Actually the 30% was/is their take from all iTunes and App Store sales. They also charge a licensing fee (MFi) to make accessories with the 30 pin and new lightning connector. This fee is currently rumored to be ~$4 per connector or a percentage of the devices cost whichever is greater. { Fun fact: It is this licensing fee that led Square inventor Jack Dorsey to design the Square reader to use the audio jack instead of Apples connector. It cost $1 to manufacture the reader and it would have cost $4-$8 per reader to use the 30 pin. } I'm sure Apple has negotiated a comfortable fee with Visa/MC to use Apple Pay.

High profile examples of this personified:
Homer Simpson
Peter Griffin
Sheldon Cooper
And society will follow a confident idiot off a cliff before they will follow an unsure genius anywhere.

She's in a senior center which means she's at the mercy of the establishment. I'm betting that $80 goes right into their pocket as they already have internet and all they are going to do for that $80 is turn on the wifi extender in the room she is in.

It looks like there are enough big names wanting to escape the grasp of Intel's grip to tip the scales but only time will tell. I found a painfully in depth article discussing the reasoning and driving forces.

The majority of shops these days run a hypervisor on the bare metal and load Windows as a virtual machine. Now if Microsoft is working on an ARM version of Hyper-V that's a different story. But even the hard core Microsoft shops I work with use VMWare as their hypervisor of choice.

While I appreciate the aesthetic of trying to look like Doom and Minecraft I think Starforge would appeal to a larger audience in this particular genre. It just reached revision 1.0 and looks to be coming along nicely. The graphics are better unless you're going for the Minecraft experience in space. And while I haven''t played it myself yet the gameplay looks to be more polished but YMMV.

"What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US?"
Simple...The appropriately greased palm of a majority of any politicians publicly opposed to said legislation.

I'm not sure how you will accomplish what you are looking to accomplish in the space constraints you outlined but if you do I suspect it will be using 3M's Novec 7000. It aint cheap but you can fully enclose your box and it uses convection to circulate.

The average home price in LA is over $500K. In San Francisco it is over $650K. In NY the median home price is over $350K. A nicer home in a better neighborhood in Houston is less than $300K. You can take your pathetic condescending attitude and shove it up your ass.

Throw away a brand synonymous with durability and communication and replace it with...ZUNE II !
What could possibly go wrong?

The allergies are so bad this year that the drug dealers are turning meth back into Sudafed.

Shouldn't that last line be 1st hater? And who else saw CVS and wondered why Eric would want to stamp out comma delimited files (CSV...I know dyslexia)?

WOW! The fact that you missed the whole point of my comment (entitled E/W coast Millennials who think posting selfies on Twitter is worth 1/2 mil) and the insightful ranking means reading comprehension here is at an all time low. My post totally agreed with yours you just failed to grasp its true content.

That depends heavily on where you live. $100k on the East or West coast is considered poverty level by the entitled masses in those locations whereas that same $100k on the 3rd coast (AKA Houston, TX) makes for comfortable if not copious living.

Consuming CO2 rapidly, as happens when drinking carbonated beverages, leads to stomach expansion. The stomach is capable of increasing in size to accommodate a large meal but if the practice is habitual the stomach will actually grow in size permanently. There is a nerve where the esophagus meets the stomach that triggers when the stomach is full. When triggered it tells the brain to stop eating (you are no longer hungry). Studies have linked an enlarged stomach to overeating and thus obesity. So while it may not have a direct link to obesity there is evidence it may be indirectly linked.