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  • Apple's $111.4B Q1 shatters quarterly record with massive growth across all categories

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    I'm not surprised at all with respect to the M1 Macs driving sales in that category.    It has been at least a half decade since I can honestly say that a Mac laptop is worth buying..    Not only is it worth the money paid (relative to other vendors) it literally blows the competition out of the water.  I'm already looking forward the MBA replacement expected some time this year.   As a highly mobile computing device it blows the rest of the industry away and frankly is now a better solution than iPad.

    Well better solution for me as the keyboard is a requirement as is Mac OS and access to the system.


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  • AMD CEO says Apple's M1 chip is opportunity to innovate, underscores ongoing graphics part...

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    cloudguy said:
    Sigh. Even Ars Technica claims that Intel's Alder Lake is a response or was influenced by/a ripoff of the M1. Shows you how the media just puts a pro-Apple spin on everything. In reality Intel is merely adopting the big.LITTLE architecture that has been standard in ARM/RISC designs of more than 4 cores for years. For example, the Qualcomm 808 used a big.LITTLE design way back in 2015. Back then, the Apple A9 was still a dual core chip (both Firestorm or equivalent).

    Also, as someone above truthfully stated, wait until we get a 10nm octacore chip on Alder Lake architecture, which should occur in 2022. That is when we will FINALLY be able to get an apples to apples comparison (pun not intended) on performance and power.

    The Alder Lake CPUs will be primarily used in 2-in-1 ultraportables that will compete with the MacBook Air (except they will have touchscreens, 2-in-1 designs and some will even have 5G) and in gaming laptops. So if you want a 2-in-1 or to play Steam games, you aren't going to by an M1 MacBook Air no matter how much faster it runs or less power it uses because that M1 MacBook Air won't have the features, functionality or ability to run the software that motivates people to buy the Windows and Chromebook (Chromebooks will gain the ability to run Steam this year) competition. When you add the fact that the Alder Lake competition will also be several hundred dollars cheaper than an entry level MBA, this will be still more reasons why the M1 won't change Apple's 7%-8% market share. 
    Thank you for saying this!    Big.LITTLE never was an Apple thing
    elijahgprismatics

  • Elon Musk says Apple CEO Tim Cook refused meeting to discuss acquiring Tesla

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    Xed said:
    elijahg said:
    pjg said:
    If buying Tesla meant bring Musk into Apple, I can see why Cook said no.  Either way, Apple has never been the first to market new technologies.   They just seem to do it better than others, at least, as far as hardware is concerned.
    You mean Cook was concerned he'd be bringing in a younger, more passionate, generally well liked forward looking visionary that was likely to end up as his replacement? Yeah I can see why he said no too.
    Do you really think that Musk could run Apple as well or better than Cook? I really like Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX for a huge number of reasons, but not for a minute would I want to see Apple run by Musk.

    Apple would benefit from the energy that Musk would bring to the company.   Imagine new or upgraded PC's every six months with upgrades that add real value.
    elijahg

  • Elon Musk says Apple CEO Tim Cook refused meeting to discuss acquiring Tesla

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    viclauyyc said:
    StrangeDays said:
    viclauyyc said:
    The secret sauce of Tesla is Elon. If he  sell and leave, the magic is gone and value cut in half.
    How so? I realize lots of people have a chub for the guy with the funny name, but since he isn't an auto engineer what makes him essential? Could not another chief executive manage the other executives who manage the engineers? Jobs was similar and Apple has not only survived, but thrived after his departure from life. (And to poo poo any naysayers, my Mac and iPhone and Watch and everything else are fantastic and the best versions I've ever owned.)
    When Elon started SpaceX and work in Tesla, he knew little about making electric car or rocket. But he learn very fast from expert in the field and go very deep. Now, he knows almost as much as a rocket scientist or a car maker. Of course not to the finest details because  no one knows all the details. 

    This is what set him apart from many CEO. He is not just manage the company but he actually knows how most things works. And he is not a very good at managing a company but he is a visionary. Which makes home special 

    Musk is the classic executive that really knows what his product is and how it is made.    Not too many these days come close.   In fact the worse example of an executive these days is the guy that claims he doesn't need to know the details to manage.   Musk is the exact opposite, an engineer that truly understands what all his companies do.   This actually sets him apart from Cook whom has a more narrow view of what the company (Apple) does. 
    elijahgentropys

  • Wistron found to be committing violations of labor laws in Indian iPhone assembly plant

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    tzeshan said:

    wizard69 said:
    Apple needs to be held accountable here.   It’s bad enough that they are using slave labor in China, that will not be tolerated in a freer country like India.  Beyond that the wages highlight just how low Apple will go to enhance margins.   Exploitation is exactly that no matter how much you try to distance yourself.    I really don’t think Cook grasps how bad his behavior is in this regard.  
    Slave labor is used according to American living standard. In many countries it is not slave labor. You are ignorant of Apple business. Foxconn, Wistron, Pegatron are not owned by Apple. They are contracting companies. They also build products for many other companies. Can you elaborate what Apple did to them to enhance margins? 

    I'm not sure what you are after here.    Apple does indeed use slave labor in China, this isn't about standards of living but rather the Chinese government interning people in labor camps for political purposes.   The net result if forced labor.

    As for my supposed ignorance, I suggest you look in the mirror.   Apple has had long term relationships with these companies even after years and years of reported misbehavior.    Apple only reason to do business with them is to get their work done in largely unregulated areas of the world.   Even if there are "regulations" China is so corrupt that it really doesn't matter if there are labor laws.  

    You must be a bit out of touch with respect to what Apple does to its suppliers.   The history there is pretty public so you don't need to take my word for it.    In a nut shell they simply make demands that the contractors have to make to keep the business.

    Look at it another way, back in the day when Apple closed down manufacturing in the USA and eventually moved most of it to China, they didn't change the prices on anything one bit.   In fact they continued to raise prices.   This has lead to the highest margins in the industry.    It is pretty hard to believe that you are so out of touch that you don't realize just how high Apples margins are on its products.    That was all about Apples move to China to get products manufactured at a far lower costs.    Not one penny of that savings was passed on to consumers in lower prices.

    By the way Apple isn't the only company guilty here, almost every business that moved to China just increased their profits on stuff sold in the USA.   Prices never came down.   Basically a good part of America got screwed over by US based companies enjoying the slave labor afforded them by the CCP.  
    elijahg