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michaelx74 said: Apple: Just buy a/the bank. Nope. Consumer banking is one of the most heavily regulated industries. Apple has zero interest becoming a bank. If this weren't the case, Apple would have started a bank a long time ago (befo…
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dewme said: What happened with Apple’s relationship with Barclays? I seem to remember using Barclays relationship with Apple to get interest free financing to purchase a couple of my earlier Macs and possibly iPads. Perhaps partnering with …
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sirlance99 said: It’s funny how far wrong you are. Almost the entire company wants to come over with Altman whom is still backed and now hired by Microsoft. We shall see. Who is the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows hi…
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I've had an AppleInsider account since 2006. Over the years I've accessed this site with a wide variety of hardware (Apple and others) running a wide variety of web browsers on various operating systems without any noteworthy performance issues.
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9to5Mac has a tutorial on how to find Spatial Audio music: https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/08/play-spatial-audio-on-apple-music/ I haven't tried it myself. It's a two year old article and I'm still using iOS 16/macOS Ventura so I'm unsure if it works …
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9secondkox2 said: Man, wish they’d come out with a new one (non-VR). Talk about lazy. Half life was epic. Half life 2 left us wanting much more. Then… nothing for 100 years until… a vr game. Come on, dude. There's a game mod to make Ha…
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hexclock said: Is anyone on the board a Microsoft shareholder? Before this all went down the six OpenAI Nonprofit board members were: Brockman (Chairman & President), Sutskever (Chief Scientist), Altman (CEO) plus three outside direct…
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planetary paul said: Obviously the intention was to kill off the company. Some serious litigation is in order methinks. Whose intention? Certainly not Altman's. He had a large equity stake in the company. It was his baby. Certainly not …
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digital_guy said: Well, hmm. Interestingly, Wikipedia article for iOS 17 doesn't seem to recognize 17.1.1 as available. Just updated an 11 Series myself, via a Mac, and only received 17.1? Searches for iOS Build # 21B91 also seem to yiel…
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dewme said: Excellent move, but why specify this as only a single week sprint? The criteria/gate for transitioning back to regularly scheduled activities should be based on the attainment of a predetermined quality metric, not time. They sh…
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eriamjh said: Apple isn’t “waiting”. They are probably developing so-called “self-driving” which, as we all know, is not as easily achieved as some have supposed. I know that without decent volumes, automotive suppliers of “popcorn” parts,…
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darkvader said: The helmet mafia is already out in force. No surprise there, they have some kind of mental disorder that forces them to stick their nose in somebody else's business. Glad you're ok. Wear a helmet if you want to, don't if you…
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cincytee said: At 96¢ annually, that's barely a 0.5% payout. I'm not exactly overwhelmed by the Apple board's generosity in not cutting the company's relatively feeble dividend. Paying a dividend makes AAPL eligible for some pension pla…
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Stabitha_Christie said: "bringing Apple just $23 million in its opening weekend" That is 23 million domestically so you have left out over half of the movie's revenue. Was that done out of Ignorance or is the article intentionally misleading…
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Stabitha_Christie said: How did he dodge the question? Because he didn't confirm speculation? That is inane. You don't seem to know much about life. This was not a sworn testimony situation. He was not compelled to answer the question di…
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Governments can change laws to close tax loopholes but they can't retroactively apply them. If an entity (individual or organization) paid taxes in accordance with the tax regulations in effect at the time of filing, then they broke no laws. It's v…
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Well, duh. Solomon said the only thing he could have. There's no way the CEO could slam Apple. GS signed the contract which was an opportunity, a responsibility, and a risk (among other things). As CEO he is expected to do his due diligence in risk…
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tmay said: Yeah, I'm not buying that CIRP metric, since there are many other sources that state that iPhone U.S. user base is larger than Android OS user base. https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/us-smartphone-market-share If there are 30 s…
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Appleish said: "For 2023, Carey has moved to CBS." Better money? Better exposure? Or maybe just a base of people who are old enough to remember her. For sure more money making potential. By now her people would understand how well Apple TV…
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gatorguy said: IMO, the China market is becoming more difficult for Apple. China is becoming a more difficult market for most companies based in the West. That said, none of them can really walk away from China. It represents too much re…