flaneur

wigby said:

ihatescreennames said:

cornchip said:

Admitted? was it a secret?

Right. Also, I’m not clear on how that bolsters Qualcomm’s case. It seems like they were the only game in town and still decided to abuse that position. 

And all of the tech blogs have the same shoddy reporting and reader reactions. Not sure if it's symptomatic of Apple tech blogs or just tech bloggers' inability to analyze legal proceedings.

Or just think and write clearly in general.

airnerd said:

Will some of that $100M be to subsidize the losses that will come with supersonic transport?  You can't make money on planes that size that need all the special gate equipment and excess fuel.  It's a novelty, as was the Concorde which was used to reward the tier members as very few people paid the cash it cost to ride on the Concorde.  


Anything that brings a new plane to the market I'm a fan of, but the technology doesn't exist to make a profitable business plan using supersonic travel.  There is zero chance they can get the CASM in line with subsonic travel at 55 seats on the plane and have a RASM >$0.  

Those were slower times, the Concorde era. The market outlook has improved for faster global transport. More people with wider connections with more money. The Concorde was just ahead of its time.

 The imperative with these things in the history of technology is that they will be done if they can be done. Example: landing and reusing first stage rocket boosters.

rogifan_new said:

Cook needs to stop talking or if he does talk stop being so defensive. Oh and if the ecosystem is under appreciated by the market whose fault is that? Cook’s.

He doesn’t sound at all defensive to me, but just flatly reasonable in his response to the insanity of the finance/tech media.  

ericthehalfbee said:

avon b7 said:

Damage control and totally expected and logical. 

As usual he will be 'thrilled' to announce Apple's second largest revenue results with so many headwinds in place and that is also logical and expected.

Company wide things are not bad but iPhone needs to be looked at - closely.

iPhone needs to be looked at?

Bullshit.

I’ll see that and raise you one. It’s horseshit.

lorin schultz said:

flaneur said:

k2kw said:

bdkennedy1002 said:

You can accept marketing words for $1000, or you can not be stupid and return it until you can get one that isn’t bent and doesn’t pop out of the extra $50 to $200 case you want to put it in. Would you accept a bent car they are supposedly developing? That’s not trustworthy to me. 

Better to either wait till the next model or buy the 2017 iPP.    Plastic = cheap POS.   If this is bad now what sort of screen problems could these bends cause in two years.  Is Apple smart enough to drop everything to re-engineer it now, probably not.    Cook probably sees this as a way to sell more AppleCare.

You really belong with the slimers at MacRumors, not here.

So anyone who thinks Apple dropped the ball or is doing a less-than-stellar job of addressing the subject is a "slimer?"

Does that mean that I'm a "slimer" because I think the keyboard Apple supplied with my five-thousand dollar laptop is not up to the standard I expect from a product in that category?

I actually appreciate others sharing their impressions of how Apple's design decisions affect their use of the product, both positive and negative. I might have been inclined to think the absence of USB-A, ethernet, and HDMI ports was a liability until I saw a rebuttal explaining how every USB-C port can be any of those things. That helped me make an informed buying decision even though the discussion arose out of someone complaining about Apple's design.

If I misunderstood what you meant, I'm open to clarification.

Yes, @K2kw is a consistent groundless attacker of Apple’s ethics, and in this and probably in other cases, Cook’s. It ain’t funny, and it contributes to mindless Apple hatred to the like-mindless uber cynics out there — his fellow slimers. The reason this site is tolerable or even enjoyable is the relative absence of these characters, in contrast to MacRumors for example.

I doubt whether you think Cook would be so chicken-shit as to tolerate destructive structural defects in order to sell more Apple Care. This was the last straw for me, was for @radarthekat too.

By the way, I have one of those keyboards too. Apple screwed up in real-world testing. It happens, especially on new, potentially great refinements. I like the feel of the keyboard very much. I also vacuum it often, trying not to brush the dust into the cracks between the keys.