mjtomlin

These two companies compliment each other so well, Apple should just buy IBM. Apple on the front end with users, IBM on the back end with administrators and servers.

maciekskontakt said:

I am nort sure who and when coined that term "solar farm" but it is misnomer. That's not farming or agriculture. It is "solar power plant". Are you growing solar panels or you use them to produce energy? Can we stick original names instead of inventing new useless once?

On more simpler terms, a farm is a place for the production of something natural for harvesting, be it plants from the ground, fish from the water, or energy from the sun.

So a "solar farm" is a place where solar energy is harvested to produce electricity. It's a perfectly valid term.

Gotta love when when people comment on unofficial "reports" and start to lay blame where ever they can. 

I have first hand hand knowledge that Chris was planning on leaving Apple after Swift went open source and was "finished". Which was version 3.0.

This ridiculousness about secrecy is pure speculation. All of his projects are opened sources. 

Sorry, but bendable display does not equal foldable phone. Are these people morons? It's just like all those people who want a phone that appears to be nothing but a sheet of glass. Phones are more than the displays. There are a lot more components that are needed to make it work, most importantly the circuit board and battery.

gmgravytrain said:

...I sincerely hope Dediu knows what he's talking about but I think it will be very hard to convince Wall Street that Apple will be able to survive the threat of dirt-cheap smartphones.  Everything Apple seems to do is viewed with doubt and great risk.  I'm almost ready to give up hoping Apple will convince skeptics.  Tim Cook simply doesn't inspire investor or shareholder confidence like other tech company CEOs do.  With buybacks and dividends and good fundamentals, Apple seems like a strong company, but Apple's share price seems to be somewhat stuck in a tight range and the doom and gloom articles are always aimed directly at Apple.

Premium brands almost always survive the onslaught of commodity devices. True they will never obtain the sheer unit sales numbers, but that's not the point of creating a premium product. The point is, to offer products to discerning customers. Those people who place value in something other than the sticker price; design, engineering, craftsmanship, service, support, etc. Over the past few years Apple has been working extremely hard to develop the underlying technologies in its products to enable them to have more control over what they're capable of doing. As they perfect these technologies, we will start to once again see more frequent product updates and releases.