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sdw2001 said:

sunman42 said:

JFC_PA said:

lol. A 0.008608321377331 drop in phone sales revenue is “slumping”?

Good one. More in line with the text itself “marginal”. 

Buy a better headline writer. 

Not clear where you got that number, that had neither a per cent symbol nor a unit after it. iPhone sales revenue declined $600M. While that's notch in terms of the overall sales picture for Apple, it's a fair chunk of change. I mean, would you turn $600M down if someone offered it to you?

It’s less than 1%.  Hardly “slumping”.   Problem is Wall Street culture, and those who write about it expecting exponential growth not just in the bottom line, but  individual segments as well.  Meanwhile, Apple is selling almost a quarter trillion dollars worth of iPhones every year.  

It’s slumping when Apple and everyone else wanted and expected growth, not loss, no matter how small the growth. 

quakerotis said:

Tim Cook gave a $1 million bribe/extrortion payment to. man who recently pardoned insurrectionists, including those that attacked and killed a police officer in defense of the United States capitol.

I will never buy another apple product.

Cook has shown where his allegiance lies.

I agree with you entirely about it being a bribe and about giving in any way to a president who went on to pardon people who did that, but in order to see this donation clearly, you should know that:
1. The money was donated after Trump was elected, not in order to help him win (though Cook probably gave for his campaign and for Harris’s too).
2. This money was from Cook’s pocket, not Apple’s.
3. A whole lot of companies also gave for the inauguration:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-inaugural-companies-top-donations

In addition, I wonder how much of the money given was pocketed by Trump because the ceremony was moved to indoors and because of that, cost less. 

A small correction:

quakerotis said:

The American idiocy has spoken. rejoice as your TikTok views are preserved as [we all] remain sheep and pawns between parties that couldn't care less about [any of us].

[The world] is getting what its stupid populace deserves.

May they never sit down again.

I hope you don’t think this is something that happens only in America.

It’s strange how Trump was touting a ban on TikTok during his first term and now at the last minute completely reversed his stance. And just a few days after his call with the Chinese dictator. Coincidence? I doubt it. Both have something to gain from TikTok in the US. 

Apple pay’s millions in bribes to lawmakers every year, also known as “lobbying”, why not give a mil to the president. I hope he has a good seat at the inauguration.