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adm1 said:

This Daly guy sounds so familiar to a few local to me in Scotland too. Not native, no family here, yet they move in and dictate to everyone about whats in the country's best interests - more often that not, environmentally focused at ANY cost.

We see that sort of thing all the time on this side of the pond. Someone moves into a rural area, after a bit begins to agitate against"organic" smells, dust, tractor/combine/planter noise. Or work to shut down a regional general aviation airport that's been operating since the 1930's.

The end goal often being to buy up now unused land cheaply, so they can build a mall or over priced housing, etc.

Microsoft's "saving" Apple was hardly done out of altruism, nor did it cost Microsoft anything in the long term.

In 1997, Microsoft bought 150,000 shares of Apple preferred stock, convertable to common shares of Apple stock at a price of $8.25, redeemable after a three year period, for $150 million. Apple was worth ~ $3B at the time.

By 2001, they'd converted all of the shares into common stock, netting the company approximately 18.1 million shares. 

By 2003, they'd sold all of it.

It was mostly optics.

MisterKit said:

I haven’t updated from 11.3 to 11.3.1 mainly because 11.3 brought my iPad mini 2 back to a useable condition. I don’t want to risk being stuck with useless devices. Also there has surprisingly been very little talk anywhere about how 11.3.1 is working for people.

No news is very probably good news, innit?

deepinsider said:

Half the price... and half the performance. 

80% of single-core iPad Pro performance, and 63% of multi-core. A bit better than "half".

kkqd1337 said:

I have no faith in whatever Elon Musk says. Believe it when I see it. Same goes for the Tesla 3

Don't anyone tell J. Random1337 about SpaceX, right?