Which would be illegal. This is money earned overseas and banked overseas. Or are you saying the IRS is willfully ignoring illegal tax evasion by Google?
This one, which sees them down around 13% and continuing to drift lower. They'll probably reach 10% around the end of 2020, and then it's essentially game over. You get into the single digits? You're no longer worth supporting/considering.
Obviously Lightning alone is more robust than headphone+Lightning.
Sure - you've introduced another point of failure. And a Lightning connector is less robust than a 3.5mm connector; the Lightning connector is about 90% wider, but it is just 42% as thick. Since stiffness/rigidity goes as the cube of thickness, the total mechanical rigidity of the 3.5mm connector is (2.3 ^ 3 / 1.9) about 6.6 times higher than the Lightning connector. In other words, the Lightning connector would snap before the 3.5mm jack.
How did Apple force users to buy new bluetooth headphones? They include lightning earbuds in the box. They included a headphone adapter in the box for the first two years, and continue to sell it for 9 bucks.
So you can keep buying $9 connectors, or just go ahead and "bite the bullet" and buy a Bluetooth headphone. it's a "push" thing, that clearly Apple is stating "Bluetooth is superior, why aren't you using it?" And then they get more folks walking around with droopy white tubes hanging from their ears, listening to poor-sounding audio but obviously "hip" because they use an Apple Bluetooth product.
There's a reason I linked to the definition of a subsidy. I guess you consider yourself subsidized because you take an income tax deduction? Subsidies are a cash grant; only an idiot or liar would claim that a cut in taxes (meaning you pay less, but you still pay) is a subsidy. So which are you?
And thus the reason they saw their market cap plummet. They're sliding down, no longer on the "endless climb" up in revenues/profits. And with a continuing slide in market share, it doesn't look like it will turn around any time soon...
Provably false, given that you can put a headphone jack into an iPhone 7. As far as failures, the 3.5mm jack is much more robust than the Lightning connector (look at the mechanical ratings for each). This was done purely as an exercise to increase revenues for Apple, who had bought the biggest Bluetooth headphone brand out there - Beats. What better way to grow sales than to force all your phone users to buy new Bluetooth headphones?
Sure it can. It's trivial to set up a corporation in Hong Kong, Seychelles, or Bermuda. it costs less than $10,000 per year to do so, and to operate (provide for an annual audit, typically). If you're a company doing more than $250,000 a year in profit from overseas, you'd definitely want to look at these kinds of options for all your overseas profit.
If they are cheating, they'll be prosecuted and fined. They're doing what they can to lower their tax bills; I assume you take every deduction you're legally allowed to take? Why shouldn't someone else get the same grace you expect?
RTFS/RTFA - this is on overseas revenue, not US revenue. They pay 100% of their required taxes; the fact they can shift their overseas (not US-taxable) revenue around to lower tax rates has no bearing on the US revenue.
Well, don't forget he did give us 3%+ GDP growth and sub-4% unemployment, when we were told that GDP 6% were the new normal. So he did quite a bit to make President Obama a liar...
What is 23 billion compared to 23 trillion? 0.1%. Why does it matter? It doesn't when government spending is this out of control.
Guess what? Medicare, Medicaid, pensions (Social Security and Federal pensions), welfare, and the interest on the national debt cover 70% of Federal spending - and 100% of its revenues. Everything else - defense, EPA, DOEs, NOAA, NASA, everything - combines to just 30%. Eliminate them in their entirety and we'd still run a small deficit.
The problem isn't defense or interest - the problem is entitlements. And neither party wants to really touch those, because they are instant death. I fear the only chance we'll have a meaningful entitlement reform is with a President like Trump - someone without a political career to milk forever.
Stop right there. he should never have been out in public in the first place. That's the point - he was allowed to goof around with a found firearm when he should have been in the process of being deported.
40% drop in the last 5 months. Not too good for the market cap! Gotta sting having not just Amazon, not just Google, but even MICROSOFT worth more than Apple...
MSFT: $747B market cap
AMZN: $733B market cap
GOOG: $710B market cap
AAPL: $674B market cap
AAPL, bringing up the rear! The peaked at just under $1.1 trillion, and now they're down nearly 40%. Falling market share, consumers weary of the constant upgrade for nothing, no new innovation for the product, and a revenue stream that is basically just the iPhone ("services" - apps - live because of the iPhone) for 70% of their money. As the iPhone goes, so goes AAPL. And the iPhone is failing...
So the option is to spend more money to occupy the sole charging port on an iPhone. Not good. And for Square, I get the 3.5mm jack readers for free; I guess I can spend $50 to buy the Bluetooth units, but I'd rather get the free ones and hand them out to my 4 employees so they can all sell product as needed. But again - best to give money to someone else to solve the problem that Apple created by eliminating the jack.
Here's a question for you: what problem did Apple solve by removing the 3.5mm jack? Other than consumers not giving them enough money?
Deductions from taxes aren't subsidies. Or do you claim all your own tax deductions are subsidies? You have to pay taxes to get a subsidy. NONE of that list you linked are subsidies; they are deductions, and are analogous in each case to allowed deductions in other industries. There are no subsidies you've provided. None. Zero.
Now, you want to talk about environmental damage? Cool! Then let's also include the damage for refining steel, copper, rare earth metals, and such as needed for building renewable energy sources. And then let's deduct the benefits of the results - the petroleum used for fertilizer and medicines. The plastics used for preservatives and coverings. The petroleum used to build cable sheathing for PV arrays. Or do you only want to consider costs? Then let's rack them up... You'll find that "big oil" is a massive net contributor to the quality of life we live.
You can go live in the Borneo or Congolese jungle and be free of the influence of "big oil" - we'll see what you think of the results. Remember, no plastics, nothing manufactured after ~1880, no modern medicines. Get rid of that "vegan leather" belt, and make sure you sail across the ocean on a wooden boat with cloth sails...
They seem to be able to deliver millions of vehicles that people want - which in the US, is NOT cars (it's SUVs and trucks). No need to be flashy if you want to make money. Of course, Ford and GM actually make profit - Tesla? We'll see - they just fell below Musk's vaunted "5000 Model 3s a week!" production rate last quarter, so...
And now below $700B, and with MSFT, AMZN, and GOOG all worth more... A brief moment before they fell. Falling market share always catches up in the end.
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Which would be illegal. This is money earned overseas and banked overseas. Or are you saying the IRS is willfully ignoring illegal tax evasion by Google?
It did if you watch CNN or MSNBC! ;)
This one, which sees them down around 13% and continuing to drift lower. They'll probably reach 10% around the end of 2020, and then it's essentially game over. You get into the single digits? You're no longer worth supporting/considering.
Can you add a jack to an XR or XS?
Probably. The iPhone 7 is smaller than the Xs and Xr, so there's more internal room in the later models.
How did the hacked up iPhone do in the waterproof test?
Dunno. Given that others can make waterproof phones with 3.5mm jacks and USB jacks I would assume that Apple could do the same.
Obviously Lightning alone is more robust than headphone+Lightning.
Sure - you've introduced another point of failure. And a Lightning connector is less robust than a 3.5mm connector; the Lightning connector is about 90% wider, but it is just 42% as thick. Since stiffness/rigidity goes as the cube of thickness, the total mechanical rigidity of the 3.5mm connector is (2.3 ^ 3 / 1.9) about 6.6 times higher than the Lightning connector. In other words, the Lightning connector would snap before the 3.5mm jack.
How did Apple force users to buy new bluetooth headphones? They include lightning earbuds in the box. They included a headphone adapter in the box for the first two years, and continue to sell it for 9 bucks.
So you can keep buying $9 connectors, or just go ahead and "bite the bullet" and buy a Bluetooth headphone. it's a "push" thing, that clearly Apple is stating "Bluetooth is superior, why aren't you using it?" And then they get more folks walking around with droopy white tubes hanging from their ears, listening to poor-sounding audio but obviously "hip" because they use an Apple Bluetooth product.
I stopped linking because I posted the link a few times. What data do you have that shows otherwise?
There's a reason I linked to the definition of a subsidy. I guess you consider yourself subsidized because you take an income tax deduction? Subsidies are a cash grant; only an idiot or liar would claim that a cut in taxes (meaning you pay less, but you still pay) is a subsidy. So which are you?
And thus the reason they saw their market cap plummet. They're sliding down, no longer on the "endless climb" up in revenues/profits. And with a continuing slide in market share, it doesn't look like it will turn around any time soon...
Provably false, given that you can put a headphone jack into an iPhone 7. As far as failures, the 3.5mm jack is much more robust than the Lightning connector (look at the mechanical ratings for each). This was done purely as an exercise to increase revenues for Apple, who had bought the biggest Bluetooth headphone brand out there - Beats. What better way to grow sales than to force all your phone users to buy new Bluetooth headphones?
Sure it can. It's trivial to set up a corporation in Hong Kong, Seychelles, or Bermuda. it costs less than $10,000 per year to do so, and to operate (provide for an annual audit, typically). If you're a company doing more than $250,000 a year in profit from overseas, you'd definitely want to look at these kinds of options for all your overseas profit.
If they are cheating, they'll be prosecuted and fined. They're doing what they can to lower their tax bills; I assume you take every deduction you're legally allowed to take? Why shouldn't someone else get the same grace you expect?
RTFS/RTFA - this is on overseas revenue, not US revenue. They pay 100% of their required taxes; the fact they can shift their overseas (not US-taxable) revenue around to lower tax rates has no bearing on the US revenue.
Read TFS or TFA; this isn't domestic revenue, this is overseas revenue - revenue never taxed in the US in either case.
Well, don't forget he did give us 3%+ GDP growth and sub-4% unemployment, when we were told that GDP 6% were the new normal. So he did quite a bit to make President Obama a liar...
What is 23 billion compared to 23 trillion? 0.1%. Why does it matter? It doesn't when government spending is this out of control.
Guess what? Medicare, Medicaid, pensions (Social Security and Federal pensions), welfare, and the interest on the national debt cover 70% of Federal spending - and 100% of its revenues. Everything else - defense, EPA, DOEs, NOAA, NASA, everything - combines to just 30%. Eliminate them in their entirety and we'd still run a small deficit.
The problem isn't defense or interest - the problem is entitlements. And neither party wants to really touch those, because they are instant death. I fear the only chance we'll have a meaningful entitlement reform is with a President like Trump - someone without a political career to milk forever.
He found a gun under a public bench
Stop right there. he should never have been out in public in the first place. That's the point - he was allowed to goof around with a found firearm when he should have been in the process of being deported.
Return 20% instead of 40%? I think you mean they dropped 40% (from their August peak), and people would rather have them only drop 20%...
Or he could just get a phone with a headphone jack...
40% drop in the last 5 months. Not too good for the market cap! Gotta sting having not just Amazon, not just Google, but even MICROSOFT worth more than Apple...
As of the time of this post:
MSFT: $747B market cap
AMZN: $733B market cap
GOOG: $710B market cap
AAPL: $674B market cap
AAPL, bringing up the rear! The peaked at just under $1.1 trillion, and now they're down nearly 40%. Falling market share, consumers weary of the constant upgrade for nothing, no new innovation for the product, and a revenue stream that is basically just the iPhone ("services" - apps - live because of the iPhone) for 70% of their money. As the iPhone goes, so goes AAPL. And the iPhone is failing...
So the option is to spend more money to occupy the sole charging port on an iPhone. Not good. And for Square, I get the 3.5mm jack readers for free; I guess I can spend $50 to buy the Bluetooth units, but I'd rather get the free ones and hand them out to my 4 employees so they can all sell product as needed. But again - best to give money to someone else to solve the problem that Apple created by eliminating the jack.
Here's a question for you: what problem did Apple solve by removing the 3.5mm jack? Other than consumers not giving them enough money?
Deductions from taxes aren't subsidies. Or do you claim all your own tax deductions are subsidies? You have to pay taxes to get a subsidy. NONE of that list you linked are subsidies; they are deductions, and are analogous in each case to allowed deductions in other industries. There are no subsidies you've provided. None. Zero.
Now, you want to talk about environmental damage? Cool! Then let's also include the damage for refining steel, copper, rare earth metals, and such as needed for building renewable energy sources. And then let's deduct the benefits of the results - the petroleum used for fertilizer and medicines. The plastics used for preservatives and coverings. The petroleum used to build cable sheathing for PV arrays. Or do you only want to consider costs? Then let's rack them up... You'll find that "big oil" is a massive net contributor to the quality of life we live.
You can go live in the Borneo or Congolese jungle and be free of the influence of "big oil" - we'll see what you think of the results. Remember, no plastics, nothing manufactured after ~1880, no modern medicines. Get rid of that "vegan leather" belt, and make sure you sail across the ocean on a wooden boat with cloth sails...
They seem to be able to deliver millions of vehicles that people want - which in the US, is NOT cars (it's SUVs and trucks). No need to be flashy if you want to make money. Of course, Ford and GM actually make profit - Tesla? We'll see - they just fell below Musk's vaunted "5000 Model 3s a week!" production rate last quarter, so...
When you get a basic fact like $1T wrong in the first place, a come-back of "sure" lacks more than a little "gravitas"...
I do. My headphones of choice are wired. Additionally I use a Square reader for on-the-go sales at trade shows. So yes - I need a headphone jack.
And now below $700B, and with MSFT, AMZN, and GOOG all worth more... A brief moment before they fell. Falling market share always catches up in the end.