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rogifan_new said:

racerhomie said:

razorpit said:

Seems like a steal compared to the Beats purchase.

Apple is still making Money from Beats. I only bought the BeatsX thanks to the W1 chip & lightning charging 

Still doesn’t make sense to me. Apple has the smarts to make its own headphones (see Air Pods) and probably better ones than Beats (no audiophile recommends Beats). Iovine, Dre and Reznor were not worth $3B. But because $3B is pocket change for Apple nobody cares.

"...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."
"...Without looking deeply at Beats' internal financial information, we can't evaluate the terms of the deal in detail but there's nothing especially unorthodox about paying $3 billion for a company with $1 billion in revenue."

http://news.shazam.com/pressreleases/shazam-launches-first-scaled-augmented-reality-solution-for-brands-worldwide-1842402

interested to see how Apple will integrate the AR technology.....probably in a way that most people are not expecting....i love this acquisition 

no doubt this will enhance the HomePod experience...

"Pop Up Archive is an online platform of tools for organizing and searching digital spoken words. It makes sounds searchable using its speech-to-text technology.

Audiosear.ch is a full-­text search and recommendation engine for podcasts and radio — powering the best podcast experiences by automatically knowing everything about podcasts. The Audiosear.ch platform turns speech into text, indexes it, and analyzes it to create millions of data points (i.e. topics, entities, people, recommendations). We help audio distributors, platforms, and advertisers improve listener experiences, audio discovery, and content targeting."

it literally has got to the point of Google copying Apple right down to an aerial shot of a pink glazed donut with rainbow sprinkles! 
(not to mention their milenial sounding female announcer making stupid jokes, a blatant ripoff from Apple)

"any delays in shipping the new unit are apparently related to last-minute changes waiting on a breakthrough in the sensor being embedded in the screen"

pretty hysterical ...Apple was waiting for the phone to ring for a last minute breakthrough...and...the phone never rang