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In the Times article, a guy claims that his watch called 911 after making a sound “ like an air-raid siren” following a strength-test game at an amusement park. if you hear your phone making a extremely loud noise for 10 seconds, and you’re not in the middle of anything too important, wouldn’t you take a look to see why it was making that noise? It seems like he should take some responsibility for this.

mikethemartian said:

I wouldn’t rely on any investment advice made publicly available. If an investment bank really had superior information and/or modeling than the rest of the industry, they aren’t going to give it away for free.

It’s not broadly open to the public, for the most part; it’s a service that they provide to their clients, with the understanding that if clients are happy with their service, they will direct order flow to them, which results in commissions. But it is true that they often retain their best information for their best customers, because it can be of less value of everyone has the same information at the same time. They might also provide tips to their best customers before making it available more widely, because you can make a lot of money by being among the first to act on the information. Everyone wants to be the first person their broker calls when something is happening. 

Maybe people were reading the New York Times article that counted slowing iPad demand among Apple’s problems before noting that iPad sales were up 30%. (“Doomed”)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/technology/apple-revenue-profit-iphone-sales-slow.html

I guess we’ll find out today if this has any basis in reality. The problem with these supply-chain rumors is that you have to have reliable access to every supplier for a given component for it to mean anything, and Apple tries to maintain multiple suppliers in multiple regions for anything they can, to mitigate risk, as Tim Cook has pointed out repeatedly. And even if the components are 100% sourced from one company, they may not all come from one factory, so one factory’s data might be meaningless on its own. 

Thanks for this. As Jodywoodcock noted, it’s very common and frustrating to see all of the news articles that conflate rumors with fact with sloppy or intentionally misleading wording. Rumor websites like AI probably deserve a little more leeway in that respect than sites that claim to be primarily focused on news, but it’s always preferable to have the material presented as it is, with as much detail and analysis as possible, and let the reader decide what to do with it.