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Well, that's it. Apple is doomed. DOOMED, I tell you! Time to sell* my unbelievably considerable position in Apple. *Actually, I usually figure when someone states that they own Apple stock and are selling it because of an AppleInsider post …
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I suppose it would be odd if such a thing never happened regardless of advances in materials tech. Seeing Apple continue to push the frontiers as they have for so long is expected.
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Quote: Originally Posted by malax Where in this case being part of the "permanent collection" means being a serious pain in the butt for the person responsible for persistance and probably being 100% inaccessible within 10 years. I dunno. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley I disagree, but I take the point that it could be ambiguous. But I think that reinforces my point that Apple are using language to try and "dodge" the issue, rather than facing it head on. If they were w…
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jungmark wrote: » No way. Corps should not pay less than the middle class tax payer. 10-15% is more appropriate. See my post above. Corps don't pay taxes - they collect them from you. It's tempting to think of corporations as people, and fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley I wish they wouldn't make carefully phrased, weaselly comments like this, it just makes then seem sleazy. Of course they're dodging taxes, using legal means. To me, you're using carelessly phrased comme…
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Quote: Originally Posted by greatrix it's not as if Apple is short of cash. if someone has 'enough' then it's ok to take it from them by force?
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If the commission is just looking to get in on Apple's cash then the right thing to do is to legislate, not try to rob them after they followed the laws that had been set up. If you expect corporations to not seek the setup with the lowest tax burd…
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"Full access allows the developer to transmit anything you type, including things you have previously typed with this keyboard. This could include sensitive information such as your credit card number or street address" Anyone else nervous? Does…
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Good thing the DoJ is protecting consumers and Amazon from Apple. /s
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Quote: Originally Posted by Farshad Foroudi Basically Apple is telling the government that we have cheated you out of taxes and now want amnesty.Letting Apple bring home this 138B will not create a single job that they where not already planning…
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I feel a minimum-wage rant coming on Skip if you'd rather not hear it. And yes, I know that government mandated minimum-wage is a fundamentally different thing than an employer who voluntarily elects to pay its employees notably higher than the c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by manfrommars This will be the first truly new product under Cook's leadership. I'm curious to see how this goes. Assuming it goes at all. Hardware, yes. iBooks Author was a truly new software product. That's b…
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lol - time to buy stock in some company that will make Lightning-to-3.5 standard jack adapters. Although for Apple, makes total sense as far as their quest to simplify and slim down on weight and cost, and free up internal real estate.
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Quote: Originally Posted by renedekat Let this be a lesson for Appleinsider not to post rumours anymore. All the so called predictions that didn't end up to be true were posted here on Appleinsider. The editor suggest that it was the media, e…
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I was worried if they'd flatten OSX as much as iOS7, but I think they struck a good balance. They left in affordances that I think iOS still needs to back off just a hair on the removal of (not entirely - iOS7 has grown on me, but just enough to in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nbiquity I agree with "photoeditor" — Helvetica doesn't work well as a small screen font, not without some changes. Helvetica neue/olde however looks great in print, at certain larger sizes. Microsoft spent some…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Red Rogers I wish Apple would finally end this Sturm und Drang aesthetic metamorphosis and get on with revamping major parts of the OS. What I keep hoping for is another Leopard- Snow Leopard release cycle, catching …
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Very nice
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Apple needs to encrypt everything it does RSA 4096, and then simply refuse to give anything up. I can't remember - was that encryption scheme one that NSA had it's paws in the development of?