Real GDP is the net of domestic output minus price changes, ie inflation. Look into how our inflation measurements have been contorted over the years and you'll see how it's "grossly" under-reported, thus GDP is overstated.
Hell hath no fury like an Apple fanboy scorned. And to address the non-insane portion of your post, if you'd like merit, aka evidence, look at how every single Apple product in recent history has required a class-action suit to redress Apple's failing to stand behind their products.
I don't disagree with you, but even if Apple's failing was in design and/or testing they could resolve it by not shirking their responsibility to stand behind their products, which they almost never do unless forced to via class-action suits.
In most companies, if the first tier of tech support is unable to resolve your issue it gets escalated to a 2nd tier of support personnel. At Apple it gets escalated to black hole, requiring customers to file class actions to get resolution.
The fact that they moved the datacenter project to Denmark, where the business tax rate it 24.5%, much higher the Irelands 12.5% suggests your theory is lacking.
Or it suggests you might have a binary view of the factors that influence their data center location decisions. Before the EU crackdown Apple was paying essentially 0% corporate tax, which allowed them to compensate for potentially higher operating costs and lower power-grid reliability in Ireland vs the center they already had in Denmark [they already have two there now].
If you're going out of your way to detect whether a flash part has even just 5% use on it [as proof of it being pulled from a previous installation] then I have to question the motivation here. For sure reuse should be disclosed but it also shouldn't be prevented.
Apple sold almost exactly the same number of phones as last year. Unless you think they can keep increasing the price of their phones or somehow makeup for the loss of unit growth by selling billions in services then the profit growth for the company is nearing its end.
Because everyone has different ideas about what a modern society should be.
Apparently they do because different countries have vastly different social policies regarding even basic elements of society like education, crime, and healthcare.
No, the challenge is that it's much harder to define an objective methodology for measuring the success of education than it is for measuring an infant mortality rate.
Distance is fixed. Time to travel is not. It might take driver A 5 minutes to cover a distance, driver B might make it in 3. The distance is the same for both. Also, changes in traffic pattern may also alter the time. But distance will remain the same. I can totally see why Google Maps prefers to give you the distance to your turn.
Hence the "at your current speed" proviso included the verbal time reference. And it could use a rate of progress calculated via a running average of speed per unit of distance relative to the distance remaining to be traveled. And it can use the rate of progress of other drivers for the same segment this driver is traversing to make the calculation even more precise - Google already uses this information for their color-coded traffic maps.
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Or perhaps that's just the skeptic in me talking.
Then they're definitely not going to break up Facebook, provided of course Facebook throws enough money to politicians and K Street.
since the Hindenburg....
Iams tiping ths messssage on gbored rit now and itz worken grate.
After which the virus will find another way to infiltrate human cells. It's hard to win a race against something that has a 200,000 year head start.
Pretty much describes the life cycle of every country and corporation, from its idealized conception to its fall into the corrupt and greedy abyss.
It can do it all, from simple Tic Tac Toe to Global Thermonuclear War.
Real GDP is the net of domestic output minus price changes, ie inflation. Look into how our inflation measurements have been contorted over the years and you'll see how it's "grossly" under-reported, thus GDP is overstated.
Hell hath no fury like an Apple fanboy scorned. And to address the non-insane portion of your post, if you'd like merit, aka evidence, look at how every single Apple product in recent history has required a class-action suit to redress Apple's failing to stand behind their products.
I don't disagree with you, but even if Apple's failing was in design and/or testing they could resolve it by not shirking their responsibility to stand behind their products, which they almost never do unless forced to via class-action suits.
In most companies, if the first tier of tech support is unable to resolve your issue it gets escalated to a 2nd tier of support personnel. At Apple it gets escalated to black hole, requiring customers to file class actions to get resolution.
The fact that they moved the datacenter project to Denmark, where the business tax rate it 24.5%, much higher the Irelands 12.5% suggests your theory is lacking.
Or it suggests you might have a binary view of the factors that influence their data center location decisions. Before the EU crackdown Apple was paying essentially 0% corporate tax, which allowed them to compensate for potentially higher operating costs and lower power-grid reliability in Ireland vs the center they already had in Denmark [they already have two there now].
Have they considered device-level encryption?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/apple/apple-agrees-pay-15-4-billion-back-taxes-ireland-even-n826701
A self-referential AI feedback loop.
Now they're worried about illegal aliens from other worlds.
Then what does that say about the millions of people who have to rely on the subway to get to their jobs?
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/android-distribution-news/
If you're going out of your way to detect whether a flash part has even just 5% use on it [as proof of it being pulled from a previous installation] then I have to question the motivation here. For sure reuse should be disclosed but it also shouldn't be prevented.
Apple sold almost exactly the same number of phones as last year. Unless you think they can keep increasing the price of their phones or somehow makeup for the loss of unit growth by selling billions in services then the profit growth for the company is nearing its end.
Because everyone has different ideas about what a modern society should be.
Apparently they do because different countries have vastly different social policies regarding even basic elements of society like education, crime, and healthcare.
No, the challenge is that it's much harder to define an objective methodology for measuring the success of education than it is for measuring an infant mortality rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out
Distance is fixed. Time to travel is not. It might take driver A 5 minutes to cover a distance, driver B might make it in 3. The distance is the same for both. Also, changes in traffic pattern may also alter the time. But distance will remain the same. I can totally see why Google Maps prefers to give you the distance to your turn.
Hence the "at your current speed" proviso included the verbal time reference. And it could use a rate of progress calculated via a running average of speed per unit of distance relative to the distance remaining to be traveled. And it can use the rate of progress of other drivers for the same segment this driver is traversing to make the calculation even more precise - Google already uses this information for their color-coded traffic maps.