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sevenfeet said:

Does that mean that Apple's DVD Player finally gets 64 bit support?  

Makes sense, since 2012-or-later Macs w/optical drives are listed as supported under Mojave.

A point of information about Bloomberg -- their online division is likely a webpage ad click-thru business
like most other commercial websites, and Apple-as-subject is always good for clicks.   However the
Bloomberg Businessweek magazine itself is admirable for its investigative reporting on subjects that
much of corporate America may not take a liking to.    I've discerned this via my subscription, long
tossing aside subs to Forbes and Fortune.  Perhaps this editorial bent is due to the corporate
rah-rah in the case of Fortune, and the right-wing nature of the Forbes family.  Certainly
Michael Bloomberg is a billionaire, but rather more left-leaning than Steve Forbes.  At any rate,
editorial at the paper magazine itself seems very distinct from whatever bias appears online.

sflocal said:

rob53 said:

What about all the macs that can’t run 10.3.2? Did a security update fix those systems?

Those Macs that can't run 10.13.2 most likely are no longer by Apple.  

Using the 'dosdude1' patches, many older machines like the MacBook5,1 from 2008 can run 10.13.2 just fine.

NY1822 said:

"...though nobody knows exactly how profitable Beats is (it's a privately held company so it doesn't need to disclose financial details) everyone thinks the profit margins on that $1 billion in revenue are high. After all, the headphones aren't especially good so there's no reason to think they're expensive to make. If Beats is able to obtain a 15 percent profit margin on $1 billion in annual sales, then a $3 billion capital investment to buy the company would imply a 5 percent rate of return — a perfectly respectable use of money that's otherwise just lying around idle. At one point, Beats was selling $200 headphones that cost as little as $14 to make so it's easy to imagine the deal working financially even without any big new product ideas."

https://www.vox.com/2014/5/28/5758964/why-apple-is-buying-beats is the elided source for the quote.   Agreed that 3X sales for a growing high-profit margin biz with add-ons is a steal.   Other tech company purchases which raised eyebrows (at the time, but not in hindsight) include Google buying 65-employee YouTube for 1.6B in 2006.   Looks like it's monetized now, and the purchase was all-stock at 1/4 of today's share price.

Roxy Balboa said:

They need to outlaw encryption ASAP. And any company that refuses to comply should be put out of business and their top management arrested and jailed.

They need to outlaw assault rifles ASAP.  And any company that refuses to comply [....]