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obiwanbill said:

Haha … you obviously don’t listen to their earnings calls or read their financials.

TSLA is the most profitable car company, by far! I don’t own a TSLA and frankly I find their interiors quite spartan. However, many are willing to accept that and ❤️ their cars because of all the things TSLA does well … software updates, ALL electric, FAST and for the hope they deliver on Level 5 autonomy.

When they do … Profits go to the moon! 🚀

You better read the full financial details. Tesla is only 'profitable' thanks to tax dollars it get's payed, they are not profitable on their own.

So far the Vision Pro is more hype than substance. It's only just coming out in a very limited release (US only).
Why would anyone bother to develop for that heavy piece of headgear? It barely holds enough charge for a movie and reading the reviews is too heavy to wear for an extended time as well.
Add to that the fact, that Netflix holds no 3D content, only an extremely limited amount of 4K content (even if you pay the high premium subscription at Netflix and the content would be available in 4K from the producers it is not so with Netflix).
Add to that that Netflix doesn't seem to be profitable and is in fact stuck in a growing mountain of debt.

The result is Netflix does the low cost approach we all see. Masses of self produced often low quality content, streamed in a minimum viable quality (they do compress the hell out of their streams leading to low quality). So no money left, for anything that isn't strictly necessary.

Let's face it, even if each and every Vision Pro buyer in the next 24 months would pay for a Ultra-Premium Vision Pro subscription it would barely be interesting for Netflix to invest. Since they don't have any relevant content even less.

AppleTV+ being Apple owned ... of course it produces stuff (AppleTV+ alone doesn't necessarily need to produce a net profit)
Disney+ actually has lot's of content (even 3D and 4K+) and has been tight with Apple for a long time. Makes sense as well. 

The rest is wait and see, since they won't be able to shift market share in any meaningful way, by offering Vision Pro.

So as a stock holder who doesn't have to (and certainly don't want to) live in the US there seems to be only one solution: Trump for president. (Tim Cook could at least handle that orange idiot better)

So with the 3d scan of your ears for the AirPods and know the 3d scan of the face for the Vision Pro (FaceID is only stored locally!) ... Apple know gains the looks of all the users buying into the ecosystem. 

2024 is much closer to 1984 now.

Xed said:

Is this the next thing we need to worry about with a new iPhone? If it is the courier then any Apple Store could also get saddled with fake devices without knowing it.

... and obviously make sure it's opened in the store accompanied by an Apple Technician BEFORE you pay.
Als long as the only support option seems to be an email to Tim Cook (and hope at least that will be responded too). Seems to be the only way.

Funny actually: I lifed in China once ... and pretty quickly developed the routine of opening ANY package and checking for the 'real'/'correct' content and that was actually standard procedure in any electronics store (they actualle showed you the device you bough and that it was working).

Sad China now starts to export their specific kind of criminality (counterfit fraud) deeper into the west.