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  • Apple iPhone SE teardown reveals mashup of iPhone 5 & 6 series chips, few new parts

    rob53 said:
    Why are you saying Apple's parts come from a "parts bin"? This term is used for antiquated parts, usually from garbage PCs, but never from Apple products. Using this term, then saying it's also using parts from the iPhone 6s makes it sound like the 6s is also using old parts. Just because Apple is using some parts from the 5s doesn't mean those parts aren't any good. I see the iPhone SE as a smaller 6s, not a reloaded 5s. Give it its due instead of making fun of it.
    In the auto biz it is not.  When Ford uses the engine of the Mustang in the Ranger or the HVAC controls of one SUV in another vehicle the auto magazines refer to it as reaching into the 'Ford parts bin'.  It is not a negative connotation unless the part itself is dated.  In the case of the A9, certainly not a bad thing to pull that from the 'parts bin'.
    pscooter63
  • San Bernardino's top cop says it's likely 'there is nothing of any value' on iPhone the FBI wants A

    Maybe get a few contacts out of a phone vs make millions of phones unsafe and foreign products more appealing.  If it works out like the cloud fiasco we can drive another 100 billion out of the US economy.  Which makes the USA stronger, having 100 billion dollars of economic activity or maybe a few bits of information that can probably be gathered elsewhere?

    stsklostkiwijbdragoncalicornchipbadmonk
  • Judge orders Apple to access iPhone belonging to San Bernardino shooter [u]

    It sounds like Apple is being asked to install software that prevents the built-in code that auto-deletes/destroys the phone's content when too many bad password are attempted (brute force attack).

    In other words, it will give the FBI an unlimited  number of password retries.

    To paraphrase Mission Impossible:
    "This phone will self-destruct in 5 seconds."
    Apple can sort of do this with specialized tools.  The phone memory can be imaged.  Then a new phone with the same serial numbers and other parameters can run that copy and do a few tries.  It would be labor intensive but the limited retries can be gotten around by extreme measures. 
    muppetry
  • Apple sells 74.8M iPhones, rakes in $75.9B in revenue in company's biggest quarter ever

    ac1234 said:
    sog35 said

    ...Really the only thing that can stop this drop is the buyback....

    What are you smoking????  How has the $100,000,000,000 spent on buybacks gotten us thus far?  Oh - that would be the same stock price that AAPL was trading at 3.25 years ago.

    Buybacks to prop up stock price is a huge sign that the markets have no confidence in the stock - and very fleeting in effect.
    Buybacks increase the EPS and reduce dividend expenditures.  They also take stock out of weak hands.  There are a lot of weak hands but the stock would indeed be lower without the buyback. 
    paulmjohnsonRayz2016