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I wonder how long it will take before Apple begins to hire Google employees?? Tim is not Steve, and working conditions at Apple may improve dramatically in the coming years. Steve did not head up Apple Skunk-Works, he took the projects that everyone…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Orlando The arguement is you don't get to charge the licensing fee twice. So if Qualcomm has already paid the licensing fee on each chip it sells to Apple) then Apple should not need to pay the fee a second time. Di…
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Another angle is, what if Eric was still on the Apple board when the incident occurred? I'm thinking it would be bad form at best to have a board member's company actively soliciting workers, the board member could have access to which engineers to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Red Oak Just wait. In 7 months, the 4 will be free on contract, the base 4S will be $99, and the 5 will be out. And the 3GS? It becomes Apples low cost off contract solution Apple is just getting going here …
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Please correct me if I'm wrong here, but as I understand it SJ organized Apple so that Ive reports to no one, not even to Tim Cook. So apparently SJ was either concerned that Forstall may get to CEO and didn't want him wrecking Ive, or SJ didn't wan…
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Ditto..... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Apple-...32256.html?x=0
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A ButtLoad.... http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...ossal-cup.aspx
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna You talk like a man with THE info. Like you have a connection so you know the numbers. There was no "I'm guessing production was maybe", nope you said it firm like it was fact. So use those sources, what was…
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Another way of looking at it, is to take peak iPhone 4 production numbers and multiply by 1.5 to 2 and that would represent a good starting number. That would be something that Apple could have told Foxconn. That is based on the fact that smartphone…
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Quote: Originally Posted by umrk_lab Well, I would not have accepted this challenge, but your reasoning is quite impressive. This gives (as far as we can tell about Apple production capacities, of course) a good estimate of what the upper limit c…
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The most interesting statistic I have come across is that with big demand here in the US and the fact that sellers are selling out prior to receiving shipments all throughout the quarter and also during that time Apple has introduced the iPhone 4s i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by umrk_lab Given the fact that for Apple, the bottleneck is not demand, but production, I think the right approach would be to estimate the production capacities, which would give the best estimation ... Good Luck!! …
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Quote: Originally Posted by inkswamp Why do people keep perpetuating this Mac market share myth? The Mac never had market share in the computer market comparable to what the iPhone has in smart phone market. These are not parallel situations.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by z3r0 I completely agree. Apple missed a chance by not buying Sun when the could have, but perhaps they can make up for it by going out and purchasing Joyent. Joyent is essentially Sun with out the baggage. They are …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii I hope they don't flail around in this space like Google has. They should stick to what they know: products. I mean, things with a hardware component. I think Apple should do what they do best in getting into …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacRulez The question with TSMC is about yields. See post #20 above, and the recent AI article and others from this week noting long-term discussions about A6 and A7 between Cook and Samsung's Lee. TSMC will likely…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit From more recent news it seems that Apple is sticking with Samsung for the A6... and I find that odd because there are reports saying that Samsung is behind in their 28nm production and TSMC has already s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AjitMD I have one tinny question: How can Apple depend on Samsung for its most critical component, the A4, 5 CPU? Apple is embroiled in a worldwide legal and marketing fight. Samsung are nothing by thieves of IPRs..…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PaulMJohnson If Samsung think Apple forcing blocks on the Tab is going to cost them, it's nothing compared to what they will lose if Apple do shift to TSMC for the A6. Samsung have built entire fabs pretty much sole…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Firefly7475 IMO Microsoft has shown the best balance with office integration that Apple would do well to emulate. Files are stored locally and in the cloud. If you have Office installed on the PC you're using you g…