So they are going to influence policy by writing big checks? And this is change? Am I missing something.

Pizza is considered a vegetable in the US so nothing surprises me any more from a country that measures food quality in calories per dollar.

Who knows maybe on future the US Olympic organizers will petition for "Eating Cheet-ohs" to be admitted as an event.

they are full of shit.

All the noises they;ve made about protecting rights and speech are just lies. They are desperately trying to look like a "people first" nation in the run up to the FIFA World Cup, to counter and quell the unrest at home relating to the spiralling cost of hosting the tournament.

>Apple has yet to really make massive pushes into literally billions of potential customers.
Yeah sub saharan africa is crying out for premium priced ipads and iphones. As is rural China etc.
Seriously though, Apple gains market share because of uniqueness, but then loses market share because of price. Always. Always. Always.

> They won't fail in any way shape or form.
So then you've obviously invested your lifes savings in Apple stock right? No? Why not.

>They have enough cash on hand to buy any new market or company they want.
Same could be said of Yahoo! at one time. Success isn't about writing big checks.

>Apple is actually the opposite of what you are claiming, they aren't a "running to stand still" company at all, they are a marathon runner
whoah let me stop you there.

Microsoft? IBM? Oracle? Facebook? Twitter? etc. etc.


I don't think so kid. The VAST majority of the tech industry consists of "marketshare warriors" who stand and fight nose-to-nose over an existing market, they do not go and create new markets on their own like Apple used to (at least they don't do it any more). Often times, when they get crowded out they die rather than innovate our into a new market space So rather than being simply "wrong", you are in fact "power wrong". You strapped the "afterburners of incorrectitude" to your back and fired those bad boys up. This is now playing in the background... youtube.com/watch?v=MVNQGUkRX_U

Calling a modern mobile device a "cell phone" is like calling your car "a horse".

Discolsure: I am not an apple fan and do not own any apple gear.

Apple's entire business is based on breaking new ground with an innovative new product, exploiting that products uniqueness before the rest start copying them and flood the market with "me too" devices. Then Apple has to move on to something else.

This "running to stand still" existence cannot go on indefinitely. When they fall it will be spectacular and kind of sad to be honest as, love them or hate them, they are a huge catalyst for change in the tech industry.

....and feasts on the goo inside.....*

Classic tax scam. They can charge their video subsidiary for faster bandwidth, like what happened to Netflix, and write that off against their tax bill. Classic. They are not actually trying to compete with YouTube or Netflix.

If you suck at a sport, pick another. don't expect the rules to bend to suit you. God damned generation of pussies growing up expecting a medal every time they play a sport.

Soccer-mom-itis infecting the gentlemans sport.

I like the way you think sir. I'm sure there is a practical angle there somewhere.

Many eyeballs may make bugs shallower, but those many eyeballs don't really exist. Source availability does not translate to many people examining that source. People, myself included, may like to build to install packages but that's it.

What we need are intelligent bots to constantly trawl source repositories looking for bugs. People just don't have the time any more.

Is anyone looking?

I hope we at least have water neutrality where we don't get charged more for using water for showering as opposed to washing the car. thats where its all going folks.

>In terms of how much control they had on the industry they absolutely did.
IBM never had a 90%+ stranglehold on the market. MS did.


>They never had the sort of installed base that MS has with Windows because there were never any where near
>as many mainframes as there are PCs, but guess what, there are already more mobile devices out there running
>Android than there are PCs running Windows.

There are also more ios devices being sold then windows PCs out there = more competition in mobile space than in the PC space.
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