sunman42

darkvader said:

Because Apple likes to charge highway robbery prices for cables.  They always have.

The chances that's in any way significantly different than any other Thunderbolt cable are ZERO.  It's a standard, anybody building a cable is going to use a similar design. 

Your lack of faith… disturbs me.

If you can’t distinguish between standard specifications and implementation, maybe this is not the forum you’re looking for.

kelemor said:

All the billing is done electronically so how is hard to send it at the same time. Computers should be doing everything. 

I read the article as saying the issue with a single billing date was the impact on customer service: presumably, all the customers calling with billing issues call in the same, few days per month window, instead of spread out through the month. That leads to the conclusion that Goldman regrets having to hire more, low-wage, Tier 0 customer support people to keep us overprivileged Apple types happy.

For what it’s worth, I, too, have had zero problems with my Apple Card. Hope Apple can find a more competent, consumer-credit savvy home for it.

I’m guessing this makes the IRS at least epsilon more popular than before.

ATLMacFan1 said:

Am I supposed to know what “intercompany transfer pricing” means or how that adds up to billions of dollars?

Try the more informative article on The Register’s site:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/microsoft_irs_tax_bill/

eriamjh said:

What sane person is paying more than retail for an iPhone?  iPhones have unlimited supply averaged over time.  There’s no shortage.  Anyone who can wait, will wait.  

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People with more money than sense, and who feel extreme pain at not having their wishes fulfilled instantaneously. And imagine, there are people here who appear to consider such humans as mythological beasts. I don’t know which is sadder.