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assbot: Bitcoiners Upset at Apple Understand Neither Apple's Business Model nor Bitcoin
artifexd: fluffypony: I tend to share benkay's view of bitcoin. Specifically from here: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/02/09_bitcoiners-upset-at-apple-understand-neither-apples-business-model-nor-bitcoin.html
fluffypony: so can we now loudly claim that Apple is gay?
assbot: Apple rejects female masturbation app - IBNLive
pankkake: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/apple-rejects-female-masturbation-app/472857-11.html
benkay: fluffypony: what does Apple have to do with anything?
fluffypony: benkay: Apple would never allow it :-P
mircea_popescu: sort-of like you buy 1mn shares of apple today, hold them till monday, then sell them, and simply pocket the difference, without any capital exposure.
assbot: Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android - Slashdot
BingoBoingo: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/14/05/15/2114255/apples-revenge-imessage-might-eat-your-texts-if-you-switch-to-android
assbot: BitPremier — The Very First Apple Macintosh model: 128K
bitcoinpete: https://www.bitpremier.com/items/view/476 <<300 btc for a signed apple 128k. yikes
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid apple is more convenient.
CheckDavid: So apple generates more revenue than books?
mircea_popescu: "Leading toilet maker Toto refers to itself as the Apple of toilet tech." mwahaha
decimation: in the future apple will sell the iGenuflect - you kneel prostrate in front of your laptop in memory of Steve, and it will grant you 1 hour of programming time
asciilifeform: lucky none of my apple boxes have this turd installed.
decimation: every point release of OSX: less support for people who want to do something (apple is forever killing hypercard)
asciilifeform: decimation: no headache. just keep paying << i find apple's os just an uncommonly clunky way to run x11 & friends
asciilifeform: but at least apple's laptop... works.
asciilifeform: (can you install 'ratpoison' under apple's os? nope)
asciilifeform: partly because apple machine is a serious headache
asciilifeform: today, apple stands entirely alone there.
decimation: asciilifeform: [apple] also profited from the demise of sun, sgi, etc. - being the only remaining vendor of what amounts to '90-style 'unix workstation << this is very true
mircea_popescu: "@kristathomas Don't Be Right And Don't Ask Why: Essential Ingredients For Building A Team" << lol. just as long as your "team"'s not supposed to be apple.
asciilifeform: (note that the piece correctly describes the fate of apple corp. not that this deserves prize of any kind, it was pretty obvious)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that apple turd was an epic derpamatic, incidentally. ~500k views to date.
pankkake: uh, https://discussions.apple.com/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/841/8417178-2.jpg is not a rare occurence
asciilifeform: benkay: as described in my post (linked earlier.) it is easiest to ignore apple when one has no need for portable computer (i think it was mp, and a few others, who noted that they never needed a laptop)
benkay: mike_c: who buys apple servers?!
mike_c: benkay: have you ever picked up an apple server? it weighs 200 lbs for no good reason.
benkay: y'all apple haters miss the part where they make the best laptop chassis in the world.
asciilifeform: apple vacuuming up winblows escapees is not the complete picture. they also profited from the demise of sun, sgi, etc. - being the only remaining vendor of what amounts to '90-style 'unix workstation'
mircea_popescu: and re "executive"'s move to apple : the point of sad fact is that actual executive power moved from the us to china in this interval. the ever swelling headcount of ever more powerless and pointless us based pseudo-executives have chosen to temporarily drown the realisation of their loss
mircea_popescu: Naphex: sorry i meant a severly limited computer which you can use too buy more apple shit << exactly. in point of fact nobody actually wants an apple anything.
mircea_popescu: apple do know how to be cool and hip and things, or at least jobs managed to hit the nail on the head an ungodly long tim << that's it. apple is now reduced to the position of rich old guy trying to buy the company of the hip young things in the hopes it'll attract the teenage pussy it's after.
BigBitz: was the Apple buy a cash buy?
bounce: though probably not exlusively to nor blamable on apple
Naphex: sorry i meant a severly limited computer which you can use too buy more apple shit
bounce: the thing is, apple is sitting on an ungodly pile of money, without much in the way of ideas
bounce: but apple always made its own. it's to be seen if they can manage someone else's thing
bounce: apple do know how to be cool and hip and things, or at least jobs managed to hit the nail on the head an ungodly long tim
fluffypony: if it happens it seems to be a marketing exercise for Apple - they could certainly compete from a branding and quality perspective, but they're losing their "cool and hip" image
bounce: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/apple-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-beats-for-3-2-billion/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
ozbot: Apple To Buy Beats - Business Insider
pankkake: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-to-buy-beats-2014-5
mircea_popescu: what exact value would one expect from joe the plumber's knowledge of stocks and the world around him to be passed through his 3k into apple's market
pankkake: http://scoopertino.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/apple_water_page.jpg
fluffypony: someone should write an article loudly claiming Apple is buying Ripple and they'll be calling it Rapple
fluffypony: "Apple does keep an older version of OpenSSL around that isn't vulnerable to the exploit. Safely chained to a wall. In the dungeon. It prods it with sticks now and again to make sure it's still breathing."
benkay: apple's api's are more than happy to give you the raw bytes of the private key, but it seems they then forgot to build out the calls to import that key back into their play-pi.
benkay: client wants to do a thing with asymmetric crypto on the major mobile platforms, my guys are handling the ios side. apple provides a handy dandy set of apis for generating keys (your second 4096 bit key on a bleeding edge iphone will take over a minute to gather 'adequate' 'entropy', btw).
mircea_popescu: bounce used to. meanwhile shit like apple happened.
Apocalyptic: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: ბ is a mouse? // looks like an apple to me
mircea_popescu: ბ << fucktarded apple mouse glyph
CheckDavid: In Wisconsin, it is illegal to serve apple pie in public restaurants without cheese
mircea_popescu: apple for that matter carries billions in cash, so does berkshire, so do all powerful corps.
mircea_popescu: i will burn apple and facebook in urine before i give up the url.
ThickAsThieves: "The jury is deliberating in the lawsuit between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung, but their decision is modified and perhaps complicated by the fact that any damages awarded to Apple will be paid not by the Korean copycat, but by Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG). Google, the creator of the Android platform, agreed to absorb a portion, or the entirety, Samsung’s losses (if any) and court
bounce: re apple borrowing to pay dividents, they've been doing that for a while. though, thinking about it... are those off-shore profits still tax deductible when gifted to charities?
ozbot: With all that cash, why is Apple borrowing to raise its dividend and buybacks? | PandoDaily
ThickAsThieves: http://pando.com/2014/04/29/with-all-that-cash-why-is-apple-borrowing-to-raise-its-dividend-and-buybacks/ this is interesting
fluffypony: when you look at that visual MS and Apple are the kings in terms of turning a profit, Google to a lesser degree
danielpbarron: first and last apple product I will ever buy
danielpbarron: it's probably apple's fault; I never should have bought an iPhone
mircea_popescu: decimation: re: amazon, I've heard it's a tough life working there << but it's a large corp. of course they'd be managing the fuck out of all cost, neh ? afaik google is pretty much the only giant still trying to play the startup, otherwise even apple is bezos-ing it away.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Actually I am thinking the Apple II version, but yes, that artillery game
Luke-Jr: [13:11:59] <mircea_popescu> APPLE TO BE BANNED BY USG <-- please!
mircea_popescu: APPLE TO BE BANNED BY USG
mircea_popescu: "1 in 7 crimes committed in New York City now involves an Apple product being stolen."
ozbot: Apple slice: Share split makes joining the Dow more likely
bitcoinpete: http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/04/23/us-apple-dow-index-idINKBN0D91AJ20140423 <<AAPL 7:1 split, dividend bump, 50% bigger buyback... and i sold 'em all a year ago to the day
moiety: wtf apple
benkay: if i ever want to get off the iphone i have to get a new number, because my current number is cached in every iphone that's ever texted me and will go over apple's servers no matter no matter.
BingoBoingo: That isn't how schools have been capable of thinking though. I learned turtle graphics at 11 on an Apple II with software written in 1995. Schools make the worst decisions.
artifexd: cgcardona_: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/02/09_bitcoiners-upset-at-apple-understand-neither-apples-business-model-nor-bitcoin.html <- my favorite benkay post
bounce: IIRC he'd sucked up a bunch of apple device IDs from at&t's leaky activation site
ozbot: Bitcoiners Upset at Apple Understand Neither Apple's Business Model nor Bitcoin
benkay: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/02/09_bitcoiners-upset-at-apple-understand-neither-apples-business-model-nor-bitcoin.html
mircea_popescu: or a lot of apple slices.
fluffypony: brb emailing Apple
cazalla: how did i misread apple v orange as lemon v orange
adolf_fishler: what kind of apple
mircea_popescu: blood gushing everywhere. and my apple... now has a tooth in it.
mircea_popescu: true story : me in a park, on bench, with apple. big fat red juicy apple. little girl sorta shyly eyeing my apple from a safe distance. so i extend it for her to take a bite. she bites and sorta... gets stuck ? starts shaking her head and eventually pulls away ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno man. i really see it there. i love myself a summer evening apple, but also a winter morning orange.
mjr_: phones can currently type the bitcoin symbol...i don't even know how you would convince apple or motorola to add a keyboard
Shakespeare: look at the hiring lockout thing between apple/google etc
mike_c: 1) He made eve eat the apple. 2) He knew who told eve she was nekked. 3) He had a conversation about it with her anyway, already knowing the answers, the outcome of the conversation, and everything that would happen before and after.
truffles: acutally eating that apple was the beginning most likely
mircea_popescu: but this recent "can't eat an apple with a spot" neurosis is not naturally occuring in human populations.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: apple is selling, i think, a machine of just this shape. but, as you can probably guess, i'd rather not buy it.
skinnkavaj: Apple is still breaking the law..
asciilifeform: genuinely starting over, even in an embedded machine, has cost. see apple's 'newton'.
mike_c: keeping apple alive prevented more DOJ attention at the time.
mircea_popescu: mike_c which kind-of explains WHY microsoft kept apple alive.
mike_c: the 'dark age' of apple would have been the 'no apple' age if microsoft hadn't given them money to keep them alive.
asciilifeform: the outcome, unsurprisingly, was the death of apple corp. (it does not really exist today, just 'next' corp. renamed 'apple')
asciilifeform: much of what people think of as 'dark age' of apple corp. took place without herr jobs
mircea_popescu: funny how it ranks above apple.