Dan_Dilger

ednl said:

Not all 32-bit software is ancient. I use Lightroom 6 standalone and have no alternative lined up yet, certainly not the subscription.

Lightroom 6 is a 64 bit app. Does it show up as 32-bit in your system report? It does cause warnings in Mojave, but this may be due to other linked software it shipped with.

sopol said:

Mobile imaging lead?
P30 Pro

Read the linked review. Even an Android site wasn't though ally impressed with it. And the camera isn't the only factor. Compared to the great sound on recent iPhones, the P30 Pro has terrible sound playback. 

avon b7 said:

corrections said:

avon b7 said:

As for leading the tech industry. I disagree.

Well invest all your money in Spotify and Netflix and Samsung and commodity cloud providers and stop posting your genius ideas for free on Internet forums. 

Clearly you know so much. If only Apple knew what you did. We bow before your great intellect you wise man of incredible logic and foresight. 

I’m only surprised you didn’t spend more time explaining how much you love Huawei. 

How about first supporting the comment that led to my post?

How is Apple already leading the tech industry? That is baloney and I only mentioned the tip of the iceberg!

Let's be realistic.

If Apple had had the foresight, it would have snapped up Netflix long ago instead of having to invest billions - for other companies - to provide content and try to establish itself in yet another saturated market!

Are you implying that Apple wasn't late to streaming? Where was the foresight? Spotify since 2008. Apple Music since 2015. Apple chose a different path originally. Just like with screen size.

The reality is that even a few short years ago Apple had no idea what it was going to do or where it was headed. It was firmly entrenched in iPhone and trying to leverage services more profitably. It had Apple TV as a hobby, the Mac business and iPad. Then Apple Watch - CE! The tech industry spans far more than CE!

It hoarded (thanks to iPhone) and that's fine but don't try to make claims that don't even begin to hold water. However much you love Apple.

When Apple starts producing cutting edge technology from the top right down to the bottom and impacting a far broader swathe of technologies, you might be able to make such claims but right now they are completely out of place. 

Instead of going on the attack, explain why you feel you can make those affirmations and then we will see how your explanations hold up.

Avon, stick to your Huawei lipstick. 

Netflix and Spotify haven't made much if any money across a decade of frantic building. Apple could have bought and developed those companies instead of focusing on building the future of mobile devices and platforms, but then instead of earning a trillion dollars and sitting on a trillion dollar enterprise, it would own Netflix and Spotify, two massive money pits that won't ever make substantial money. Their share prices have gone up, but that's all bullshit investment erecting a "house of cards" (ughh) much like the huge bubble of AOL that was "worth" lots until investors realized that no it wasn't. 

Every studio in the world is now launching its own Netflix, and Spotify is struggling to make and then lose $100M per quarter this year streaming music. It's first profit ever.

Why didn't Apple get into streaming earlier? Because it was making tons on money on iTunes Downloads. Streaming is a shit business Apple was forced into after iTunes collapsed due to YouTube free streaming based on paying artists nothing and Spotify paying them slightly more than nothing. Apple Music doesn't make significant money, it just keeps Apple relevant in the music market. 

Here's the business you think Apple should have acquired and devoted itself to instead of making a trillion dollars from iOS. You are totally nuts dude. Netflix is a shit business to be in and would have been a massive waste of Apple's resources, for nothing. It would be like Apple buying WhatsApp for $$$ rather than developing iMessage and leading US communications. Most of what Netflix does is build out infrastructure to make its content work across tons of weird platforms, and a lot of that work is now obsolete. 

charlesgres said:

 Buying back stock and then keeping that stock makes perfect sense to me.  You profit as a company from any further share-price increases, plus you control a larger percentage of outstanding shares..

But buying back stock and then retiring that stock is what I don't understand.. If you retire the shares then isn't that like just destroying money, right? Who gains from that?  Plus, with less outstanding shares, you have less percentage left, so less control, not more..

Can somebody explain like I'm five?  thx 

Outstanding shares x the share price is the perceived value of the company. If you reduce shares outstanding, the price rationally goes up even if the market perceived valuation does not. 

Buying back shares concentrates the value of remaining shares, making them more attractive. And if the company continues to make money, its earnings per share goes up as the share count drops. 

So it’s effectively distributing the company’s cash to its shareholders, without making them pay an immediate tax as they would if you were paying out direct dividends.  

dysamoria said:

They should buy it all back and delist. Getting off the gambler’s market would result in far more stability.

Apple doesn’t have the trillion dollars that would require. As it bought up its stock, the value of the remaining shares would go up, so the actual cost of taking AAPL private would be higher than its current market cap.