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applesauce007 said:

What percentage of the profit does Apple make in China?

I'm more interested in why you care? Since when did we fall in love with a company for how much money they are making at a certain moment in China? If that's our metric then we may as well give up now. It's so uninteresting to me whether they have 25% or 85% profit of the Chinese market. The source of all of these stories is greed anyway, because we're obsessed with numbers and money and Wall St. and measuring everything on a chart and the media is completely fucked up about this subject matter. Who gives two shits. I think we should all refocus on design and easy of use and company direction and company philosophy where the interesting creative stuff is to talk about. Enough with the boring comparisons. The only people who should be interested in this are stockholders and they have a vested interest in their argument, so their argument every time may as well be three words: "I own AAPL". Look at Sog, his opinion changes depending on how the stock is doing. Nothing else matters to him. Tim went from being a Nazi to being Jesus in less than the space of a year. Think of how may dull, uncreative conversations have arisen from that. Peace.

sog35 said:

coolfactor said:

Why does a product have to be "groundbreaking" to be good? The Apple TV v3 that's currently in our house does the job just fine. Everybody is happy using it for what they want.

exactly.

The AppleTV4 was never meant to be ground breaking.

What a weak argument. It's like the child who comes third in a race and says "yeah, but I wasn't really trying". You're actually making the Apple TV sound worse than it is with those kinds of comments.

So yeah, turns out that WSJ took this completely out of context. The entire video was to see how far people will go for a fiver (on Fiverr). It was a commentary on our culture and several popular Jewish YouTubers who he is friends with have already come to his defence. 2017 will be the year of fake news. Shame on WSJ for deliberately taken this out of context and shame on Disney for caving like a limp biscuit. Separately, as if Pewdiepie being so successful is not enough commentary on our culture already.

To distinguish this from so-called true wireless charging lets just call it is: near-inductive charging or inductive charging. Genuine wireless charging was always going to be a few years away in 2016/17.

The obvious road map for wireless charging is to eventually be considered very much like Wifi—once you join a network, likely password protection, your device simply starts charging. A nice end-goal would be something like a combined Wifi-charging network with one password.

Sog lecturing people on physics—we're all doomed.