cnocbui

ChampionPower said:

sog35 said:

iPad is getting canibalized by 6+ and 6s+

Well as Mr. Cook has noted in the past, Apple research indicates that the repacement cycle for iPads is far less frequent than that of a iPhone device. People will upgrade to new iPads once more compellling new features are added to a new 'must-have' iPad device.

Say hello to files, for iOS.

sog35 said:

cnocbui said:

When they are clearly lying about their profit - you betcha.

Give me a friken break. 
The profit calculation is based on Australian tax law. Go fix the tax law if its broken.  But don't be blaming Apple for following the law and taking advantage of it.

No, you give me a 'friken break'. The profit is based on 'we made up (inflated) the value of the IP our Irish subsidiary bought from the US and poured into each and every item by virgins using  Unicorn horns as  funnels, so as to make it look like they cost a shit load more to make than they actually did'

I made a simple proposal of a fix for the tax law which is so broken they might as well say, stuff it, don't pay any tax at all.

williamh said:

cnocbui said:

That's 'taking the piss'.

I propose that where a company declares income greater than AU$100 M on finished manufactured goods and their profit to be less than 25% of that income, just tax them at 20% of income.

I guess you just want higher prices and fewer choices, right?  You are proposing that Australia levy a tax that is higher than a company's profit or else mandate that the profit margin be greater than 25%?  Does that really make sense to you?

When they are clearly lying about their profit - you betcha.

boredumb said:

cnocbui said:

What? I don't see the relevance.

Perhaps the "relevance" will turn out to be a smaller protrusion on the back of the phone...?

The patent is for a curved sensor + lenses to suit.  The whole point of doing that is you can get away with far simpler lens configurations and not have huge distortions, which you would get with a flat sensor without a complex multi element lens using a variety if different materials.  I don't see how the canon cameras mentioned relate to this patent as they don't have a curved sensor to reduce distortions.  Fixing distortions with software is not as good an approach as not having them in the first place - which is the point of the Sony and Apple patents.

Ah - looks like Sony might be able to make them if they can put that much stress on the wafer to bend it that much, which I doubt.


In 2013, Sony was awarded a patent for a number of lens designs, including the rather simple 35mm f/1.8 lens paired with a curved image sensor shown above.