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Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Discuss Their New USC Academy Focused on Technology and Liberal Arts
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Significant apple shareholder doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're"
Also wakes up in the morning first thing to check on marumors for latest gossip
You make this so easy
Didn't the beloved Steve Jobs initially abandon and not even claim his daughter? Yet we're here buying all of these products with his fingerprints on them.
Not saying that I think either he or Dre are role models for how to be a good father/husband, but it doesn't really have anything to do with what they are capable of professionally.
The shares have finally struggled back to the price they were more than two years ago. The market has been on a bull run all that time while Apple tried to recover. And the tiny dividend?
Money Market accounts can maintain with a small earnings and FDIC insurance.
Bid deal, Apple!
Thank you for reminding the self-righteous of that fact. If you had not, I would have.
The first worst and best thing Apple did was fire Steve Jobs. The second was that round mouse (Sorry Steve).
Now to Beats. Beats as a brand is not based on technology - its based on celebrity. Their products represent pure consumerism and nothing more. I realize Apple has to continue to aqui-hire companies that are like minded - but Beats? Why not just grab their dev team (if thats what they are really after) and move on.
Perhaps Apple believed it needed a more youth centric brand to be hip.
I thought their revenue numbers were pretty darn good on their own, esp. given the purchase price.
I don't know what other reasons Cook had, I suspect it will take a while to see what else they had in mind.
This isn't quite what Steve Jobs had in mind. Steve Jobs thought the "intersection of liberal arts and technology" was what made technology better.
From that viewpoint, this school should have been set up at Stanford, near where all the technology companies are.
This is being done for the benefit of the entertainment industry. Iovine even said it: "The kid who's going to have an advantage in the entertainment industry...." It's also being set up at USC, which is also home of the very Hollywood Industry focused USC School of Cinematic Arts (formerly the USC School of Cinema Television), in Los Angeles. This is just the opposite of what Steve Jobs was talking about.
I'm cynical about this, and this is coming from a USC alumni who was in the USC film school as an undergraduate (I studied Film History, Theory and Criticism, not Production).
From that viewpoint, this school should have been set up at Stanford, near where all the technology companies are.
This is being done for the benefit of the entertainment industry. Iovine even said it: "The kid who's going to have an advantage in the entertainment industry...." It's also being set up at USC, which is also home of the very Hollywood Industry focused USC School of Cinematic Arts (formerly the USC School of Cinema Television), in Los Angeles. This is just the opposite of what Steve Jobs was talking about.
I'm cynical about this, and this is coming from a USC alumni who was in the USC film school as an undergraduate (I studied Film History, Theory and Criticism, not Production).
Well, it's significant to groovyd... not necessarily to Tim.
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For someone worth tens of millions of dollars, you sure do get oddly defensive about random people challenging your bona fides in an internet forum. Multi-millionaires typically don't care enough to respond to people challenging their wealth.
There are lots of technology companies in Los Angeles though and Orange County (yeah not a pleasant drive but still not far). I know plenty of people working for high tech companies in LA. Also, USC has some other stuff going for in terms of technology. As a UC graduate, USC isn't my cup of tea... no really, I think USC has had a lot of interesting programs and I used to attend one apart from my degree program. Silicon valley isn't the only place and this is a good thing for the various students in southern california.
Lay off the guy, "significant" is a relative term. He didn't say he owned 5% of Apple... sheesh.
So....I guess Detox is never coming out.
I'm a little surprised Apple didn't implement Beats audio in the iPhone 6. Not that the iPhone 6 doesn't have good audio but the built in speakers could certainly be better.
I'm a little surprised Apple didn't implement Beats audio in the iPhone 6. Not that the iPhone 6 doesn't have good audio but the built in speakers could certainly be better.
I don't know much if anything about this Iovine fellow, but no way do I think Dr.Dre signed up for a bachelors. They threw money at USC with an agenda for [the school] to create a lesson plan that will undoubtedly earn both parties a hefty paycheck. It's sad to see so many schools capitalizing off poor college students eating ramen noodles. Yes, it is preferred that you earn a college degree, and once you obtain that you have greater chances for success, but with so many programs already out there you have to begin to wonder when duplication and the ease of accessibility is putting the credibility at stake. Case in point is all the under employed, hardworking folks who can't even wipe with their certificates.
Who cares...?
These are the two clowns who bought MOG and ruined it.
Of course, they bought MOG for 15 million and sold it to Apple together with a marginal accessories business for 3 billion, so the clowns are laughing all the way to the bank.
But I still don't care much to hear about them every time they pose for a picture.
These are the two clowns who bought MOG and ruined it.
Of course, they bought MOG for 15 million and sold it to Apple together with a marginal accessories business for 3 billion, so the clowns are laughing all the way to the bank.
But I still don't care much to hear about them every time they pose for a picture.
Steve Jobs had some issues regarding children too.
Yes... profit is good!
And Beats is profitable. People buy their stuff. Apple already sold their stuff in their stores.
It's not like they bought some struggling startup...
I just graduated from Cal Poly, SLO (where Oppenheimer went) with a degree in Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies. Basically the same thing as what USC is now doing. And also similar to those movies where you make up your own degree... But actually I learned a lot and enjoyed it more than the previous 2 majors I had and got to concentrate in an area no other program offered. Overall I'd say this type of degree is well worth it.
The thing with hands on and applied is that it's called obsolete ten years later...
From what I learned at university, all the hands on and applied is pretty useless now : Pascal and Delphi are dead, C++ is a niche, Visual Basic is dead... On the other hand, all the theoretical stuff I learnt that was mostly research back then has become extremely trendy and fashionable now: functional programming, non-SQL databases, concurrent programming...
You're not doing an education for next year, you're doing it for the next 40 years... That's why you can't have only applied stuff, you also have to have enough concepts and theory to keep learn for decades...
A real class act.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guMFKBXp544
This brings a nice image to the company. Apple… from class to trash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guMFKBXp544
This brings a nice image to the company. Apple… from class to trash.
(hint... it's already paid off... - I guess it is how one interprets your statement. I've not read anything that suggests that the purchase has put them in financial ruins as you apparently have. $3 billion is a lot of money - there needs to be a solid return on that or some other concrete benefit for that purchase. One risk of having the cash they have is it can make one careless about expenditures - "whats $3billion given our reserves" mentality. I still don't understand the reason for the acquisition but perhaps that will became evident in the near future.