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I kind of saw this coming when Walmart did its own payment system despite being the primary backer of this.

Yawn... when Google surpasses what Apple was at its highest then I'll be impressed. This is just like in a race where the leader has to pit and some of the other cars get to lead a lap or two. 

jasenj1 said:

"fund the transport infrastructure needed to deal with congestion created by the company, as well as other businesses in the area"

This should have been thought through when the Spaceship was proposed. Either they didn't think it through, or whatever they planned is now felt to be inadequate. Someone has to pay for roads, & bridges, & public transportation, etc.

I suspect there is a large voter block who see Apple and the other big companies as cash cows to be milked for all they can get. Why should I, Little Old Lady Jane Citizen, pay taxes when corporate giant Apple is sitting right there? Pandering to those voters could be a profitable political play for the Mayor.

The problem is not the Apple campus, it's the numerous office towers that developers are planning to build to profit by offering space in close proximity to the new Apple campus that are putting the strain on the infrastructure and budget. Basically this "Mayor" has sided with developers and is attempting to guilt Apple into footing the bill to make these projects cost less for out of area/state developers that will not operate a business in Cupertino once the buildings are built and sold/leased to businesses.  The citizens of Cupertino are mostly aware of this. Taking this issue to the nation/international stage will do very little for the mayor's efforts. 

The irony is the city council grilled Apple extensively about its plans to redevelop the old HP campus that was mostly abandoned, while rubber stamping commercial development projects throughout the area that will effectively employee 10 times as many workers. 

sog35 said:

ihatescreennames said:

Don't you mean something along the lines of "Wow! Great job Tim Cook! I'm glad to see progress coming out of you!"?

There are some things that Cook is really good at:

1. Supply chain
2. Inventory managment
3. Closing deals - IBM, China Mobile, DocoMo, SAP

He is absolutely great at those things. But that does not make him a great CEO.

It really isn't a knock at Tim. Some people just are not meant to be CEO of the most powerful company on the planet. NO shame in that.

Apple needs a CEO who is a visionary and motivator. 
A CEO who is not afraid to call out the media/Wall Street.
A CEO who is willing to get his hands dirty and go to 'war' against his competitors.

No matter how great Jobs was as an idea man he sucked at managing a company. Had Cook not been there Jobs' second tenure at Apple would have looked like his first or like NeXT's. Great ideas and bad execution. Most companies do not rely on the CEO to think up new products ideas. They come from inside the company and the CEO's job is to cultivate the best ones and provide business conditions for making them successful. CEOs that spend their time arguing with wall street or blabbing about the future are usually not doing a good job running their companies. Cook has done a very good job at going to war against the competitors.. he decimated them. I see no evidence that Cook lacks vision and motivation. On the contrary, I see one of the most successful CEOs in history rightfully ignoring the distraction of millions of talentless armchair CEOs. Apple is behaving as Apple has always behaved, keeping its cards close to its vest and playing only the hands the are sure to win. 

Marvin said:

IPv6 would have been a non-issue if they hadn't gone crazy with the formatting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup

"to do a reverse lookup of the IPv4 address 8.8.4.4, the PTR record for the domain name 4.4.8.8.in-addr.arpa would be looked up.
the pointer domain name corresponding to the IPv6 address 2001:db8::567:89ab is b.a.9.8.7.6.5.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address

172.16.254.1 (IPv4)
2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:8:1 (IPv6)

Human readability is a huge factor, there was no reason to switch to hexadecimal nor to colons. There was no reason to use that many digits. 340 trillion, trillion, trillion is about a trillion trillion more than needed.

If they had just added a single string up to say 8 characters to the front of IPv4, people would have dropped IPv4 overnight. They could have said IPv6 is now like apple:255.255.255.255 and Apple owns all ~4 billion numbers after the string apple. Only major institutions would reserve the strings. Amazon would own all ~4 billion after the string amazon. Existing IPv4 numbers could have been cast automatically to a:255.255.255.255. The string variations with just case-insensitive letters would give over 208 billion combinations then multiplied by ~4 billion for 832 billion billion options, which is still over 832 billion times what the internet is using.

Making them human readable is what we have DNS for.

Adding string prefixes opens up all kinds of problems and another gold rush for owning a limited number of language based names. When we start thinking about addressing nanobots and all the other things we will create in the future 832 billion is not nearly enough.