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  • Wall Street expects $76.5B in revenue from Apple in record breaking holiday quarter

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    flaneur said:
    Schizophrenic Morning Report from Marketplace today, the most smart-ass dumb financial site on the airwaves: "Has Apple stopped playing with the cool kids of tech?" The premise is that analysts are worried that supply-chain cutbacks indicate peak iPhone has been reached and AAPL is no longer a growth but now a value stock, etc. Not a word to indicate that analysts have a contageous brain inflammation caused by shrieking, hysterical fear of a successful American company they can't understand.
    In late 2012 it was the same history, proved wrong by time.
    cornchip

  • Apple's 'Project Titan' at crossroads, team in hiring freeze, source says

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    Herbivore2 said:
    josu said:
    I Better Subaru, is cheaper, well positioned to grow into a premium competitor if it wasn't for the derivative styling. With Ive leading the design team Subaru could go really for the premium market. Style wise it resembles the pre-Jobs Apple, but with record profits, sales and bulletproof reliability.
    Subaru and bulletproof reliability? Surely you jest. The boxer engine is a joke. And when serious repairs are required, the engine needs to be pulled. And Fuji heavy industries is pitiful when it comes to powertrain technology and advanced metallurgy. They had to partner with Toyota to obtain gasoline direct injection technology and even then, it is a half-baked solution that increases the fuel delivery complexity by requiring both conventional fuel injectors along with direct injection.  

    Subaru doesn't have anything in the way of serious electric or hydrogen fuel cell technology. Much less advanced internal combustion technology. 

    Subaru is a not a company that Apple should approach with a 100 foot pole. LG's battery technology is state of the art. Hyundai is producing advanced light weight steels, fuel cells, hybrids and even working on advanced internal combustion technology. They even have an internally developed 8 speed automatic transmission along with automated dual clutch units. Toyota and Honda are further behind, but producing hybrids and have plans to bring fuel cell technology to market. GM and Ford are also working on advanced internal combustion technology and producing hybrid vehicles also. BMW is working on advanced internal combustion technology, fuel cells and electrified powertrains also. Most companies have fuel cell technology of some sort in the works, but Subaru is not one of them. If they have one, it must be of a secret nature. 

    The biggest factor in all of this is that the Koreans have figured out how to extract lithium from the ocean inexpensively. But Once an advanced technology carbon nanotube catalyst comes to market, hydrogen fuel cell technology will come to dominate propulsion systems. 

    Apple is first and foremost a technology company. Subaru makes low technology vehicles even by Japanese standards. A Subaru purchase by Apple makes no sense. 
    Seriously, thanks for your opinion, but totally disagree, as a car guy I know that most car enthusiast respect and admire the brand, is the fastest growing car company in the world, the only one that has seen its sales grow thru the recession, even in the worst years without incentives, that said your opinion seems absolutely wrong when peoples wallets matters.

    On the other hand Apple is allegedly trying to launch its own electric technology, bad move because electric is not the way to go, hydrogen is. And Apple don't need to buy a car manufacturer with its own projects running, better one in need of them.

    About technology all depends of what the term means to you, to me the symmetrical all well drive system of Subaru is state of the art, to compare, the Outback riding higher than the F11 BMW 5-series touring is much more stable than this. My banker has one F11 and the car rear slides in every corner, something inherent to all F11 as he has access to BMW and has tested in several units. The outback is impossible to make the rear slide in normal conditions (I bet the car is less planted in snow or mud, something that the F11 would we a nightmare in, I speak about the RWD F11). About the engine, the boxer engine design is shared by Porsche in the Bosxter, Cayman and 911, with the same problem, you have to take the engine out of the car to repair, and the Boxster and Cayman must be lifted before see anything as I suppose you know. Hardly a car enthusiast can say that is a problem, or any engineer can consider Porsche a low tech car company. And the boxer engine lowers the center of gravity, something that is a very clever engineering trick. 

    Don't like Subaru, OK, but low tech in your dreams.
    diplication

  • Apple's 'Project Titan' at crossroads, team in hiring freeze, source says

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    jameskatt2 said:
    xzu said:
    A Apple car is kinda silly. Car tech makes sense, buying Tesla.. maybe... Build a damn desktop computer and automate the home would be awesome.
    It makes even more sense to buy BMW. BMW is cheap at $60 Billion. It even makes a large profit which Tesla may never do. Apple likes profit. BMW already makes electric cars. And BMW can mass produce cars - Tesla cannot. Tesla' cars are flawed because it hasn't made cars for long. Tesla's bugs would drive perfectionistic Apple nuts  Apple can buy BMW with only 6 months of revenue. 
    Better Subaru, is cheaper, well positioned to grow into a premium competitor if it wasn't for the derivative styling. With Ive leading the design team Subaru could go really for the premium market. Style wise it resembles the pre-Jobs Apple, but with record profits, sales and bulletproof reliability.
    brian green

  • Apple's 'Project Titan' at crossroads, team in hiring freeze, source says

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    xzu said:
    A Apple car is kinda silly. Car tech makes sense, buying Tesla.. maybe... Build a damn desktop computer and automate the home would be awesome.
    Tesla is overpriced at this level, when the stock faces reality maybe, right now, better buy Subaru, an established car maker, with a cult following, like Apple, and with only one serious defect, lack of taste, something that Ive has in abundance.
    anantksundarambrian green

  • Netflix boasts 37% share of Internet traffic in North America, compared with 3% for Apple's iTunes

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    rogifan_old said:
    red oak said:
    Apple is getting 30% on an increasing portion of Netflix's revenue.   The Netflix app is #12 top grossing  

    this is seems to be completely under the radar
    Which is stupid. Why should Apple get 30% of the $10 I pay Netflix every month? Apple's not hosting this content. Even if one argues that Apple should get a commission for driving business to Netflix should that be a recurring monthly commission based on people's subscriptions? I would argue no. When I signed for Netflix I did so on their website so I would assume Apple is not getting a 30% cut?
    Is speaking about the in app purchases, where Apple gets the 30% cut. I did it that way, easy, no need to give your credit card, you can charge your iTunes account with iTunes cards and by default is active the automatic renovation.
    ronnlatifbp