And as a society we hold those who do dangerous stuff and pull it off in high regard. If they die many say it was their 'own stupid fault', but really I think we are just breeding various strains of luck...
The news loves specific types of gun violence that meet high profile narratives. This kind of background 'random college kids get into a fight at restaurant, shooting occurs' or 'drunk white idiot in bar punches other drunk white idiot, escalates to shooting' rarely even makes local news unless some reporter is bored and watching the police logs. Common stuff tends to get ignored, unusual events that play into a marketable fear get hyped up.
To expand on your point, beyond not having an understanding of marketing other types of phones, one important difference between Nokia and Apple is that Nokia is specialized, it is essentially a one trick pony. While Apple is currently known for its portable devices, it has multiple divisions doing connected but different things, and it is always possible that attention could shift to one of those other avenues. That does not make them 'safe', but it does give them a few more legs to fall back on or give it other chances. Who knows, next year they might come out with some kick ass 'makes all the admin's lives easier' server offering that takes the enterprise market by storm.
market cap is a meta game, it represents traders thinking about what other traders will value. As you say, it represents what people are willing to pay for the shares, but that value is based off guesses at what other people will pay for them, not on the state of the company itself. It is little more then a metric for group think and individuals trying to outthink the group psychology. It only has value within their game, but its connection to outside reality is pretty shaky.
Stocks are like trading cards, once they are out there they are generally only worth what other collectors will pay for them.
Yeah, people tend to confuse 'took the wrong risks' with 'did not innovate'. Analysts (and fans) tend to focus on what works and why other people did not do it, and tend to forget all the things that companies tried that did not get enough traction to become big.
Ahm.... actually, the chance of a personal conflict in such a venue escalating to violence and shooting is generally a greater (though less dramatic) risk then then a robber coming in and shooting people. It does not get the same attention since it speaks to a different narrative thus there is no simple search to find the cases, but talking to cops generally pans it out as more frequent.
Thus it could be argued that it is the 'scared idiots' who feel the need to be armed so they can heroically stand up to assailants that are the dangers, and other patrons deciding they do not want to run that risk.
Actually, the ACLU ends up on the side of conservative groups quite frequently, esp on issues of religious freedom. It is rather rare for them to align with the NRA, but it happens more then people think. Sadly the ACLU is frequently brought up as a boogie man... a nice hypocritical 'we will take your money and briefs and lawyers in private, but in public we will claim you are destroying freedom' thing going on.
I am skeptical that you never supply your SSN to 'anyone' since it tends to be required for many types of applications where your identity needs to be confirmed, and for employment (which by proxy means insurance companies), and it likely exists in various records. Marketers pull from far more sources then what you have put in to websites.
Unfortunately, a lot of people use PayPal. Failing to use it reduces your customer/client/whatever base. While in theory it is nice to say "I will take a moral stand and use XYZ service instead", but in practice anything that decreases the ease of which people send you payments is a bad business plan unless you have a strong enough fanbase to overcome it.
There is also the problem that many services are integrated with PayPal, so if you want to use them and their systems you have to use PayPal too.
It is also possible that they are listening to certain users and not others. I have often found in puzzling situations like this it turns out that there is some demographic or community that gets overriding concern and other ones feel ignored.
They also have a duty to their shareholders to not waste money on lawsuits that are both unlikely to succeed and likely to generate ill will from other industry members.
Given the supply chain, it is not entirely stupid. We are not just talking about adding a few more people on an assembly line. Not only would new factories have to be constructed (which takes time) but new extraction and processing facilities would have to ramp up. That type of production increase could easily take multiple years to impact available supplies.
And at a policy level, that is a huge part of the problem. As a culture we do not have much respect for education or educators, so the barrier to having armchair educators is very low. The attitude is often that teachers teach because they can not 'do', so people out in the 'real' world must be smarter and know more then then teachers do. It does not help that the authority to set standards and policies is in the hands of elected officials rather then domain experts,... elected officials are generally 'somebody' in their local community, and teachers generally are not, so they have a rather strongly reenforced social message that the board members ARE better people then the teachers, so they (and the votes) believe they know better then 'ivory tower' folk.
Heh. Anyone who thinks teachers get a bunch of free time during those 'breaks' has never been (or dated) a teacher. They generally have to spend their holidays working off the clock, and a huge percentage of that '2 month vacation' goes to off the clock preparation for the next two semesters. School workloads assume that teachers will put in those extra hours, even if they officially do not.
*shrug* we have a value system that just doesn't really place much, well, value, on education. Our country's mythology elevates the plucky drop out with the people skills to rise through the ranks. Hard work is admired, but not one-off hard work. Working hard at your job yes, studying hard no.
Have you ever seen a school budget? While the total expenditure is large, it is spread out across a huge number of schools. Actual individual schools, unless they are in a nice wealthy white collar area, usually struggle to keep things like supplies and paychecks moving, and have difficulty with things like facility maintenance or the expansions necessary to keep pace with our increasing population. Even paying teachers for crap is not enough to keep most of the schools in the black.
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The tricky part when hearing advice from experts is it is hard for the layman to distinguish superstition from domain knowledge.
I don't know, there are a lot of people who feel that manned spaceflight is just stupid and pointless risk taking.
I have to say, if I was going to take such a big risk, a flying suit sounds like a LOT more fun then flying a helicopter at my head....
And as a society we hold those who do dangerous stuff and pull it off in high regard. If they die many say it was their 'own stupid fault', but really I think we are just breeding various strains of luck...
Basic precautions? The only one that would have really helped would be a helmet, and I can not recall ever seeing any RC person doing that.
The news loves specific types of gun violence that meet high profile narratives. This kind of background 'random college kids get into a fight at restaurant, shooting occurs' or 'drunk white idiot in bar punches other drunk white idiot, escalates to shooting' rarely even makes local news unless some reporter is bored and watching the police logs. Common stuff tends to get ignored, unusual events that play into a marketable fear get hyped up.
Who said I am not supporting the second amendment?
That is what tends to annoy me about the NRA, unless you believe a very black and white view of things you are somehow "against the second amendment".
You can be in favor of gun rights AND acknowledge problems at the same time.
*shrug* watching the local police blotter I saw far more cases of escalation resulting in a shooting then robbery.
Yes, there is a risk either way, and that is something sellers have to balance.
To expand on your point, beyond not having an understanding of marketing other types of phones, one important difference between Nokia and Apple is that Nokia is specialized, it is essentially a one trick pony. While Apple is currently known for its portable devices, it has multiple divisions doing connected but different things, and it is always possible that attention could shift to one of those other avenues. That does not make them 'safe', but it does give them a few more legs to fall back on or give it other chances. Who knows, next year they might come out with some kick ass 'makes all the admin's lives easier' server offering that takes the enterprise market by storm.
market cap is a meta game, it represents traders thinking about what other traders will value. As you say, it represents what people are willing to pay for the shares, but that value is based off guesses at what other people will pay for them, not on the state of the company itself. It is little more then a metric for group think and individuals trying to outthink the group psychology. It only has value within their game, but its connection to outside reality is pretty shaky.
Stocks are like trading cards, once they are out there they are generally only worth what other collectors will pay for them.
Yeah, people tend to confuse 'took the wrong risks' with 'did not innovate'. Analysts (and fans) tend to focus on what works and why other people did not do it, and tend to forget all the things that companies tried that did not get enough traction to become big.
Ahm.... actually, the chance of a personal conflict in such a venue escalating to violence and shooting is generally a greater (though less dramatic) risk then then a robber coming in and shooting people. It does not get the same attention since it speaks to a different narrative thus there is no simple search to find the cases, but talking to cops generally pans it out as more frequent.
Thus it could be argued that it is the 'scared idiots' who feel the need to be armed so they can heroically stand up to assailants that are the dangers, and other patrons deciding they do not want to run that risk.
Actually, the ACLU ends up on the side of conservative groups quite frequently, esp on issues of religious freedom. It is rather rare for them to align with the NRA, but it happens more then people think. Sadly the ACLU is frequently brought up as a boogie man... a nice hypocritical 'we will take your money and briefs and lawyers in private, but in public we will claim you are destroying freedom' thing going on.
I am skeptical that you never supply your SSN to 'anyone' since it tends to be required for many types of applications where your identity needs to be confirmed, and for employment (which by proxy means insurance companies), and it likely exists in various records. Marketers pull from far more sources then what you have put in to websites.
Unfortunately, a lot of people use PayPal. Failing to use it reduces your customer/client/whatever base. While in theory it is nice to say "I will take a moral stand and use XYZ service instead", but in practice anything that decreases the ease of which people send you payments is a bad business plan unless you have a strong enough fanbase to overcome it.
There is also the problem that many services are integrated with PayPal, so if you want to use them and their systems you have to use PayPal too.
It is also possible that they are listening to certain users and not others. I have often found in puzzling situations like this it turns out that there is some demographic or community that gets overriding concern and other ones feel ignored.
Anything written down is granted an automatic implicit copyright in the US.
They also have a duty to their shareholders to not waste money on lawsuits that are both unlikely to succeed and likely to generate ill will from other industry members.
Given the supply chain, it is not entirely stupid. We are not just talking about adding a few more people on an assembly line. Not only would new factories have to be constructed (which takes time) but new extraction and processing facilities would have to ramp up. That type of production increase could easily take multiple years to impact available supplies.
Depends on what the bottlenecks are. Not everything scales well
And at a policy level, that is a huge part of the problem. As a culture we do not have much respect for education or educators, so the barrier to having armchair educators is very low. The attitude is often that teachers teach because they can not 'do', so people out in the 'real' world must be smarter and know more then then teachers do. It does not help that the authority to set standards and policies is in the hands of elected officials rather then domain experts,... elected officials are generally 'somebody' in their local community, and teachers generally are not, so they have a rather strongly reenforced social message that the board members ARE better people then the teachers, so they (and the votes) believe they know better then 'ivory tower' folk.
Heh. Anyone who thinks teachers get a bunch of free time during those 'breaks' has never been (or dated) a teacher. They generally have to spend their holidays working off the clock, and a huge percentage of that '2 month vacation' goes to off the clock preparation for the next two semesters. School workloads assume that teachers will put in those extra hours, even if they officially do not.
*shrug* we have a value system that just doesn't really place much, well, value, on education. Our country's mythology elevates the plucky drop out with the people skills to rise through the ranks. Hard work is admired, but not one-off hard work. Working hard at your job yes, studying hard no.
Have you ever seen a school budget? While the total expenditure is large, it is spread out across a huge number of schools. Actual individual schools, unless they are in a nice wealthy white collar area, usually struggle to keep things like supplies and paychecks moving, and have difficulty with things like facility maintenance or the expansions necessary to keep pace with our increasing population. Even paying teachers for crap is not enough to keep most of the schools in the black.