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robin huber said:

I own quite a bit of stock but never got a proxy. Used to. 

Contact your brokerage's customer service desk. They should be sending proxy materials either by snail mail or by e-mail. I haven't received hardcopy mailings for a decade now (I have family members who still receive paper proxy materials).

If your brokerage firm balks, file a complaint with the SEC. Brokerages are required BY LAW to provide shareholders with proxy materials. And then find a new brokerage.

Best of luck.

randominternetperson said:

Brought to you by Nike, apparently.

Surely I'm not the only one to notice Tim's shoes or the fact the Nike shoes appears later in the video.

I know that Apple has a minor partnership with the Apple Watch, but this seemed gratuitous. And, no, there is no way it was just happenstance.

Apple and Nike's partnership will be twenty years old next year. It started in 2006 with a pre-iPhone iPod+Nike sports kit, essentially a proto-AirTag for activity monitoring (step counting, etc.). Perhaps you're too young to remember it.

https://dollarmakers.com/nike-and-apple-inc-a-successful-partnership/

The Apple Watch Nike+ project came out ten years later in 2016, so almost reaching ten years.

Anyhow, it makes sense that Apple would evolve its marketing presentations. The world doesn't stand still. For sure Apple prefers a highly controlled message delivery that a live presentation doesn't guarantee.

The external Apple SuperDrive peripheral was a stupid product, insanely overpriced and wouldn't work with Windows PCs (the firmware was programmed to look for a Mac).

While there were once lots of companies that slapped their name on optical drives, the mechanisms were from a limited number of companies. There are only a few players left in the optical drive manufacturing world. I think the big three were LG, Pioneer and Samsung for years and I could have sworn that one of them just announced that they were quitting the optical drive business. 

The Mac mini will power a slimline USB drive, the problem is they normally use two ports: one for data plus a second to provide ample power for the optical drive mechanism. You are better off plugging in the drive into a powered USB hub (especially one that includes some charge-only ports).

A couple of years ago I needed to replace a failing Blu-ray slimline drive. So I bought a 5.25" internal Blu-ray drive (LG I think) and shoved it into an appropriate 5.25" enclosure to make it an external device. The larger mechanisms are more sturdy than the slimline drives. Naturally the enclosure has its own AC adapter to provide power. This is a better solution than a flimsy slimline drive in my opinion.

These Apple rumors are getting nuttier and nuttier with each passing week.

At some point one needs to think whether these are actually worth reporting. 

How many times has AppleInsider posted an article about the Apple TV television set? Dozens for sure, if not over a hundred over the past ten years. After a while, anything "predicted" by "legendary" ANALyst Gene Munster ended up being a joke.

And even the recently instituted rumor score meter isn't based on analyst accuracy ratings. It's just some random score determined by site staffers often grossly inaccurate and itself the subject to doubt and ridicule.

Now I realize that AppleInsider -- like all tech media sites -- worships at the Altar of the Almighty Pageview but there is a tipping point between healthy and reasonable speculation and sheer silliness. For each person that threshold is different but for sure veteran Apple watchers will have more skepticism than many other newcomers to technology. Crossing that threshold too many times just erodes confidence and as some people know trust is earned.

Anyhow, thanks for the Sunday morning funnies. Nice break from glancing at Premier League fixture scores. And that's coming from a Yank who has no vested interest in English football.

  

Xed said:

bloggerblog said:

I had never felt so protected from late or missed payments as when using ApplePay, even my bank tries to sneak in a dollar here or there. ApplePay is my preferred payment method by far. The US Consumer Financial "Protection" Bureau is just another financial arm that wants to feel legit and cash grab like the EU.
Who do you think pays the $90M? Us the consumers of course!

Not only do I prefer Apple Pay when it's available, but since getting the Apple Card it's increasingly become my primary card everywhere Apple Pay is available. (save for a few specific types of usage where I get more than 2% to use a different card, like travel and fuel).

Additionally, I use Apple Cash as a middle man for moving cash between accounts without having those accounts directly connected and of course to send most people money. While I do wish there was a way to send money to Android users that was akin to Venmo , I don't want it to hinder Apple Cash in any way.

Well, enjoy your Apple Card now because Goldman Sucks is exiting the consumer banking industry which includes ditching Apple Card. Whether or not Apple can find another issuing bank to take over remains to be seen but there is almost zero chance that if a financial institution agrees to pick up Apple Card, they will not acquiesce to all of Apple's conditions. You will get fewer conveniences and benefits from whoever is the next issuing bank of Apple Card.