doggone

rob53 said:

I would hope this would benefit chip production in the US but why Arizona? Cheap land and taxes? TSMC is not an American company and all profits (after taxes) will not stay in the US. Will the citizens of Arizona accept a Taiwanese company or will they boycott them as being non-American? I guess money talks more than anything else but how much is Phoenix paying them to build there? Are they selling out the citizens like Wisconsin did with the failed Foxconn major installation?

You could say the same for car companies.  There are plenty of foreign manufacturers for cars in the US.  There are no complaints about that anymore.  Maybe in the beginning but now it just means jobs for locals and revenue for the city. 

It would be great to see that site successful and pave the way for more high end manufacturing in the US.  

THat's part of the genius of Jobs and Apple.  Take a process / product and figure out how to sell it that makes sense to customers.  Tech companies often decide what they want to sell and then try and force their angle down the customers throats.  

With iTunes, Apple had the advantage of a software that users were comfortable with.  People were used to ripping their CDs and building their libraries up.  The store worked in the iTunes app and didn't require changing software.
Then the final advantage was that stealing music was rife and the labels were scared of losing it all.  Other music services were crap. Apple came along with a solution at the right time and the label were desperate to try anything that could work.  So they were willing to accept Apple's terms which ended up being what the consumer was willing to accept.  And that, as they say, was that and the rest is history.

Classic Apple and why I have held the stock for over 15 years.

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

I am really happy Apple stuck with the Mac Mini. I kept expecting them to discontinue it but people kept buying them so they kept selling them. Now if Apple would only sell a $300 Mac Nano and lay waste to the entire PC market, that would be sweet. Come on Tim. What would Steve Jobs do?

Steve would not release a cheap Mac nano because Apple would lose profitability in the product line. Rushing to the bottom never works.  Just look at compaq, dell and hp who all tried that and end up with razor thin margins.  

Can't wait until the new 16in MBP comes out.  As you can charge via USC-C, I won't care if it has non-USB ports.

For me, the fact that platforms like Xbox charge the same rates and don't allow competing stores makes this argument moot.  Also the fact that the iPhone platform represents only 7% of their revenue means that the 30% charge has a minor impact on their business.  It would make more sense if this case was against the gaming platforms that account for 70% of their revenue.

I found Federighi statements key where he explained that the iOS platform needs to be more secure than the Mac due to the large number of apps that users download and the fact that a lot more information is captured on the phone.  He also said that the Mac has malware issues due to the more open nature of the platform.  Users have to be far more careful in order on a Mac when downloading apps.