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- sted0
- Innovation Never Sleepsutopian
- ^ Quite literally the most tedious annoying comment. Every time?
Polite request: Can you stop? pleeease?
I/We get it now.HAYZ1LLLA - I think he will only stop when apple will make something what's actually innovative:)sted
- I mean, it was something they said ONCE in 2004. I'm no Apple fan boy, just find it really really annoying and boring.HAYZ1LLLA
- I don't want no trouble, just a polite plea. Let's see what happens.HAYZ1LLLA
- Of course https://justgetflux.….ideaist
- lol, hay, 'i don't want no trouble' :)Gnash
- I love utopian's comments. First post, always reliable, sums it up every time.formed
- work out those issues HAY. do you tell everyone to change who bores you? seems more like a personal problem that counseling may help you shut the fuck up about.imbecile
- the truth hurtsfadein11
- Hey imbecile! I said I didn't want no trouble tough guy!HAYZ1LLLA
- utopian is paid to post that linemonospaced
- yeah because i always want my machine to inaccurately display colour for me when im working in photoshop..autoflavour
- utopian is qbn's workhorsedrgs
- since19790
Dear Charles,
This is a reminder about our communication from September 2016. As of February 5, 2017, Apple Distribution International will relocate the iTunes, Apple Music, App Store and iBooks Store businesses from Luxembourg to Cork, Ireland. The Luxembourg Branch of Apple Distribution International will cease its operations on February 4.
Apple has been operating in Ireland since 1980 and now employs nearly 6,000 people. As we continue to expand our operations in Cork, we are moving our iTunes business there and will support content stores and services for more than 100 countries from our campus at Hollyhill.
Please review the following details and take the appropriate actions.
Contracts
Your contracts with Apple Distribution International (CRO Company Number: 470672) will remain unchanged. Your contracts were already transferred automatically by operation of law to Apple Distribution International on September 25, 2016 by the effect of the merger of iTunes S.à r.l. with Apple Distribution International. No action is needed.
Taxes
We do not expect to have to deduct or withhold taxes from the payments we make to you. However, applicable laws are always subject to change.
VAT
The VAT ID of Apple Distribution International in Ireland is IE9700053D.
Note to Irish based partners: Apple Distribution International has exporter status under Irish VAT law and is entitled to purchase from you free from a charge of Irish VAT. A copy of the Apple Distribution International authorization from the Revenue Commissioners in this regard is available to you here.
Invoices
If your company sends invoices or other documents to customers that include a reference to Apple Distribution International, Luxembourg Branch, note that the Branch will cease its operations on February 4. Removing references to the Luxembourg Branch from your documentation is a logical consequence.
If your company is currently required to send invoices to Apple Distribution International, starting February 5, 2017, all invoices should be sent to Apple Distribution International in Cork, Ireland at the following address:
Apple Distribution International
Internet Software & Services
Hollyhill Industrial Estate
Hollyhill, Cork
Republic of IrelandThank you for your business.
Best Regards,
The iTunes Store team
- kona2
Apple crushed all expectations for its first-quarter earnings on Tuesday; shares were up nearly 3% after hours in response.
Apple saw $78.4 billion for revenue on expectations of $77.4 billion, and reported earnings of $3.36 per share on expectations of $3.21.
Most importantly, iPhone sales exceeded the high hopes Wall Street had for the quarter, with 78.3 million units sold, on predictions of 76.3 million.
It was Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever, and iPhone’s biggest quarter ever.
- Sent from my iPhone 7 Plus
- Bullshit. Everyone here said Apple was losing. This can't possibly be true can it?monospaced
- People underestimated the fanboys, kinda like people underestimated the Trumper's ;-)formed
- either that, or the Note 7 debacle left little options for an upgrade...formed
- lol, you really think this is only because of fanboys and a note 7 recall?monospaced
- what @formed saidchukkaphob
- Yes. Because my 66 and 68 year old parents bought iPhone 7 Plus' because they're fanboys.kona
- Apple's transitioned to a 100% consumer-centric company, not a creative or developer-focused one. = $$$, but long-term I see problems.detritus
- My folks have bought the shit out of iPhones and iPads over the past years, because they're simple and [generally] work. All good. (...)detritus
- (...) it's just not the Apple of old, the one that a lot of us geeks (even me!) have a fondness for, if only for cultural reasons.detritus
- Problem is, in computer/dev terms at least - what's there to replace them? LockDown Windows 10? I wonder if this is the nudge Linux has needed..?detritus
- Hey I share the sentiment completely. But people have been saying that for years and they are only winning more.monospaced
- mono - I've read half the N7 owners switched. That's several millions. So yeah, it had a big impact, how much no one really knows.formed
- "faboys", to me, is anyone that keeps buying a company w/o trying other onesformed
- Half N7 owners switched to iOS instead of taking a brand new, better phone as a replacement? I had no idea that happened, and that it was several million. linkmonospaced
- rosem2
Replacing my iPhone 6 Plus with a Google Pixel XL. Pretty upset with my last two iPhones and how long they lasted.
The 6 Plus had the screen ghosting issue where the touchscreen randomly wouldn't work. You had to kind of twist the phone and/or push on the screen to get it to work again. Apple admitted it was an issue (loose connection) but wanted $150 to fix it.
It also had that annoying battery issue (software related?) that anytime my battery was under ~30% it would just randomly power down and claim to be out of battery. Plug it back in and it turns on instantly with 30-40% battery.
Just the other day it stopped picking up cell service. The SIM card works in my router still and picks up LTE. This was the real nail in the coffin. The other issues were just super annoying. Which is ridiculous to deal with on a $700 phone now that I'm typing it out.
I was going to get an iPhone 7 Plus. However, my wife just got one and it's super buggy. The biggest issue is that sometimes it doesn't ring or vibrate when receiving a call — even though both are turned on. Yes, her new $800 phone doesn't even ring sometimes. She's a nurse and takes call so her phone is pretty much useless to her until they get this fix.
So I'm saying "fuck it" and trying out the Pixel because I feel like a fool to give apple another $800 for a phone that has so many stupid issues.
You might not think that is too crazy, but I'm an iOS developer and have only developed for iOS for the last six or seven years. Suddenly I'll be without an iPhone — so that feels weird. My current job is an iPad app, so that makes it a little easier.
I love my Macbook Pro and the OS, but I feel that things are really starting to go downhill — especially on mobile (software) side of things. I see Apple job postings for pretty high-level positions on StackOverflow a lot now.
Long story short — I'm giving the iPhone and Swift and rest and am going to try out Andoid and Go Lang.
- I hope that your $800 Pixel doesn't have any problems at all.monospaced
- I'm sure it will. Hopefully the screen, battery, and cell service will at least work though. lolrosem
- I've been fucked on 30% battery issue more than once.hotroddy
- They'll refund that $150 or fix it for free: https://www.apple.co…evilpeacock
- Pixel is great - give it a whirl. Just got one. Got the XL. Battery life, camera and screen is amazing. Plus best version of Android I have used with no shitfadein11
- manufacturer bloatware. I think you will like once you get used to the different os (which is far better than ios by the way).fadein11
- are*fadein11
- or just learn QT and you can develop for both!mugwart
- hey @rosem, I'm thinking of making the switch from iPhone to something else too (after using ALL iPhones since the first generation)Krassy
- ...why did you pick Pixel XL over all other competitors?Krassy
- My wife and I had both of the first two issues with our iPhone 6s' at nearly the same time. I hear the Pixel is amazing.kona
- You won't be disappointed.set
- @evilpeacock — they will refund you whatever you paid previously, minus the $150 they are charging.rosem
- From the URL: "Apple will repair your device for a service price of $149."rosem
- @Krassy — It's Google's closest competitor to the iPhone. Same price range. Similar quality build and as @fadein11 mentioned no software bloat bullshit.rosem
- I still think Sony is the best phone on the market, but the pixel isn't a bad choice by any stretch... And is miles ahead of the iPhone.set
- I hope stores start showing up with a real selection - Sony, Xaomi, etc., all in one place. I hate that it's all carrier-only phones.formed
- Don't understand why people spend so much on phones. $200 will do everything you need, aside from great photos.section_014
- zarkonite0
http://adage.com/article/digital…
"Apple plummeted 36% to $107 billion in 2016, the report said, while Google jumped to $109.4 billion, up from $88.2 billion in 2015."
- Interestingly, they just bumped Samsung to take the top spot in smartphone share after record iPhone sales and quarterly profits.monospaced
- ^ I assume that is US only though, not global.ETM
- no, it's globalmonospaced
- It's for the 4th quarter only, they're second for the year's total. Although the real metric is Android vs iOS imho.zarkonite
- The brand's value is a telling sign that Apple has lost some of its veneer, they're having an increasingly harder time launching products with success.zarkonite
- Lately I'd be hard pressed to see a real major advantage of apple's products over the competition, and we're all slowly realizing we don't have to spend topzarkonite
- dollars for a quality phone anymore.zarkonite
- Thank god Google came out with a cheap phone then, to save us from the top dollar phones Apple forces people to buy. Oh, wait...monospaced
- Google Pixel is such a badass phone - I have the big one. It's superb. And yes it is premium price but it's trying to be the top end Android leader.fadein11
- dooooomed! oh wait...inteliboy
- If you want a decent Android phone but without the hellish price tag, the Moto Z Play is worth looking into. Battery for days.face_melter
- lol 1st quarter 2017 isn't even out tho so there's no way to know thatmonospaced
- i_monk-2
Apple 'Looking Into' Exploding iPhone 7 After Smoking Hot Video Goes Viral
- zarkonite0
https://arstechnica.com/apple/20…
"Next-gen iPhone could dump the Lightning port in favor of USB-C"
Wouldn't that be sweet.
- Surely it's just replacing the USB-A plug on the power adapter end, not the lighting port.Nathan_Adams
- Gnash-1
Apple shareholders rejected a proposal yesterday that would have required the company to improve the diversity of its top ranks. This is the second year in a row that Apple shareholders have shot down the proposal, with just over 95 percent of the vote opposing it this time around — slightly more than last year.
- 95%Gnash
- Apple 'rejects diversity' or 'rejects artificial constraints to force diversity'?detritus
- Apple hates diversity. I hear they reject applications if they find out you're female, foreign or gay.monospaced
- A company refuses to base hires on race? Outrageous!shaft
- The company did not, its shareholders did. Why would they mess with their profits?zarkonite
- hey, isnt Dre on the board.. surely that counts for somethingautoflavour
- diversity is over rated, just pick one!fruitsalad
- oh, top ranks?as in employees? I thought it meant top ranking apps list in the istore...fruitsalad
- autoflavour0
whats apple done for us lately?
- They did give us that clip of Tim Cook doing his arm-flailing, white man dance, but apart from that, fuck all.face_melter
- still have to hit play on that free U2 album on my iphone.uan
- Oh, oh - they took a perfectly good workhorse laptop and turned it into a glorified Facebook machine.face_melter
- slowed down my old iPhone with an update.fruitsalad
- 30% returns in a year ;)monospaced
- fourth0
Who here is happy with their touch bar MacBook pro?
I had to buy one and it's a complete dud. Wondering if I should exchange it for another or just go for the older model instead.
- Go with the older one - with those you can at least upgrade some of the parts and get some extra life from it. The new ones have everything sealed tight.face_melter
- everyone is recommending going for the older one - I have the older one and it is a lovely machine (but I bought before that came out)fadein11
- yeah I used a 2013 rMBP for 3 years with no problems. This TB MBP has had more problems in 24 hours than the past 7+ with other MacBooks.fourth
- I let apple repair my retina, mid 2012, was lucky they had installed a buggy graphic card back then and the recall program worked till december 2016.uan
- Paging Mono!
Mono Alert!
APB Mono!utopian - utopian, you're really slipping on your trolling skillz and I'm starting to question your commitment to the artmonospaced
- I got one, its good. The end.inteliboy
- SimonFFM0
Screenshot from apple.de:
This ipad has a funny shape. Very confusing that they did not check this and put such a graphic up. Isn't apple supposed to focus on graphic designers?
- Apple doesn't care about designers, no money there, but corporate, there's piles there.formed
- You've got them banged to rights there mate!HAYZ1LLLA
- you have to enlarge the picture for the laugh...SimonFFM
- funny shape?monospaced
- check the perspectiveSimonFFM
- ahmonospaced
- that's some bad warp in photoshop.lvl_13
- So it wants to be a Surface Pro? We're in bizarro world. Cats and dogs, living together.ETM
- i think it's fine, but the stand throws it all off kilter.fruitsalad
- utopian-8
Apple unveils special-edition iPhone 7 in red
"Innovation Never Sleeps"...and the crowd goes nuts!
- the crowd goes a little less nuts everyday if you want to knowBennn
- OMG WOW .. SUCH INNOVATE.. VERY UPGRADE..autoflavour
- The iPad .. so stupidautoflavour
- the things that people bitch about with Apple is irritating, when they actually are fucking up in real areas that effects day to day user/pro life...inteliboy
- huh was there a keynote or something?mekk
- lol, it's not a new phone, it's a promotional color for the (RED) charity ffsmonospaced
- sted0
- I assume this is only a design patent as MS et al have already announced similar tethering tech?detritus
- damn, I forgot my trackpad at home...uan
- damn, my trackpad is out of FUCKING BATTERY...Bennn
- It would likely charge in this position too...i_monk
- the trackpad would charge the laptop, and the laptop would charge the phone... INFINITE POWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...Bennn
- detritus0
I read this earlier, which rang true to me..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/201…
I'd never considered the Education market in the states and how that impacts upon their general sales trajectories.
So, they've fucked education, fucked over devs and techs, are idling where pads are concerned and I'd be amazed if people are still wetting themselves when the iPhone 9 comes out...
Innovation [to shoot self in foot] never sleeps!
- re: education - there's some mention in the comments. Sorry, not clear.detritus
- I'd make my next machine a Mac, after 20 years on a PC, if they released a successor to the cheese grater and proved they still have a focus on their core.detritus
- I've given up on Apple giving us a plain, serviceable Mac. I find myself watching Hackintosh build videos and reading build guides more regularly .monospaced
- Mm, my next machine will be a hackintosh dual boot thing. A shame for me — I've viewed the Mac dev landscape with jealousy for a long time now...detritus
- ...if I come on soon I'll've missed the main show. Makes sense to build a computer that can be all three main OSs though.detritus
- I get why they're doing what they do, but gone is the Mac as Apple as independent as things like the Amiga were. Beloved computers.detritus
- ..or, more fairly, 'going'.detritus
- I hope they come around, because they would win people back, especially creatives, if they actually gave us what we need (not what they think we want).monospaced
- @detritus Why jealous of the Mac dev environment? There's not much you can't get on PC nowadays from Node and NPM to Ruby. Now that Win10 has actual Linux it'sETM
- even closer. On the design side, I do wish Sketch was not Mac only though.ETM
- I'm not jumping on WinX for a while, if ever, so don't get the new Linux bash. I dunno, there's just a LOT of neat arcane apps that are Mac only these days.detritus
- Node and the like is still crap on Windows. If your pc is fast enough, just put that shit on a VM for web servers.section_014
- I mean, it works, don't get me wrong. But lots of npm libraries have unix style scripts built in, and they fail when ran.section_014
- omg-4
- RELEASE: CIA #Vault7 "Dark Matter"
http://bit.ly/2nXl77…omg - Innovation never fucking sleeps!utopian
- Lucky that Julian uses a Babbage thinking machine for all his computational needs.face_melter
- RELEASE: CIA #Vault7 "Dark Matter"
- utopian1
Apple tries to save the iPad, but it's too little, too late
iPad sales are awful. Truly awful. And while CEO Tim Cook may be bullish about the tablet's future, Apple desperately needed to do something to try to turn sales around.
Well, we now have a price cut.
You know things are desperate when Apple starts cutting prices, but the latest iPad price cut might have come too late to save it.
- sted0
Microsoft:
Samsung:
aaand:
how is that with innovation and sleeping?
- It's just a patent drawing of a concept, it's not a product leak or announcement.monospaced
- remember the 2014 ubuntu edge
kickstarter? https://www.indiegog…
they never got made, 3 years later technology is availableuan - Samsung are the worst of the lot.
Still dont know why dont more people make their own?mugwart - Microsoft's worked, there just wasn't sales (though the new Surface phone could change that). DeX looks interesting, it'll run W10 via vm.formed
- lol MS taking another stab at phones? I thought they killed that for good the last time it failed miserably.monospaced
- nb5
2005: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2006: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2007: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2008: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2009: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2010: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2011: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2012: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2013: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2014: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2015: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2016: "This will be the end of Apple!"
2017: (Apple cuts iPad price.)
"I FUCKING KNEW IT"- lol - not their fault to be fair - tablets deadfadein11
- Doomed™ since 1984inteliboy
- Is there any tablet with growing sales?monospaced
- People are too busy looking at their phones all day to even think about getting a tablet.nb
- Innovation never sleeps™utopian
- *crowd goes apathetic*face_melter
- utopian: the threadernexbcn
- Found a use for my old Mac - using VMs to test moody files for viruses. I was checking a weird MS .dot file which a friend received.face_melter
- Loaded it in Parallels, turned out to be *very* dodgy. Nuked the Parallels Win7 VM. Sorted!face_melter
- Surface sales are doing well. Probably doesn't hurt Apple's almost promoting it with their new adsformed
- Apples stock is all time high, continuing to dominate all competition.monospaced
- Everything is at all time highs, everything must be dominating everyone.formed
- Applestan has always been at war with Microsoftopolis.face_melter
- Shit... I just bought my first iPad...pango
- ernexbcn1
New Mac Pros are coming. Just not this year :(
- they will refresh the current trashcan this year but the new design is for 2018ernexbcn
- holy shit I hope this guy is right and not just speculating very convincinglymonospaced
- well he was invited to Apple to basically report on thisernexbcn
- coolmonospaced
- monospaced2
Schiller, apologizing to the pro market about the current Mac Pro, and commenting on the status of next generation Mac Pro design:
"We’re not going to get into exactly what stage we’re in, just that we told the team to take the time to do something really great. To do something that can be supported for a long time with customers with updates and upgrades throughout the years. We’ll take the time it takes to do that. The current Mac Pro, as we’ve said a few times, was constrained thermally and it restricted our ability to upgrade it. And for that, we’re sorry to disappoint customers who wanted that, and we’ve asked the team to go and re-architect and design something great for the future that those Mac Pro customers who want more expandability, more upgradability in the future. It’ll meet more of those needs."
- iMac refresh this year will supposedly accommodate some of the "pro" users as wellernexbcn
- 2018: Here have regular expensive nVidia GPUs for double the price back again.mekk
- yeah, probablymonospaced
- I'll take whatever upgrades they do, that means better hackintosh support. Still no Pascal drivers I've been waiting for that to build mineernexbcn
- they don't need to reinvent the wheel, like the trashcan attempt, just stick top end components into a old mac pro case, with OS X, and reasonable price ffsfruitsalad
- https://create.pro/
can't go wrong.hans_glib - Yo, designers, you like updated GPU and system drivers to increase the performance of your hardware? Do you, huh? Well fuck you.
Apple xxface_melter - They better hurry the fuck up, people are jumping ship!davey_g
- Sounds like a year out at least. It is highly unusual for Apple to even comment on anything like this, so clearly they are feeling their mistake.evilpeacock
- yep way too long wait isn't it. They will spend a year designing the shell it fits in instead of just releasing a powerful mac in a conventional box. Weird.fadein11
- I think there is more to it; They have to figure out how to manufacture it, negotiate supplies, etc. And do it profitably since 2/3rds of the money is in iPhoneevilpeacock
- I feel like with their resources, they COULD do something fast and amazing, but knowing them these days, they'll take 24 months.monospaced
- zzzzz....whatever. The ship has sailed.section_014
- Just been upgrading my 2009 mac pro. They better step it up and bring those prices down.nthkl
- ^^^ no fuckin way. Think the MBP prices were a shock? This think will be 5k minimum.section_014
- Poor idiots, your life depends on some cunts building fucking computers, bunch of tools.i_was
- this is a design forummonospaced