maestro64

Rayz2016 said:

Folks, what we're looking at here is the investment bankers attempting to blackmail Apple with all the finesse and subtlety of a rugby tackle. 

What they're saying is, "Let us handle your acquisitions and pay us millions to do it, or we will crank up the fake failure narrative."

I don't think I've seen a company attract such greed, but then again there are few companies sitting on such a huge pile of cash. 

Yep you nailed it,

The M&A community wants their hands on Apple Money and they hate the fact they go directly to companies to buy them cutting out the who M&A community. I just wish Apple would pull a Trump on their folks. You know if Steve was around he would tell them all to go f themselves. Part of the reason Apple stock have been held back is do to the fact Apple does not play nicely with Wall Street, they want to know about new products and Apple business plans which Apple never shares.

StrangeDays said:

sog35 said:

That's more revenue than the entire Amazon echo sales FOR THREE YEARS.

Yet the tech media and Wall street bullshitters are saying the Echo is an amazing success, while the Watch is a failure.

this is a good point. Echo is lauded as a major success but we know almost nothing about it -- how much they're margin is, how many they sell, etc.. 

sog35 said:

What kind of bullshit is this?

Android/Google has 80% marketshare and they are worrying about Apple getting to big? WTF

That is because BT can not negotiate with Apple since Apple has a direct relationship with consumers and BT does not like this. They rather have suppliers who relay on BT having the relationship BT. BT is like VZ in the US, they only care about themselves and screw the customer along the way. This is why VZ turned down the Apple deal until they began loosing customers and they had no choice.

This has nothing to do with market share it has all to do who control the relationship with the customer and Apple has the best relationship with its customers no other cell phone company can say the same thing.

viclauyyc said:

maestro64 said:

zimmie said:

Obvious. Forensic investigators, spyware creators, jailbreakers and more have the same goal: total, unrestricted access to the system. Of course they're going to use the same methods. And if a given jailbreak is open-source, of course they're going to use that source code.

As the article says, this is the perfect example of why, even if a "secure golden key" were possible to create (which it isn't), it would be profoundly irresponsible to do so.

This is why we can not allow a bunch of people to went to liberal arts schools who run this country to make technologies decision. They can not get their head rapped around this problem. They think because the said it should be done it can be done and their is no negative side effects.

I went to art school and I am not retarded.

The is what happens with you get in bed with Verizon. Apple would not have to pay these cost if it was not for CDMA which is Verizon Cell tech. Apple should just pass the costs onto Verizon and Verizon can decide if they going to pass it along to consumers and explain to their customers why their phone cost more. Verizon and QComm have been in bed for a long time. Verizon has done this over and over again, they work deals with tech companies like QComm and then agree to only use that technology in their operations and anyone who want to sell them any widget are required to buy/license the tech from Verizon partners. This is no different than the whole MS/Intel deal. This was part of the reason Apple and Verizon could not come to an agreement early on was all these licensing costs and the they requires their suppliers to work with suppliers they selected.