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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta You don't know what you're talking about. Let's say you own a billion dollars in assets and it's generating 5% per year dividends and assume you don't give anything away. Those dividends are taxed at 40%. S…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Just out of curiosity, what is the impact of Gate's foundation on his tax returns? Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta I wonder why so many people don't get this. Let's say that 50% of Gates' inc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Just out of curiosity, what is the impact of Gate's foundation on his tax returns? You hit the nail on the head. I don't have a link, but Gates continues to increase his net worth every year, largely be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Beeman60 We got buttons. We got a lot of buttons. Buttons Buttons!! Did ya see how many buttons we crammed onto that window. Everywhere we got buttons. Buttons all over the place. F*cking Buttons on top of o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bohannjn If Steve is going to remain on the board of Apple and serve as chairman of that board, why not remain on the board of Disney? Being a board member is not a huge time drain like being a CEO is. My hope is…
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I wonder if apple haters will try and claim this is still just security through obscurity? In reality, secured app store, aka "walled-gardens" FTW.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Too bad they can't. Android and the hardware designed around it are already too close to iOS and the iPhone design to get any closer; they're being sued already and people STILL hate them! Yes, they ca…
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I love all these posts saying apple must have this feature or this other form factor to keep people from switching to android. The iPhone 3GS sold more units this year than any individual android phone. Apple clearly doesn't *have* to do any particu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kotatsu The idea that somehow PCs are going to go away is completely absurd. Can you imagine in offices all over the world people hunched over tablets prodding away with their chubby fingers at little screens covered i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lil_B I think there are a lot of different't ideas floating around out there about what a "post PC era" means. There is a lot of focus on individual devices and their respective capabilities within enthusiast circles,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bsenka I think that really depends on who that user is. Someone who already loves their iPad and doesn't seem to use their desktop or laptop much because of it, probably was never really using their computer for things…
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That's quite a fire sale. I'm sure it will sell now, but how funny would it be if they still can't sell through their quantities of touchpads?
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Definitely gets a lot more interesting when you think about having 3G or the proposed 802.22 Networks. Keyboard giving "life" to an unconnected system.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy That's just the way Moto spun off the two companies. Fair enough. Seems so counter-intuitive but I guess it doesn't matter. Also, mad props to the hipster apple tv, made me laugh. I recently helps a…
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Simple question for clarification: Why are motorola's set top boxes part of their mobility line? Shouldn't they be part of standard motorola, the part google isn't trying to buy?
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That be a pretty substantial jump in processing power for just one year from the a5 to something competitive with the core i5. I don't see it unless it's a new product. Plus, there's really no reason to think a MacBook air would be more productive u…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cloudgazer I'm sure Horace Dediu did his best to subtract out any App profits, but we know them to be minimal anyway - The total up till June 2011 could not have been more than a billion, even if Apple had absolutely n…
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Are these profits just counting hardware sales or profits from the app store as well?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gary54 I am looking to get a mini. not an air, have PPC software which is important to me and subjectively I am not the kind of person who goes for what I see as gimmicky wholesale not performance related but interface…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gary54 will the new models run Snow Leopard? I have an interest in a new hardware model. Not Lion. Word going around twitter is probably not. I'd be highly surprised if their new hardware would be supported by their…