Your maths is wrong, even if you use upper case to emphasise your belief.
They aren't adding other companies negative profits to the share. They are adding all companies profits (positive and negative) to the size of the market.
If Apple are making more profits than the whole of the industry added together, then they do indeed have >100% of the profits. The maths doesn't change just because you don't like percentages larger than 100.
1) People don't buy on the basis of profit margin for the manufacturer. They buy on whether the product is worth the price to them.
2) You definately don't want to buy from a company that is making a loss. Because they'll either drop the product soon or go bankrupt. So there's no likelihood of long term support.
Yes we've all seen that. But you are not accounting for the fact that the kid is getting more immersion. The kid goes to school and is chatting with other kids and interacting with the teachers all day. And topics will be everything under the sun.
The father is probably spending more time either alone or in contact with other Poles, or sticking to a narrow line of conversation used in his line of business.
There are Pakistani immigrants who've been here 30 years and don't speak ANY English, because they only converse with their families and other Pakistani immigrants.
I'm not saying that age doesn't play any part, it does. For example accent seems to pretty much stick after the teens are over. I'm just saying that people overestimate the increased learning ability of kids with languages. They actually don't learn languages nearly as efficiently as most people imagine.
For sure instinctual and "muscle memory" things are picked up easier when young. If you're going to be a musician or a skier, learn as a child.
But for more intellectual topics that's balanced against how much you already know. For example a old person would pick up a era or culture in history quicker than an equally intelligent kid, because they can tie all the new stuff into a framework, of dates, periods, famous people and cultures that they already know.
Likewise, I'll pick up a new computer language quicker than someone who's at university (given equal time for the task) because I already know many, and concepts are reused.
But of course they are not disappointed with either. The cool-bar is the first genuinely new feature in the Macbook line since Retina displays in 2012. The intervening speed bumps might have been ho-hum, but this one's actually got something interesting.
This is just a sales blurb for System 76 - whoever they are - that some idiot posted as news.
It's not a problem. I don't want to be a salesman, or be in any department that deals with salesmen. And I certainly don't want to be romantic with one. Yeuck!
That has less to do with age than it has to do with immersion. The Chinese child is getting comprehensible Chinese input constantly during their waking hours. He's only getting 30 minutes per day, and undoubtedly in a far less rich learning environment.
The average teen is using Snapchat or whatever this year's trendy messaging app is. The old person is using the phone as a phone to talk to people. Neither has any technical knowledge.
We're not talking about them. We're talking about old programmers and young programmers.
I know lots of people that would like to have a Tesla. Not a single one because it's a status symbol. People who want status symbols want something that looks flashier and growls. People want Teslas because they are tech geeks, and it's an early taste of the cars f the future.
"No, the ONLY reason Tesla's stock remains high is because people are playing a game of "who's the greater fool" buying high in the hopes it will go higher."
I remember many people making these arguments about Apple when they were around $90 in the mid-noughties.
Since then AAPL split x14, so are now worth about 1800% of what they were then.
Inform 7 was specifically designed to be more friendly to writers rather than programmers, in an attempt to get more writers and their ideas and skills into the field.
Anyone who wants something more akin to a traditional programming language can use Inform 6.
Unfortunately I can't give you an example of that because of Slashdot/s lameness filter, but it's completely different to Inform 7.
That's because you work for a company that depends on Windows. In 13 years of Mac use personally and as a developer, I've never once had call to run Windows on it.
Pathetic child. You're too young to know what life is like without being glued to a phone. Even just 20 years ago most people didn't have cellphones, and it wasn't a problem.
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Which means that Apple made more profit than there was profit available.
That's your misunderstanding. There isn't an available profit, from which each company can take. It's not a pie.
Your maths is wrong, even if you use upper case to emphasise your belief.
They aren't adding other companies negative profits to the share. They are adding all companies profits (positive and negative) to the size of the market.
If Apple are making more profits than the whole of the industry added together, then they do indeed have >100% of the profits. The maths doesn't change just because you don't like percentages larger than 100.
1) People don't buy on the basis of profit margin for the manufacturer. They buy on whether the product is worth the price to them.
2) You definately don't want to buy from a company that is making a loss. Because they'll either drop the product soon or go bankrupt. So there's no likelihood of long term support.
Phone explodes. Samsung loses.
Yes we've all seen that. But you are not accounting for the fact that the kid is getting more immersion. The kid goes to school and is chatting with other kids and interacting with the teachers all day. And topics will be everything under the sun.
The father is probably spending more time either alone or in contact with other Poles, or sticking to a narrow line of conversation used in his line of business.
There are Pakistani immigrants who've been here 30 years and don't speak ANY English, because they only converse with their families and other Pakistani immigrants.
I'm not saying that age doesn't play any part, it does. For example accent seems to pretty much stick after the teens are over. I'm just saying that people overestimate the increased learning ability of kids with languages. They actually don't learn languages nearly as efficiently as most people imagine.
For sure instinctual and "muscle memory" things are picked up easier when young. If you're going to be a musician or a skier, learn as a child.
But for more intellectual topics that's balanced against how much you already know. For example a old person would pick up a era or culture in history quicker than an equally intelligent kid, because they can tie all the new stuff into a framework, of dates, periods, famous people and cultures that they already know.
Likewise, I'll pick up a new computer language quicker than someone who's at university (given equal time for the task) because I already know many, and concepts are reused.
If you think romance is about selling yourself, you may have been listening to those pick-up artist twats. Good luck with THAT.
Life really isn't a series of sales jobs. What a very shallow view.
But of course they are not disappointed with either. The cool-bar is the first genuinely new feature in the Macbook line since Retina displays in 2012. The intervening speed bumps might have been ho-hum, but this one's actually got something interesting.
This is just a sales blurb for System 76 - whoever they are - that some idiot posted as news.
It's not a problem. I don't want to be a salesman, or be in any department that deals with salesmen. And I certainly don't want to be romantic with one. Yeuck!
The problem with that idea is that salesmen are scum.
That has less to do with age than it has to do with immersion. The Chinese child is getting comprehensible Chinese input constantly during their waking hours. He's only getting 30 minutes per day, and undoubtedly in a far less rich learning environment.
The average teen is using Snapchat or whatever this year's trendy messaging app is. The old person is using the phone as a phone to talk to people. Neither has any technical knowledge.
We're not talking about them. We're talking about old programmers and young programmers.
I remember people saying the same things about AAPL all the way up to them being the world's most valuable tech stock.
What a turd. Faced with the facts that prove his claim completely wrong, he calls the facts lies.
I know lots of people that would like to have a Tesla. Not a single one because it's a status symbol. People who want status symbols want something that looks flashier and growls. People want Teslas because they are tech geeks, and it's an early taste of the cars f the future.
In other words, helicopters run as taxis.
"No, the ONLY reason Tesla's stock remains high is because people are playing a game of "who's the greater fool" buying high in the hopes it will go higher."
I remember many people making these arguments about Apple when they were around $90 in the mid-noughties.
Since then AAPL split x14, so are now worth about 1800% of what they were then.
Inform 7 was specifically designed to be more friendly to writers rather than programmers, in an attempt to get more writers and their ideas and skills into the field.
Anyone who wants something more akin to a traditional programming language can use Inform 6.
Unfortunately I can't give you an example of that because of Slashdot/s lameness filter, but it's completely different to Inform 7.
So you admit your experience of Macs is limited to being that of a Windows shop. As useless as a person't experience of using a PC in a Mac shop.
Actually worse, because Macs can run Windows just fine. But most Windows PCs can't run OSX.
Nice stereotype. What you don't realise though is that Macs are the most popular computers with developers.
That's because you work for a company that depends on Windows. In 13 years of Mac use personally and as a developer, I've never once had call to run Windows on it.
Just because you say it's true, and say that you've seen video, and that's your interpretation, does not make it true.
It's not true.
Pathetic child. You're too young to know what life is like without being glued to a phone. Even just 20 years ago most people didn't have cellphones, and it wasn't a problem.
Hey LordHighExecutioner, I think you just pissed off a couple of Android/Samsung fanbois! :-)