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  • Apple donating 9M face masks to US healthcare facilities amid coronavirus outbreak

    gmgravytraingmgravytrain
    Good for Apple. They have plenty of cash so they may as well use it for a worthwhile purpose. I'm not sure if it will help lessen the company image of Apple supposedly over-charging consumers for its products but it's definitely worth a shot. It would be nice if a good percentage of those masks came to New York City because it appears we're going to need them as I believe New York City has the highest number of infections in the U.S. which kinda sucks. I still don't quite understand how that happened. Maybe it's because of the high population density.
    lkrupptyler82kuduanantksundaram

  • Why did Apple buy up another $20B in stock at record highs?

    gmgravytraingmgravytrain
    While I'm not complaining about the share gains I have received from Apple since 2004, I'd just like to point out that Apple's dividends are only 1% and that seems rather low from a company always talking about cash neutrality. Even Microsoft is giving out higher dividends than Apple and has to give out about 3B more shares worth than Apple every quarter. If buying back shares are really helping shareholders, then that's fine but you look at Boeing and although it's struggling, that company gives out far higher dividends than cash-flow king Apple. I would think Apple could afford to give out a $1 a share in dividends than just $0.77. That would keep me flush every quarter as a senior citizen without having to touch my social security check

    If Apple doesn't want to give out a higher dividend then why don't they acquire a cloud computing business since Wall Street claims the CLOUD has unlimited growth potential and they endlessly praise every company that has a cloud service such as Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon. Those companies get such fat P/Es based on their cloud services while Apple only gets criticism about falling iPhone sales.
    jony0larryjwwilliamlondoncincyteeaaarrrgggh

  • Apple TV gets new underwater screensavers featuring coral reefs, sharks, and jellies

    gmgravytraingmgravytrain
    I have been using Ariel for a couple of years and it's really a fine screensaver. The automatic update doesn't seem to be working on Catalina so I downloaded it (version 1.7.0) and installed it manually and it works fine. I think it's the best screensaver around. I get so much enjoyment out of watching those videos. I think there are compilations of those Ariel/Apple videos on YouTube that play them all and some have music added to them.
    jdiamond

  • Apple debuts new $5999 Mac Pro with up to 28-core Xeon processors

    gmgravytraingmgravytrain
    Well, that's it.  It's the long-awaited 2019 cheese-grater Mac Pro.  This could have been done in 2013.  This is something the pros have been waiting for.  Eight PCI slots are the bomb.  Although I have no need for that much power, I'm happy Apple built an ultimate Mac Pro just to knock the socks off competitors' devices.  Some people may complain about the price but I definitely think it's worth it.  Apart from NVidia graphics support, it has everything I would expect it to have.  Radeon graphics processors are getting quite powerful but they still run hotter than equivalent NVidia processors.  If the new Mac Pro can keep them cooler, then that's great.  I think Apple did a great job with the Mac Pro this time around.  Of course, only time will tell if the pros run out and buy them in quantity.
    docno42watto_cobra

  • Tested: Thermal throttling and performance in the eight-core 2019 MacBook Pro

    gmgravytraingmgravytrain
    Although Intel Corp. had problems delivering 10nm processors, no one blamed Intel Corp.  Apple is the company that had to take the heat of having a MacBook Pro that thermal-throttled.  Just as Intel Corp. screwed up with their modem chip-set, it was Apple that had to take the blame for slower modem speeds in the iPhones.  It's just easier for people to blame Apple for everything that goes wrong.  Maybe that's the way it should be, but I think it may be a wee bit unfair.

    If a company designs a product around a component that was promised and that component company doesn't deliver, then it's the product maker that's immediately blamed if something goes wrong with said product.  I never heard one tech-head product tester blame Intel Corp. for a MacBook Pro that thermal-throttled.  It was always Apple's fault and Apple's fault alone.  It was always Apple that didn't do their job properly and how the MacBook Pro was just a poorly designed notebook computer that didn't have decent enough cooling for such high-powered processors.  Apple may have gotten stuck with 14nm processors instead of getting their 10nm processors but who cares.  It's always easier just to blame Apple because that's the company that delivers the clicks.
    canukstorm