knowitall

DAalseth said:

fmp3 said:

I really get tired of those who downplay profits.  Gross Profit makes the world go round, and, most importantly, funds research for new and better products.

Very true, the world is built on profit, on making a buck, on cutting a deal and screwing over the other guy. Of getting more things, and bigger things, and newer things than your neighbour. 
But I wonder why it has to be that way.
Because yes Apple made record profits this year, Cook got a $115 million bonus for meeting Apple's profit target.
But within a mile of Apple HQ there are people sleeping on the street and eating garbage. 
Profit doesn't mean much to them.
There has to be a better way.

/philosophy

gatorguy said:

TBH I would love for this to be an FCC mandated feature for ALL smartphones, at least in the case of a regional or national emergency. Hurricanes, state/region wide power outages, "other" national issue. 

tmay said:

knowitall said:

tmay said:

rotateleftbyte said:

lkrupp said:

 I’ve been an Apple user since 1982 and have experienced firsthand the negativity and hatred of Apple by so many pundits, analysts, and self appointed experts over the years.

It is just the same w.r.t. Electric Vehicles. There are big players behind a lot of anti-EV rhetoric possibly Big-oil/coal. They are spending huge amounts of money to discredit EV's as a whole and in particular Tesla.

There will be people looking at making billions taking down Apple, Amazon and the rest.

The big automakers are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to electrics, and in case you were unaware, half of the Koch Brothers died yesterday. The oil industry is still a powerful entity, but coal is on its deathbed for power production.

Of note, Tesla isn't in a strong position to fight off the big automakers. Case in point is the Porsche Taycan, which competes head on with the the Model S, Jaguar iPace which competes withe the Model X, and a number of Model 3 competitors, especially the Nissan Leaf.

Your ill informed.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2020-porsche-taycan-review-electric-car-tesla-fighter/

"Should Tesla be worried? Absolutely. Even from the passenger seat, it's clear the Porsche is dynamically superior in every way. And if the numbers we've seen hold up under our testing, go-fast Teslas such as the Model S 100D may not have a decisive range advantage over the Taycan, especially when driven hard. Combine that with noticeably better build quality—even on the preproduction car—and the cachet of that Porsche badge, and it all adds up to one thing: The Taycan is a game-changer."

lkrupp said:

knowitall said:

lkrupp said:

rotateleftbyte said:

an awful lot of people want Apple to fail and fail big time. If Apple filed for Chapter 11, they would be partying for the next year.

These are the people that hate Apple and everything they stand for.

Bloomberg and the rest love to put Apple down because of the anger caused by the articles results in millions of clicks and Ad impressions which means money and money pays the hacks that write the tripe in the first place. And round the circle goes.

Those on Wall St that short Tech Stocks love it for obvious reasons. APPL drops in price and they make money.

OTOH, Apple gets a lot of free publicity from all this negativity and the backlash to it.

The day Steve Jobs died the C|net article about his death was deluged with hatred and glee over his death. Some were even trying to organize a party to meet at his grave and piss on it. Fortunately he is buried in an unmarked grave in a Palo Alto cemetery so no one knows where it is. That’s what the Internet is, was, and will always be. And C|net did nothing about it. But criticize a liberal ideology and you’re banned.

I hope this isn't true.

I read the posts with my own eyes and contacted c|net to take them down. They declined. Free speech and all that.