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muthuk_vanalingam said:

linkman said:

22july2013 said:

And why didn't anyone attempt to answer my question?

I did, less than 30 minutes after you posted the question.

My guess is that he is imagining your well reasoned post as "attack" or "personal attack", not as a response to his post.

It’s funny that the OP posted something meant to be inflammatory and then claimed he was attacked even when his question was answered and other questions were asked to clarify how this would work. I don’t think he ever answered how this would work.

danox said:

Xed said:

mattinoz said:

Xed said:

hydrogen said:

"Uncompromised insanely great" culture against "good enough" culture . Who wins ?

Good enough has the history of success. Look at the failure of Amiga and success of Windows.

Hasn't worked so great for the hardware makes.

It's with HW that good enough absolutely works out. Just look at Chinese knockoffs on Amazon, Amazon Basics, dollar stores, and most cars people buy. Even Apple selling last year's model iPhone for several years running with a $100 price drop shows that there is even a large number of iPhone buyers that will buy a good enough option over the best model being sold.

Selling just good enough at no profit the first day of a new enterprise gets you bankrupt and out of business. There are no make ups on the back-end.

Good enough doesn't imply a profit isn't being made. That's a completely different discussion, just as selling a high-end product without profit isn't part of this discussion. The original comment asked who would win against "Uncompromised insanely great" against "good enough", to which stated and shows that "good enough" not only exist but flourishes with customers. This is because of costs, which is why I don't yet an OLED TV, much less the largest and most capable model.. which I'll still never get since I only need 2 HDMI ports. I'd even argue that AVP, while insanely great compared to all other options available, is still a compromise in countless respects. It's simply how you have to approach product development.

Synth2 said:

1. ARM wouldn't exist without Apple--ARM started with the Newton.
2. Apple publicly invested >$700 million in ARM just before their IPO a couple months ago--could that have possibly helped their share price go higher?
3. Apple and ARM agreed to a long-term deal (till 2040!) just before their IPO a couple months ago--could that have possibly helped their share price go higher?
4. ARM could have held out for higher royalties before agreeing to said long-term deal just a couple months ago, but they didn't. Hmmm.  
5. Apple does all design and fabrication of their hyper-customized "ARM" chips. ARM does very little. Apple has an “architecture license” with ARM, which allows the company to design its own cores using the ARM instruction set. In other words, Apple does all the heavy lifting in producing their highly customized ARM chips.

1) That's woefully inaccurate. This was the first product to use ARM architecture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

2) I stopped reading after the first incorrect line.

sflagel said:

Xed said:

sflagel said:

Xed said:

22july2013 said:

For those of us outside the USA who have been waiting for 4+ years for this service, with no hint of it arriving in our countries, we kinda hope the service will die in the USA. Apple needs to think worldwide, and not provide services to Americans only. How many other Apple services are available in the US only?

Which worldwide issuing bank works with every single country in the world?

Citi

Not even close. They are big, but not the biggest. They don't even a ground presence in half the world's countries.

https://www.citigroup.com/global/about-us/global-presence

You don’t need a ground presence to issue a credit card. 

They are in most countries. 

Besides, Apple does not need to worry about regulations, they just slap their name on any issuer. They can also use MBNA, a big white label credit card issuer. 

1) You are missing the point even more than your original post. Citi is not in all countries, which is what your comment is claiming. But it can't be because there's no worldwide credit card system in place to allow that to happen. Even MC isn't everywhere and they're the largest payment-processing corporation in the world. To reiterate, each nation has regulations for an issuing bank, and while Citi can be present in both the US and Canada, for example, they do have to set up in each country to issue cards in those countries.

2) Apple doesn't have to worry about regulations? Just slap their name on it? Sure! Nothing illegal about that. 🙄


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Change your licensing fees, ARM.