muthuk_vanalingam

JP234 said:

Since this is an Apple Insider forum, an appropriate example of historic trends seems appropriate.

On January 26th, 1996, Sun Microsystems was in talks to buy up Apple, then worth $3.89 billion. Sun's market cap was over $10.6 billion.
Today, Apple's market cap is $2.18 trillion. Sun was sold to Oracle Corporation in 2009 for $5.6 billion, and no longer exists.

It remains to be seen how social media providers' competition for revenue shakes out, but the previous example speaks to the unpredicatbility of long term trends in customers' and clients' loyalties to tech providers. And with both customers and advertising clients abandoning existing social media platforms in large numbers, it's possible (even likely) the arc of their dominance will echo AOL's. No telling if a new social media platform will emerge to take their place, but it's also possible that global consumers have had enough of the toxic atmosphere generated by the lack of accountability or consequence. When I insult you in person, I risk violent retaliation, and thus am more likely to be civil. The anonymity and lack of physical proximity encourage the worst human instincts, as proven on ALL social media platforms. I've had enough. This is now the only forum in which I engage, and have been saddened by the increasing incivility I've been seeing here.

eriamjh said:

Apple will select the target price range and do their best to provide the best phone at the best margin.   Bigger phone with lower specs or smaller phone with better specs? 

That is how I see them “deciding”.  Which one will sell more and make the most money is what they are trying to figure out.  

beowulfschmidt said:

I suppose if you can get away with telling them "no", then tell them "no".

Two questions I wonder about (and have no idea of the answers):

1.  Who else can supply the type and volume of chips Apple needs without a major retooling effort?  Intel?

2.  Who does TSMC have queuing up for chip fab to use up any capacity left unfulfilled by a departure or reduction by Apple?

I would suspect the answers to at least one of those would give a clue as to who cries "uncle" first.

foregoneconclusion said:

LOL...you get one option: iFixit. What happened to all the "competition" stuff? 

Xed said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

Xed said:

slow n easy said:

Xed said:

Remember when that old anti-Trump, pro-Putin invading Ukraine guy on here said that you should never listen to the Apple Watch saying anything about ECG readings because it was just a fashion accessory and only a single-lead ECG that could never amount to a real-world use that could lead to saving lives? I do.

Your comment is very contradictory. Trump is very pro Putin and very frequently praises him and says nice things about Russia. Also, why bring politics into a non politics story. Also, how do you know that the guy is even old when the ECG feature didn’t even come out that long ago?

My post is factual. You’ll have to ask the poster to whom I’m referring why he’s so contradictory. 

 But he (GeorgeBMac) is already banned by AI and he can't respond back to your post. So you can give it a rest now.

When and why did that happen? I figured he was tilting at some other windmill for the time being.