NinjaMan

geekmee said:

Looking at the other companies listed ahead of Apple, I can’t help but wonder, 

if there is a ROI on patents??

Puts a new emphasis on the phrase: 

“Not everything that can be counted, counts.”

Why would you look at those companies any different than you would Apple itself? Most of them are well diversified companies that operate in the same spaces as Apple and much more so it would make sense for them to be ahead of Apple.

This is basically what I did except I went with a 32in 4K screen - really happy with the setup.

lkrupp said:

Easy fix, just raise the prices of Brazilian iPhones to cover the cost of the forced inclusion of a charger. $50 ought to be about right.

Considering that Apple hasn't dropped the price when they stopped including the charger, why should they now increase the price to re-include?

I would think for Apple to be a threat their first release would have to be just as good, if not better, than any Tesla model available at that time. Apple does have one advantage and that is that they shouldn't make as many mistakes since they have more data available to them now than Tesla did then they launched...Apple will do what Apple does best, take something that someone else has done, study and learn from their mistakes and release a first gen that is far better than anyone else's first gen... no other company innovates off of the work of other people like Apple does...

How did they get the data? Did this guy actually give authorization to access his data and did so without first verifying the information prior to granting access?