Apple new product rumours and general news

[editor]

Following on from this 3,000+ post thread, let's hear your all-new, all-fresh Apple rumours and news!

 

[sim667]

Woop, first in!

 

[teuchter]

The voting for the closing of the previous thread was completely rigged. No option to "not like".

 

[Kid_Eternity]

This type of shit we don't need, apparently a report about child workers at Foxconn with Apple in the frame was made up: http://www.businessinsider.com/this...-about-apple-and-foxconn-2012-3#ixzz1pIkNIRbt

 

[maldwyn]

It looks like Mike Daisey attended the same school of journalism as Johann Hari

Sunday's This American Life podcast should make interesting listening.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

It looks like Mike Daisey attended the same school of journalism as Johann Hari

Sunday's This American Life podcast should make interesting listening.

Indeed. This is really crap because it gives ammunition to those that don't want Apple scrutinized over this and damages the cause to get all companies using Foxconn etc to change...

 

[elbows]

The release also said Cathy Lee, the interpreter, had called into doubt an account of a meeting with a man who had been badly injured while making iPads.
It said Mr Daisey had described letting the man "stroke" the tablet's screen "with his ruined hand" prompting the worker to remark: "It's a kind of magic."
But it said that when questioned, Ms Lee had said "nothing of the sort occurred".

Daisey said he stood by his work, but on his blog he added that he regretted the broadcast of a 39-minute monologue from his stage show.
"What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theatre are not the same as the tools of journalism," he wrote."
"This American Life is essentially a journalistic - not a theatrical - enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17405011
Oh dear. I'm a fan of activism via theatre, but unless you are sending up the swine like the Yes Men do, you need to be careful with your labels and your platform. The thing about the guy with the ruined hand touching an iPad is rather sick, but in certain contexts it would be the right sort of sick that gets people thinking about the unpalatable truths of our world. But now its a shambles that has undermined the hosts show. Im not sure it has actually harmed the wider cause though.

 

[elbows]

I was vaguely amused when reading this article about Japans perfect fruit stores. I was struck by the fact that in some ways they mirror the sort of thing Apple did much later in retail, a retail phenomenon that has in recent years seen much gushing praise and desire to replicate the success. Looks like the retail experts could have lifted these ideas much earlier if they had known where to look, same goes for attention to the product itself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-17352173

 

[maldwyn]

(((Poor Ira)))

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I was vaguely amused when reading this article about Japans perfect fruit stores. I was struck by the fact that in some ways they mirror the sort of thing Apple did much later in retail, a retail phenomenon that has in recent years seen much gushing praise and desire to replicate the success. Looks like the retail experts could have lifted these ideas much earlier if they had known where to look, same goes for attention to the product itself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-17352173

That's mental!

 

[souljacker]

Apparently, Apple are sitting on $100 billion, and they have an announcement tomorrow detailing what they are going to do with it.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...plans-for-100-billion-cash-pile-on-monday.ars

$100 fucking billion.

 

[editor]

Apparently, Apple are sitting on $100 billion, and they have an announcement tomorrow detailing what they are going to do with it.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...plans-for-100-billion-cash-pile-on-monday.ars

$100 fucking billion.

Perhaps they're going to donate it to charity and really make a difference.

 

[Crispy]

They have about as much cash as they do market capitalisation. They could buy back all the shares and take the company private

 

[sim667]

If i was them I'd probably have a hell of a party with it.

 

[editor]

Guardian readers have some suggestions:

Build a zoo for those hysterical nerds who camp outside their shops and act like they just won a gold medal when they emerge with the latest overpriced gizmo the next day.

More and stronger suicide nets at the factories.

They should give it to the rich 1% so they can trickle it down to the rest of us.

They should certainly consider increasing their advertising budget. The Gaurdian never publishes any articles about them at the drop of a hat. It's a wonder anybody knows what Apple is.

Spend more on planting advertorials masquerading as news articles in the technology sections of newspapers?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/19/apple-spend-100-billion-cash-hoard

 

[editor]

Ahead of the today’s call, Apple has announced it plans to initiate a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share sometime in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2012, which starts July 1, 2012.

Furthermore, the company will start a $10 billion share repurchasing program, starting in Apple’s fiscal 2013, which starts on September 30, 2012.

This means Apple will spend approximately $45 billion of its cash reserves on dividends and share buyback in the first three years of these new programs.

“We have used some of our cash to make great investments in our business through increased research and development, acquisitions, new retail store openings, strategic prepayments and capital expenditures in our supply chain, and building out our infrastructure. You’ll see more of all of these in the future,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.

http://mashable.com/2012/03/19/apple-dividend/

So, zero real philanthropy from the richest tech company on the planet.

 

[mrs quoad]

http://mashable.com/2012/03/19/apple-dividend/

So, zero real philanthropy from the richest tech company on the planet.

Are its analogous competitors philanthropic? The organisations / listed companies, that is, rather than CEOs (or whatever equivalent).

 

[editor]

Are its analogous competitors philanthropic?

Yes. They all have charitable ventures. All except Apple who are the richest and profiting the most from worker exploitation.

 

[Kanda]

They have been philanthropic, not as much as they should though.

 

[editor]

They have been philanthropic, not as much as they should though.

Only in the manner of a multi-billionaire passing through a poor neighbourhood in a gold-plated Rolls Royce throwing a few pennies out of the window. It's disgusting.

 

[mrs quoad]

Yes. They all have charitable ventures. All except Apple who are the richest and profiting the most from worker exploitation.

OK!

 

[elbows]

I suspect that they think their products are some great gift to the world and that is enough, and that they have no vision beyond this at all.

Its not good, it would be nice to think that they could be shamed over this but I fear they are shameless. And as I ranted in the past, I don't find generous philanthropy to be all that much better than stingy philanthropy or no philanthropy, it doesn't make up for the exploitation and the sick way that entities can accumulate this much wealth in the first place.

 

[pesh]

the richest tech company on the planet.

citation needed...

In FY 2010, Samsung reported 280 trillion KRW ($258 billion) worth of revenue, and 30 trillion KRW ($27.6 billion) profit. However, they also do not contain the revenues of overseas subsidiaries, and no one knows about real revenues.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

 

[editor]

citation needed...

It's pretty much universally accepted, no matter what wikipedia says.

Apple, the world’s richest technology company, announced its plans to spend $45 billion of its cash reserve over three years.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/apples-cash-plans-pay-dividend-10-billion-share-buyback/71821

Apple pips Exxon as world's biggest company
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/aug/09/apple-pips-exxon-as-worlds-biggest-company

Apple Expands Lead Over Exxon as World's Richest Company

http://www.foxbusiness.com/technolo...ds-lead-over-exxon-as-worlds-richest-company/​

etc etc etc zzzzzzzzzz

 

[editor]

Apple's cash mountain could reignite a Victorian age of engineering, argues physicist Brian Cox.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9707209.stm

 

[Crispy]

citation needed...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

Samsung is also a heavy engineering company, and all sorts of other stuff. Not an apples to apples comparison. Pun intended right in your face

 

[sim667]

Samsung makes arms too dont they? Or arms components.

I tried helping my freind choose a camera the other day, she swore every brand i'd suggest was somehow linked or involved in arms. She didn't end up with a camera sufficed to say.

She then started to bleat at me that apple made arms, so I googled it, and I cant see that they do.

 

[Kanda]

Samsung are also the worlds biggest shipbuilder.

 

[sim667]

Really? I thought it was the company who operate the Taisun.

Edit: No the company that operates it isnt, I havent managed to find anything to say samsung heavy industries is the biggest shipbuilder, from what I can see it looks like hyundai heavy industries. Shame its not kia, a 7 year warranty on a boat would even make me buy some kind of vessel

http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/korea-back-top-worlds-largest-shipbuilding-nation

 

[Kanda]

Sorry, worlds 2nd largest shipbuilder according to their wiki page.