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Apple hires former Google inventor with background in electric vehicle charging
Subconsciously, the car shape always reminded me of the determinedly cutesy logo ofcornchip said:A( I am so insanely excited about Apple's car project.
B( I can never get over how ridiculously hideous that Google car is.
the Bell Laboratories "Plan 9" OS, also remembering that Rob Pike (ex- of Bell Labs) is
at Google now. Now something has clicked -- according to Wikipedia, his spouse Renée French
drew the Plan 9 Bunny (named Glen [or Glenda] after an Ed Wood film, in keeping
with "Plan 9 from Outer Space"). The Canadian artist/computer mavens, Bell Labs,
and Google are connected at least via an (un)directed graph, so maybe the design (language?)
is inspired via such.
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Intel's new Optane memory technology could lead to 1000 times faster MacBook storage
With mass production "12-18 months away" (http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1328682), Optane won't be appearing on
any near-term Mac refresh.
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Apple directors reelected, outside proposals rejected at annual shareholder meeting
Statistically, director Andrea Jung was the least popular with 6% no votes. Otherwise, curious about reasons for anti-Gore,acmdude said:The Board was not "unanimously" elected. I hold a few shares of Apple stock so I can vote NO on Al Gore every year to make sure of that. It's a disgrace he's there.
imagining that the intersection of Apple, environmental values, and government lobby capability is a useful red-blooded
capitalist-American thing to have, together with a Constitution-supported privacy stance.
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Apple directors reelected, outside proposals rejected at annual shareholder meeting
Notes from a "greybeard":emoeller said:
Thanks for the summary neutrino23, I was there also and don't recall Tim noting that four out of five smart phones in China were iPhones. He did say that China revenue last year was $60B and growing double digits, and he noted that India is now about where China was 10 years ago (Apple did $1.5B in revenue in India last year), but that that country doesn't yet have LTE so it is difficult to sell smartphones. That said he expects Apple to invest in India.neutrino23 said:Actually, this year I though the comments/questions were fairly reasonable and well expressed. Jesse Jackson spoke well. The woman from the EFF was very supportive of Apple. Considering Apple's size, their behavior has an enormous effect on lots of people who don't own Apple products. It is reasonable for people to have concerns about Apple's public behavior.
Angela Ahrendts spoke a little in response to a question. I think that's the first time I've heard her talk at one of these meetings. As usual, there were not a lot of specifics, but she and Tim were fairly enthusiastic about improved Enterprise and small business activity.
Revenues in India are about $1.5B per year but Tim thinks this is the very early years and the investments they make now will pay off in large measures a decade from now. He said India now looks like China ten years ago.
Other tidbits:
Most iOS developers are now in China.
I may have misunderstood this but I think Tim said that four out of five smart phones sold in China last year were iPhones.
Apple has 116,000 employees around the world. 65,000 are retail employees.
One third of Apple revenue comes from emerging markets.
Tim Cook was supported for his position by over 99% of the shareholders voting. All board members got over 95%.
Tim Cook used an iPad Pro (space grey I believe) for his prepared comments.
Most shareholder proposals got well under 10%. The one proposal for Shareholder Proxy Access got about 33% support. It might pass in a few years.
I've seen TC speak at several events and I thought he looked a bit tired (others noted this also). I know he gets up early (health/fitness fanatic), but I couldn't help but think that this court order, as well as the market slump isn't weighing heavily on him these days.
I was also present, agreeing with neutrino23's comments, noting that Cook's mention of iPhone-in-China referred to 4-of-5
"top smartphone models" as iPhones, the 6S being #1. I interpreted this comment to reflect shipment numbers by rank, not
overall sales units.
Further tidbits:
Jackson (Jesse, not Lisa) and Gore traded humorous insider banter about college association (Fisk vs. North Carolina A&T).
I came in expecting the Jackson "grand-standing" that others are wont to cite, but he was really understated and on-point.
Both Ahrendts and Cook addressed the relatively unheralded enterprise market well.
Cindy Cohn, esquire, (of EFF) had a great Q&A read regarding privacy/security, citing that much of this battle
was fought years ago. (Many remember the Clipper chip fiasco, but it was she who spearheaded work
work on Dan Bernstein's case [ITAR regulations]). Kudos to them, and also to John Gilmore as well as
the "Room 641A" AT&T/NSA exposure, in this department. -
Apple ID linked to terrorist's iPhone 5c changed while device was in government hands, Apple says [
Introducing the Apple iPhone 7, 7+, and 7quantumcrypto, now with even better encryption, with dials "set to 11".brian green said:If Tim is serious about this, he needs to have all hands on deck, but also needs to bring the public up to speed about why the government is really doing this. They want to backdoor everyone. PR needs to not sit on their hands on this one. It's been far too quiet from Apple when they are being smeared by the govt publicly. Furthermore, I hope this makes him push for even MORE encryption to make it next to impossible for the government to snoop.
