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Quote: In a letter to investors released after hours Wednesday, Apple blamed factors including a slowing economy in China and fewer carrier subsidies for its weakened revenue projection. The company announced it was lowering revenue guidance for Q1 to $84 billion, down from its previous projection of $89 billion to $93 billion. Apple also lowered its gross margin to about 38 percent from between 38 and 38.5 percent. Apple stock was down 10 percent at Thursday's close.
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Cook did not mention the "insanely great" prices of the new fetish/icons, saturation of the smart-phone market, the "ooh shiny" premium users pay for relatively small innovations in new models, the "I can't do that without a ..." premium you pay for external adapters you need, the general lack of innovation in the last two years by Apple, Apple's unwillingness to cut deals with the carriers that give them profit margins equivalent to what they get from competitors, etc. I wonder why ?
For another view of the impact of China's economic downturn and its impact on Apple: [^]
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
modified 4-Jan-19 5:34am.
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Indeed, and one could mention the rapid growth of in-China companies like Huawei that receive exceptional benefits from being Chinese [^]. Not a level playing field for anything made/owned outside of mainland China.
That's not a comment on the quality and innovations of Huawei in the high-end smart-phone arena: they are competitive !
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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they make the phones in china and they blame china ..THIS IS MADNESS !!!
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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China's per capita income is significantly less than that of the US. How could they afford an iPhone X? Do they sell for less there?
I also wonder about the impact of China's slowing economy on production.
(FWIW, my Motorola "smartphone" cost $39. It does everything I need it to do, albeit slowly on a relatively small screen. If I upgrade it will be to another cheap Motorola, but I don't yet see the need.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: China's per capita income is significantly less than that of the US. How could they afford an iPhone X? Do they sell for less there?
Don't forget the scope of the population of China (which is more than four times the population of the US -- Yup, four whole USAs, with a crime rate of a hundredth of the USA, so they must be doing something right).
Although it's land area is smaller than that of the US, the diversity between cities and rural areas is far more pronounced, with a large proportion of the country being rural, where people are lucky to make $100 a month (but because everyone makes that much, it's not so much of a problem -- don't forget that China was walled off from the 50 years of massive inflation that the rest of the world went through, so 1940s wages are still living wages, for a lot of the country).
In the cities, however, you can hardly move without bumping into a millionaire, and I wouldn't be surprised if property prices in Shanghai and Beijing had already overtaken those of New York and London.
There are always stories on Chinese social media about nasty little kids who throw tantrums if they can't have the latest iphone, and first-year university students behaving like bitches if mummy and daddy didn't buy them the "holy trinity" (iphone, ipad, and macbook).
The one-child policy might have slowed Chinese population growth, but it sure as Hell resulted in a higher-than-normal level of spoiled brats.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've seen vids from that guy, before; he seems a decent bloke (he's quite popular in China, too), and what he says is true.
The overbearing problem with China is the ridiculously huge number of people -- e.g. why should builders and property developers bother with maintaining finished buildings, when there is always a queue of millions of people willing to throw huge sums at them for new apartments?
In trying to establish rule of law, how do you get a society of that many people not to turn into the worst kind of dictatorship, where human life (of the non-elite, of course) was given less respect than beans -- which is pretty much how it was, before the revolution (which is why you should never insult Mao, when in China -- you didn't live under the emperor, so you don't know what Mao meant to the people).
Actually, let's add a bit to that statement, before the "choir of angels" chimes in, calling me a communist, pinkoe, lefty, or whatever.
The sweet and cuddly ousted Chinese emperor was given Taiwan as a plaything (by the US), after he was ousted, where he immediately set to murdering people as usual -- managing to murder well over a million, before the US pointed out that Taiwan was only small, and, at the rate he was going, he'd have no-one left to primp his cushions and rub his feet.
Over a million murdered inside of a year. In China, that's a small number, so no-one outside really noticed he was doing it (they were all too busy looking for things to steal from the country, anyway), but in Taiwan, it made a bit more of a dent -- but the US was committed to backing that murderous horse, so did everything it could to ameliorate the situation started making excuses.
So, how do you stop 1.4 billion people turning into a bloodbath?
The politics of fear, hate, and anger that are all the rage in the West, at the moment, would be absolutely catastrophic, in China, so its leadership can't allow even the smallest alt-right insurgence. A lot of Chinese still hate the Japanese, because of their atrocities during WW2, so a Farage or a Trump would have little trouble stirring up nationalistic hatred there -- in One-Point-Four-BILLION people!
Seventy-million Britons acting like racist dicks is nothing; the world would become a very bad place if a Farage or a Trump held any sway in China.
Policing? There could never be enough policemen to police that many people, without the police themselves becoming a bigger problem than the criminals, by taking too much power unto themselves. And corruption in the ranks would be impossible to counter, or even detect effectively.
So how to stop the criminals?
How to stop companies and corporations behaving badly (as mentioned in the first of your links)?
How to stop corruption in both local/regional and national offices?
There are people who dream of ruling the world. Tell 'em to try to figure out how to rule China, without it either breaking down into a totally inhuman society, or starting (and possibly winning) the biggest world war yet.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The sweet and cuddly ousted Chinese emperor was given Taiwan as a plaything (by the US), after he was ousted, where he immediately set to murdering people as usual...
Not according to any history books I'm aware of. Chiang Kai-shek, the general who established Taiwan when he was unsuccessful in combating the Chinese Communist uprising, wanted to kill Puyi, the last emperor of China, who was a prisoner in Russia at the time.
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You're probably right, there. I read up on all this stuff years ago, and I've been all too happy to have forgotten all but a few of the most gruesome highlights.
What I do know is that China was so badly sh1t on by the West for so long that it's a miracle that they don't want to wipe us all out -- as I say, we're one Chinese Farage away from a very, very bad period for the world, and the way great leaders like Trump mouth off about China will only inspire them to move more toward nationalism and the alt-right.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For China, the "average" means nothing: vast demographics overpower everything else ... there is a huge moneyed urban elite, and that is the source of Apple's former substantial sales.
The peasant from Harbin working 14 hour shifts six days a week at a Foxconn factory (and paying the company for dormitory housing and meals) to earn a little to send back home ... can only gape at the wonder of the Apple bling his hands assemble: [^]
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Hackers have hijacked thousands of exposed Chromecast streaming devices to warn users of the latest security flaw to affect the device. Or you could have just told them about it?
And I bet this will really change someone's lifestyle
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or you could have just told them about it?
But isn't the hackers creed: You don't know if something is hackable if you don't hack it! ?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And I bet this will really change someone's lifestyle
Not taking that bet!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Machine-learning algorithms watch hackers’ behavior and adapt to their evolving tactics. Beware the Black ICE
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I "love" it when the example of machine-learning is a simple select statement.
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More often than not, it seems. 
TTFN - Kent
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From the article: Google now checks for security breaches even after a user has logged in ... monitors various aspects of behavior throughout a user’s session.
And they think that watching and reading everything that their perfectly honest, law-abiding users do and say is acceptable behaviour?
They are a corporation, a business, not an international security force.
If the genuine police of any country wanted to watch and read everything I did, I would expect to see multiple warrants, signed by judges.
And you can rest assured that whatever they glean from performing these "security checks that we do just for you, our friends!" is used to make profit for them.
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To write expressive code in C++, mastering smart pointers is a necessity! Without them, our code becomes littered with memory management, news and delete, and unclear semantics about who owns what resources. Full of many smart pointers, no doubt
Yeah, "free" as in, "subscribe to my newsletter free". I'm sure you can work around that if needed.
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I think a few eParagraphs would suffice.
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if the pointers are smart why do we need to read about it..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Over the next eight years, the United States will add more than a quarter-million new software developer roles, according to new data crunched by The Knowledge Academy (which provides online training courses) and Glassdoor. After that, you're on your own?
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Aren't computers supposed to program themselves by that time?
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Wow!
That's the second organisation that makes money out of IT courses to say that lots more jobs will be available for people with IT training.
We needn't worry, then, if experts like that say that the future is rosy for people with IT training.
Laissez le bon temps rouler, Baby!
I've signed my cat up for a scrum-master course, because he's really good at sleeping half the day.
Note to self: Remember that anything on insights.dice.com is likely to be pretty damned lacking in insight.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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