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  • Editorial: Will Apple's 1990's 'Golden Age' collapse repeat itself?

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    Kuyangkoh said:
    model a1181 said:
    Amen Brother Daniel.  Spot on as usual :p
    Hahahahaha in the 80s, Apple has no $billion in cash hordes, now making mistakes won’t have a dent on their pocket. New Buildings are aimed at directing moving back to america w their billions tax breaks. 
    Apple did in fact have cash on hand of at least $1b in the late 80s and it’s been over $1b each year since except 1993 and 1995.  
    bakedbananas

  • Editorial: Will Apple's 1990's 'Golden Age' collapse repeat itself?

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    cornchip said:
    In school (specifically the creative arts & design), the teachers (the good ones anyway) usually push the best students to do even better. The mediocre students generally don’t get driven as hard or minor details called out as being in need of correction.

    it simply comes with being the best. If you regularly dish out so-so work it’s hard to know where to start critiquing, and student gets a b or b-. For the student that regularly cranks out amazing work, it becomes easier to call out specific flaws, and will get an a or even a b+, even though the work compared to the b student is obviously far superior. It’s tough being the best.
    Did you post this here by mistake?  
    pscooter63

  • Apple amping up purges of apps that are similar to iOS 12 Screen Time

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    wonkothesane said:
    According to their logic, they should kill also any calendar apps, note apps, maps apps, etc. 
    something doesn’t make sense here. 
    The reason it doesn’t make sense is these articles all cast what Apple is doing as removing competing apps, which is false. These apps were removed because they use private APIs and expose personal information of users. 

    If Apple simply removed competing apps the Netflix, Spotify, Word, Excel, and hundreds of other apps would be gone. 
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  • Apple payment to Qualcomm estimated at $6 billion, with $9 per iPhone sold in royalties

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    MacPro said:
    So much for this being kept secret eh?  So far both stocks are up so that is a good thing.  I for one am glad cooler heads prevailed. We own both.
    No secrets have been revealed. If you actually read the article you’ll see that the number is an estimate by an analyst. 
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  • Judge tosses lawsuit against Apple over Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities in iPhone & iPa...

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    ChampionPower said:
    In order to stop these crazy lawsuits, we need to have he losing party pay the legal fees of the prevailing party. Conversely judges should be allowed to throw-out various lawsuits if these appear superficial based on existing and past case law. Finally, the patents trolls need to be enjoined from bringing any lawsuits unless they or their legal business partners are exercising the patent in a product.
    The rules of civil procedure provide for attorney fees to the prevailing party in a motion to dismiss or motion for summary judgment. Rule 11 also provides for dismissal of frivolous lawsuits. 

    Your last point is up to Congress, but likely would violate Article 1 Section 8 of the constitution, as well as the 5th amendment. Plus it would be unworkable in practice. 
    dewme