Cook needs to learn how to lie and not open his mouth. That bit about Chinese manufacturing was incredible - does he really believe people don't know why the products are put together in China? Love the table cloths covering up their new secret products. Get real, they don't have anything NEW coming in 2016.
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And many deductions have been introduced over the years to help 'foster' certain industrial growth. The problem is that now, the tax code is Swiss cheese. Many corporations not only pay no taxes, they actually get money back! And not three or four figure checks, but seven and eight figure checks, and shuffling money around is largely legal. The 'military industrial complex' is practically contracted with the Treasury Department to print more money.
Corporate inversions are all the rage now too. Burger King, Pfizer, etc...
I remember an expose about the import/export game that many corporations play. Deliberately overvaluing products going one way, and devaluing them going the other JUST TO CHEAT ON THEIR TAXES!
America isn't a democracy any longer. It's quickly becoming a vacation spot for skeesy corporate tax and regulation cheats!
Lobbyists control this country now. Look at the MPAA!
/rant
Remember when paying your taxes was a mark of a true patriot? Now having a personal jet is?
And what are they doing with all of this ill gotten cash? BUYING OUR ELECTIONS to get more cash!
It's so bad now that foreign money could actually BUY AN ELECTION, and no one seems to care, as long as the cash shower keeps running!
Depends how you define "new". And who says everything under those cloths are 2016 products?
Man, for the most successful company on the planet, they sure look like a grumpy lot.
Because they need to have something different to convince people to buy the more expensive model. Honestly I don't see any reason why they couldn't fit it into the 6S as well.
12-inch MacBook is a joke. New iMacs are expensive jokes (glued!!!). Mac Pro is a joke squared. iWatch??? Ahah. iOS 7+ / Yosemite+ are PURE GARBAGE. Hope all the bad possible to these marketing drones. They're destroying my preferred company
And yet here you are.
The G4 Cube, overheating PowerBooks, those iPod backs that scratched at the slightest touch, mobile me, and antenna gate all launched under Jobs. So did most of Apple's greatest successes, but I'm sure Jobs would have been just as furious with Maps as he was with mobile me.
I don't think Apple has gone downhill. I think the expectations have gone up. Maybe Jobs could have met those expectations better than Cook; there's no knowing about that. But I haven't seen a significant dip in quality in the products I've used.
I'm using Windows 10 daily as my main desktop because I need to for work AND IT'S BAD.
After their last god damn silent "upgrades".
You have no clue what they're changing.
I couldn't get Wifi do connected for 2 weeks straight more than 30 minutes at a time
That same upgrade also wiped all my settings everywhere, including privacy, security, Apps, etc.
Cortana, the big upgrade for that release, has not worked properly no matter what I did (I'm a computer engineer...),
not only that, since desktop search and Cortana are linked, the search box and even the main menu were slug slow.
A few drivers that worked for 5-6 years, now wonky.
Speech packs upgrades don't work unless you remove yourself off metered internet, which I had set myself to prevent automated upgrades. No manual workarounds!
And on and on and on...
That's just the November upgrade.
So many more privacy givaways in 10.
So things don't work properly unless you're signed in.
It is relentless... There is a reason why Windows 7 (or worse case 8.1)
is were most people are still parked
I also use Apple products: Ipad pro, Ipad, Iphone, etc.
There is nothing even close to that at Apple, it's not even in the same ballpark.
The last big f-up was the near bricking of old Iphones in IOS 2 and 4; that occured on Jobs watch BTW.
I worked for years selling home audio products in the mid-80's.
It's almost the same then as it is now.
The companies would put out a 'new model' that had the same specs as the old model, with the knobs in a different location, or they would, as one vendor did, introduce a 'radical new color' (white) and change nothing besides the color, and call it a 'New Model!!!'.
I remember one kid coming in to drool over the new stuff. He had just bought a whole new setup earlier that year, and he already wanted the 'Newest, Best, Brightest' which wasn't any functionally different than what he had. I finally told him that after wrangling to get financing for his 'New and improved' equipment purchase. Sorter end of story: He left, came back and talked to the manager, manager came to talk to me: "He's an idiot. You and I know there is no change in the stuff he has and the stuff he wants. People like him are what drives the industry and I shouldn't tell people 'our little secret'." As the poor kid mortgages his future for a handful of beans...
I've got 10 running on a high core i7 with 32G of ram, and it seems to be running decent, but using a Lamborghini to get the groceries would be 'decent' too...
Without passengers...
Why do people keep using the name "iWatch"? I can't believe there's anybody who doesn't know it's called Apple Watch at this point.
Yeah, I noticed that too, Rose just slowly and dramatically repeating whatever the person he's interviewing just said. It's like he thinks it's some interviewing Jedi mind trick that will cause them to reveal further information, but it's embarrassing.
Most of the things that get held against Apple in this interview are generally true about most of the other larger similar companies (Foxxconn making parts, dealing with avoiding the Corporate Taxes, etc...) and I think Apple gets singled out because it makes for a story people will read or at least click on.
If ALL her Android phones keep breaking, seems obvious what the common factor is.
From buggy software to various other things, battery issues etc. If she was handling them in the wrong manner then I would agree, but she does nothing on them aside from playing Candy crush and calling people.
Next week's news: Samsung has 800 reverse engineers working on Galaxy S7 camera
Technically, anything longer than a sentence fragment, from anyone's mouth, leaves room for out-of-context interpretation. Perhaps its best that none of us speak (or write).
Is it unfortunate that he chose to make his point with a paragraph? I'd say no; it was sufficiently well-constructed that 60 Minutes gave us the entire paragraph. Even after losing Charlie Rose's question and Phil Schiller's first two sentences, the statement still flies. Here it is, in its entirety:
It seems to be a well-practiced statement. I can imagine Phil using it whenever a product team tries to defend its turf.
Sure, "A good offense is the best defense," manages to succinctly encapsulate the concept, but that's probably too cliched to be effective. And as memes go... One "sage" at Answers.com claimed that Clausewitz (1780-1831) quoted Chairman Mao (1893-1976). Clearly, Billy Pilgrim wasn't the only person thoroughly unstuck in time. Vince Lombardi had his crack at the statement, and WikiPedia dragged out a variant from George Washington. It could easily have been said by Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan (though not in English).
The campus store should totally sell that hat with the option to customize your own last name on it.Yes! I wish we would have gotten more footage from Campus 2. Much more interesting than talk about taxes and Chinese manufacturing.
It appears as they may have accidentally shown an unreleased macbook?
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macbook-60-minutes-2015-12
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macbook-60-minutes-2015-12