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Apple hits 18 gigawatts of clean energy in its environmental push
blastdoor said:Apple and its suppliers now use more than 18 gigawatts of clean energy.This is kind of a strange statement, because a watt is a measure of the rate of flow, like miles per hour. Saying you used 18 gigawatts is like saying you traveled a distance of 60 mph. Without knowing time, we don’t know how much energy was actually used or miles traveled.
ill hazard a guess that what’s meant here is that Apple used the energy generated by clean energy sources which, at theoretical peak utilization, can put out 18 gigawatts. Kind of like saying I used 120mph because the car I drove theoretically maxes out at 120mph. But that tells you nothing about how fast I actually went or how far I traveled.The more meaningful numbers are — how many megawatt-hours of electricity did Apple and their suppliers use and what percentage of that came from renewable sources. -
Australian court is the latest to attack Apple on behalf of rich corporations
It’s no worse than what IBM went through with their 1956 Consent Decree with the DOJ that forced them for 40 years to separate hardware sales from software and services sales or what AT&T was forced to do such as making all their patents (including for the original transistor) royalty free to all other American companies and then carved apart in 1984. So if you are going to cry a river for Apple then you should at least show one or two tears for IBM and AT&T. -
Apple Music execs reveal months of work behind releasing Taylor Swift's new album
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Apple hardware chief John Ternus insists parts pairing is not evil
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Unfortunately, a surprise million-dollar App Store windfall for some developers is a bug