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zoetmb said:
Why should Apple follow the competition?

Not follow, maintain pace. Outstrip (like the old days) would be nice, but I’d like to see them prove they can just keep up at this point.

Furthermore, someone who is already using Macs doesn't care what Dell, HP or Intel is doing and vice versa.   They only care if there's a Mac that fits their specs at the time they need another machine.

And so shouldn’t Apple have a computer or two there? So that we can, you know, get that fit? Speaking of individuals, it has become fully impossible for me to “proselytize” to quite a few potential switchers in the last five years. I can’t recommend the Mac Mini anymore. It’s just too old, and it’s locked down so that oldness can’t be improved upon. And we’re doing only annual updates with the laptops and iMacs now? If Intel is going to have this problem of FINALLY hitting the wall on Moore’s Law, then Apple has to either change their CPU source or stop their longstanding tradition of not updating products unless there’s a new CPU family. And it sure as hell looks like Intel just can’t cut it anymore. When’s the last time they didn’t push a deadline back?

fastasleep said:

Well, it's true still, their new tax haven in Jersey is in the English Channel and not the Caribbean.

This gives me a thought. I wonder if Google’s plan for those floating server barges wasn’t to eventually declare one of them their “headquarters” and station it in international waters so as to avoid taxes... I also had a vision of Apple’s circle campus floating in the ocean with those orange floaty things ringed around it.

anton zuykov said:

JohnnyCanadian said:

When someone begins a statement with "Honestly speaking" it is a fairly reasonable indicator that they are not speaking honestly. It's like using "no offence" or "I'm not a racist, but ..."; they tend to be followed up with offensive or racist verbiage.

Just like ( by the same logic of yours)the phrase “ it is a fairly reasonable indicator” means it is not a reasonable indicator at all. So, you have kind of chopped off your own legs here...

I’m not a paraplegic, but saying “chopping off your own legs” is not a fairly reasonable indicator of need for a wheelchair. 

PickUrPoison said:

Why would you prefer a short pre-announcement period, like if they only announced it right now for September? How would that help you, knowing nothing for the last 9 months?

If it’s a brand new product, it doesn’t matter. IF IT’S THE MAC PRO, WHICH HASN’T HAD AN UPDATE IN FIVE FUCKING YEARS AND WHICH HAD A NEW MODEL ANNOUNCED TWO YEARS (NOW) BEFORE IT COMES OUT, then that’s a serious problem. It means that virtually zero of them are going to be sold in those two years. It means that the greater the time between announcement and delivery, the worse impression Apple receives from its users. How is that intelligent? Was Steve the only one left alive at the company who knew about the Osborne Effect?

spice-boy said:

...you are all fighting to save it from having to pay taxes…

No. You are either illiterate, willfully ignorant, or simply MALICIOUSLY POSTING. And you know it. Either try again without fallacies or don’t bother.

None of you live in Cupertino is my guess so you probably don't have an accurate grasp of what Is going on…

More fallacies. We don’t need to live there to know what is happening. I don’t need to eat shit to know that it won’t taste good. Isn’t that interesting? It’s almost as though it’s instinct or something, and that said instincts can be applied to critical, higher-order thinking.

...if a local government decides to tax Apple to help it cope with the cities transit problems…

They can do that. Sure. THEY JUST HAVE TO TAX EVERYONE ELSE, EQUALLY, TOO.

I gladly pay it each year because our transit system is underfunded by state and local government and is falling apart due to the transit authorities spending money on info kiosk with large screens, and wifi while ignoring maintenance and systems which keep the trains actually running on time. 

So you… GLADLY… pay people who YOU OPENLY ADMIT are laundering, squandering, and misusing your taxes. You gladly pay it. You GLADLY give your currency to these people. You don’t… want change. You just give it to them. What the hell? Are we missing some information from you here?

...because Apple can afford it…

This isn’t even REMOTELY an argument. Move out of the US if you think this it is acceptable behavior for the government to take more from you because you can “afford” it.

...and it is morally obligated…

Oh boy.

foregoneconclusion said:

C. Infrastructure spending stimulates the economy by putting more money in circulation. Massive cash stockpiles do not put anything into circulation.

Look, John, we’ve tried your economic policy for decades. It’s an abject failure. A complete fucking farce. An embarrassment on the order of (the hoax of) Catherine the Great, only it’s not the rich who are getting horsefucked; it’s everyone else. Enough of this shit. Stop lying. Stop pretending it’s real. Stop thinking that we’re going to fall for this garbage. Your entire economic policy is completely defeated by simply asking, “Why not just tell the Federal Reserve to print a trillion more dollars, because that’s more “money” in circulation?” Come on, man.