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  • Secret Apple engineering lab pops up in Oregon with Intel, tech alumni

    DAalsethDAalseth
    Quite familiar with that area. I grew up just south of there. Very nice place. (Just for the record the Vancouver on the map is not Vancouver Canada. It's the one in Washington. I'm always surprised how many people have trouble with that.)
    randominternetpersonwatto_cobra

  • Apple knew in advance about iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus 'Bendgate' says court filing

    DAalsethDAalseth
    Did not and do not have any sympathy for morons that put their phone, any phone, in their back pocket and sit on it. It bends. It breaks. Duh. They deserve a dope-slap and be told to 'don't do that'. I have an SE and I don't put it in my back pocket. It's just common sense.
    magman1979dr. xwatto_cobralamboaudi4

  • Apple 'an amazing company' says Microsoft's Bill Gates

    DAalsethDAalseth
    knowitall said:
    "The multiple's not gigantic, it's not like a tech-speculative company that's still losing money or anything." 

    Does anyone know what this means?(espessially the ‘multiples’ part)

    Perhaps a reference to Elon Musk. I don't know that any of his companies are profitable yet.
    knowitallSpamSandwichwatto_cobra

  • Apple 'an amazing company' says Microsoft's Bill Gates

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    steveh said:
    Microsoft's "saving" Apple was hardly done out of altruism, nor did it cost Microsoft anything in the long term. ... 
    It was mostly optics.
    It happened when the DOJ was going after MS for abusing its monopoly. I always felt that MS knew that as long as Apple was in business they could point to it and say "See, we're not a monopoly, there is competition." Whether MS "saved" Apple or not is immaterial. It made MS look better by making Apple look stronger. It made developers believe Apple would be around so they would not drop the platform, (which was happening a lot at the time.) It let businesses know that MS Office would be available on the Mac so they would not switch to PCs. There weren't many that used Macs, but they were important to MS for their fight with then DOJ.

    As you said it was all about optics.
    mwhitelmacpalominesocalbrianjbdragonwatto_cobra

  • Tim Cook says Apple won't merge Mac and iPad

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    A couple of years ago I suspected they were looking at moving toward a unified platform. 
    As Apple has moved on I see more clearly what they are doing. What's more I think it makes a lot of sense.
    Keep iOS and macOS separate.
    Strengthen iOS until many people can just use that.
    Already I do a lot of work on the iPad. The vastly improved text editing tools in iOS11 allowed me to move most of my writing to the iPad. LumaFusion is a powerful video editing tool. The drawing and graphics tools +ApplePencil are my tools of choice. The selection of iOS games is more than enough for me. I now use my iMac for just finish work, recreation, and things where I need a 27 inch screen.
    Eventually iOS will be the more powerful platform.
    Rayz2016spheric