You have to realize that Apple sells a brand, which people associate with devices.
One segment is status seekers, people who buy Apple Watches and Apple iPhones to display their status, much as the artificial scarcity in diamonds is used. These people want certain things, and servicing them is very profitable.
Others use Apple for reliability and not having to understand the underlying technology. For them iPhones are a tool. They are more likely to do something like buy an iPhone 5 SE and never pay for any of the apps or music they use on it (you can legally get almost all music from Apple hosted podcasts, and the same goes for news, and you can turn off advertising feedback fairly easily). They are not as profitable as a market segment, but they are willing to pay the base premium for the devices they use which they find useful, and Apple makes more than enough from them, while using them as a marketing wedge to attract the first group and the third group, which leads to further profits.
The third group are typical Apple users. They think "oh, my icons are using it, and my busy tech friends are using it, so it must be good". These people buy the iPhones, rarely buy the add on devices like the Apple Watch, but they pay a lot of money to buy music and shows and movies on their iPhones, which leads to massive profits for Apple.
Quite a sound marketing strategy.
(shoutout to my fellow Capilano University Business Alumni)
The FBI, by law, is not permitted to hack computers in other countries.
If that were true, we wouldn't be in a democracy, but a plutocratic oligopoly pretending to be a democracy, living outside the Rule of Law like a Banana Republic...
As indicated, shipping fossil fuel has high costs, and operation is noisy. Sunlight works even on cloudy days, and you can run desalination plants using solar, and it withstands weather effects fairly well.
Many islands operate with a hybrid solar and wind system, especially in equatorial regions.
Look, we have three things to consider, that impact VW.
One, emissions. Verify, don't trust. Random driving by humans in all terrain, with stops and in-city and country separate. Is it as easy as doing in a building? No. But they will game the system. So put a diaper gas bag on that baby.
Two, electric cars. Battery life in real world applications with different usage in desert, mountains, city, and moderate temp. Again, field tests, not just in buildings.
Three, for the most part, trust the stats for electrics, hard to gin those up in field tests. But never trust the stats for fossil fuel cars, those they will always try to fake the emissions. And it's not just VW that does that.
As many of you are starting to realize, there are seven active NSA collector building complexes active in the territorial US, and the UK, France, and Germany all operate active feeder units as well, collecting all WhatsApp, FB, and cell traffic, including all phone backups for both Droids and Apple and desktops, primarily at the carrier and network interconnect levels.
So it's really a moot point. Your data is still being collected, but they're lying to you about it.
In a surprise move, the Scottish Ministry of National Defense announced their long range whale harpoons have twice the distance that Lesser British naval warships do. "We can stand off outside the Limey maximum range and sink their ships" announced Erik McScattersby ", and they can't do a thing."
In an unrelated news item, Prime Minister Theresa May announced she is letting Scotland put independence up for a vote. "I can't really stop them, they caught us with our knickers down, and they just lift their kilts and moon us from long range whenever we talk about stopping Scotland from gaining independence from the United Kingdom" she admitted.
Real sources like discarded fish wrappings, poems written on leaves, the patterns on clouds in the sky
Hey, it's probably more accurate.
Never trust the MSM. In just one day, Washington Post wrote 18 articles attacking Bernie Sanders, from 12 writers.
In just one day.
They don't want you to know what's going on, just like they don't want you to see the seven fully operational NSA data collection complexes inside the USA (not the one you think you know about).
Just like they don't want you to know that all US government drones purchased since July 2016 have had line of sight tracking and facial recognition software. Every single one.
Think about who controls all that in a couple of months.
Oh, and the Chinese get feeds from your cell phones. Including Apple. Not just Android.
Luckily for all we Americans, President Bernie Sanders has committed to taking action on global warming, saving the coastal states from massive floods and storms, and ending the massive subsidies for inefficient fossil fuels like coal and oil, while transitioning our workforce to higher paying jobs in solar and wind installation and maintenance, jobs that are 1000 times more than any propping up of a dying fossil fuel pipeline would be.
We dodged one when that Trump guy lost. That was close.
Look, there's a lot of fake stuff out there, doctored photos, Russian lies, fake Greek/Macedonian bots, and even tagging Fake News with (probably untrue) would have been useful to FB users.
Originally it was just your long distance phone calls - any long distance phone calls, not just the ones overseas.
Now we track you inside the US and Canada and the EU and Aus/NZ and we "share" the data with the origin country so that it's a "foreign source", but we also record all of your data.
Even when you play World of Warcraft.
We love Snap by the way. We get those too. They lie to you that we don't.
Have had too many of my female friends who are women of color, who are all in STEM occupations, tell me about personal attacks on them by these people.
Slashdot Mirror
You have to realize that Apple sells a brand, which people associate with devices.
One segment is status seekers, people who buy Apple Watches and Apple iPhones to display their status, much as the artificial scarcity in diamonds is used. These people want certain things, and servicing them is very profitable.
Others use Apple for reliability and not having to understand the underlying technology. For them iPhones are a tool. They are more likely to do something like buy an iPhone 5 SE and never pay for any of the apps or music they use on it (you can legally get almost all music from Apple hosted podcasts, and the same goes for news, and you can turn off advertising feedback fairly easily). They are not as profitable as a market segment, but they are willing to pay the base premium for the devices they use which they find useful, and Apple makes more than enough from them, while using them as a marketing wedge to attract the first group and the third group, which leads to further profits.
The third group are typical Apple users. They think "oh, my icons are using it, and my busy tech friends are using it, so it must be good". These people buy the iPhones, rarely buy the add on devices like the Apple Watch, but they pay a lot of money to buy music and shows and movies on their iPhones, which leads to massive profits for Apple.
Quite a sound marketing strategy.
(shoutout to my fellow Capilano University Business Alumni)
Any ballot postmarked election day is still being processed in WA and CA and a bunch of other states.
Last update had Trump lose by 2,100,000 votes.
Then one can sue over Russian hacking in a state which was in violation of gerrymandering laws according to the FEC ruling.
The FBI, by law, is not permitted to hack computers in other countries.
If that were true, we wouldn't be in a democracy, but a plutocratic oligopoly pretending to be a democracy, living outside the Rule of Law like a Banana Republic ...
As indicated, shipping fossil fuel has high costs, and operation is noisy. Sunlight works even on cloudy days, and you can run desalination plants using solar, and it withstands weather effects fairly well.
Many islands operate with a hybrid solar and wind system, especially in equatorial regions.
Your protection just went bye bye.
Seen this movie before.
Look, we have three things to consider, that impact VW.
One, emissions. Verify, don't trust. Random driving by humans in all terrain, with stops and in-city and country separate. Is it as easy as doing in a building? No. But they will game the system. So put a diaper gas bag on that baby.
Two, electric cars. Battery life in real world applications with different usage in desert, mountains, city, and moderate temp. Again, field tests, not just in buildings.
Three, for the most part, trust the stats for electrics, hard to gin those up in field tests. But never trust the stats for fossil fuel cars, those they will always try to fake the emissions. And it's not just VW that does that.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I actually owned shares of them due to the AOL/TW merger, and I hacked SimCity because of them.
But even I thought they were dead.
What's next, CompuSerrve announces they are doing Internet 3 on Mars?
and flushed the tables and the rotating backups
As many of you are starting to realize, there are seven active NSA collector building complexes active in the territorial US, and the UK, France, and Germany all operate active feeder units as well, collecting all WhatsApp, FB, and cell traffic, including all phone backups for both Droids and Apple and desktops, primarily at the carrier and network interconnect levels.
So it's really a moot point. Your data is still being collected, but they're lying to you about it.
In a surprise move, the Scottish Ministry of National Defense announced their long range whale harpoons have twice the distance that Lesser British naval warships do. "We can stand off outside the Limey maximum range and sink their ships" announced Erik McScattersby ", and they can't do a thing."
In an unrelated news item, Prime Minister Theresa May announced she is letting Scotland put independence up for a vote. "I can't really stop them, they caught us with our knickers down, and they just lift their kilts and moon us from long range whenever we talk about stopping Scotland from gaining independence from the United Kingdom" she admitted.
All scientists know we only have 998 years left.
It's not actually a concession.
Real sources like discarded fish wrappings, poems written on leaves, the patterns on clouds in the sky
Hey, it's probably more accurate.
Never trust the MSM. In just one day, Washington Post wrote 18 articles attacking Bernie Sanders, from 12 writers.
In just one day.
They don't want you to know what's going on, just like they don't want you to see the seven fully operational NSA data collection complexes inside the USA (not the one you think you know about).
Just like they don't want you to know that all US government drones purchased since July 2016 have had line of sight tracking and facial recognition software. Every single one.
Think about who controls all that in a couple of months.
Oh, and the Chinese get feeds from your cell phones. Including Apple. Not just Android.
or more precisely:
Winter is here for the alt-white
Luckily for all we Americans, President Bernie Sanders has committed to taking action on global warming, saving the coastal states from massive floods and storms, and ending the massive subsidies for inefficient fossil fuels like coal and oil, while transitioning our workforce to higher paying jobs in solar and wind installation and maintenance, jobs that are 1000 times more than any propping up of a dying fossil fuel pipeline would be.
We dodged one when that Trump guy lost. That was close.
How can it be "wire" fraud.
Wireless.
Means no wires.
All hail glorious ruler of orange hair!
Much noise, will stop after car destroyed in 5 mph crash!
You have no idea how much we unconstitutionally spy on you.
No, it's worse than you even think you know.
Welcome to the Stasi of the 21st Century.
Doubt he will do any of this. It's just posturing so his followers will think he tried, when he didn't, and never had any intention of doing so.
Look, there's a lot of fake stuff out there, doctored photos, Russian lies, fake Greek/Macedonian bots, and even tagging Fake News with (probably untrue) would have been useful to FB users.
But, no, had to sell out due to Fear.
Which is what the alt-right want.
They want you to live in Fear.
They regard 1984 as a plan, not a warning.
Originally it was just your long distance phone calls - any long distance phone calls, not just the ones overseas.
Now we track you inside the US and Canada and the EU and Aus/NZ and we "share" the data with the origin country so that it's a "foreign source", but we also record all of your data.
Even when you play World of Warcraft.
We love Snap by the way. We get those too. They lie to you that we don't.
How do I know this?
More to the point, how do you NOT know this.
After all they did to help him, he must be very proud of them.
He's got a new debt to repay.
No, the debt gets pushed to the next administration, that's their SOP.
After all they did to help him, he must be very proud of them.
Have had too many of my female friends who are women of color, who are all in STEM occupations, tell me about personal attacks on them by these people.
This is what came out of Germany in the 30s.
Let's by Crystal about that
It was buried in the pages of the Wall Street Journal today