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Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

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Re: Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

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Post by mythz »

scarface74 wrote: post #385
mythz wrote: post #384

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> Another presidential candidate said he would “clear the swamp”. How did that work out? She's never been a presidential candidate, but what do the words of a pathological liar have to do with anything? That no-one can be trusted and everyone will always do the opposite of what they say they'll do? If you've followed the House meetings AOC has participated in you would've noticed that she's been committed to exposing…

Okay. Let’s make it a little less political. When good intentions meet reality where each house of representative member spends more time fundraising than working ( https://www.termlimits.com/congress-fundraising-priority/ ) and since more states are Republican than Democrat - meaning that the Senate doesn’t represent the people in proportion to the population (every state has two Senators regardless of population),…

> Okay. Let’s make it a little less political... What are the chances that a Democratic President will get anything done?

This has instead segued into predicting the hypothetical effectiveness of a unknown future Democratic President...

I'm Australian so it's not going to affect me, but from the outside it looks like the U.S. has, with the assistance of a foreign adversary, unknowingly elected a corrupt, cheating, racist, inept pathological lying demagogue as its head of government. If he's elected again after showing his true colors, the rest of the world's going to think the majority of the US population is complicit and in-support of his views. Personally I'd say give a Democratic President a chance at restoring decorum to US politics.

In terms of effectiveness, IMO U.S. major problems with cost of Health Insurance, Gun Laws and frequent Massacres wont be resolved within my lifetime. They might have a chance with Health Insurance as Obama was able to implement ACA and it looks like its one of Sanders and Warren's major campaign promises to implement Medicare for all, but they should be able to make progress on their other campaign promise of reducing Wealth Inequality. Warren is especially motivated on reining in Wall Street [1].

[1] https://medium.com/@teamwarren/end-wall-streets-stranglehold...

Re: Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

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Post by auggierose »

scarface74 wrote: post #365
justapassenger wrote: post #361

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It's a market that they largely created, and that was their super-power. And now it's up to them to figure out next big thing, if they want to keep their lead and valuation. They can still be very successful company without that. But not necessarily as one of the world most valuable companies.

They did not create the smart phone market. By 2004-2005 the average middle class American had cell phones. Cheap prepaid phones could be bought for less than $100 with minutes. The Nokia candy bar phone was already selling well in developing countries. The BlackBerry, Windows Phones, and Palm phones were already selling. It was already clear when Apple was entering the market that the cell phone was gaining ubiquity…

fucking cloud computing

they should provide a cloud on which you can use Metal compute

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Post by randomsearch »

S_A_P wrote: post #32

I have thought long and hard about upgrading my iPhone 8 to one of the new X models, but I don't like the lack of a home button. I guess I am officially old now, but I dont want to look at my phone to unlock it. I like that I can reach in my pocket, and unlock it with my thumb as I retrieve it. It may be user error, but I see several co-workers have to really train the phone on their face to unlock with Face ID. That…

The X is superb. Upgrade! So long as it’s not a big financial stretch, you won’t regret it.

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Post by Lio »

petra wrote: post #335
david-cako wrote: post #302

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It’s a commoditized market and Apple’s success blueprint is out for everyone to see, yet no one else can adapt mid century design principles and “high fashion” style marketing to technology. This sounds like shilling (and I do own Apple stock) but I’m serious. Compare the Apple remote (with the iOS “emulator”), Apple TV, and Airplay to Chromecast’s UX, for instance. Apple does have special sauce. They make tools that…

Apple's main value is it's brand. Being a status symbol. Second is their customer lock-in. Those can carry lots of value. And even strength, maybe. But growth ? And design ? Google can design well enough. Their interfaces are easy and fun to use. Beyond that, regular people don't care.

Design UI well enough? I guess it depends on what you are used to.

For me, Google will always be the company that high-jacked scrolling to use for zoom. That still trips me up every time I have to use Google Maps or any other mapping service that copied them on a laptop with a trackpad.

They could keep that default (misguided as I personally think it is) if they just provided an option to let scroll be scroll but they don't.

I'd much rather pay a premium for Apple's UI. I think they do a better job and it's worth paying for.

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Post by Lio »

ses1984 wrote: post #159
hanniabu wrote: post #146

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They removed the escape key? What the..... I'm never going to retire my 2013 MBP at this rate.

It's very easy to remap caps lock to escape.

Not so much when you already remap the Caps lock key to Ctrl though.

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Post by Lio »

jnevelson wrote: post #259
SomeOldThrow wrote: post #190

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If only it were so easy to remap my hand! Caps lock is already dedicated to control and most apps don’t support ^[.

Check out Karabiner Elements ( https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ ). You can create a rule to change caps lock to control if pressed with other keys, else escape if pressed alone. I have no affiliation with it, just ran into this issue myself and it solved it for me.

That kind of highlights an issue for me though. If Apple were really on the ball with macOS they would have a better remap utility built in.

Instead we have Karabiner Elements which has been of mixed stability in my experience.

Many times I've had it completely disable the internal keyboard on my late 2013 MBP to the point where I have to plug in a USB keyboard to recover or if on the road do a force power reset.

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Post by Thlom »

david-cako wrote: post #302
ajross wrote: post #293

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Stock values aren't only about earnings. Amazon continues to be a growth bet, and their low earnings are because their income has historically been reinvested productively to access new markets. A quick google shows their 2018 revenue was up 31% over 2017, which was up 31% over 2016, which was up 27% over 2015. You don't buy Amazon for a share of the amount they're making today, you buy them for a share of the much b…

It’s a commoditized market and Apple’s success blueprint is out for everyone to see, yet no one else can adapt mid century design principles and “high fashion” style marketing to technology. This sounds like shilling (and I do own Apple stock) but I’m serious. Compare the Apple remote (with the iOS “emulator”), Apple TV, and Airplay to Chromecast’s UX, for instance. Apple does have special sauce. They make tools that…

I got a new cable box with Chromecast built in a couple of months ago. Still don't know how to use it.

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Post by sah2ed »

samfisher83 wrote: post #20

This is how it did compared to expectations EPS: $2.18 vs. $2.10 estimated by Refinitiv consensus estimates. Revenue: $53.8 billion vs. $53.39B estimated by Refinitiv consensus estimates. Q4 Revenue guidance: $61 billion to $64 billion versus $60.98 billion estimate by Refinitiv consensus estimates. iPhone revenue: $25.99 billion vs. $26.31 billion estimated by FactSet. Services revenue: $11.46 billion vs. $11.61 bil…

I’ve also wondered how these estimates are produced with fairly high accuracy. Would be interesting to read more on their methods.
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