Rayz2016

Rayz2016 claimed in July 2018 that by hating the Butterfly keyboard and asking for Apple to go back to a keyboard with more tactile feedback that I was essentially asking for, in his words:
"...a case as large as a tank and a keyboard with travel that goes to the centre of the earth."

MacQuadra840av said:

You are all thinking about this the wrong way.  Apple does not manufacture any of their products.  None of them.  They don't make their own components either, not even their own Apple Silicon chips.  They have business arrangements with companies that manufacture and provide the components and assemble the products.  Apple only designs the products.  They need other companies to manufacture the components and to build the products.  Apple has no idea how to make a car.  

Part of designing a successful product is knowing that it can be manufactured cost-effectively and to the required spec. There is no point Apple designing a car that no one can build, so saying Apple has no idea how to make a car if they intend to produce one is a bit like saying Apple doesn't know how to build a computer, even if they don't manufacture it in-house.

Secondly, Apple designs many of the manufacturing processes used in its products, even before they'd highlighted the specialist machinery they'd designed and programmed to mill the first unibody laptop Macs. A lot of the equipment used in the factories is owned by Apple, and a lot of the specialist stuff has been designed by Apple. (Which is why they get really annoyed when their manufacturing partners try to use Apple-owned equipment to product devices for the competition.)

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/11/13/bloomberg-details-apples-sophisticated-manufacturing-robots-and-equipment/
https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/13/apple-investing-record-105-billion-on-supply-chain-robots-machinery
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/07/24/apple-to-set-up-oled-panel-line-taiwan/
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/07/14/apple-buys-iphone-8-pcb-equipment/

M68000 said:

building a “regular” vehicle is a huge project,  especially considering Apple has zero experience doing so.  

And there it is. 🤦🏾‍♂️

22july2013 said:

Now that the Dems have full control of House, Senate and the Presidency, watch out Apple! Apple as a corporation and Apple's employees as individuals are strong supporters of the Democrat party and yet it's the Democrat party which consistently spars with Apple's business practices. 

Since the Republicans have only won the popular vote once out of the last nine elections, then I’d say most Americans are democrats, whether they work for Apple or not.  

lkrupp said:

Is Al (I invented the internet) Gore still on the board? Why yes, I believe he is.

I’ll just leave this here. 

But a spirited defense of Gore’s statement penned by Internet pioneers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf (the latter often referred to as the “father of the Internet”) in 2000 noted that “Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development” and that “No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution [to the Internet] over a longer period of time”