Monday, November 24, 2014




Trillion-Dollar Baby: Can Apple go where no stock has gone before?






Apple Inc.  (AAPL) stock still has plenty of room to grow






How eight billionaires played Apple last quarter






Apple's forecast to sell 71.5M iPhones units in Q4, iPhone 6 sales more than double iPhone 6 Plus






For Apple, this is like fighting a traffic ticket on principle.

Judge Denise Cote accepts Apple's $450 million bet that she was wrong on e-books






Apple officially begins selling automated iAds in bid to boost mobile advertising business






Apple's iOS App Store reaches record 7.8M daily downloads






Apple's A8 SoC reportedly capable of 4K video output, may pave way for ultra high-resolution Apple TV





Apple's World AIDS Day campaign brings exclusive app content for charity, retail sales donations






Chase debuts first spot featuring Apple Pay


Apple retained final say over creative execution featuring Jack Antonoff's Bleachers band





Here's what happened when Steve Jobs called Jon Stewart after he made fun of Apple on TV






Apple officially announces iAd expansion into programmatic channels including AdRoll, now available in 102 countries







Summerlin, NV has a new store and its name is Apple







Apple Invents Secrets-based Security Measure Relating to the Detection of Unauthorized Calls to Software Routines



Here's how I interpret the progress from this photo of Apple Campus 2:

Reinforced concrete for the floor of the sub basement level has been poured for the most part and the basement walls are nearly complete

A temporary 2-span bridge in the 11 o'clock position for moving materials to the center

Moving counterclockwise, the little squares showing through the sub basement floor are pedestal footings for hydraulic pistons for earthquake protection that will support the drivable floor surface.

Entrance and ramp in the 8 o'clock position from the inner wall of the basement into the center of the ring is for trucks and busses to reach the stage area in the center of the inner ring

The periodic large notches in both the inner and outer wall rings will be for giant hydraulic pilings that will support the 4 story earthquake protected building.

Starting at the 7 o'clock position, a steel girder system is being erected to support the next level, which will be the drivable floor for vehicles. It's starting to be covered with either large re-inforced concrete or corrugated steel plates. It will be a floating drivable surface that is earthquake shock protected.

The area in the bottom left corner could be executive and/or visitor parking or mechanicals beneath what will be the outside dining area. 

There's another entrance/exit slightly before the 12 o'clock position

I have no idea what the large rectangular pit in the upper center of the inner ring is going to be, maybe maintenance or drainage system?

In one of the drawings, there was a round water feature in the middle of the circle, maybe it has something to do with that. 


Start at 3:30 mark on video




Who played the piano?

Macintosh pirate flag reincarnated as art, for sale by original designer Susan Kare








There were a lot of digital watches from this era and before, going back to the 70s

The IBM watchpad 1.5  circa 2001 with digital crown






Computer users are paying the price for Intel dropping CPU development in favor of phone & tablet chips that Apple and others aren't using, so what was the point? 

Do they realize they're a broken company?

I don't think so, especially not after reading this.

Intel acknowledges that they're Still Paying the Price for Sitting on the Sidelines of the Mobile Market Too Long



"I'm not going to tell you I'm proud of losing the kind of money we're losing but I'm also going to tell you I'm not embarrassed by it like I was a year ago about where we were," Bryant said. "This is the price you pay for sitting on the sidelines for a number of years and then fighting your way back into the market."




Sales of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S5 were 40% lower than the company expected

Samsung mobile executives set to pay price in overhaul






Google break-up plan emerges from Brussels







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