jeffythequick

JWSC said:

anantksundaram said:

SpamSandwich said:

A long way to go before they’re in Dutch East India Co. territory (about $7 trillion valuation), but it’s a start.

Groan, here we go again, with an utterly bogus valuation comparison. 

Btw, the guy that invented wheel is worth 700 billion trillion in today’s dollars, so please stop. 

While it may be a bit of a stretch to accurately calculate several hundred years worth of inflation coupled with multiple currency fluctuations, the Dutch East India Company was a massive powerhouse that bent the will of kingdoms the world over.

Apple is big and powerful.  But it’s nowhere near as big and powerful as the Dutch East India Company was back then.  Lacking a better metric, the valuation comparison stands IMO.

The funny thing is that for most of the years between 1600 - 2020 (at least in the US, inflation was coupled with deflation, so that a dollar in 1910 was worth $1.04 1790 dollars (source:  https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/uscompare/relativevalue.php ) as a measure of CPI.  Not bad for 120 years.  Using that same site, the last 110 years have see the dollar in 2019 is worth 3.6 cents in 1910 dollars.

Constant incremental nflation hasn't been with us always.

Beats said:

SpamSandwich said:

anantksundaram said:

SpamSandwich said:

A long way to go before they’re in Dutch East India Co. territory (about $7 trillion valuation), but it’s a start.

Groan, here we go again, with an utterly bogus valuation comparison. 

Btw, the guy that invented wheel is worth 700 billion trillion in today’s dollars, so please stop. 

Dude, lighten up. They don’t exist today. It was a joke. 

It's because back when Apple first hit a trillion iKnockoff users were spreading that crap like wild fire and saying Apple sucked because of it. It's hard to tell when someone is serious nowadays because of all the ridiculous people among us.

As a ridiculous person, I find that comment offensive.

john_t said:

And they asked for 50% off their rent in the UK during the corona crisis. Nice.

The first trillion is always the hardest to get to.

bulk001 said:

About time! Hope they look to process basic Siri commands on the device. @randominternetperson i just pulled up Siri and it is still bad. But with some of the old guard leaving maybe new hires are getting a chance to bring about some real innovation in areas outside of chip design and recycling old iPhone designs as “new, innovate, the best, thinnest, most powerful and amazing” IPhone 12! Excited to see it get better as despite my griping I really do like the Apple products I have. 

AMEN, brother! (or sister).

How could Microsoft Voice Command do the processing of who I wanted to call in 2005 on a Windows Mobile Phone with 32MB of RAM, and Siri needs to send my data to some computer so I can call my wife?  All of the information (her contact info, the cell chip) is on the phone, so why does the processing need to go to some computer in North Carolina/Nevada/New Caledonia?

Something I've never understood.

Here's how I'd run Siri:
1.  If the data can be processed on the device, process it on the device.  (i.e. call someone, find the next calendar appointment)
2.  If data is needed from the web, figure out what is needed from the web, and gather it, then process on the device. (closest pizza restaurant, driving time to next appt.)
3.  If Siri can't figure out 1 or 2, then let the supercomputer in the cloud figure it out with a randomized token as the user.