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foregoneconclusion said:

C'mon, where are all those people that were foaming at the mouth for Dolby Atmos support? Their dream/demand has come true. 

I am glad to see Atmos support.

ARKit looks like a stop-gap or foundation building for glasses or some other head mounted display. Holding iPads or iPhones like that looked technically interesting, but not fun.

The machine learning & eGPU stuff was interesting, too. Of course, there were no specifics on what eGPUs were used, but I'll try not to be too pedantic.

Can Swift become a general purpose language outside of Apple? I'd love to drop Java & Python and start doing Swift programming. But for my job I need good web-app frameworks like Grails & database support like JDBC and Hibernate.

I have a 2017 13" MBP that my daughter uses for school. One day one of the keys started acting flakey. A lot of tapping & blowing & fretting got it working again, but the tiniest bit of detritus cripples these new keyboards. They are not robust.

After pushing the price down leading up to the earnings report, analysts now pumping AAPL so they and their clients can sell.

The game is rigged. Learn to play along. I bought a few shares at $165ish. Wish I'd been able to buy more.

SpamSandwich said:

Listening now:

https://www.apple.com/investor/earnings-call/

I don't think I could resist giggling when reading that. All those "billions"!

wigby said:

In the days of Scully, there was plenty of stock manipulation behind the scenes too except it wasn't as accelerated by the current news cycle and automated by trading software that can run rings around any broker. The boiler room of analysts and investors went from a little room to an entire planet.

I’m convinced trading bots watch the newsfeeds and execute transactions based on keywords showing up. A big sell-off on false bad news may have less downside risk than being slow to sell on real bad news.

But it gives us little guys a chance to accumulate shares on the dip.