelligence gathering purposes by foreign governments." Probably…