The stock market won't let them release a high-end model every two years. If you read carefully what I suggested there wouldn't be a huge rush for the iOS feature update because I said that they would release it when it was ready. They could announce it for release in a particular quarter when they were getting nearly done and then as they were completing items start narrowing down the release date always with the provision that if testing found something it could lead to delays. Apple could still announce the new iOS with the phones but say it will ship when it's ready.
Only the team that was updating iOS with changes to deal with new hardware changes and features would have the hard deadline. However that's a much smaller number of changes, mostly device drivers. Many of the things announced are features of iOS. I'm proposing just making that iOS can interface with the new camera and any new hardware. If Apple want's to take advantage of any new features of the camera then they wait until the feature release gets sent out later on. Just focus on getting the new phones out into the wild and working.
The idea of using stainless steel containers for ice cream seems to be silly just for when you are handling the item. It's also going to let the heat at the ice cream as steel is a much better conductor than cardboard. Instead of having a separate pickup stream it would be easier to drop the containers into the recycling and divert them at the sorting centre.
As for the other items it seems very wasteful to be ordering these small things being delivered on their. It's be much better to partner up with the current online retailers to get them to stop using cardboard boxes and then push the new packaging to the retailers. Again let the recycling pick up the empty packages and divert as needed. Also let the recycling pick up the empty totes with a modification so that they aren't damaged. There's no need to to dispatch courier trucks around to pick up empty plastic boxes.
They want to create a duplicate system to pick up the items to recycle. Use what's already in place as people are used to it.
Then they also started to sell off the mapped interior data to third parties to "server the customers better." When they started doing that, and not having a way to turn the "feature" off, is when I decided to stop looking for a robot vacuum as you know the competitors will be doing it too.
The US can't even send a person into space and hasn't been able to for years so I don't know why you are looking down at China for. They have more capabilities in space than the US does right now. Maybe you could hitch a lift into orbit sometime with them?
They've deliberately abused the application testing program in order to harvest user data that they couldn't get by getting that application deployed through the App Store. If almost any other company did that I bet Apple would kick them off the App Store and make an announcement about how they are protecting your privacy. But since it's Facebook and they provide so much money to Apple I figure that the project will be closed but Facebook will just start a new one.
Definitely not. By focussing on privacy they are differentiating themselves from Google, Facebook, and all of the others.
What they need to do is stop the strong focus on the iPhone. They had a huge lead in certain markets such as graphics design with their computers but they've completely lost it by not updating their Mac Pro line in years. Apple needs to really focus on their computer lines again, especially the Pro desktop. It would be great if they did something unique such as using their own CPUs in a desktop. They have experience transitioning platforms pretty smoothly (from PowerPC to Intel) and they could easily do it again. People will come back if Apple shows that they will stay focussed on the line. It will also help balance the revenue and stop it being so dependent on one product.
The other big thing they need to do is to break the releases of the iPhone and iOS. It's creating a period of a few months each year where the developers are racing to fix bugs because iOS was released too early in order to meet the schedule of the iPhone. Apple should break out a small group from the iOS developers and have them implement the functionality required for the new phones. This would be released as an update to the current release. Then the next release of iOS would get released when it was ready to go out. It's better for the users and much better for the developers.
I'm wondering if the Google phone number stays just for the ad because that could create some awkward situations. Say I call up a locksmith and it's during the last week of their ad campaign. I make an appointment for them to drop by the next week to change some locks but I need to change the appointment the day before. So I've added the number to my contacts list because I didn't know it was a special number and I dial it and get a tattoo parlour or a competitor.
You went a bit far with the both trust Google part. I'm sure that some do and many don't care. There are some, like myself, that trust them as far as I could throw their HQ. Of course that's still more than I trust Facebook.
Your scenario doesn't explain why they need to record your call.
Or they sold their mass production machines when the work dried up over a decade ago. It all went over to China. The shop went to high-precision work and they were trying to do the work with slower machines. It's not like you can order a new mass production machine and have it installed in a couple of days.
Besides the screw was an example about all of the problems that they were having setting up a supply line in the US.
They sold their mass production equipment in the 2000s when the mass market dried up and turned to high precision work and equipment. That's why the screws were taking so long to produce. The higher the precision the slower the production rate, in general. You can't blame the owners for selling the equipment. They wouldn't know it would be needed a decade later.
As was pointed out below the 450, 000 jobs most likely included those knock on jobs. But just because Apple spent money with the companies in the US doesn't mean all of that money stayed within the US. Just like when you buy an iPhone, iPad, or Mac in the US, not all of your money stays within the US. Some of that goes to those suppliers in the US. There are also supplies in Asia that are paid. Most of the actual components are fabricated in Asia so money ends up there for that. I would bet that many of those 60 American suppliers have overseas production facilities.
Then those companies have all of the other costs of doing business such as utilities, taxes (federal, state, local, sales, payroll), facility costs, shipping, cost of manufacturing if it isn't software, legal, sales, etc. Plus they want to be making a profit to keep the shareholders happy.
The money Apples sends to suppliers can't just be divided by the number of estimated jobs to come up with a salary for them. Besides, those companies (hopefully) have other customers too.
Nuclear is location specific too. Not just because of NIMBY. You need a large supply of water for cooling.
Location isn''t a problem. You can use HVDC transmission to get the electricity to where you need it. Geothermal is a lot better choice right now because it takes so long for a nuclear plant to be built and it's so expensive to build one.
The other week the UK had a set back on their nuclear plant building plans when Hitachi pulled out of building a £16bn plant in Wales. Hitachi also shelved a second plant that they were supposed to build too. There was a third plant that Toshiba scrapped last year.
I used to buy loose-leaf tea online fairly regularly from a place that would use styrofoam peanuts to pack their orders. They didn't need to as it was unbreakable and they used boxes that were just about full for the order. I would write in the comments not to use the styrofoam peanuts but they continued to do so.
So I wrote to the company and asked them to stop. They replied that it was okay to use them because they were made from a "bio" source and not fossil fuels. In response I said it didn't matter what they were made from if all I could do is throw them into the garbage as I couldn't recycle them or put them into the compost. I suggested that a simple piece of paper would fill the box just as well with the added benefit of the customer being able to put it into the recycling. If they were worried about breakage when shipping glassware they could still continue to use the "bio" styrofoam peanuts. When I never heard back from them I went and found another supplier to deal with my tea addiction.
I've kept hold of my 5s because by the time I was thinking about upgrading (usually I start after three years) it was all larger phones except for the SE. I wasn't interested in the SE because I see it as Apple deliberately keeping features out of it in order to make people want the larger phones. I want the smaller phone because I want to use it comfortably with one hand as I take the bus and walks lot to do my shopping which means I'm carrying groceries in one hand. Apple offered a terrible solution to use the larger phones one handed (though I don't know if they changed it from shrinking the screen to let you make one operation and then having to make the motion to shrink the screen again... wtf!).
I'm lucky that my battery is still doing great even after four years. I'm dreading when it goes because I don't want a larger phone and the selection out there is pathetic, Apple or Android.
It takes between 150 and 300 days to travel to Mars from Earth depending on the position of the two planets. If the planet orbits work that leaves you with the last departure date of August 3 (December 31 minus 150 days).
Between now and August third you have to assemble and test a whole new class of rocket, space module, habitat to live on Mars, landing system for Mars, launch system for Mars, suit for going about Mars, and lots of stuff I've forgotten. They might be able to use a rocket from SpaceX but everything else is new. I've assumed reusing existing launch capsules to get the astronauts into space.
Many of the items can be done in parallel. The rocket and Mars landing systems should be done first in order to start sending required supplies ahead to Mars. The first two items to be done would be selecting a site on Mars and choosing the crew.
However, it's still only at most a six month window, depending on the planets alignment. So while technically possible while throwing several aircraft carriers full of money at the problem it isn't practical. Even delaying it into 2020 doesn't add much to the practicality of the project. If it was to somehow save the planet then the effort would be worth it but definitely not to get someone re-elected.
He grew up rich and has been rich all of his life. He ha had people to do things for him every day of his life and so he hasn't developed real world skills such as folding an umbrella or diplomacy. He's gone through life just having to say what he wants and it gets done. Probably for the first time in his life there are other people that are telling the spoiled rich kid "No" and he doesn't know how to deal with it.
So far the US hasn't given the Canadian legal system a detailed reason why, along with evidence, they want us to extradite Meng Wanzhou. The first part of the process is to prevent the person from leaving the country, which has been done.
We are waiting for the US to file the proper documentation with the specific charges and evidence so that our judicial system can make the decision if she can be extradited according to our treaty and if she is that she won't face any punishment that deprives her of her human rights (torture, capital punishment, etc).
This being a politically motivated move the US is waiting until the last moment to file the paperwork. They don't care about the fallout this is having on Canada. Trump probably sees that as an extra bonus.
Finally there's a city that's taking action in getting those dangerous youth drivers off of the road with their difficulty to see over the steering wheel and hard time to reach the pedals.
The FDA isn't inspecting food right now. If this keeps up sooner or later we're gonna have an outbreak.
How would we tell the difference? There's so many outbreaks now, especially with lettuce, that the FDA is performing recalls rather than catching things before they reach the consumer.
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The stock market won't let them release a high-end model every two years. If you read carefully what I suggested there wouldn't be a huge rush for the iOS feature update because I said that they would release it when it was ready. They could announce it for release in a particular quarter when they were getting nearly done and then as they were completing items start narrowing down the release date always with the provision that if testing found something it could lead to delays. Apple could still announce the new iOS with the phones but say it will ship when it's ready.
Only the team that was updating iOS with changes to deal with new hardware changes and features would have the hard deadline. However that's a much smaller number of changes, mostly device drivers. Many of the things announced are features of iOS. I'm proposing just making that iOS can interface with the new camera and any new hardware. If Apple want's to take advantage of any new features of the camera then they wait until the feature release gets sent out later on. Just focus on getting the new phones out into the wild and working.
The idea of using stainless steel containers for ice cream seems to be silly just for when you are handling the item. It's also going to let the heat at the ice cream as steel is a much better conductor than cardboard. Instead of having a separate pickup stream it would be easier to drop the containers into the recycling and divert them at the sorting centre.
As for the other items it seems very wasteful to be ordering these small things being delivered on their. It's be much better to partner up with the current online retailers to get them to stop using cardboard boxes and then push the new packaging to the retailers. Again let the recycling pick up the empty packages and divert as needed. Also let the recycling pick up the empty totes with a modification so that they aren't damaged. There's no need to to dispatch courier trucks around to pick up empty plastic boxes.
They want to create a duplicate system to pick up the items to recycle. Use what's already in place as people are used to it.
Then they also started to sell off the mapped interior data to third parties to "server the customers better." When they started doing that, and not having a way to turn the "feature" off, is when I decided to stop looking for a robot vacuum as you know the competitors will be doing it too.
The US can't even send a person into space and hasn't been able to for years so I don't know why you are looking down at China for. They have more capabilities in space than the US does right now. Maybe you could hitch a lift into orbit sometime with them?
They've deliberately abused the application testing program in order to harvest user data that they couldn't get by getting that application deployed through the App Store. If almost any other company did that I bet Apple would kick them off the App Store and make an announcement about how they are protecting your privacy. But since it's Facebook and they provide so much money to Apple I figure that the project will be closed but Facebook will just start a new one.
Definitely not. By focussing on privacy they are differentiating themselves from Google, Facebook, and all of the others.
What they need to do is stop the strong focus on the iPhone. They had a huge lead in certain markets such as graphics design with their computers but they've completely lost it by not updating their Mac Pro line in years. Apple needs to really focus on their computer lines again, especially the Pro desktop. It would be great if they did something unique such as using their own CPUs in a desktop. They have experience transitioning platforms pretty smoothly (from PowerPC to Intel) and they could easily do it again. People will come back if Apple shows that they will stay focussed on the line. It will also help balance the revenue and stop it being so dependent on one product.
The other big thing they need to do is to break the releases of the iPhone and iOS. It's creating a period of a few months each year where the developers are racing to fix bugs because iOS was released too early in order to meet the schedule of the iPhone. Apple should break out a small group from the iOS developers and have them implement the functionality required for the new phones. This would be released as an update to the current release. Then the next release of iOS would get released when it was ready to go out. It's better for the users and much better for the developers.
Well, you better send you CV off to Apple and you can show them how to build they supply chain right then since you know all the answers.
I'm wondering if the Google phone number stays just for the ad because that could create some awkward situations. Say I call up a locksmith and it's during the last week of their ad campaign. I make an appointment for them to drop by the next week to change some locks but I need to change the appointment the day before. So I've added the number to my contacts list because I didn't know it was a special number and I dial it and get a tattoo parlour or a competitor.
You went a bit far with the both trust Google part. I'm sure that some do and many don't care. There are some, like myself, that trust them as far as I could throw their HQ. Of course that's still more than I trust Facebook.
Your scenario doesn't explain why they need to record your call.
Or they sold their mass production machines when the work dried up over a decade ago. It all went over to China. The shop went to high-precision work and they were trying to do the work with slower machines. It's not like you can order a new mass production machine and have it installed in a couple of days.
Besides the screw was an example about all of the problems that they were having setting up a supply line in the US.
They sold their mass production equipment in the 2000s when the mass market dried up and turned to high precision work and equipment. That's why the screws were taking so long to produce. The higher the precision the slower the production rate, in general. You can't blame the owners for selling the equipment. They wouldn't know it would be needed a decade later.
More than one customer?
As was pointed out below the 450, 000 jobs most likely included those knock on jobs. But just because Apple spent money with the companies in the US doesn't mean all of that money stayed within the US. Just like when you buy an iPhone, iPad, or Mac in the US, not all of your money stays within the US. Some of that goes to those suppliers in the US. There are also supplies in Asia that are paid. Most of the actual components are fabricated in Asia so money ends up there for that. I would bet that many of those 60 American suppliers have overseas production facilities.
Then those companies have all of the other costs of doing business such as utilities, taxes (federal, state, local, sales, payroll), facility costs, shipping, cost of manufacturing if it isn't software, legal, sales, etc. Plus they want to be making a profit to keep the shareholders happy.
The money Apples sends to suppliers can't just be divided by the number of estimated jobs to come up with a salary for them. Besides, those companies (hopefully) have other customers too.
Nuclear is location specific too. Not just because of NIMBY. You need a large supply of water for cooling.
Location isn''t a problem. You can use HVDC transmission to get the electricity to where you need it. Geothermal is a lot better choice right now because it takes so long for a nuclear plant to be built and it's so expensive to build one.
The other week the UK had a set back on their nuclear plant building plans when Hitachi pulled out of building a £16bn plant in Wales. Hitachi also shelved a second plant that they were supposed to build too. There was a third plant that Toshiba scrapped last year.
I used to buy loose-leaf tea online fairly regularly from a place that would use styrofoam peanuts to pack their orders. They didn't need to as it was unbreakable and they used boxes that were just about full for the order. I would write in the comments not to use the styrofoam peanuts but they continued to do so.
So I wrote to the company and asked them to stop. They replied that it was okay to use them because they were made from a "bio" source and not fossil fuels. In response I said it didn't matter what they were made from if all I could do is throw them into the garbage as I couldn't recycle them or put them into the compost. I suggested that a simple piece of paper would fill the box just as well with the added benefit of the customer being able to put it into the recycling. If they were worried about breakage when shipping glassware they could still continue to use the "bio" styrofoam peanuts. When I never heard back from them I went and found another supplier to deal with my tea addiction.
I've kept hold of my 5s because by the time I was thinking about upgrading (usually I start after three years) it was all larger phones except for the SE. I wasn't interested in the SE because I see it as Apple deliberately keeping features out of it in order to make people want the larger phones. I want the smaller phone because I want to use it comfortably with one hand as I take the bus and walks lot to do my shopping which means I'm carrying groceries in one hand. Apple offered a terrible solution to use the larger phones one handed (though I don't know if they changed it from shrinking the screen to let you make one operation and then having to make the motion to shrink the screen again... wtf!).
I'm lucky that my battery is still doing great even after four years. I'm dreading when it goes because I don't want a larger phone and the selection out there is pathetic, Apple or Android.
First of all by 2020 implies by January 1, 2020.
It takes between 150 and 300 days to travel to Mars from Earth depending on the position of the two planets. If the planet orbits work that leaves you with the last departure date of August 3 (December 31 minus 150 days).
Between now and August third you have to assemble and test a whole new class of rocket, space module, habitat to live on Mars, landing system for Mars, launch system for Mars, suit for going about Mars, and lots of stuff I've forgotten. They might be able to use a rocket from SpaceX but everything else is new. I've assumed reusing existing launch capsules to get the astronauts into space.
Many of the items can be done in parallel. The rocket and Mars landing systems should be done first in order to start sending required supplies ahead to Mars. The first two items to be done would be selecting a site on Mars and choosing the crew.
However, it's still only at most a six month window, depending on the planets alignment. So while technically possible while throwing several aircraft carriers full of money at the problem it isn't practical. Even delaying it into 2020 doesn't add much to the practicality of the project. If it was to somehow save the planet then the effort would be worth it but definitely not to get someone re-elected.
He grew up rich and has been rich all of his life. He ha had people to do things for him every day of his life and so he hasn't developed real world skills such as folding an umbrella or diplomacy. He's gone through life just having to say what he wants and it gets done. Probably for the first time in his life there are other people that are telling the spoiled rich kid "No" and he doesn't know how to deal with it.
But they could be in debt because they bought the latest iteration of a smartphone from any manufacturer and that would be worth stealing.
We had a treaty obligation to make the arrest. You can be sure that everyone involved and all of the politicians didn't want this to happen.
Sorry but the US came into WW1 in 1917. Late just like they were for WW2.
So far the US hasn't given the Canadian legal system a detailed reason why, along with evidence, they want us to extradite Meng Wanzhou. The first part of the process is to prevent the person from leaving the country, which has been done.
We are waiting for the US to file the proper documentation with the specific charges and evidence so that our judicial system can make the decision if she can be extradited according to our treaty and if she is that she won't face any punishment that deprives her of her human rights (torture, capital punishment, etc).
This being a politically motivated move the US is waiting until the last moment to file the paperwork. They don't care about the fallout this is having on Canada. Trump probably sees that as an extra bonus.
Just goes to prove that there's no intelligent life out in the universe.
Finally there's a city that's taking action in getting those dangerous youth drivers off of the road with their difficulty to see over the steering wheel and hard time to reach the pedals.
The FDA isn't inspecting food right now. If this keeps up sooner or later we're gonna have an outbreak.
How would we tell the difference? There's so many outbreaks now, especially with lettuce, that the FDA is performing recalls rather than catching things before they reach the consumer.