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Mike Wuerthele said:

wood1208 said:

Anyone who publish trade secret of a company without company's written approval; that person weather works for that company or stole directly or indirectly is considered trade secret criminal, traitor of country. Company and country where this company resides should punish such individual or a group to maximum extent including large fine and multiyear jail time with worse criminals in prison.

Why ? Because such act puts company's product at dis-advantage against it's competitors. Millions of developers and investors like me in Apple and thousands of employees suffer financially in a short and long run.

While you are welcome to believe what you want, none of what I have bolded is legally true in the slightest, and this is a civil matter, not a criminal one. "Traitor of country" is just ridiculous.

And, I guarantee that "developers and investors" have not suffered one whit because of what Prosser has published.

Yes, Apple has filed a civil lawsuit here, but "theft of trade secrets" is both a federal crime as well as a crime in most states. That said, what the OP is alleging is that publishing a trade secret is criminal, and I don't believe that's the case unless the publisher also did the theft. 

Oof! It's a lose/lose situation for Prosser. Even if Apple loses the case, Prosser is still stuck with the costs of defending himself which, against Apple Legal, Inc, has got to reach well into the six figures range. I suspect Prosser will be moving back in with his parents or other relatives, and trading his car for a bike, by the time this is over. A settlement in advance of trial would probably still leave him feeling, like the secrets-leaking engineer sued by Apple, that this was "a profound and expensive mistake." 

hexclock said:

Get back to live keynotes. Make the videos if you wish, but the live events were so much better. 

Live events are better when you have a consummate live showman like Jobs as ringmaster. And listen, I'm a big Tim Cook fan, but "consummate live showman" he is not. Jobs also had the advantage of being a worshipped genius, and the biggest of tech rock stars, which supplied its own kind of electricity to a live event, even before he said a word. The truth is that current Apple leadership is either pretty dull in front of an audience, or tries too hard not to be dull (which is even worse), with the possible exception of Eddie Cue. The videos allow for retakes, editing and production value that can mask the dullness. But I do agree that they are over-produced and overly slick, which actually results in its own kind of dullness. Honestly, if they created these videos entirely in AI this year, we probably wouldn't know the difference between AI Tim and real Tim, and that's NOT a good thing. (And if not this year, AI is the probable likely future for these videos--they'd save a fortune not having to actually shoot any of it.) 

Rogue01 said:

Poaching AI talent from Apple?  Really?  Has Meta never used Siri?  Are they following the disaster of Apple Intelligence?  One would think poaching from Apple for AI talent would be the last place anyone would look. 

I have to admit, this is pretty funny and not untrue--but maybe you missed the part about the $200 million bonus just to sign--god only knows what the actual compensation package is! Name the absolute top athlete in any sport and they're not getting anything remotely in the same galaxy as this just to sign their contract. All of which to say: you don't spend money like this to acquire B players. I have to assume that Ruoming Pang is the shit when it comes to AI expertise, and now he has taken some top people with him. This has to be a real hit to Apple, considering that they need top AI talent now more than ever. 

Stabitha_Christie said:

Apple has rounded the quality corner when it come to AppleTV+ but now needs to figure out how to turn that into subscriptions. 

Context is everything. Apple TV+ will only be 6 years old as of November, and it launched from literally nothing: no prior experience in the television or movie business, no library of its own content to lean on, etc, and no identity as a "brand" of television. No one knows for sure how many subscribers it has, but estimates seem to coalesce at around 45 million. And you know what? That puts Apple+ about 10% ahead of Peacock, the streaming service of NBC/Universal, which is backed by NBC, a slew of cable channels including the very popular Bravo and, oh yeah, a little studio called Universal.

Honestly--and I say this from the perspective of someone who has been in the television business for decades--what Apple TV+ has accomplished from a standing start in just 5.5 years is nothing short of ASTONISHING. A Best Picture Oscar and a boatload of Emmys in major categories for a company that had never been in the TV or movie business before? That kind of defines "impossible." Sure, Netflix is almost at 300 million subscribers, but they've been at the streaming game since 2007 -- their huge success hardly happened overnight. Apple just needs to keep doing what it's doing (which isn't easy!)--making hit, buzzy shows that get a lot of press and critical praise, and its subscriber numbers will continue to grow.  

602warren said:

Well well well. Maybe someone at Apple is reading my comments here on this site… Hopefully this is a ‘good’ orange and not the peach abomination they called orange on the current AirPads Max.

Oof, you are so right about the AirPods Max! FUGLY! The real color orange should sue Apple for defamation and would easily win in court. 

I just can't get my hopes up again for Apple to finally take a bold swing at color for the iPhone Pro. Ain't gonna happen. The new snooze this year will be Sky Blue, which happens to be a fabulous blue for anyone who hates the color blue.