The next iPhone is expected in the autumn of this year, 2019.
Next year's iPhone is expected in the autumn of next year, 2020.
But it seems like it is talking about this year's iPhone, not next year's iPhone.
A thousand dollar purchase takes $1000 in cash today or I can charge it and pay my credit card company $985 in about 40 days.
Being financially optimal means using a credit card - either directly or via *Pay e.g. Apple Pay. IMO, Apple Pay.is [slightly] better since the merchant does not get your credit card number, just a one-time token. So I don't care if the merchant gets hacked like Target or lots of others.
Anything space related is hugely disappointing. Most things involving society are disappointing. Software in general and Windows in particular tends to be disappointing.
But I can make phone calls on my watch just like Dick Tracy. I can crank my car from my watch. I can adjust the thermostat in my house from another country. I can pay for things with my watch or phone. Voice recognition and chess programs are further along than I expected. So there are certain things that now appear mundane that my younger self would find cool.
IANAL, but I understood that first sale applies to books and records and physical things. However, in the US, embedded software is different. E.g.: the web document
"Court rules that copyright “first sale” doctrine does not apply to pre-installed software that was licensed to OEMs" has "In a recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the court ruled that the first sale doctrine did not apply to copies of software that are pre-installed on a computer and sold by the original equipment manufacturer with the computer itself. In Adobe Systems v Hoops Enterprise LLC "
IANAL, but IMO a number of things in the US are still different regarding licensed-not-sold software vs physical objects.
I hope I do not understand "If temperatures rise by 3 C, it will knock out an additional 5 percent of GDP. That’s the entire planet’s GDP." If an additional 5% of GDP gets you to 100% (entire planet) then that is saying the lower temp are at 95% and the additional 5% would make it 100%.
What are they trying to say?
Except for investors, earnings per share is far, far more important than earnings. The price of a share of stock is very strongly related to the EPS and has almost nothing to do with earnings.
Previously, the market research was that Apple and Samsung had 99% of the smartphone profits.
Other market researchers, presumablely who include Samsung, latest was Apple had 103% of the smartphone profits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05...
Sony, it is suggested, might be better off just selling insurance.
Or just making movies and music. But not electronics.
A new report from the investment banking firm Jefferies delivered a harsh assessment of Sony’s electronics business. “Electronics is its Achilles’ heel and, in our view, it is worth zero,” wrote Atul Goyal, consumer technology analyst for Jefferies, in the report, released this week....
Its financial arm accounts for 63 percent of Sony’s total operating profit last year. Life insurance has been its biggest moneymaker over the last decade, earning the company 933 billion yen ($9.07 billion) in operating profit in the 10 years that ended in March.
Sony’s film and music divisions, which produced hits like the Spider-Man movies and “Zero Dark Thirty” and recorded musicians like the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the electronic music duo Daft Punk, have contributed $7 billion to the company’s bottom line over the last decade.
In that time, Sony’s electronics division has lost a cumulative $8.5 billion.
Hardly Sony’s crown jewels, experts say.
So my ApplePay is a safe one-time token and this new idea is to give the targets and home depots of the world access to my checking account? Is this an April's Fool post? TBH, this plan would have been fine a decade ago. But not anymore. Especially since my rights are pretty decent with credit card and abysmal with ACH/checking accounts. It's a non-starter for me
In olden days it was referred to as FUD - Fear Uncertainty Doubt. Apple's announcement dramatically lowered Moto and especially pebble's Christmas sales. You can't do that with Watch 5.0 or Phone 5.0 but you can with 1.0
I will be rationalizing my Apple Watch purchase for any number of reasons. My guess is that the biggest use case for the watches of 2018 are some cool notification and some cool haptic use.
But for now, being able to see some notifications - still easier to glance at wrist to see if it is noise or a message worth opening up.
And TBH, I quit wearing my Rolex years ago and at times it would be nice to glance at a wrist and see the time.
But shopping is the emotional appeal; no cash for legal purchases.
There are clothes lines and appliance lines that are exclusive to a particular retailer. There are even in-game bonuses you get that are different if you buy a game time/point card at Walmart versus Target versus Amazon.
Gamestop using its market power to do this is no different than it using it to get a bigger discount or larger advertising budget from the developer.
I want a new rig. After reading all the praise of gsync, that seemed like a reasonable cost-benefit to wait for that since the monitors were coming out in early 2014. Except not really. So now we have a new standard coming "year end" which probably means March or April.
I guess a new rig with a very good graphics card this summer and then do something about a new monitor at "year end." If it really is a new standard out this year, I can see a lack of enthusiasm for an nVidia-only monitors that costs an extra couple of hundred dollars and only makes sense for a few months.
That was my question as well. You can't say so at PC sites, but I thought the real growth platforms, games and non-games, were iOS and Android (in the order you prefer.)
"Wearables" will have no impact on the several thousand dollar watch market - either those for fashion or for love of the intricate mechanics.
IMO, the analogies are digital cameras and GPS devices. The iPhone 5s at al had no impact on $10,000 camera systems with Zeiss lenses. But it is getting tougher and tougher to sell a $200 digital camera.
My 70 YO brother was able to Facetime with me, without training, once he upgraded his iPad. So cameras are useful. Actually being able to see, without travel, relatives at an age when monitoring is more of an issue is valuable.
People and especially MMO players hate change so your reaction to traits is your personal preference. I still like LotRO.
However, the new lotro system is just joining mainstream MMOs. The latest WoW talent tree is very sparse - choose 1 of 3 talents for every 15 levels (six max). Most interesting talent tree by far is Rift. Try another game but I would not expect any of the AAA title except rift to have a talent tree much different than HD.
If you are an endgame raider with considerable time to devote each week, preferably with a fixed schedule then WoW is great. If not, it's not.
Of the MMOs I have played for more than 100 hours it is
SWTOR > LotRO > Rift >> WoW >>>>> EVE.
There are so many good features of EVE but the whole / community is way too toxic for my tastes.
There are many big games ramping up the hype machine but none are shipping and it is TBD what they will do. Wildstar, Elder Scrolls Online, Everquest next, Star Citizen.
The interesting, very different option is Everquest landmark the game that is the creation part of the upcoming Everquest Next.
It seems to me the real story is that someone else can place their cellphone on your desk and perhaps log your keystrokes. Loan Applications and Job interviews come to mind.
I can easily see how insurance data could cause you to think warming is taking place.
I see no reason that insurance history could provide insight into the cause - be it fossil fuels, freon, lifestyle changes, sunspots or divine retribution.
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The next iPhone is expected in the autumn of this year, 2019. Next year's iPhone is expected in the autumn of next year, 2020. But it seems like it is talking about this year's iPhone, not next year's iPhone.
A thousand dollar purchase takes $1000 in cash today or I can charge it and pay my credit card company $985 in about 40 days. Being financially optimal means using a credit card - either directly or via *Pay e.g. Apple Pay. IMO, Apple Pay.is [slightly] better since the merchant does not get your credit card number, just a one-time token. So I don't care if the merchant gets hacked like Target or lots of others.
Anything space related is hugely disappointing. Most things involving society are disappointing. Software in general and Windows in particular tends to be disappointing. But I can make phone calls on my watch just like Dick Tracy. I can crank my car from my watch. I can adjust the thermostat in my house from another country. I can pay for things with my watch or phone. Voice recognition and chess programs are further along than I expected. So there are certain things that now appear mundane that my younger self would find cool.
IANAL, but I understood that first sale applies to books and records and physical things. However, in the US, embedded software is different. E.g.: the web document "Court rules that copyright “first sale” doctrine does not apply to pre-installed software that was licensed to OEMs" has "In a recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the court ruled that the first sale doctrine did not apply to copies of software that are pre-installed on a computer and sold by the original equipment manufacturer with the computer itself. In Adobe Systems v Hoops Enterprise LLC " IANAL, but IMO a number of things in the US are still different regarding licensed-not-sold software vs physical objects.
I hope I do not understand "If temperatures rise by 3 C, it will knock out an additional 5 percent of GDP. That’s the entire planet’s GDP." If an additional 5% of GDP gets you to 100% (entire planet) then that is saying the lower temp are at 95% and the additional 5% would make it 100%. What are they trying to say?
I have an Amazon Echo for Alexa and will get an Apple speak for sound quality.
For stupid, I have coworkers and friends. I prefer my electronics smart.
Except for investors, earnings per share is far, far more important than earnings. The price of a share of stock is very strongly related to the EPS and has almost nothing to do with earnings.
Previously, the market research was that Apple and Samsung had 99% of the smartphone profits. Other market researchers, presumablely who include Samsung, latest was Apple had 103% of the smartphone profits.
https://newzoo.com/insights/ar... Has caught baseball & hockey for US male millennials
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05... Sony, it is suggested, might be better off just selling insurance. Or just making movies and music. But not electronics. A new report from the investment banking firm Jefferies delivered a harsh assessment of Sony’s electronics business. “Electronics is its Achilles’ heel and, in our view, it is worth zero,” wrote Atul Goyal, consumer technology analyst for Jefferies, in the report, released this week. ...
Its financial arm accounts for 63 percent of Sony’s total operating profit last year. Life insurance has been its biggest moneymaker over the last decade, earning the company 933 billion yen ($9.07 billion) in operating profit in the 10 years that ended in March.
Sony’s film and music divisions, which produced hits like the Spider-Man movies and “Zero Dark Thirty” and recorded musicians like the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the electronic music duo Daft Punk, have contributed $7 billion to the company’s bottom line over the last decade.
In that time, Sony’s electronics division has lost a cumulative $8.5 billion.
Hardly Sony’s crown jewels, experts say.
So my ApplePay is a safe one-time token and this new idea is to give the targets and home depots of the world access to my checking account? Is this an April's Fool post? TBH, this plan would have been fine a decade ago. But not anymore. Especially since my rights are pretty decent with credit card and abysmal with ACH/checking accounts. It's a non-starter for me
In olden days it was referred to as FUD - Fear Uncertainty Doubt. Apple's announcement dramatically lowered Moto and especially pebble's Christmas sales. You can't do that with Watch 5.0 or Phone 5.0 but you can with 1.0
I will be rationalizing my Apple Watch purchase for any number of reasons. My guess is that the biggest use case for the watches of 2018 are some cool notification and some cool haptic use. But for now, being able to see some notifications - still easier to glance at wrist to see if it is noise or a message worth opening up. And TBH, I quit wearing my Rolex years ago and at times it would be nice to glance at a wrist and see the time. But shopping is the emotional appeal; no cash for legal purchases.
watch+fitbit+alarms+callerid+SMS
There are clothes lines and appliance lines that are exclusive to a particular retailer. There are even in-game bonuses you get that are different if you buy a game time/point card at Walmart versus Target versus Amazon. Gamestop using its market power to do this is no different than it using it to get a bigger discount or larger advertising budget from the developer.
Perhaps it is that for the sort of person who actually trusts their fellow human, it is hard to tell when dementia strikes.
I want a new rig. After reading all the praise of gsync, that seemed like a reasonable cost-benefit to wait for that since the monitors were coming out in early 2014. Except not really. So now we have a new standard coming "year end" which probably means March or April. I guess a new rig with a very good graphics card this summer and then do something about a new monitor at "year end." If it really is a new standard out this year, I can see a lack of enthusiasm for an nVidia-only monitors that costs an extra couple of hundred dollars and only makes sense for a few months.
That was my question as well. You can't say so at PC sites, but I thought the real growth platforms, games and non-games, were iOS and Android (in the order you prefer.)
"Wearables" will have no impact on the several thousand dollar watch market - either those for fashion or for love of the intricate mechanics. IMO, the analogies are digital cameras and GPS devices. The iPhone 5s at al had no impact on $10,000 camera systems with Zeiss lenses. But it is getting tougher and tougher to sell a $200 digital camera.
My 70 YO brother was able to Facetime with me, without training, once he upgraded his iPad. So cameras are useful. Actually being able to see, without travel, relatives at an age when monitoring is more of an issue is valuable.
No judgement, just curious why are you not going to play Everquest Landmark?
People and especially MMO players hate change so your reaction to traits is your personal preference. I still like LotRO. However, the new lotro system is just joining mainstream MMOs. The latest WoW talent tree is very sparse - choose 1 of 3 talents for every 15 levels (six max). Most interesting talent tree by far is Rift. Try another game but I would not expect any of the AAA title except rift to have a talent tree much different than HD. If you are an endgame raider with considerable time to devote each week, preferably with a fixed schedule then WoW is great. If not, it's not. Of the MMOs I have played for more than 100 hours it is SWTOR > LotRO > Rift >> WoW >>>>> EVE. There are so many good features of EVE but the whole / community is way too toxic for my tastes. There are many big games ramping up the hype machine but none are shipping and it is TBD what they will do. Wildstar, Elder Scrolls Online, Everquest next, Star Citizen. The interesting, very different option is Everquest landmark the game that is the creation part of the upcoming Everquest Next.
It seems to me the real story is that someone else can place their cellphone on your desk and perhaps log your keystrokes. Loan Applications and Job interviews come to mind.
I can easily see how insurance data could cause you to think warming is taking place. I see no reason that insurance history could provide insight into the cause - be it fossil fuels, freon, lifestyle changes, sunspots or divine retribution.