gmac

darking007 said:

gmac said:

Trying to figure out the box contents.  Looks like headphones on the left, dock cable at the bottom, usb charger in the middle. What's that in the middle right side of the box?

I was wondering the same. Find an old unboxing video. I believe it’s a docking stand in the middle, AC adapter on the middle right. Think larger 12v size like an old iPad charger with folding prongs, so they look recessed here. 

Yeah you're right. Didn't realize they came with docks back then.  Found a pic of the contents:

Trying to figure out the box contents.  Looks like headphones on the left, dock cable at the bottom, usb charger in the middle. What's that in the middle right side of the box?

macgui said:

Apparently the iPhone doesn't show LAT/LONG on EMS calls? You can get them from the Compass app if lost but in an emergency, being able to supply them without thinking about it could be extremely helpful. Of course not every police department nor RMP may have that capability.

I know of situations where police have supplied LAT/LONG info from iPhones to helos who then know where to go. It could be a toggled feature that would be more helpful than using cell tower triangulation, when and where that's even possible.

iOS does share device GPS with e911 services https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/06/apple-ios-12-securely-and-automatically-shares-emergency-location-with-911/ But possibly in this case they police or 911 operators never received / requested the information. 

gatorguy said:

tjwolf said:

gatorguy said:

tjwolf said:

gatorguy said:

red oak said:

Debt interest is tax deductible for Apple.  That brings the interest cost down to its dividend yield 

So,  a nearly cost free way for Apple to buy back its own stock.   Makes a ton of sense, especially if Apple thinks the stock will 2 or 3X in the next 8 years 

Nothing about the stock repurchase program makes any sense to me. Apple doesn't keep it, they burn it, and if there's some proof that the buybacks have increased the stock price above where it would otherwise be it's being keep secret. 

This goes both ways: there's no proof that "they burn it" - that share buyback have had no impact on stock prices.  But in general, the laws of supply/demand would suggest that buybacks would positively impact stock price.

There is proof the stock is "burned", zero residual value. But we do both agree there's no hard evidence (that you or I are privy to) that these Apple repurchases have boosted the stock price. 

Where is the proof there's zero residual value?  You yourself admit in the next sentence that there's no proof that AAPL's share price was affected by the repurchase - there's also no proof that it wasn't.   Even the word "residual" could be wrong - for all we know, *all* of the value of the stock repurchase went into raising the stock price or keeping it from otherwise falling.

Ah, I see there's a difference in the interpretation of "residual value". I'll put it differently:
The stock that is repurchased is retired, burned in effect, and has no residual book value. Is that better? On top of that there is not evidence you could offer that the stock repurchases were effective in raising Apple stock price above the level it would have been anyway if the repurchase program did not exist in the form it does. 

Buying back and retiring the shares reduces the shares outstanding, which increases the EPS and keeping Apple's EPS multiple constant, the share price will go up. 

What's worse? The patent trolls or the lawyers that represent them?   Go away, try inventing something and when you've overcome the late nights of problem solving, engineering and lots of failures along the way and when finally a nugget of brilliance emerges then you can go get a patent. The late 90's were so messed up for patents. But back then they were a right of passage for startups (I was in one at the time and worked on a patent - we had the product to back it up though).  Back then having a patent was often a pre-requisite to raising money.  Now people like these trolls go and buy old vague 90's patents and extort companies that actually contribute to society.