melgross

If anyone was wondering why we didnt see Phil at so many recent product announcements, and why Joz was there instead, well, now we know why.

I disagree. Apple buying this would be very good. Apple has failed several times with social networking. Reading articles about this possible deal with Microsoft shows that it would give them immediate credibility with the huge number of young people who think of Microsoft as a grandfather, and not relevant. This would enable Apple’s dreams of a social network for their most important customers, and potential customers. These people would live  Apple to win this. About 85% of young people have iPhones. What better social network to have than one owned by Apple, as long as it’s relevant to them?

but Apple isn’t terribly savvy when it comes to this, and likely it hasn’t occurred to them to buy into this.

but Trump has also said, and like most of what he says, bizarrely stated that the U.S. treasury should also get partly paid for this deal, if it happens. As I said, bizarre.

Yes. Developers are conveniently “forgetting” that it costs Apple to run the store. It costs to have all of those in-house developers to write the software for the store to keep up to date. It costs to advertise and market the store and their products. Apple gives software away at times, for free, but pays the developer their 70% cut of the normal price, while receiving nothing themselves. Apple has several thousand people checking apps for malware and other problems. They lower the cut for subscriptions after the first year to 15%. This is addition to the services he mentioned.

i remember when Apple came out with the App Store and announced the 30% cut, and what Apple was doing for that cut, and developers were dancing in the streets because they knew the cut was so low. Other online stores were charging 40%. And brick and mortar stores charged up to 60%.

while I don’t agree with every store policy Apple has regarding competing products, most of what Apple does is correct. As an owner of businesses, I understand that you have to make a profit off pretty much everything you offer. It’s been said, by financial people, that Apple makes five cents profit off every dollar in sales from the App Store. That just five cents out of the thirty they take, and that’s not much.

I can’t wait for this either. Ever since my watch warned me about a high heart rate and I went to the hospital, and my doctors told me that if I didn't get that warning I likely would have had a heart attack in a day or so, I won’t think of anything else. I’ve been getting new ones every year since the second one, and I intend to keep doing that. My wife has one, and so does my daughter. I still use the black link bracelet I bought with my first one, and it’s still in perfect shape, even though I wear it in my shops, with grinding dust and other crap flying around.

considering how well Apple is continuing to do, and will continue to do, the stock keeps rising. I literally can’t buy enough new Apple products to even keep pace with the dividends.

mattinoz said:

So if this is "Risk" Production what happens to what get produced if it's good?

I'd assume they'd use a design for something they'd make and can test and still sell if it works out.

If they were getting good but not great yields next year would they let  Apple take the risk of a dud run?

Risk production is simply the first of a number of runs used to perfect the process. Don go by what it’s called. Apple will use it when TSMC says it’s ready, and both agree on the cost per chip, and the speed of production.