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rhinotuff said:

Just another DED article.  I laugh regularly at the Suface placement within the NFL, it's disgusting.  But the clips he linked in the article are due to the players frustrations with themselves, not the tablet.  Stop the slant articles and get a real job DED, it's getting sad.  I'm betting this will be deleted by "corrections" (DED), comments that make him sad tend to disappear quickly...

Go away and troll somewhere else.  You've been here less than 4 months and posted 8 messages.  Many of us enjoy DED's articles because they refute rhe FUD that is posted daily about Apple, with evidence, facts and citations.  If you don't like his articles, don't read them.  If he makes a claim that is incorrect - by all
means call him on it.  But don't act like you're better than him and attack him in the comments or demand that he change *his* writing style because you don't like the facts that he's chosen to share.

Keep up the good work Daniel.  The vast majority of us are silent fans of your work.  Trolls like this definitely do not speak for us.

techlover said:

The WiFi on my iPad fails about once a week or so and needs to be restarted. Which means rebooting the iPad. Toggling WiFi in settings does not work. Everything else I own on the WiFi network chugs right along.

Shit happens.

Try upgrading the firmware on your router.  It's possible the iPhone is using a protocol your other devices don't use and your router firmware doesn't respond properly after x number of packets have flowed through or after one of the buffers fills x number of times or after some sort of malformed packet is received (or some other handshake error) - and however the router reacts to that condition could be sending a weird response that makes the networking on your device go wonky.

What you describe is not a known issue with the iPad.  Most of us that own iPads do not experience the issue you describe - even after remaining connected for months at a time.  My money is on an environmental conflict in your network setup - and if I were you, I'd start by looking at the router and flashing it (if possible).  Good luck!

tezgno said:

While I can understand bashing the competition... unfortunately, this issue can't be blamed on the Microsoft Surface (or Microsoft at all). As has been reported on (and confirmed by) the NFL before, the issue has nothing to do with the Surface. Rather, it's the NFL's servers and application that went down (hence why it goes down across multiple teams at the same time). The tablet runs an application that connects to NFL servers and pulls in data including pictures, replay information, etc. It is that system that has been going down recently. To be honest, while Microsoft has paid a large sum of money for their tablets to be shown and used, the entire process is technically platform agnostic. They can run the application on anything. Unfortunately, it wouldn't matter which tablet they chose in these cases... if their servers are down, then there is nothing that can be done.

This article clearly states that the problem only affected one of the teams so that makes it unlikely that this particular issue was a backend issue - and if it was a network issue, I would also think that it would affect both teams - unless they used different wifi access points.  But it doesn't matter - even if it was a back-end problem - that doesn't excuse Microsoft at all!  If they are going to take credit for the entire system during all of those weeks that it works, and intentionally mislead people into thinking that the Surface is what makes all of the functionality possible - then they've also got to take the blame when the backend breaks down - unless their position all along has been - "hey!  All the cool functionality is running on backend servers and we're just one of many screens that can be used to look at it!!!".  LOL!  I say it serves them right for trying to imply the Surface added significant value on the sidelines by taking credit for the work of a backend system.

I feel like I've had an epiphany and finally understand why AAPL share price is so undervalued and so easy to manipulate.

The biggest problem with AAPL stock price and it's low PE multiple is not Tim Cook's failure to defend the company.  It's not because Apple is perceived as a hardware company and not a software company.  Unfortunately, it's because of Apples (necessary) policy of secrecy.

The other companies that we point to with higher PE ratios have defined and well understood products or services and pipelines that make it easier for investors and analysts to estimate/calculate future growth.

The root of the problem stems from the fact that Apples product is not hardware or software - it's innovation and because Apple is so secretive about its future features and products, investors are constantly worried that the well
of innovation has dried up or will dry up.  When investors don't know what's coming next (if anything!), it's easy for analysts to create and spread FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) that scares investors from giving Apple the PE it deserves.  Stock prices are all about the future, not the present.  When investors don't have a clear vision of the future, share prices suffer.  The only solution I see would be for Apple to become less secretive and share more information about their pipeline with the investment community.  Unfortunately, this goes against the way Apple operates.  Cooks public statements about "doubling down" on secrecy (even though they're a few years old now) reinforce that their secretive nature is not likely to change.  Further; we all know that a degree of secrecy is necessary in order to maintain a competitive advantage and prevent competitors from stealing Apple innovations and rushing them to market in a half-baked state.  Sadly, this creates a catch-22 for Apple and the AAPL stock price.

The bottom line is that AAPL and Cook need to find a way to show investors that Apples innovation pipeline is healthy and full without giving away the competitive edge that they receive by being secretive about future products and features.  If they can do this, the sky is the limit for the AAPL share price and PE levels will quickly rise to where some of us know they should have been all along!

latifbp said:

singularity said:

The rules on what is and isn't allowed state aid don't give a rats arse about the tax laws in Korea or the USA. They deal in the specifics of allowed aid to companies in the EU.

Korea or the USA can give all the aid they want to companies in their locale.

Profits generated in the EU are taxed according to the rules  and regulations in the EU. Companies are allowed to minimise what they pay according to the rules but not against them.

If you do business in the EU you comply to their rules. Thus IF Apple has a deal with Ireland that is declared as illegal state aid then they have to comply.

It may have been common knowledge that Apple had a good deal but the details were secret for a long time and any tax investigation is going to be very complicated. 
If Apple are guilty they won't be the first company to overstep the mark when it comes to what's allowable and what is not. People and companies do make mistakes that cost them.
Also you may be under the illusion that any EU beauracracy  is fast. They most of the time are only marginally faster that plate tectonic speeds. Investigations can and sometimes do take decades to complete then you get into the whole shebang of appeals etc.

As I've extensively stated there are many boons to the economy of a country outside of collecting taxes. In addition to providing employment opportunities those businesses invest into the local economy. $190bn in Ireland for example. So rules or not rules it's in the interest of a country to have businesses establish themselves in their country. If the EU wants to double down on "state aid" concept this will cost EU member countries and their local economies greatly. Seems pretty silly to me. But hey, you got some beautiful landmarks I guess. If the EU wants to make doing business in EU member countries cost prohibitive and drive out hundreds of billions of dollars of investment into their local economies that's their prerogative.

This is the part that bothers me the most.  Apple continues to act in good faith, keeping up with their side of the agreement - investing in Ireland and the Irish economy to the tune of billions of dollars.  As you suggested, if the Ireland agreement did not exist (was invalid, illegal, or otherwise voided) Apple would probably not invest so much money in the country - on jobs, infrastructure, etc.

By dragging their feet and delaying their ruling, the EU virtually guarantees that Apple will continue to reside and spend money in Ireland.  Illegal or not -  Ireland has obviously benefitted from the agreement and they continue to benefit from the agreement until the ruling is finally made - which singularity suggests could take decades!  It's hard for me to see that as anything other than a fraud being perpetrated on Apple.

This situation may be another really good reason for Apple to hold off on repatriation its overseas cash.  If they end up owing billions of dollars to Ireland in retroactive-taxes, that will reduce the amount "owing" to the US government (since taxes paid to a foreign government are deductible).  But what would have happened if Apple had already paid the US taxes?  When the EU intersedes and Apples tax bill for the past decade is rewritten...  Will the US IRS understand and allow Apple to restate their affected financials for the same timeframe - and collect the refund they would have been entitled to had the EU not dragged this out?  Or are there limitations in US law that will result in Apple getting screwed over yet again?