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  • Rare prototypes of the first Apple Watch uncovered

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    tardis said:
    I have a collection of Apple Watches, one from 1999, one from 2010 and one from 2016.

    Strictly speaking, the first two belong to my wife and the third is mine. The first was a birthday present. It is of course an analogue watch, and was only ever on sale in Japan, available in 5 colours to match the iMac G3. Next was an iPod Nano 6G Product RED with matching red wristband, purchased from the Cupertino Apple Store. My own is a Nike Run version. 

    All three still work .....
    Cool.  Then there was the official Apple "Think Different" watch whose hands ran backwards.
    watto_cobra

  • Unlikely rumor claims 'iPhone SE 2' will be called 'iPhone 9'

    loquiturloquitur
    iPhone Nein might not sell well in Germany.
    williamhcornchipswat671RadMax

  • How Apple's dramatic rise in computing flipped an OS myth

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    hydrogen said:
    knowitall said:
    Apple understands computers, not cars.
    Tesla understands computers and cars. 
    Tesla understands how to mesmerize shareholders.
    ____________

    Although AAPL took much longer to get to a 50B market cap (somewhere in 2005),
    Tesla's valuation includes other ventures in the green energy business.  As for market
    caps, if I'm mesmerized by a 10-bagger with TSLA, I must be even more mesmerized
    by a 30X purchase increment with my AAPL shares.

    If you just go by P/E ratio as a simple metric, outfits like Google or Facebook
    which sell advertising, or an Amazon balancing what is generally perceived
    as a low-margin business, also have mesmerized their shareholders.

    Oh yes, I must further state my bias that in addition to the shares, I use both
    Apple and Tesla equipment, so am a happy camper even if saying these things
    reveal a potential conflict-of-interest.

    watto_cobra

  • How Apple's dramatic rise in computing flipped an OS myth

    loquiturloquitur
    Tesla is also like Apple selling tightly integrated software with premium hardware,
    while eschewing useless buttons, knobs, and dashboards in favor of a simple
    user interface.   Tesla is the Apple of automobiles, so much so that I wonder
    why Apple itself is tip-toeing into the market.   Although usually Apple enters
    a market later than established players, it does so with innovation that shows
    what the high-volume crowd missed entirely.    What could Apple think
    that Tesla possibly is doing wrong?   Maybe the car market is so vast that there
    can be multiple luxury vendors, or several mass market near-luxury-but-innovative
    participants.

    GeorgeBMaclolliver

  • Editorial: Does Apple have the mettle to fight for Mac success in the Pro market?

    loquiturloquitur
    A better analogy for a market category is not servers, but "workstations".   Many companies got
    big with servers until they didn't, like DEC, Sun Microsystems, etc., and Linux had something to do
    with that.  Also, many companies like MIPS & SGI went ballistic with workstations, until they didn't,
    and Windows-on-Intel had something to do with that.   Isn't the market for the Mac Pro (besides
    for Final Cut Pro) the market for whoever runs Maya, or science R&D for bioengineering,
    neural nets, climate physics modeling, quantum chemistry, etc?   As long Apple hardware
    keeps pace with others, and there remain MacOS versions of the apps ...
    dysamoria