There's a big difference between a clock design "inspiring" a clock design, and a 50 year old speaker design inspiring a computer design.
In the clock case Apple clearly has to do the right thing. The Braun deal is normal artistic inspiration. That why IP rights should not exceed a generation, because every generation's artists and designers are inspired and influenced by what they knew as a child. How could it be any other way?
Well clearly *somewhere* along the line it wasn't inadvertent, but I doubt it was some sort of corporate plot to avoid a licensing fee. It's not like maybe nobody would notice. It took about five minutes after the update went out. But now that it's happened Apple needs to do the right thing and settle it properly.
If you don't want to buy from Apple that's perfectly understandable. But Samsung is a dishonorable company. Buying a product from them out of some sort of moral stand is misguided.
And if you think all corporations are bad, then choose whatever device fits your needs and don't make it out to be "doing the right thing."
Never, ever contributing anything. Always showing up out of nowhere to make some cowardly one-liner hit-and-run attack.
Your post got me to go look at some of his posting history. Are you sure you're replying to the right person? I don't share some of his opinions, but there are a lot of good comments in there, even the ones with which I disagree.
From looking at his posting history I'm pretty sure he does work for AT&T and has more than a fair bit of knowledge.
On the other hand, from looking at his posting history I'm also pretty sure he has a strong anti-Apple bias. As we humans are but simple creatures, our biases inform our opinions well before any rational thought has a chance to get involved. And overcoming that is not at all easy. It's damn difficult. And we are simultaneously highly susceptible to the phenomenon of confirmation bias, where we focus on information that confirms our beliefs while discarding information that contradicts them.
We all do it.
Definitely before 2000. I'm 100% sure I signed up no later than '99. Maybe even late '98. But when 2000 rolled over I was living in a different country from the one where I signed up.
Wrong, We are talking milimetres here, it is very hard to keep your device within 2 or 3 centimetres of someone elses for any length of time without being noticed.
Do you mean to say that you actually read the article and you still don't know that NFC was simply the conduit they chose to deliver the exploit? Turning off NFC does not fix the underlying problem. It's by far the least likely way for this exploit to be delivered.
Does *nobody* RTFA anymore? It is an Android vulnerability. They used NFC as one of several ways to exploit it. They could have done the whole thing without using NFC at all.
It's not an NFC vulnerability, that was merely the conduit they chose. So the device you think you just made safe is still vulnerable, and while you sleep it's dialing 1-900-HOT-CHIX all night long. Good luck with that phone bill.
it's not specifically an NFC vulnerability. They just used NFC for, I presume, dramatic purposes. It could have been done with an email or a webpage. It's also a much more severe vulnerability. They achieved complete control of the device, including the ability to make phone calls. "What are all these 1-900 numbers, honey? And why is our phone bill $6,000?"
Finally, Apple actually updates the OS on existing devices, so theirs will likely be fixed in short order. Does Samsung ever update its Android devices? (I really don't know the answer to that. Maybe they do it all the time).
Unfortunately the "geek buzz" becomes less and less important as devices become more and more mainstream. Try this experiment (I have). Next time you see a non-geek, ordinary run of the mill consumer using a Galaxy S3, go up to them and say "hey, nice! Is that an Android phone?" If your experience is like mine they will say "No, it's a Samsung Galaxy."
The typical consumer doesn't even know what Android is.
Amazon blundered by locking down the bootloader and hopefully they will come to their senses
I don't think they make a profit on it, and maybe even take a small loss, so the last thing they want is people buying it for reasons other than to buy stuff from Amazon.
Also, you seem to equating dollars with value. As in until I sell and convert those shares into dollars, it's somehow not "realized."
But that's really not right. It has a certain value. That's true if it's in dollars or Apple stock or gold or potatoes or whatever. It's the same value. At any instant in time they have the same value. Over time, the values change relative to each other, and successful investing is the moving of that value to a form that will be relatively stronger than the others.
As an investment, the point of converting that value to dollars would be that I think the dollar will increase in value compared to Apple stock. Right now I don't think that's true. (I don't even think it's close.)
The only other point of converting to dollars is that dollars can be a handy currency. But I already have enough currency to meet my day to day needs, so that's not important in this case.
Everything you own has a value. It may be stored as a house or a chair or a car or gold coins, but they're all values. US Dollars is simply one form of value.
And of course the big downside to converting to dollars is that the US government has decided that that it when they get to take a big piece of it away from you. So keeping in some other form helps to delay (and possibly) reduce that bite.
Of course it's still on paper. It's got a long way to go. This coming year is going to be huge for Apple.
By the way, "on paper" is not as intangible as it seems. It increases the net value of the brokerage account, which frees up funds to make other investments as well.
It also enables such strategies as selling call options against the stock. For example, a week before the phone announcement, when the stock had a great run up, I sold short-term call options on 200 shares with a strike price of 720. Those options have now expired and I keep the $1,200 premium. Had the share price exceed 720 and the buyer elected to exercise those options, I would have been obligated to sell them at $720 each. Which wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world. (I'd still get the $1,200 too).
I don't often play the "covered call" strategy, but in this case I was confident that the run up had baked in almost all of the value of iPhone 5 announcement, and so I figured the risk of it blowing past 726 (the point at which I start to lose money on the deal) was rather small.
But now I am holding tight. I think they will sell every phone they can make for many months to come, and the expected iPad Mini will be a monster hit too. I think it'll challenge 1,000 next year, and go on to as much as 1,500 subsequently. They are simply going to make too much money for it not to.
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Seems a bit extreme to me. I suggest that Mythbusters lies somewhere in between that very wide range of pseudoscience and a paragon of science.
In the clock case Apple clearly has to do the right thing. The Braun deal is normal artistic inspiration. That why IP rights should not exceed a generation, because every generation's artists and designers are inspired and influenced by what they knew as a child. How could it be any other way?
Well clearly *somewhere* along the line it wasn't inadvertent, but I doubt it was some sort of corporate plot to avoid a licensing fee. It's not like maybe nobody would notice. It took about five minutes after the update went out. But now that it's happened Apple needs to do the right thing and settle it properly.
And if you think all corporations are bad, then choose whatever device fits your needs and don't make it out to be "doing the right thing."
Your post got me to go look at some of his posting history. Are you sure you're replying to the right person? I don't share some of his opinions, but there are a lot of good comments in there, even the ones with which I disagree.
"Name Alone" works.
On the other hand, from looking at his posting history I'm also pretty sure he has a strong anti-Apple bias. As we humans are but simple creatures, our biases inform our opinions well before any rational thought has a chance to get involved. And overcoming that is not at all easy. It's damn difficult. And we are simultaneously highly susceptible to the phenomenon of confirmation bias, where we focus on information that confirms our beliefs while discarding information that contradicts them.
We all do it.
<artihmetic joke> It's always better to get them before they multiply. </artihmetic joke>
War? What war? I'd think the advertisers would be quite happy about this.
Definitely before 2000. I'm 100% sure I signed up no later than '99. Maybe even late '98. But when 2000 rolled over I was living in a different country from the one where I signed up.
That's deep.
No fowl jokes here please. Those go on the other side of the road.
NFC is not a requirement. That was merely how they chose to deliver the payload.
Clearly you don't watch much Japanese porn.
Do you mean to say that you actually read the article and you still don't know that NFC was simply the conduit they chose to deliver the exploit? Turning off NFC does not fix the underlying problem. It's by far the least likely way for this exploit to be delivered.
Does *nobody* RTFA anymore? It is an Android vulnerability. They used NFC as one of several ways to exploit it. They could have done the whole thing without using NFC at all.
It's not an NFC vulnerability, that was merely the conduit they chose. So the device you think you just made safe is still vulnerable, and while you sleep it's dialing 1-900-HOT-CHIX all night long. Good luck with that phone bill.
Finally, Apple actually updates the OS on existing devices, so theirs will likely be fixed in short order. Does Samsung ever update its Android devices? (I really don't know the answer to that. Maybe they do it all the time).
Step 1: Don't call them chicks.
Unfortunately the "geek buzz" becomes less and less important as devices become more and more mainstream. Try this experiment (I have). Next time you see a non-geek, ordinary run of the mill consumer using a Galaxy S3, go up to them and say "hey, nice! Is that an Android phone?" If your experience is like mine they will say "No, it's a Samsung Galaxy."
The typical consumer doesn't even know what Android is.
I don't think they make a profit on it, and maybe even take a small loss, so the last thing they want is people buying it for reasons other than to buy stuff from Amazon.
But that's really not right. It has a certain value. That's true if it's in dollars or Apple stock or gold or potatoes or whatever. It's the same value. At any instant in time they have the same value. Over time, the values change relative to each other, and successful investing is the moving of that value to a form that will be relatively stronger than the others.
As an investment, the point of converting that value to dollars would be that I think the dollar will increase in value compared to Apple stock. Right now I don't think that's true. (I don't even think it's close.)
The only other point of converting to dollars is that dollars can be a handy currency. But I already have enough currency to meet my day to day needs, so that's not important in this case.
Everything you own has a value. It may be stored as a house or a chair or a car or gold coins, but they're all values. US Dollars is simply one form of value.
And of course the big downside to converting to dollars is that the US government has decided that that it when they get to take a big piece of it away from you. So keeping in some other form helps to delay (and possibly) reduce that bite.
For pre-orders, they are *all* genuine sales. Nothing has shipped. If Apple says two million, that means two million real actual sales.
By the way, "on paper" is not as intangible as it seems. It increases the net value of the brokerage account, which frees up funds to make other investments as well.
It also enables such strategies as selling call options against the stock. For example, a week before the phone announcement, when the stock had a great run up, I sold short-term call options on 200 shares with a strike price of 720. Those options have now expired and I keep the $1,200 premium. Had the share price exceed 720 and the buyer elected to exercise those options, I would have been obligated to sell them at $720 each. Which wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world. (I'd still get the $1,200 too).
I don't often play the "covered call" strategy, but in this case I was confident that the run up had baked in almost all of the value of iPhone 5 announcement, and so I figured the risk of it blowing past 726 (the point at which I start to lose money on the deal) was rather small.
But now I am holding tight. I think they will sell every phone they can make for many months to come, and the expected iPad Mini will be a monster hit too. I think it'll challenge 1,000 next year, and go on to as much as 1,500 subsequently. They are simply going to make too much money for it not to.
Dude, you don't put it under a bus, it goes in a starship. Sheesh Man, do some research.