normm

Amazon seems to have trampled Nucleus, duplicating their product after getting all the inside info with an early investment.  

ireland said:

I'm highly suspicious of that 1.4 million jobs number. I imagine a number of those so-called jobs are not earning a living wage.

I think the 1.4 million jobs figure was Apple's estimate of the number of US iOS developers in 2015.  I assume that includes both full time and part time developers.  Developers were paid $14 billion in 2015, but I'm not sure what fraction were from the US.  That's just an average of a few thousand dollars per developer, so I would guess that no more than a few hundred thousand developers in the US earned a full-time wage from iOS in 2015. 

It's worth mentioning, though, that many other kinds of jobs/industries are aided/enabled by iOS devices/apps, which are used for point of sale (e.g. square), sales info (e.g. real estate), reference (e.g. pilots), resource management (e.g. uber), music (e.g. dj),  communication (e.g. snap), matchmaking, etc. etc.

hike1272 said:

I have and use Apple products.  I have bought-into the Apple Eco System.  I like the freedom and options of being able to shop for my repair center.  I believe in the owner's Right to Repair.  I am inclined to take my device back to Apple for a repair but I want it to be my choice.  I am displeased with Apple's position.  IMHO, Timmy's Apple is a far cry from Steve Jobs' Apple.  While neither iteration was perfect, Timmy's is lame.

At some point hardly anything in an iPhone will be repairable.  It will just be too compact and monolithic, with ridiculous tolerances and seals.  Even Apple stores won't be able to repair them.

If this article was really directed at potential switchers from Windows to Mac, it should have mentioned that Pages/Keynote/Numbers can read and write Word/Powerpoint/Excel files, though not all advanced MS features are supported.

gatorguy said:
Most people aren't hard fans of any particular platform. They simply want a smartphone in a size they like. with a display that looks the way they think it should, with features they think they'll use and a a price that meets their budget.. Most are not worthy of being tagged with an insulting name simply because they didn't make the same choice you or someone else made. 

Completely disagree.  Apple fans are extremely loyal.  Reputation means something.  Brand loyalty is a real thing.