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blastdoor said:

Nice to see progress on supply chain diversification. All the naysayers who insisted that only Putin’s limitless friend can make iPhones are going to look pretty silly in a few years.

Who said this? You? LOL

Such a wise old man! The iPhone is invaluable!

humbug1873 said:

"the iMac screen is one of the best 15-inch displays available"!???
That screen was absolutely horrible on the original iMac, probably about the worst you could get.
Thankfully nowadays it's the other way around. I have a 27'' iMac since the day the 5k Version was available and they're still - 4 years later -  isn't anything better on the market (at that price point). 

One of the big problem then was the screen driver is very expensive. The CPU has to spend time to calculate what to show on each dot of the screen. As a consequence, it is very expensive to use much bigger displays. This problem is largely resolved with the advancement of GPUs. Today it is unimaginable an iPhone 14 Pro Max can display millions of dots on a screen that is less than 7 inches. 

The Macs are a closed computer system. The PCs are modular. They are made to tinker with. This is the fundamental difference between Macs and Windows PC. PC maker trying to copy Mac design so to obsolete Apple was met with great resistance by the PC World. They cannot customize their own computer. They won't accept. In the end these copy makers gave up. This is the cleverness of Steve Jobs. He gradually make Apple think different. 

The CEO club has a formula calculating the performance of CEO and a formula of how much to reward. This was written into the contract when CEO was hired. You need to take a close look of the formulas before criticizing a CEO's pay increases. But this is a secret only members of CEO club including board members are able to access it.  In general the most important number is the performance of the stock in the prior year.