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by Despegar 7y ago
They're never going to "get all users" because you need Apple hardware. And unless they plan on selling $50 iPhones that's never going to happen.
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by Despegar 7y ago
If Medicare For All were passed it would be a massive increase in fiscal spending and a lot of it would be financed with debt. After that supply and demand will take care of the yield the market expects for risk-free assets. The reason why
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by Despegar 7y ago
The problem is that you're under the impression that "consumption" is somehow less virtuous than "investment". You mentioned China, but that's a perfect example of an economy that isn't driven by consumpti
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by Despegar 7y ago
>Instead it’s subsidies mostly tax breaks and consumption for little long term return. There's nothing wrong with consumption. Consumption is what drives the US economy and makes it the powerhouse that it is. The American consumer i
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by Despegar 7y ago
Everyone who says "we're saddling future generations with debt" are almost exclusively rich people that want to cut entitlement spending. Which is why it's absolutely great that they're on the way to earning negativ
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by Despegar 7y ago
The boomers have Social Security and Medicare.
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by Despegar 7y ago
It's the market telling us that we need to pass Medicare For All and blow out the deficit. The boomers with money deserve a positive real yield.
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Developers Call Apple Privacy Changes Anti-Competitive(theinformation.com)
3 points by Despegar 7y ago|0 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
Security research doesn't really have anything to do with Apple's complaint of copyright infringement.
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by Despegar 7y ago
This is exactly why Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax is a great idea.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Google is effectively controlled by Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt through their voting shares. In fact the stated reason for having a dual class of shares was so they can "manage the company for the long run".
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by Despegar 7y ago
The people taking crazy pills are the one's suggesting it just says "Service" rather than not knowing if the battery is genuine.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>Rather, it's a warning in the "battery health" section basically saying "we don't know if your battery is any good, you might need to get it replaced". That's not what the message is. It's really
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by Despegar 7y ago
You apparently didn't read the iFixit post because the message does say that the battery may not be genuine. https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-locking-batteries-to-ip...
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by Despegar 7y ago
It's not just reputation that Apple cares about. They also care about fraud. The Information had a good story about it last year [1]. At its peak, 60% of repair claims were fraudulent in China and Hong Kong. With trade-ins now, they wa
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by Despegar 7y ago
From the article: >Previously, a company called Zerodium was vocal about how much it will pay researchers, before handing them to its unknown government customers. In January, the secretive company announced it was offering $2 million fo
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by Despegar 7y ago
I don't see how there's any risk when it gets sold to a broker like Zerodium who then sells it to some government.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>Forbes also revealed on Monday that Apple was to give bug bounty participants "developer devices" - iPhones that let hackers dive further into iOS. They can, for instance, pause the processor to look at what's happening w
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by Despegar 7y ago
Cool so no actual privacy groups like EPIC. Glad they overturned it.
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How Facebook failed to break into hardware: The untold story of Building 8(cnbc.com)
6 points by Despegar 7y ago|0 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
There's been cheaper alternatives to the iPhone since it first launched. It just doesn't matter.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>Headline is misleading at best, if the iPhone were to suddenly lose their market to Android phones 10 years into the iPhone, it's safe to say this is never going to happen.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Yep. I refuse to have my DNA sequenced by any of these direct to consumer businesses that think they're going to be the next platforms and start making money on the back end.
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by Despegar 7y ago
A bunch of countries are going to force them to do it anyway.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Investors have always disliked Google's bad capital allocation. They'd much rather have the cash. The expansion in the buyback is a signal for a new era of capital return.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>On July 24, 2019, the Board of Directors of Alphabet authorized the company to repurchase up to an additional $25.0 billion of its Class C capital stock The reason the stock is up so much. They're going to stop blowing money on stu
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by Despegar 7y ago
Its under-performance over 2 and 5 years explains why it's been such a great short. Investors like Chanos have a basket of shorts so any one stock ripping up would hurt but wouldn't kill them. And the shorts ultimately let them be
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by Despegar 7y ago
Tesla's stock has massively under-performed over the past 5 years (will be up 8% over that period if the after hours price action holds). The opportunity cost of owning it has been huge while the rest of the market ripped up.
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by Despegar 7y ago
It's for quality control and security and it's good business. When they decided to do this in 2008 they couldn't have known how big the App Store (and the iPhone) was going to get. You can listen to an interview a WSJ repor
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by Despegar 7y ago
You’re not actually saying anything of substance other than Cook isn’t a founder of Apple. It’s amusing to see people try to give the Apple Watch and AirPods short shrift because they’re both extremely successful products that only look sma

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