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AppleInsider said:

Analyst expectations put Apple at around $81.3 billion in revenue, with an earnings per share for the quarter of $1.19. 

That's not what you said on the weekend:

AppleInsider said:

Using figures sourced from Yahoo Finance,a consensus of analysts have put forward the idea that Apple's revenue will be $90.29 billion, based on the reports of 25 analysts. The total range was from a low of $82.81 billion to a high of $97.17 billion.

chasm said:

noelos said:

I'm sorry - but the excuses about Siri being crap because of privacy concerns just doesn't hold water.

"Hey Siri - play Scarborough Fair". Now I have "Scarborough Fair" by Simon & Garfunkel in my library, and I'd guess this is the version that 99.9% of people would want 99.9% of the time and it's a track I've also asked Siri to play literally hundreds of times because it helps my toddler get to sleep.

And yet, every time it is a gamble if she will play this, or some other rando version, or some other rando song completely. Siri learns NOTHING and doesn't even use the contextual knowledge available to make a reasonable guess of what you want.

Or what about a simple query while I'm driving and I idly ask what year some actor died. "I can't answer that while you're driving". Is that to preserve my privacy or is it just because they haven't put in the work to make Siri be able to answer simple queries in natural language?

Okay, let’s go over this:

As I mentioned, if you issue requests poorly, you can get bad results. Your S&G request is a good example of this. If you want a specific artist’s version of a song, you need to include the artists’ name in the request. A thousand acts (at least) have covered this song, so saying “Hey Siri, play Scarborough Fair by Simon and Garfunkel” will probably get you the right version, though I admit there’s a possibility you might get a live version by them — but if you add the phrase “from my library” I think you’d hit 100 percent accuracy.

As for your driving and asking questions query, I’ll remind you that Siri is not a chat bot. It is MUCH more restricted by Apple while you’re driving so that you don’t get distracted, and this is by design. Apple does not want you asking Siri random questions while you are driving, because that indicates that you are distracted or want to be distracted.

You may find that too restrictive, and I think you have something of a case, but when it comes to driver distraction I’d rather Apple err on the side of being over cautious and thus more limited. When I’m NOT in motion, suddenly Siri can answer a question like that handily. I just asked it “what year did actor John Wayne die,” when I was at home, and it gave me a very full answer, including his age and location when he died as well as the date.

I am certainly NOT saying there isn’t any room for improvement in Siri; quite the opposite! I’m just explaining why it behaves in some of the ways it behaves.

This is a situation where the good intentions result in a worse outcome. What's more distracting, listening to an informative answer or being told you can't have the answer? My frustration level certainly grows with the latter.

I would further argue that the decision about whether or not I have the capacity to make the query and accept the response is a matter for me the human and not the decision trees implemented by the software. The motion sensors can certainly tell if I'm gridlocked in traffic; in my opinion that should be a factor in the algorithm. Plus, Siri has no problem reading me the latest text message from a person - which is a similar level of cognitive effort to absorb.

Even if I'm wrong in my perceptions of my ability in a given situation (and, let's face it, that's a common mistake we humans make), a better response would be "It's not appropriate for me to answer that while you're driving. Would you like me to: 1. Remind you of this query once you stop driving, 2. Tell you the answer anyway, or 3. Put the answer in a note that you can review later?" - since people generally only remember the first and last thing they hear from you, burying the "problematic" option in the middle of the list is a subtle "force" to the "better" options.

grandact73 said:

As of today, there are over 50 accounts/banks paying more than 4.15%.

High inflation will do that - unfortunately, even with higher interest earning potential the purchasing value of cash in the bank is still dwindling over time.

I find it interesting that networking over power cables has pretty much died but power over networking cables is taking off.

Those risks are looking really minimal. Even if the overall market contracts, the evidence so far shows that Apple will gain share rather than suffer an equivalent reduction to other market participants. Competition is also unlikely to reduce the demand for Apple products. Management distracted? Please. Only the last item poses a potentially significant change to Apple's business.

Also good to see that these professional analysts have only taken a decade to realise that Apple's business is not dependent on product cycles but is instead a flywheel where every new thing is adding momentum.