mayfly

Big deal. Twitter's (X) future is the same as Facebook's (Meta) and AOL's (AOL Time Warner, AOL Verizon).

No one but superannuated geezers, too bored to migrate their accounts to something relevant.

Frankly, I don't care what Apple's earnings are for the previous quarter. I've owned Apple stock since the return of Steve Jobs, and it's responsible for my comfortable retirement (disclaimer: I worked for Apple from 2004 until I retired in 2015, and bought additional shares with every paycheck). Anyone who invests in or sells a company based on one quarter of earnings is going to have a history of long term losses. If you're not content to build wealth slowly, you're bound to get poor in a hurry.

Here are some relevant quotes from the second greatest investor of all time (after his friend Warren Buffett), Peter Lynch, who outperformed the S&P index the entire time he managed the Magellan Fund, the largest fund in the world at that time:

I like Apple Pay a lot, and I have the card, but I almost never use it.

I bought my new 13" M2 MacBook Pro on Amazon for $1749, $250 less than the Apple Store (not to mention the sales tax is also less b/c of the lower price). That's a 10% discount. I used my Prime Card to buy it, and got a 5% credit on anything I buy at Amazon. That's another $90.

Makes the Apple Card seem pretty lame by comparison. Hell, makes Apple Pay seem pretty lame for major Apple purchases, doesn't it?

hexclock said:

mayfly said:

Nothing breeds lawsuits like someone stealing intellectual property and making a crapload of money with it!

I have no idea how software lawsuits work, but do they have to reveal source code to each other for comparison as part of discovery?

Even if the source code were to be included in discovery, the lawyers, judge and jury (if not a bench trial) would likely not be able to understand it. It's based on the look and feel of the software from a user viewpoint.

There is a phrase in this article that understates what I'd think is a much bigger issue: