In a roundabout but easy calculable way - it came to about $1.3M.
"Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job. According to figures from the FBI and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Comey's annual salary as of January 2015 was $183,300. Without a raise or bonus, Comey will make $1.34 million over the remainder of his job."
Apple failed to submit $118M of taxes for just their Japan iTunes unit. The actual revenue in question would be multiples of this amount since $118M represents just the taxes owed. This likely means Apple has been failing to pay this over several years.
This was when the industry still used phone subsidies to attract customers. They stopped that a few years ago. It was replaced with paid-for upgrade plans like AT&T's Next and Apple's "Upgrade Program", where the user pays a perpetual monthly equipment fee for the right to upgrade.
If you've been following the news, pre-order demand for the iPhone 7 has been exceeding all expectations. Originally most analysts believed demand for the iPhone 7 would be tepid because by all measures it's a marginal update over the 6s/6+. Then the day after the iPhone 7 was announced T-Mobile launched a free upgrade program that allowed iPhone 6 users to upgrade their phones to a 7 simply by turning their 6 in...along with committing to service for 2-years. This is the first time such a huge subsidy has been offered on a single phone purchase ever since subsidies were discontinued in the USA market (ironically by T-Mobile with their "uncarrier" promotion). On the same day T-Mobile announced the free upgrade, Verizon and AT&T followed as well.
It might just be that the carriers are using this promotion as way to compete and steal customers from each other, how they used to do before phone subsidies were stopped, and will eat the upgrade cost themselves. On the other hand, it might just be a sneaky way for Apple to get a bunch of these future-diseased iPhone 6's out of circulation, to allow them to avoid a massive recall. Apple kills two birds with one stone with this strategy - they take back the 6, which they can fix and resell into overseas markets that can't afford brand-new iPhones anyway and where Apple has been killed by lower-priced Android offerings - and they goose domestic demand for an otherwise-tepid release of the iPhone 7. The strategy may be working - Apple's stock price is up over 15% since T-Mobile and others announced the upgrade program.
Actually the government understands statistics very well when it comes to evaluating the cost/benefit of product safety issues vs the potential risk to human life. In fact the government uses a risk model that requires them to place a monetary value on an individual life - right now that value is $9.1M for the EPA, $7.9M for the FDA, and $6M for the DOT.
All these congressman get outside counsel from moneyed lobbyists. Shit, the lobbyists sometimes write the final legislation themselves. I don't see what's unique in this scenario.
Replace the A/V driver that handles the webcam with module that mimics the webcam driver interface but streams a video file of the user's selection. My choice would be a video of a donkey show.
I have a silver Galaxy S7. I usually get about one comment a week about how nice the phone looks. After the Note 7 recall happened when people ask the model of my phone and I tell them the Galaxy S7 they cringe and ask "the one that explodes?". So it's looking like people are associating the brand-new Galaxy with the issue instead of the specific Galaxy Note 7 model. Or maybe they're associating the number 7. Either way, Samsung might want to look into the feasibility of changing the brand name for future models.
If you refer back to my original post it's not a single organization that would pay $20M. And yes, $20M is just an estimate. For support of myestimate look up how much the FBI paid for the exploit on the San Bernardino phone - it was $1.3M. And that was for a single instance, single phone.
Judging by the posts to the threads on MacRumors, I count weight failed updates for every successful one. Naturally there's some participation bias there but still. And when it fails users are required to connect the phone/tablet to iTunes to recover. If they're not near their personal computer (at work for example) then they're screwed until they get home.
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From "Digital Homicide" to "Digital Suicide".
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That is, the hands of the mechanics combating desperately to keep them operational and airworthy.
In a roundabout but easy calculable way - it came to about $1.3M.
"Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job. According to figures from the FBI and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Comey's annual salary as of January 2015 was $183,300. Without a raise or bonus, Comey will make $1.34 million over the remainder of his job."
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article...
The cost of the upgrade is returned back to the buyer in monthly installments over the term of the 2-year contact, so the net cost is $0 plus taxes.
Apple failed to submit $118M of taxes for just their Japan iTunes unit. The actual revenue in question would be multiples of this amount since $118M represents just the taxes owed. This likely means Apple has been failing to pay this over several years.
I posted this in the original article thread from a few weeks ago. Reposting it here again in case anyone missed it.
Skip to 13:00:
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This was when the industry still used phone subsidies to attract customers. They stopped that a few years ago. It was replaced with paid-for upgrade plans like AT&T's Next and Apple's "Upgrade Program", where the user pays a perpetual monthly equipment fee for the right to upgrade.
If you've been following the news, pre-order demand for the iPhone 7 has been exceeding all expectations. Originally most analysts believed demand for the iPhone 7 would be tepid because by all measures it's a marginal update over the 6s/6+. Then the day after the iPhone 7 was announced T-Mobile launched a free upgrade program that allowed iPhone 6 users to upgrade their phones to a 7 simply by turning their 6 in...along with committing to service for 2-years. This is the first time such a huge subsidy has been offered on a single phone purchase ever since subsidies were discontinued in the USA market (ironically by T-Mobile with their "uncarrier" promotion). On the same day T-Mobile announced the free upgrade, Verizon and AT&T followed as well.
It might just be that the carriers are using this promotion as way to compete and steal customers from each other, how they used to do before phone subsidies were stopped, and will eat the upgrade cost themselves. On the other hand, it might just be a sneaky way for Apple to get a bunch of these future-diseased iPhone 6's out of circulation, to allow them to avoid a massive recall. Apple kills two birds with one stone with this strategy - they take back the 6, which they can fix and resell into overseas markets that can't afford brand-new iPhones anyway and where Apple has been killed by lower-priced Android offerings - and they goose domestic demand for an otherwise-tepid release of the iPhone 7. The strategy may be working - Apple's stock price is up over 15% since T-Mobile and others announced the upgrade program.
Actually the government understands statistics very well when it comes to evaluating the cost/benefit of product safety issues vs the potential risk to human life. In fact the government uses a risk model that requires them to place a monetary value on an individual life - right now that value is $9.1M for the EPA, $7.9M for the FDA, and $6M for the DOT.
All these congressman get outside counsel from moneyed lobbyists. Shit, the lobbyists sometimes write the final legislation themselves. I don't see what's unique in this scenario.
Some mistakes have to be made ourselves before we can learn from them.
BYOD
Replace the A/V driver that handles the webcam with module that mimics the webcam driver interface but streams a video file of the user's selection. My choice would be a video of a donkey show.
I have a silver Galaxy S7. I usually get about one comment a week about how nice the phone looks. After the Note 7 recall happened when people ask the model of my phone and I tell them the Galaxy S7 they cringe and ask "the one that explodes?". So it's looking like people are associating the brand-new Galaxy with the issue instead of the specific Galaxy Note 7 model. Or maybe they're associating the number 7. Either way, Samsung might want to look into the feasibility of changing the brand name for future models.
At least this means they're finally looking into updating the model. It's been a while.
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If you refer back to my original post it's not a single organization that would pay $20M. And yes, $20M is just an estimate. For support of myestimate look up how much the FBI paid for the exploit on the San Bernardino phone - it was $1.3M. And that was for a single instance, single phone.
The organizations that would make the exploit worth $20M don't advertise their intentions to buy on public web sites.
I'd put the value of that kind of exploit north of $20M. Biggest buyer would be governments around the world.
How about turning off TouchWiz as well.
Stop trying to "get it right". You're not the arbiter of art or journalism. Just stick to what you do best - monetizing people's privacy.
Judging by the posts to the threads on MacRumors, I count weight failed updates for every successful one. Naturally there's some participation bias there but still. And when it fails users are required to connect the phone/tablet to iTunes to recover. If they're not near their personal computer (at work for example) then they're screwed until they get home.
If Apple puts that on the screen then they should except 1M+ support calls from users asking where the any key is.