Bill Donahue on How to steal $9.5 million worth of Apple stuff - 'Didn’t Apple use the “find my” utility to track down stolen iPhones and computers from an iStore in the States last year or the year before, resulting in the capture of the thieves?'
on John Gruber: '$599. Not a piece of junk' - 'Has anybody noticed that the MacNEO has a “3.5 mm headphone jack” (aka RCA jack)? Boy if that doesn’t motivate some switchers holding onto legacy peripherals, nothing will. Apple has really addressed the reasons why people continue to buy cheap PCs, and given them lots of reasons to upgrade to Macs. Competitively Priced Aluminum Chassis vs Plastic Best Screens Best Speakers Best Keyboards Best Silicon Best Battery Life Best AI Experience Best Services Best Economic Life Best Customer Support Best Security and Privacy Etc, Etc, Etc. All while PCs are going up in price due to rising memory costs. I wonder how much of that Windows market share (~75%) is in the $500 – $700 price range. That range has got to be the bread and butter of the Windows trade.'
on John Gruber: '$599. Not a piece of junk' - 'No, Joe, you didn’t fix anything. I differentiate. I doubt that Windows software has Apple’s software margins, so I intend to be specific in differentiating Apple’s margins from others’ margins (I will acknowledge that I could be wrong in comparing Apple’s margins to others’ margins), and I particularly intend to differentiate Apple’s *software* margins from Apple’s *hardware* margins. I believe that software margins and hardware margins are quite different. So, although the hardware may be profitable, I believe that it is more important that the hardware sells software and “buys” new customers into the ecosystem.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Read more Daily Beast. You’ll be able to get ample TDS juice there or from MSCOW. I was kind of enjoying recently what my AAPL money is being spent on here at Apple 3.0'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Just before the close at $259.88, AAPL hit $261.15. I think the word’s trickling out that AAPL is undervalued….'
on CBS Sunday Morning celebrates 50 years of Apple (2 videos) - 'The latest is that Apple’s unannounced AI powered home device will be late because of Siri. Sigh… More clickbait extracted from dark orifices….'
on CBS Sunday Morning celebrates 50 years of Apple (2 videos) - 'If it wasn’t a puff piece I agree. I would have asked harder AI questions AND why Cook feels the need to jam his head so far up a pedo’s ass. You don’t have to be adversarial to the admin, I get it, Trump is a narcissist and like a baby needs constant coddling to validate his sense of self-worth. But you don’t have to suckle at the tit quite so hard.'
on CBS Sunday Morning celebrates 50 years of Apple (2 videos) - 'Jonathan, I appreciate your observations and had a similar perception of oddness! Steve always felt lively, imaginative, evolving, intuitive, demanding, inspiring, driving and open. Tim, especially in this interview, comes over as repetitive, stale, flat and static. Culture is nothing flat, static and repeatable, it has to be alive in the here and now.'
on John Gruber: '$599. Not a piece of junk' - 'Upvoted and adding. Apple brilliantly avoids the “incumbents” dilemma. Sure, they’ll lose some sales of higher-end Macs, maybe iPads, to the Neo. Apple gains so much more. 1) Taking share from Window, Surface, and Chrome Books. 2) Future sales of higher end Macs to the kids buying (or their parents) buying the Neo. 3) Potential AI Apps running on Neo. 4) Future higher-end Neos. On the last point, today’s Neo has a narrow price and option range. That range will expand upwards, over time, by a lot.'
on John Gruber: '$599. Not a piece of junk' - 'I also think the Neo may well be a boon if the economy worsens or we see a recession. Apple’s ASP might drop slightly if people buy Neos instead of more expensive Mac laptops, but market share could rise even more. People need laptops but Apple now gives them a great one when their finances may be more constrained.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - '@Rodney I’m not happy about this situation, but it is not gratuitous Trump bashing. The attacks on Iran are directly affecting our economy and Apple. Stock prices are sinking not because of bad corporate decisions but because of decisions coming out of the White House. Every morning I check the news to see what fresh hell has been visited upon us by Trump.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Monday morning, and so far 3 out of 4 posts are not Apple related. PED, we really do need a daily Trump Post so that everyone can get what they want off their chest, and the other posts can remain somewhat Apple related. It could actually be somewhat benign, as in General News of the Day'
on How to steal $9.5 million worth of Apple stuff - 'This blag seems to have been palmed or helped by an associated inside heister mole.'
on How to steal $9.5 million worth of Apple stuff - 'One would think that the market for these goods would be someplace where someone doesn’t check serial numbers as these kinds of goods have plenty of ways to be identified once installed. So domestic data centers would be very vulnerable if found to have stolen chips installed.. Of course there are a lot of stupid people who don’t realize they will get caught. So how do the thieves get there goods out of the country if that is the market they are serving? A lot of stolen cars in the US are shipped out so I expect the same shippers are involved with something like this.'
