doggone

If you have repeatabily cracked the back screen by having the phone in your back pocket then perhaps change your behavior.  My suggestion would be to use a case.  The other consideration is if your jeans are on the tight side then don't use the back pocket. The stress on the phone body could create enough flex to crack the glass.
I generally put the phone in my front pocket, primarily because my wallet is generally in the back and also I have been concerned that bending over or sitting could damage the main screen.  I have had an iPhone since the 3GS days and haven't cracked a screen yet.  Never used a screen protector but generally do have a case.  Scratches do occur for sure and generally because I have put coins or keys in the same pocket as the phone.  I try to avoid that but sometimes it does happen.

M68000 said:

I can’t dispute these claims.  I’m no expert in cpu manufacturing.  But have to wonder...  there has to be a limit, a wall that must be reached at some point with current chip fabrication\materials. Every year we keep hearing that in just a years time the new cpu is XX percentage better than the one before it. The other thing is the phones are so good right now,  does it really matter in real life daily use?

With increased performance and shrinking fab metrics comes efficiencies in power and heat.  These all translate into smaller devices and greater applications.  So sure the phones are great now but there are still more improvements to make especially for battery life and screen performance. Then also translate that into applications in smaller devices as well as the new Apple Silicon Macs.

How do you find out if you have 2 different Apple IDs?  It is unclear to me whether my @Mac.com, @me.com and @iCloud.com are the same or different.  Sometimes when I am buying products on Apple.com the order confirmation does not go to my .Mac account.  

I usually do an encrypted backup for major releases.  You never know if something may go south with the install.  Worst part of that is the backup can sometimes take longer than the install and having enough space of my HD can be an issue especially now that my phone is 256GB.

carnegie said:

chadbag said:

maestro64 said:

That is the tax bill for the RCU's that just vested. How many people do you know who have tax bill like that.

It is actually both.   According to the article Apple withheld a butt load which it sold for taxes and the rest he sold.   The tax ones seem to have sold for the $503 amount and his own sales for the other listed sales range.  

Yes, more than 50% of Mr. Cook’s vesting shares get withheld for tax purposes.

But to be clear, Apple doesn’t sell those shares. It just doesn’t issue them and then remits their value (based on the closing price of the stock on the day the shares vest) to tax authorities.

This is where RSU and options pay off.  Cook gets a huge bonus for bringing Apple to this level. Plus the taxman gets a huge payout at the same time.
To pay tax now means that Cook only has to pay capital gains above the strike value in the future for the remaining shares.  He's already a billionaire but that's just add some more.  He's going to get to keep another 600K shares in another year.  At current prices thats another $300MM in the bank for Tim.