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  • Apple on verge of major retail push into Latin America, first stores to open in Mexico City

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    Since when has Argentina (or Chile for that matter) been neighbouring Mexico ? 
    Americans don't get out much.  Ok, that's a bit unfair - some do if there are people to kill or Oil to grab.
    singularity

  • Samsung warns it will have a tough year in 2016

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    When you read reports on this news on other sites, competition from a host of cheap and very capable Chinese Android phones is given as a major factor in Samsung's sales decline, not just competition from iPhones.

    AppleInsider said:
    This year however, Apple is reportedly pulling its entire A10 generation of chip production from Samsung's fabs and making TSMC its sole supplier.

    That move not only erases considerable revenue from Samsung's LSI, but also threatens to leave its state of the art fabs underutilized, either with nothing to build or reconfigured to manufacture less valuable components. With Samsung in an increasingly desperate condition, Apple faces the weakest significant competition it ever has in the smartphone and tablet markets

    That could have a devastating impact on Samsung's ability to invest billions of dollars for continued innovation in chip fabrication, while also funding the development of advanced production of chips in Taiwan, Korea's primary fabrication rival.

    With Samsung in an increasingly desperate condition, Apple faces the weakest significant competition it ever has in the smartphone and tablet markets. It also opens the door for Apple to negotiate new component deals with Samsung at less favorable rates, further making Apple 2016 easier while complicating things for Samsung, the company that builds more than half of the world's Android phones.
    If Apple are pulling their entire A10 chip production from Samsung, what components will Apple be able to negotiate better rates on?

    I hate to break the bad news, but Samsung are reportedly going to be manufacturing 14nm chips for AMD.  They are already supplying high end Exynos 7420 CPUs to Meizu and of course they make 14nm processors for Qualcomm.  Then of course there's the 14nm chips they are making for Nvidia.  But let's not let any facts get in the way of the truth or a good Samsung dis.

    Poor Samsung, making low value - whoops, that's not true is it - 14nm chips for everyone except Apple.  Things couldn't possibly be bleaker for them.

    Have you thought of writing fiction instead of factual articles?   This work shows promise in the former field.



    techlover

  • Apple stock closes first negative year since 2008, but Wall Street upbeat

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    dmdev said:

    Not to sound cynical, but this performance works out pretty favorably for Apple's stock buyback program.
    Lol.  If Tim Cook had not done the bidding of Carl Icahn, like a good little lap dog, and had instead significantly increased didvidends, I think the share price would have appreciated considerably.
    palomine

  • Brean Capital tells investors to ignore 'noisy' supply chain, focus on longterm iPhone success

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    sog35 said:
    This just shows what an ABSOLUTE FAILURE Tim Cook is.

    The entire Wall Street and Investors still believe that all Apple is is the iPhone.
    That is a massive FAILURE on Tim Cooks part.  He had 4 years to rewrite the message that Apple is an ecosystem company not a pure hardware company. He has FAILED.  He either has to hire someone who can articulate the vision or he needs to step down.
    It's not Tim Cook who needs to 'stand down'.
    rogifan_oldnolamacguyalexkhan2000freshmakercornchipjony0

  • Apple to pay Italy $348M, sign accord to circumvent allegations of unpaid taxes

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    SpamSandwich said:
    Shouldn't Italy's beef be with Ireland, not Apple?
    I thought that all of these tax laws in EU countries were supposed to be "harmonized"? That wasn't Apple's fault. Apple should sue the EU for unfair trade practices and lodge a formal complaint with the WTO.

    If this "tax disaster" continues (and it could potentially cost Apple many billions in lost profits), Tim will be fired. The shareholders will demand it and the Apple BOD will be obligated.
    You thought wrong. There are those in the EU who WANT tax laws to be harmonised but my guess is the break up of the EU would be more likely.

    Stop spouting BS. Everyone in the room knows Apple has been possibly the most aggressive company on the planet when it comes to creating and implementing tax minimisation schemes and has been getting away with it to an insane degree. They have been skating on thin ice and everyone knows it. Squealing that it 'wasn't Apples fault' is incomprehensible.

    You are are a prime example of why the EU should never, ever, ever, ever, ever proceed with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or anything like it.
    argonaut