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  • FAANG no more - Facebook finally shifting to META on NASDAQ

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    Such an obvious “solution”: MANGA

    Doesn’t Tesla “deserve” a letter in this (pointless) acronym?
    watto_cobra

  • When retail is folded in, Apple pays employees less than Google or Microsoft

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    larryjw said:
    Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to not understand economics.

    Strange as it may seem to WSJ staff and readers, the statistics one uses are the ones which best elucidates comparisons. 

    Obviously, median doesn’t do it. And one shouldn’t expect a single stat ever to make comparisons useful.

    One can start by taking John Tukey’s work seriously — Exploratory Data Analysis.  
    In this context, median is 100 times better than mean, but yes no single number can tell the whole story. 

    What I get from this is that more than half the Apple workforce is in retail (or other non-tech jobs) (somewhat surprising) and that hundreds of thousands of Silicon Valley/tech employees (at just the biggest firms) make a quarter million bucks a year or more. I need to recalibrate my thinking. 
    ronngrandact73byronl

  • Apple TV+ comedy series 'Trying' to return for season three on July 22

    randominternetpersonrandominternetperson
    I agree. It is a truly delightful show. 
    lolliver

  • Apple may adopt large-scale MagSafe technology for Apple Car charging

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    22july2013 said:
    One must ask if Apple intends for its "iCar" to be sold in America only, or worldwide.

    • Exactly one third of the world's population drives on the left side of the road; (mostly south-east Asia and south-east Africa.
    • Only the US/Canada/Ecuador/Liberia use 110V/60Hz; there are four other electrical systems in use world-wide;
    • Less than half of US car owners have garages in which they are allowed to install charging systems; worldwide the percentage would be less.
    • Only 1 in 25 people in the world live in the US. The market for cars is world-wide. Especially Europe and China. Also Japan, Australia, NZ & Argentina.
    One has to wonder if any car maker would create a unique version of their vehicle just for the tiny US market, or the even less consequential California market.

    Oh yeah, they all do. Huh.
    muthuk_vanalingamfastasleep

  • End of an era: Apple's last iPod has been discontinued

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    It wasn't just a matter of Apple having their supplier make more of them indefinitely.  Apple would have had to continue to invest development effort into keeping it reasonably up to date with the current iPhone specs. I expect there are an increasing number of cutting edge apps that run poorly on the touch or don't work at all for some reason. That's not great customer experience and not a great use of Apple resources.

    And who's to say Apple won't bring back the iPod branding for some product in the future--if there is a compelling product to be sold.
    watto_cobra