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Quote: Originally Posted by ConradJoe My guess is that Apple is going to own Sprint within the next few years. Sprint bet the company, and incurred more debt to Apple than was wise. My guess is that all that debt is secured with first-priorit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by poke Not sure what all the hate is about. Zuckerberg seems competent enough. Successful + competent = antithesis of some internet haters. Why be surprised at the hate from 50 year olds living in Mom's basement?
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Quote: Originally Posted by scotty321 Steve Jobs should have coached him on how to blink his eyes. So you know that Jobs prided himself on being able to stare at people without blinking, right? Because if so, that's a kind of funny and ironic …
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Quote: Originally Posted by khanzain Apple HDTV will be launched in December That would be weird timing. Holiday shopping gets big in November. But football is a big driver of TV sales, so I guess any time before mid January is at least sort o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brutus009 HDTV body + Apple TV brain + iCloud + Siri It's always on so it can always listen and take commands without physical interaction. It's Big Brother and we're going to love it. What else could we need? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple v. Samsung So AT&T should spend more on its servers or sell less on launch day just so people don't have to wait a little bit. You are an early adopter and its the price to pay. Its only the activations that …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple v. Samsung Why is it that so many of you feel the need to blame AT&T for the server issues? First of all this is a ONE DAY A YEAR thing. It would be stupid of at&t to invest in their servers just for t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jstrange I was having the same trouble. A visit to my local AT&T store revealed that they were having success by going through iTunes. I tried that and it worked! Do't try the wireless route built into the opening …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton Too soon, but then again, this is Hollywood. Yes, so the movie should arrive in 2-5 years. Will that be too soon?
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Quote: Originally Posted by grandplan If the person making the entry into the system had actual information, why not list GB? Why list the GB if there's only one model available?
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Quote: Originally Posted by libertyforall Yea, Global Warming scam artist Al Gore probably wants NFC/RFID to enable carbon taxes payable to his company. Why Apple has this snake oil salesman on its board is beyond me. NO NFC/RFID SPYCHIPS!…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum One question that I haven't heard asked... Who will replace Tim Cook? Yeah, and then who will replace *them*?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Booga It's not uncommon for Apple to release these updates on Friday evening. My guess is it just took a little extra time to get it up on the site this time. Indeed, they've released a new beta every other friday …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Matthew Yohe This is how Apple has historically used their deferred revenue, so the "simpler" explanation would be AI's conclusion. Other than to show the forum you know how deferred revenue works, I'm not sure why …
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Someone is seriously leaping to conclusions here. Other than the usual updates that Apple has always offered (iOS 2, iOS 3, iOS 4, ...), this accounting mechanism doesn't necessarily mean that there will be "new features." Deferred revenue is a l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shompa Time for Apple to be crazy. 70 billion in cash: Buy ARM: 15 billion (the processor that will rule the world) AMD 7 billion (great graphics, high end servers CPU) NOKIA 20 billion (great infrastructure. Gr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LighteningKid iCloud is worth $22 to the average Mac user and $11 for iDevices per year? How do you even go about coming to an estimate like that? Based on estimated usage plus overhead. If the overhead to operate i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Patranus Quote: Originally Posted by BrooksT Given the very careful wording you used, I'll assume you understand that the economy itself has grown considerably in the past 30 years There was a 15 fold increases in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Patranus The middle class actually control more wealth now then they did 30 years ago when adjusted for inflation. At first I was going to accuse you of blatant falsehood, but then I caught the cute distortion. You'…
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Quote: Originally Posted by frankie How many jobs does $30 million create? About 300, factoring in benefits and other overhead. Of course, if spending $30m creating those jobs created more than $30m in profit, companies would do it right n…