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mattinoz said:

NY1822 said:

what new services do you guys think Apple should get into?

iCloud for Teams

Allow teams in teams or indeed a customer to be in multiple seperate teams.

So I could have my family shared space, personal space on home computer, while work device has my department and company space.

iPad, iPhone would have all but would mute Family space notifications while at work and vis versa.

Team owners can buy storage, apps and services for their team and manage in one location.

Single sign-on one iCloud account

... adding on to the “iCloud for teams” bit - a document sharing and storage service could be an easy one for them, far better usability and integration vs Dropbox and all docs / files available for all Apple devices, including Watch and AppleTV

coolfactor said:

Now, on the topic of iPads, it sounds like pilots are assigned their own iPads, which they carry from one flight to the next, instead of the iPads being assigned to specific planes.

The article fails to mention that the industry term is Electronic Flight Bag, or EFB’s.

To answer the question above - assigning iPads to each pilot is the usual distribution method. The FAA has different rules for pilot-carried vs permanently installed EFBs, which was the industry’s Initial attempt at digitizing flight deck paperwork.

There’s the cost of the annual platform OS updates: iOS, MacOS (which of course was not always free), etc. Wondering how theses costs are accounted for in the overall gross margin discussion.

MacPro said:

I am just glad it wasn't acquired by Google or Samsung!

Agreed... and IMO II-VI is a very cool company

“On Tuesday, North Carolina voters delivered a mixed verdict, as amendments to restrict the governor's powers failed, while voters approved a voter ID requirement.”

This statement is clearly a political opinion - if Apple is looking to develop a significantly higher business presence in NC then they should be concerned about the NC government’s power structure, including the previous super majority; however, Apple the company should have zero care about voter ID.