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  • Notes of interest from Apple's Q2 2019 earnings report and conference call

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    JWSC said:
    mdriftmeyer said:
    applejakes said:
    carnegie said:

    applejakes said:
    $24 billion spent on share buyback.  I've gotta believe that retired around 140 million shares.
    Apple's outstanding share count dropped by about 123 million from the end of the previous quarter. So it bought back at least that many shares.
    Thanks.

    Just a measly 2.5% of the company.  The following quarters should buy 2% or more as long as the price stays low.
    The price isn't going to stay low. Apple Services is only going to balloon and that will drive up the price per share--good for us shareholders.
    It’s not so much the price but the price to earning ratio, which will determine when buybacks make sense.
    Really? Shares being burned means zero income from buyback.
    watto_cobra

  • Full-screen Touch ID could come to the iPhone with acoustic fingerprint imaging

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    Touch ID’s problem isn't “false positives” its false negatives.
    Touch ID is completely unusable when you really work, that is, not having a desk job.
    I found that out after being ousted by the software company I worked for and got a bit serious about building things.
    macplusplusdysamoria

  • Editorial: Will Apple's 1990's 'Golden Age' collapse repeat itself?

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    nubus said:

    ...
    But the real problem is macOS / OS X. Yes, the UNIX engine is kind of new, but the concepts are all 1984. It is the 737 Max of computing. It doesn't help us navigate knowledge.

    As in “the 737 Max doesn't make us fly (not for long anyway)”?
    cgWerks

  • Editorial: Will Apple's 1990's 'Golden Age' collapse repeat itself?

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    cornchip said:
    In school (specifically the creative arts & design), the teachers (the good ones anyway) usually push the best students to do even better. The mediocre students generally don’t get driven as hard or minor details called out as being in need of correction.

    it simply comes with being the best. If you regularly dish out so-so work it’s hard to know where to start critiquing, and student gets a b or b-. For the student that regularly cranks out amazing work, it becomes easier to call out specific flaws, and will get an a or even a b+, even though the work compared to the b student is obviously far superior. It’s tough being the best.
    Wow, antitesis of good teaching ...
    dysamoria

  • Samsung to spend $116B in next decade to overtake chipmakers TSMC, Intel, Qualcomm

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    Johan42 said:
    Sure, in the mobile sector. But Intel will keep their lead in PC/Server even with their 10nm debacle.
    From a silicon point of view mobile and server looks exactly the same (meaning that every chip design for the specific feature size can VHDL’d onto it).
    ARM for example has a big push to be the best in server space, and I think they already got there in $/TFLOP and TFLOP/watt .
    hodarwatto_cobra