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P-DogNC said:

volcan said:

Wi-Fi in large venues can be really unreliable. Remember when Steve was trying to demo some Wi-Fi feature on stage and it failed because there were something like 500 hot spots in the room. You get 50,000 fans in the seats, you are bound to have hundreds of people with the hot spot on their phone still active even though they aren't even using it. Some technologies just don't scale well and Wi-Fi might be one of them.

But the story said that MLB hadn't reported problems similar to those of the NFL. Baseball has plenty of fans in the stands using Wi-Fi as well.

The big difference is that the iPads are preloaded, and are completely offline during the game. WiFi isn't an issue if the iPads are offline

gatorguy said:

ireland said:

How do you move that amount of data?

Its simply a paperwork shuffle. IP ownership can be transferred (in name only) wherever they find it most advantageous. For now that place is Ireland. 

BUT...
with that said the IRS is coming after Facebook for undervaluing IP they've transferred under similar circumstances. Facebook is of course fighting it as they might be nailed for $B's in back taxes if the IRS is successful, and that might lead to Apple, Google, Microsoft and hundreds of other companies paying Uncle Sam for IP transfers too. 
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/facebook-gets-3-5-billion-irs-tax-notice-over-ireland-move

Unlikely to apply here. This is a foreign-to-foreign transfer and the IRS is interested in U.S.-related transfers. The EU is taxing it though "The shift is expected to net Ireland tens of millions of euro in value-added taxes."

These folks conveniently ignore the fact that Apple is not a single U.S. company but has a separate non-U.S. subsidiary. There is NO requirement for Apple (US) to pay tax on the non-US company's activities. It's not tax avoidance at all - there's no tax that has to be paid. The situation with EU is entirely separate. That relates to how some subsidiaries of Apple International moved money around (Ireland - Netherlands - Ireland, for example). There might well be some tax payable there, as the EU alleges. But the US complaints are pure bunk coming from people who don't understand.

An OTA whole-version upgrade is making to changing the engine while in flight. It can be done but failure is to be expected. Some folks just place too much reliance upon immortality.

A side note on water-proofiness: the Apple Watch 2 is waterproof. As in, take it swimming. I will bet that a part of the "no cellular" decision was that they can't yet make a SIM tray waterproof. Splashproof - yes, waterproof - no. This is, of course, one of the reasons why Apple wants to get rid of the physical SIM and use an internal, programmable SIM. It's the carriers who are preventing that.