Apple Reports Second Quarter Results • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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Post by hollandheese » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 4:13 AM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #121

hollandheese wrote: post #95

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>I haven't seen any peripheral that still uses USB-A in a long time. Wired Mice, Wired Keyboards, Thumb drives, external hard drives, printers, webcams, external cd/dvd/bluray drives, etc.. What peripherals do you look at? Barely any of them use USB-C unless they're explicitly USB-C docks, or Thunderbolt peripherals.

Maybe you're just seeing older models. But every new device today is overwhelmingly shipping with USB-C.

You've obviously never purchased anything from Logitech. Nor have you looked at external hard drives (not SSDs).

Re: Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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Post by hollandheese » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 4:26 AM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #108

sseagull wrote: post #104

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I got a Surface 7+ recently and really like it. I can put full desktop applications (firefox + ublock origin, pycharm) and have it better mirror my dev environment with WSL. Windows 11 on a tablet is really not that bad. (I also run linux on a desktop and have an iPhone and Apple Watch, so not a hater by any stretch of the imagination)

The Surface has come a long way. I had (and still have) a Surface Pro 3 that had pretty much everything going for it: excellent build quality, great high-res screen, nice optional keyboard and decent PC-grade specs. There were two major flaws, though: 1. Linux support was pretty bad. You needed a custom kernel for an enjoyable experience, and even that was pretty unusable on anything other than x11 GNOME. 2. The over…

I have a m3 Surface Go 2. It's making a fairly decent Linux tablet with Arch using Gnome 42 (Wayland) and the mainline kernel. The camera doesn't work well, but everything else does including LTE.

It's actually a ton faster in Linux, but with a bit worse battery life.

The biggest flaw with using Linux on the earlier Surface line was the shit Marvell Wifi. That would drop out all the time. So glad they switched to Intel for the later ones.

Re: Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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Post by tdfx » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 4:32 AM UTC

presentation wrote: post #120

tomatowurst wrote: post #107

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am I alone in appreciating the touch bar? I just love being able to press debug, step over and into code, switch to a different window and be able to quickly access context aware functionality. Oh and its so damn quiet and fast, I'm loving the M1 processor downside are the two usb-c and the endless accessories that are quite expensive

I had a touchbar mac since it came out and i probably touched the touchbar around 3 times

I have it configured so that the touch bar just shows F keys at all times. It's a really technologically advanced row of F keys for me, only difference being this extra advancement has no tactile feedback.

Re: Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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Post by bee_rider » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 5:12 AM UTC

chrischen wrote: post #129

bee_rider wrote: post #126

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It is clearly possible to find workaround, but it seems weird to need one on a $2000 laptop when other companies manage to fit it on cheaper, thinner laptops.

Your requirement of a USB Aport to satisfy an esoteric accessory is a niche use case. They are not going to include A USB A just like why they won’t add a firewire port to satisfy that 1%. Pretty much all new keyboards, even niche ones, now come with Type C standard. Plus you are making a huge deal out of the graceful degradation of attaching an adapter to your keyboard. If we’re going to permanently retrofit somethi…

I think we might just be posting from different universes or something. Where I'm at USB-A is not really a niche interface. I don't know what to tell you.

Re: Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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Post by audiometry » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 5:29 AM UTC

idoh wrote: post #75

parkingrift wrote: post #37

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I use the iPad Mini for taking handwritten notes and it works beautifully for that use case. I would use an iPad Pro as my "laptop" if Apple would let me run macOS. It's a Macbook Air but without a directly attached keyboard saddled with an inappropriate OS for the hardware.

What do you use for your notes? Is it crazy to just use the built in Notes app?

My student son put me onto Notability yesterday (I got a new ipad pro). It's pretty cool. He swears by it for all his math and economics lectures.

Re: Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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Post by adam_arthur » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 6:11 AM UTC

floatinglotus wrote: post #124

These earnings are insane! Check out the P/E of the stock tomorrow even after it goes up at the open, the stock is still a steal at this price.

25-30x PE is not a steal lol. What kind of funny math is that?

Re: Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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Post by AlchemistCamp » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 6:16 AM UTC

tmp_anon_22 wrote: post #112

spaceisballer wrote: post #82

I’m not surprised that the iPad has a decline. My son has a few year old 9.7” iPad and it works great still. Consume media very easily and even have games. I can notice the difference between it and my 2018 iPad Pro but I could see people are just not going buy new ones every year or two. I’d like the M1 iPad Pro but it’s not worth the jump in price.

Outside niche games that require performance, there is just no reason to upgrade a dumb media device.

I use mine mostly for drawing.

Re: Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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Post by rileymat2 » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 7:10 AM UTC

dubcanada wrote: post #113

username_my1 wrote: post #90

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Because of something called P/E ratio

That has about as much to do with earnings as a coin flip. If it was entirely that everyone would just buy based on P/E. and since that’s a public number all stocks would be predictable. Instead we have TSLA at 128 P/E and AAPL at 28 P/E, MDB is at 9 P/E and was -2 a few months ago. None of that makes sense it’s purely speculation. I’ve seen stocks completely miss and fly off good guidance. And stocks beat by a lot a…

Stocks are risk adjusted speculation, we want to think they are not, but it is simply not true.

Re: Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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Post by zaphirplane » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 8:21 AM UTC

malshe wrote: post #116

Net sales: $97 billion Operating income: $30 billion Net income: $25 billion Net sales by category in millions - iPhone : $50,570 Mac: $10,435 iPad: $7,646 Wearables, Home and Accessories: $8,806 Services: $19,821

What !! Mac 20% of the iPhone cash cow, come on hire 20 more devs for macOS

I know m1 switch took some effort

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Post by dontlaugh » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 8:37 AM UTC

rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #125

hollandheese wrote: post #95

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>I haven't seen any peripheral that still uses USB-A in a long time. Wired Mice, Wired Keyboards, Thumb drives, external hard drives, printers, webcams, external cd/dvd/bluray drives, etc.. What peripherals do you look at? Barely any of them use USB-C unless they're explicitly USB-C docks, or Thunderbolt peripherals.

This is all kind of old tech though. Mice, keyboards and printers have been wireless for ages. Yes, I realize there's a gamer population that prefers wired peripherals for the latency, but some gamers only play on CRT monitors for the same reason - it doesn't make them not outdated tech. If I started a new job and they gave me a wired mouse I'd think they hate me. The storage solutions you listed (thumb drives, hard…

I bought a brand new external hard drive last week and it comes with USB A. All of the competing products were the same.

USB C has replaced microUSB for most devices, but USB A still dominates by a long margin.