Yeah, people and companies should be able to choose: Pay taxes and enjoy public services like schools, police, health services etc., or pay no taxes and buy all of those things from the private sector themselves.
So, should we stop punishing murderers because people are dying all the time anyway? You are chewing the cud that some oil-financed "researcher" spat into your mouth.
At the time, Apple had $1.2 billion in reserves. Unless the low stock price could have led to a hostile takeover, the market cap was not a factor. Apple would have survived without what in effect was a fine for illegally copying Quicktime code.
The first post-Jobs era did not have Jonathan Ive, chief designer of most of what Apple sells today, nor did it have Tim Cook, father of the Apple Store. Apple will do quite nicely without Steve Jobs because of those two.
So? People rarely go around memorizing founders of companies. How many remember Paul Allen of Microsoft? Larry Ellison founded what became Oracle with two other people, but hardly anyone knows the names of Robert Miner and Ed Oates. The first names of Hewlett and Packard? But it's not a big deal.
You are not joking because you actually believe that... that is the sad part.
Sure. - Not an american company: Why not, they employ 13,000 in California alone, plus many other locations in America. Yes, they do have foreign employees as well, but most large U.S. companies with an international market do. - It's not control fetish that dictates prices, customers are free to choose competing products, but people elect to buy Apple's good of their own free will. - Monopolize foreign manufacturing: In the sense that they make large orders well in advance and pay better than their competitors which try to make products "just in time". You snooze, you lose - business is not kum-ba-ya-land. - App store control: Yes, they have the same control that e.g. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo etc. have for their platforms. You are free to choose a product with a different model, like Google's after-the-fact-controlled anarchy. - "Their rules" in what sense? Only the iOS platforms are "controlled", you seem to believe that the same applies to Mac OS X? It does not. - "Commodity based hardware" in what sense? Apple are not going for the lower-end market, but their computer parts are standard PC components. - "Mandated phone service providers" is a fallacy, you are thinking of subsidized handsets, which also applies to the other smart phone platforms. You can get a non-locked iPhone if you want. - "Losing market share" - yes, but since the market is growing they are not losing that many sales. It is good to see that the competiton is actually starting to catch up though. - "foreign manufacturing under attack" - yes, the articles about Foxconn focused on Apple (and not the other 20+ U.S. companies doing their manufacturing there), even though the factories where Apple hardware is assembled have had inspections, pay raises, etc. compared to the others. - "The US consumer is finally ready to pay a little more" - sorry, that is your pipe dream. Not to mention there is no way you can establish something close to Foxconn in America. - "they had to accept a large investment from the MS to just survive as a company" - No, they got a $150 million investment at a time when they had $1.2 billion in cash, i.e. the "investment" was more of a fine for Microsoft developers having illegally copied code from Quicktime. They were doing quite nicely at the time actually. - "Their developer support and options also suck when compared to others." - written by someone who has never visited developer.apple.com - and XCode is free unlike the usable versions of Visual Studio. - "Their developer support and options also suck when compared to others. " - then why do others keep copying them? Android was turned from a Blackberry lookalike to an iOS lookalike, the "Ultrabook" is a thinly veiled copycat of the MacBook Air after that machine had been ridiculed - until it started selling like hot cakes.
You lack patience, certainly, after all it actually takes an effort to find out something instead of just making it up as you go.
Way to miss the point: I picked two statistics more or less at random, that one of them was unemployment is irrelevant to my point, which is that the person I responded to cannot compare the percentage numbers of Apple's tax burden and Apple's share of the content price in their store.
Yeah, because a percentage is a size you can compare to other percentages independent of what they apply to... For instance, U.S. unemployment at 8.2% is higher than the U.S. military expenditure as fraction of GDP. But what conclusions can you expect to draw from it?
So much hate-driven misinformation... hardly any of that is based in actual fact. Better to ignore such ranting, you would never accept any corrections anyway.
Do you expect profit-oriented companies to have morals? And far more tax money seems to get spent on blown up Afghan weddings than are spent on "infrastructure".
And the list of companies that count their profits in Nevada to dodge taxes is very long, but I guess it is "chic" to use Apple these days, people no longer remember when Microsoft were criticized for the same thing a few years back. (Counting profits in Nevada, but using the pro-business courts in Vermont for their litigation - a true pick-and-choose on the national smörgåsbord of services.)
Microsoft does the same thing (counts profits in business-tax-free Nevada), so I gues they, too, hate America, and the other countries they trick taxes from...
The $1000 rumor was for a "full" OS X tablet, though, since "squeezing a desktop OS onto a slab" had been the standard for the more expensive Windows tablets up until then.
Yes, he means the Taliban that grew out of the U.S.-backed Mujahideen back when they were "good guys" fighting the "evil" Soviet invaders. Apparently fighting U.S. invaders is not as "good".
So you would applaud Josef Mengele as long as he published the results of his experiments on Jews? Many murderers have justifications for their actions, they still go to jail.
So since Google has 11 gourmet cafeterias in their "Googleplex" - indeed, most large enough single-company sites have restaurants of their own - they are also a cult?
Any other company could do what they do.
But they didn't. Dismissing innovation after the fact is just dumb.
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Yeah, people and companies should be able to choose: Pay taxes and enjoy public services like schools, police, health services etc., or pay no taxes and buy all of those things from the private sector themselves.
Not Apple?
You mean the company that has settled ages ago and paid Nokia 600 million in license fees last quarter? That Apple?
So, should we stop punishing murderers because people are dying all the time anyway? You are chewing the cud that some oil-financed "researcher" spat into your mouth.
Did you add them as HTML tags? Slashcode nukes most of that (except a few like i, b, quote, a). Paragraphs are separated with blank lines.
At the time, Apple had $1.2 billion in reserves. Unless the low stock price could have led to a hostile takeover, the market cap was not a factor. Apple would have survived without what in effect was a fine for illegally copying Quicktime code.
The first post-Jobs era did not have Jonathan Ive, chief designer of most of what Apple sells today, nor did it have Tim Cook, father of the Apple Store. Apple will do quite nicely without Steve Jobs because of those two.
So? People rarely go around memorizing founders of companies. How many remember Paul Allen of Microsoft? Larry Ellison founded what became Oracle with two other people, but hardly anyone knows the names of Robert Miner and Ed Oates. The first names of Hewlett and Packard? But it's not a big deal.
You are not joking because you actually believe that... that is the sad part.
Maybe this is for the PHBs and they would not want to see anything directed at "resources", like that slash... dot... net... thingy... is.
... a site about fencing, is next.
I think the phrase is "... before it was cool." :)
The technical details of BI are very geeky, so that bit could fit.
So, how many shows do cable companies and other content distributors create? I thought that was done by studios.
Sure.
- Not an american company: Why not, they employ 13,000 in California alone, plus many other locations in America. Yes, they do have foreign employees as well, but most large U.S. companies with an international market do.
- It's not control fetish that dictates prices, customers are free to choose competing products, but people elect to buy Apple's good of their own free will.
- Monopolize foreign manufacturing: In the sense that they make large orders well in advance and pay better than their competitors which try to make products "just in time". You snooze, you lose - business is not kum-ba-ya-land.
- App store control: Yes, they have the same control that e.g. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo etc. have for their platforms. You are free to choose a product with a different model, like Google's after-the-fact-controlled anarchy.
- "Their rules" in what sense? Only the iOS platforms are "controlled", you seem to believe that the same applies to Mac OS X? It does not.
- "Commodity based hardware" in what sense? Apple are not going for the lower-end market, but their computer parts are standard PC components.
- "Mandated phone service providers" is a fallacy, you are thinking of subsidized handsets, which also applies to the other smart phone platforms. You can get a non-locked iPhone if you want.
- "Losing market share" - yes, but since the market is growing they are not losing that many sales. It is good to see that the competiton is actually starting to catch up though.
- "foreign manufacturing under attack" - yes, the articles about Foxconn focused on Apple (and not the other 20+ U.S. companies doing their manufacturing there), even though the factories where Apple hardware is assembled have had inspections, pay raises, etc. compared to the others.
- "The US consumer is finally ready to pay a little more" - sorry, that is your pipe dream. Not to mention there is no way you can establish something close to Foxconn in America.
- "they had to accept a large investment from the MS to just survive as a company" - No, they got a $150 million investment at a time when they had $1.2 billion in cash, i.e. the "investment" was more of a fine for Microsoft developers having illegally copied code from Quicktime. They were doing quite nicely at the time actually.
- "Their developer support and options also suck when compared to others." - written by someone who has never visited developer.apple.com - and XCode is free unlike the usable versions of Visual Studio.
- "Their developer support and options also suck when compared to others. " - then why do others keep copying them? Android was turned from a Blackberry lookalike to an iOS lookalike, the "Ultrabook" is a thinly veiled copycat of the MacBook Air after that machine had been ridiculed - until it started selling like hot cakes.
You lack patience, certainly, after all it actually takes an effort to find out something instead of just making it up as you go.
Way to miss the point: I picked two statistics more or less at random, that one of them was unemployment is irrelevant to my point, which is that the person I responded to cannot compare the percentage numbers of Apple's tax burden and Apple's share of the content price in their store.
Yeah, because a percentage is a size you can compare to other percentages independent of what they apply to... For instance, U.S. unemployment at 8.2% is higher than the U.S. military expenditure as fraction of GDP. But what conclusions can you expect to draw from it?
So much hate-driven misinformation... hardly any of that is based in actual fact. Better to ignore such ranting, you would never accept any corrections anyway.
Do you expect profit-oriented companies to have morals? And far more tax money seems to get spent on blown up Afghan weddings than are spent on "infrastructure".
And the list of companies that count their profits in Nevada to dodge taxes is very long, but I guess it is "chic" to use Apple these days, people no longer remember when Microsoft were criticized for the same thing a few years back. (Counting profits in Nevada, but using the pro-business courts in Vermont for their litigation - a true pick-and-choose on the national smörgåsbord of services.)
Microsoft does the same thing (counts profits in business-tax-free Nevada), so I gues they, too, hate America, and the other countries they trick taxes from...
Boring AC is boring.
No, they had bad reception because of AT&T's antenna structure and signal strength. It worked fine in other countries.
The $1000 rumor was for a "full" OS X tablet, though, since "squeezing a desktop OS onto a slab" had been the standard for the more expensive Windows tablets up until then.
Yes, he means the Taliban that grew out of the U.S.-backed Mujahideen back when they were "good guys" fighting the "evil" Soviet invaders. Apparently fighting U.S. invaders is not as "good".
So you would applaud Josef Mengele as long as he published the results of his experiments on Jews? Many murderers have justifications for their actions, they still go to jail.
Cue another clubie attributing to Apple what a CNet hack wrote. Apple calls it a cafeteria.
Why go to China for inspiration? Most American universities have dormitories.
So since Google has 11 gourmet cafeterias in their "Googleplex" - indeed, most large enough single-company sites have restaurants of their own - they are also a cult?
Any other company could do what they do.
But they didn't. Dismissing innovation after the fact is just dumb.