Yep, for sure it’s the thin edge of the wedge. I think it’s complicated from an operational point of view, but can’t see why buybacks should be tax advantaged compared to dividends.
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I don’t really have time for maybe ‘thin end of the wedge’ arguments as they’re often scaremongering but in this case it seems clear to me that this will rise over time.
I don’t have any issue with it given the huge increase over the past decade. I wonder if the UK would consider one?
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First time I have watched an Apple event live (YouTube) they certainly are slick. IPhone 14 looks nice and I’m sure will sell like hot cakes. I’m still waiting for my IPhone se mk1 2016 to finally give up the ghost before I upgrade.
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“in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
I didn’t watch it this time but have in the past, they’re really quite a good watch, aren’t they? I was suprised
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Link for anyone else who hasn’t seen it yet. And look out for the intentional ‘after show glitchy thing’ at 1h36m40s that’s got everyone talking.
Their presentations are brilliant. It must be hard working at companies with lower budgets or completely unimaginative/restricted marketing departments (Google/Amazon) and then seeing Apple produce this kind of work.
The Mac focussed events are even better because they feature Hair Force One AKA Craig Federighi. An offensively charismatic man. Here’s his Best Of video… Craig Federighi Best Moments | 2012-2020 - YouTube It’s quite the trip to see how much better their presentations are than they were 10 years ago.
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I feel like if you work in marketing you know better than to compare yourself to Apple, they really are incredible at it. Maybe something like Coke or Red Bull are the only things close.
Google/Amazon are tech companies with marketing departments, Apple feels a marketing company with a tech department and it works for them, even tech journalists are talking about ‘innovative’ crash detection like it hasn’t been a feature for 3 years already. The ability to market something is often a lot more lucrative than inventing it.
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Link for anyone else who hasn’t seen it yet. And look out for the intentional ‘after show glitchy thing’ at 1h36m40s that’s got everyone talking.
I didn’t see that? The video looks like it’s been truncated too so maybe it wasn’t intentional. What happened exactly?
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Yeah I wondered about that, it was a tease for S2 of Severance (Apple TV show)
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Severance was great, (I don’t have Apple TV, I watched it …er…elsewhere)
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One year they’re going to shock us all and say “This year we’re releasing an iPhone that’s not as advanced as last year’s”
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Apple ditches iPhone production increase after demand falters. The share price is down 3% today.
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Err, did I do this? Am I so powerful that a trillion dollar company can’t even escape from my talents?
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Not sure why anyone reports this as surprising. Their phones are made to last longer and longer with services to prolong the life
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Yeah that’s not even the main issue with the EU legislation. USB C is a reasonable cable, though not the best and not as durable as it could have been. But what’s likely to happen is the EU have handed the USB guys a monopoly on cable standard for most of these devices where it wasn’t needed.
the rule applies to mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, handheld videogame consoles, portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, earbuds and portable navigation devices and laptops.
While there are some other sub types used, and lightning still on some devices. These were already being phased generally to type c anyway. the main exception at the moment are ‘cheaper’ products using cheaper non type c parts, or some apple devices. In both cases I think we would be seeing them change over anyway.
but the legislation now demands a cable… and laws are slow to adapt to new technology. So while we say this pickup of type c without enforcement, now that we have type c enforced, what are the chances we will see any further development of cables in the future? any improvements over the weak points of type c, when you cant because the law requires a specific cable.
They fix this by saying they’re review new technologies, but usually that requires there being an ability to use those technologies for anyone to bother to try.
So sadly, I expect we’re not going to see anything other than type c for a long time, unless USB themselves push a new cable and have the EU adopt it for them. Which seems more likely to be the kind of relationship we’ll see. a monopoly on cabling.
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I think the different types of USB C is fine, it shows the durability and it’s good you can always do the lowest common denominator capability across the {device A, device B and cable} functionality - I.e. you can still use a cable rated for 45W PD and 4K display output for 5W charging of a phone or transfer at low speeds using a high speed cable with a slow speed device. It’s insane to have a world where you couldn’t use a better cable for some basic task just because of different connectors (like not being able to charge a phone with a laptop charger).
The problem is the terribly unclear USB naming conventions around them which makes it impossible to figure out what a cable does at a glance - they have really messed up there, I’m fairly techy and I have no clue and have to look it up.
I mean strongly disagree that it wasn’t needed, but if you take the view that it was I think a non-profit industry group is probably the best option. Do bear in mind that Apple is a member of USB-IF so they are the ‘USB guys’.
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