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  • Apple Sunnyvale office described as 'black site' with tenuous work conditions

    randy hillrandy hill
    LOL, almost all jobs are at will. This story is a mess. $25 an hour is temp work, why would you make radical lifestyle changes for it?

    The main thing i got from it is the Apple campus has lots of bathrooms.
    SpamSandwichpatchythepiraterandominternetpersonAppleExposedcornchip1983

  • More than a quarter of Warren Buffett's Berkshire portfolio is Apple stock

    randy hillrandy hill
    tbornot said:
    Did you know that Warren’s other toy, BNSF Railroad, just switched over to iPads for all employees?  It’s working great.

    The smartest move Berkshire can do at this point is to buy a controlling interest in Corel and entice them to port to the Mac-iOS universe.
    Buffett didn't tell BNSF to switch to iPads. He's famous for never telling CEO of businesses he invests in what to do. Even businesses that he buys entirely he just gets a monthly letter from the CEO telling him how the month went.

    Now if you mislead him or mismanage the business, that's another story. But he's never telling you to use products from another one of his portfolio companies, he's spoken at length about how he does not believe in "synergy" between his businesses, he views it as handcuffing their managers.
    SpamSandwich

  • 'Tim Cook for President' and other tawdry campaigns from Qualcomm's PR bulldog

    randy hillrandy hill
    markbyrn said:
    Really?  Numerous non-conservative news or non-political tech sources reported that Apple was using 'slower' or 'inferior' Intel modems due to their dispute with Qualcomm.  Apple 'bowing' to China's censorship policies was covered in a wide range of media including the New York Times and The Guardian.  The Slate reported that "Apple and Amazon are helping China censor the Internet"; don't recall them being a bastion of right-wing thought.   As for the draft Tim Cook 2020 propaganda, it's easy to see why people might swallow it because unlike Steve Jobs, Cook is not shy to push his social-political beliefs under the company banner.   Don't doubt that Qualcomm might try to fan anti-Apple flames but fair or not, there's plenty of criticism of Apple, political or not.    
    It's all clickbait now, all of the outlets happily run any provocative story that attracts views. Especially if someone else is running the story, they don't want to miss out.

    "Chief executive and co-founder Matt Rhoades in a statement said its work "is absolutely no different than what public affairs firms do every day for their clients across industries and issues across the country. We are proud of the work we do for our clients." 

    Uh, so was Goebbels.
    h2pwatto_cobra

  • iPhone XR sales estimates slashed by Ming-Chi Kuo, as trade war headwinds swirl

    randy hillrandy hill
    lkrupp said:
    AAPL is being trashed to day along with all of the other FAANG stocks so don't try to justify your bias with its dropping. Wall Street is a strange universe where fear and greed rule, not logic and reasoning. 
    What makes you think that greed and fear are not based on logic and reasoning!?
    Warren Buffett says they aren’t. I don’t know, but he seems to know more about Wall Street than anyone alive, having worked there for Ben Graham who himself ran his fund back from well before the Great Depression. 

    They explain it to those interested using the Mr Market parable.

    https://fs.blog/2013/11/mr-market/


    watto_cobraadamc

  • Apple will no longer report iPhone, Mac and iPad unit sales

    randy hillrandy hill
    Good move on Apple's part. 

    Unit volume was always meaningless for investors, and gets more so every year with service revenues and changing ASPs.  It was far more important to competitors so I always wondered why Apple gave them that information. With one fell swoop they get rid of a leak of competitive info, and eliminated a metric analysts obsessed over for all the wrong reasons.

    I am glad they still release Mac unit sales, cause it showed they killed it this quarter with an average ASP of $1,400, while Dell and HP are dropping close to $400. Macintosh owns the creative professional market more now than ever.
    radarthekat