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Re: Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Post by notatoad »

haunter wrote: post #11

Kind of telling that 1, the iPhone outsells every other category by 5-7x ratio, and the Mac (which includes everything from Macbooks to Mac Minis to iMacs) barely sells more than the iPad. 2, Services (iCloud, apps, music, TV shows etc.) now bigger than every other category, except the iPhone, combined Basically 76% of the sales are iPhones and Services (millions) iPhone $209,586 Mac $33,708 iPad $28,023 Wearables, H…

i'd love to know how much of that "services" revenue is just iCloud storage for storing iPhone backups.

Re: Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Post by ghaff »

tbirdny wrote: post #139
pram wrote: post #101

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Changing a pad/disc/caliper isn’t “hard” but it’s time consuming and very messy. Most people probably don’t find spending 2 hours getting the car jacked, tires off, etc to be a good or enjoyable use of time!

I wish it took 2 hours. For me it's spend 2 hours shopping for the right part, finding it for a good price, and ordering it. Then spend an hour watching youtube videos for how to do it. Then spend 4 hours gathering the right tools, getting the car jacked, tires off, etc., then put everything away, and clean up. That's the best case. I could get the wrong part, my car looks different than the videos, I do it wrong, or…

A lot of people here are probably equally proud that they built a a DIY PC from scratch which I did many times. But just don't have an interest in doing any longer and screwed up a bunch along the way.

I also choose not to mow my lawn at this point. I'm perfectly capable of doing so but just prefer not to do so,

Re: Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Post by piskov »

lm28469 wrote: post #124
j1elo wrote: post #105

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I really don't get how people do research work (like finding good flight tickets, or comparing hotels to stay in for a trip) without a computer. I really cannot stand seeing websites in a small screen without the ability to quickly open 4 browser windows with 4 tabs each for different combinations of dates, for example.

You don't really have to buy a new laptop every year though. If it wasn't for my work provided laptop I'd still use my 2015 mbp

You don’t have to buy a phone every year either

Re: Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Post by apatheticonion »

j1elo wrote: post #105
haunter wrote: post #11

Kind of telling that 1, the iPhone outsells every other category by 5-7x ratio, and the Mac (which includes everything from Macbooks to Mac Minis to iMacs) barely sells more than the iPad. 2, Services (iCloud, apps, music, TV shows etc.) now bigger than every other category, except the iPhone, combined Basically 76% of the sales are iPhones and Services (millions) iPhone $209,586 Mac $33,708 iPad $28,023 Wearables, H…

I really don't get how people do research work (like finding good flight tickets, or comparing hotels to stay in for a trip) without a computer. I really cannot stand seeing websites in a small screen without the ability to quickly open 4 browser windows with 4 tabs each for different combinations of dates, for example.

I feel exactly the same way. There are personal finance management softwares that are mobile exclusive.

Like, have you tried doing data entry on a phone? Who is using these products?

Re: Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Post by embedding-shape »

leptons wrote: post #154
jdross wrote: post #115

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How often do you get a meaningfully better result than google.com/flights? Outside of booking with points, it's all basically the same thing and I can book on google on my phone in under a minute

I hope you don't think booking travel ends with the flights. There's so much more to getting the most out of a trip than the flight, or the hotel.

That's the thing for us whose life is mostly "by the seat of their pants", there really isn't. You book the tickets, you go there, see what you feel like doing, do those things, and go home. Done that for all my travels more or less, never felt like I missed anything and had a blast most of the times.

I still do everything important on a computer and wouldn't book the flight on a smartphone, but that probably says more about my age than anything else.

Re: Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Post by koyote »

jdross wrote: post #115
moduspol wrote: post #114

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I have literally watched my in-laws plan and book a vacation from their smartphones. From their house, where they also have computers. They're quite different from my side of the family, but the biggest thing is that they've never been big planners. Everything is by the seat of their pants. If you're like that, you're probably OK with taking one of the first three SEO-optimized search results and making it work. Mean…

How often do you get a meaningfully better result than google.com/flights? Outside of booking with points, it's all basically the same thing and I can book on google on my phone in under a minute

I could go into detail how being able to have a dozen tabs open almost always gives a better result than simply picking the first flight on google flights. But let's assume there's no difference:

Do you really want to use a phone's on-screen keyboard to type in your family's passport details, address, then credit card numbers, then review all of this to ensure your $2000 purchase doesn't have any typos or mistakes? If you have the choice to use a real computer for this, then why not? It's not like booking a big trip is something you do while sitting on a bus.

Then of course there's accommodation, itineraries, visas, trip research...

Re: Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Post by rconti »

giobox wrote: post #143
rconti wrote: post #126

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I don't follow. Every time I drive my car I release the parking brake. On the cars with electronic brakes, you use a button rather than a lever. I'd do it the same way to service the brakes.

A lot of electronic parking brakes do have a service mode. For most modern Fords, there is a procedure, as one example of many: > https://www.brakeandfrontend.com/quick-answer-electronic-par... You typically need the piston fully retracted to replace pads, which very rarely happens just by disengaging the park brake. If you are old enough to have changed a manual handbrake pad, you normally had to screw the piston ba…

Huh. Interesting. I've never replaced the parking brake mechanism or (separate) pads myself, though I've done a handful of brake jobs.

On the cars I've worked on, the hand brake did not actuate the primary caliper so retracting the piston wasn't an issue.

Re: Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Post by fnordpiglet »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #113
fnordpiglet wrote: post #60

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I don’t think so. The GPU die itself isn’t the key it’s the interconnects and data center scale infra coupled with their closed software. If it were just GPUs AMD is better positioned than Apple.

"If it were just GPUs AMD is better positioned than Apple." Is that true? Does cash mean nothing?

I assure you if AMD could sell a story to take even a fraction of Nvidia’s market share they could raise as much capital as they want.

Re: Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Post by willis936 »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #109
willtemperley wrote: post #68

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I wonder how much the Windows 11 debacle will increase Mac sales by.

It's hard to see someone living under a rock for this long suddenly deciding to switch the Mac. I suspect iPhone adoption has done a lot more toward Mac adoption.

I was under that rock. Bought a used M1 pro this year for $600 and tossed the wheezing XPS 15 aside.

Re: Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Post by christophilus »

KerrAvon wrote: post #158
leptons wrote: post #156

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We have a 2015 MPB that can no longer receive OS updates, because apple reasons. And because it can't get the latest OS, it can no longer run Signal, or the latest Adobe stuff that we need. So we ditched Apple and bought a Dell. So far it's working great.

Get back to us if that Dell makes it 10 years without catastrophic failure or pieces falling off.

Dell XPS or whatever the new name is, or their premium line? You’ll be fine in 10 years. Dell low-end garbage? Not a chance.
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