LoneStar88

ireland said:

applesauce007 said:

What percentage of the profit does Apple make in China?

I'm more interested in why you care? Since when did we fall in love with a company for how much money they are making at a certain moment in China? If that's our metric then we may as well give up now. It's so uninteresting to me whether they have 25% or 85% profit of the Chinese market. The source of all of these stories is greed anyway, because we're obsessed with numbers and money and Wall St. and measuring everything on a chart and the media is completely fucked up about this subject matter. Who gives two shits. I think we should all refocus on design and easy of use and company direction and company philosophy where the interesting creative stuff is to talk about. Enough with the boring comparisons. The only people who should be interested in this are stockholders and they have a vested interest in their argument, so their argument every time may as well be three words: "I own AAPL". Look at Sog, his opinion changes depending on how the stock is doing. Nothing else matters to him. Tim went from being a Nazi to being Jesus in less than the space of a year. Think of how may dull, uncreative conversations have arisen from that. Peace.

safi said:

Unfortunately the US has screwed itself because of it's education system. You go to a Ph.D program and pretty much 80-90% of the PhD candidates are foreign born. Americans are getting degrees in psychology and sociology instead of STEM creating a huge opportunity for foreign workers especially foreign Software Engineers. 

lkrupp said:

How long has Apple Pay been around now? Two years? Store clerks are still clueless and amazed when you try to use it, have no idea what’s going on. Merchant policies still random and inconsistent. Sometimes I have to enter my PIN, sometimes not. I’ve even been required to manually sign the transaction (this happened at a MicroCenter store). Number of merchants supporting NFC staying about the same with few additions. Major retailers still not accepting it (CVS, Walmart, The Home Depot, etc.) POS terminals sketchy in operation at times. In my neck of the woods many merchants still don’t have Chip&PIN activated either with pieces of tape and little hand written signs covering the slot where your chipped card would insert. Excuses are sometimes hilarious. When Chip&PIN is working it’s funny to watch people trying to insert their cards every which way but the correct one, then pulling it out too soon, all the while cussing a blue streak the entire time, the clerk standing there with that “whatever” look on her face. God, we are a nation of stupid people.