loquitur

Good to see this.  This is among the reasons why I turned down the opportunity to work
at NeXT and Apple.  I actually was cheeky enough to tell Jobs in person that since many
science types build upon and share the work of others, he might have a hard time recruiting.  
His anti-academic attitude culminated in eliminating the Apple corporate library.
Also the bit about not revealing what a software engineer might be working on
until actually accepting a position was off-putting, but that is common with many
other private-sector companies.

Notwithstanding, Apple did get enough good folks to do great work, and I admire Jobs' visionary
perseverance.

Entitled "Can We Put the 16GB "Pro" Myth to Rest?":

https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=6355

Hopefully, the next iMac with TB3 can allow Target Display Mode again.

As this is an "apportionment" issue, Apple should be careful of what it wishes for.

E.g. patent trolls like VirnetX already have hundreds of millions of damage awards
against Apple (under appeal) for demanding X% of Apple's profits for a single feature,
among the thousands of features in a cellphone.  Both Apple and VirnetX have
had underlying patents invalidated by USPTO with damages non-intuitively
surviving on technicalities having to do with differing standards of review in federal court.

Perhaps design patents are different because they are harder to apportion,
but I hope that any favorable ruling for Apple doesn't come back to bite.

In this case, patent scholar Mark Lemley (who has filed a friends-of-the-court brief
to the Supremes for this matter) also has written seminal articles about "patent holdup", "royalty stacking"

     http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/stacking.pdf

and on whether patent validity decisions should even be given to juries at all:

     http://www.virginialawreview.org/sites/virginialawreview.org/files/Lemley_Book.pdf

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/haitians-urging-people-not-give-money-american-red-cross-how-to-help-hurricane-matthew-aid-cholera-a7352681.html