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Post by chinacat on Aug 9, 2014 5:15:06 GMT -8
Hello? Hello?!?!
Anyone out there?
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Post by qualitywte on Aug 9, 2014 5:18:13 GMT -8
Would Apple announce iPhone6 and iWatch at the same event?
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Post by rickag on Aug 9, 2014 5:26:18 GMT -8
If ready, I don't see why not.
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Post by nagrani on Aug 9, 2014 5:29:14 GMT -8
Plan accordingly for a surprise. Why not?
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Post by macwire on Aug 9, 2014 7:00:42 GMT -8
Gruber said he was joking. My wag is iwatch in November. Gonna be its own event me thinks
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Post by Mav on Aug 9, 2014 9:15:15 GMT -8
Boo on the Gruber kinda-troll. But that's my reminder he's not a rumor source, not for now anyway. October or November, maybe? We "know" there's *some* new product category something inbound, just a matter of when in the remainder of this year, and whether it's gonna be a wearable. I'd be just fine with more than one new product category, of course.
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Post by JDSoCal on Aug 9, 2014 10:25:08 GMT -8
Boo on the Gruber kinda-troll. But that's my reminder he's not a rumor source, not for now anyway. October or November, maybe? We "know" there's *some* new product category something inbound, just a matter of when in the remainder of this year, and whether it's gonna be a wearable. I'd be just fine with more than one new product category, of course. Yeah, I think it qualifies as a troll, and reminds me why I stopped reading Gruber's site. For all the criticisms here of anything political, he drops some real doozies on his site - and of course, no comments allowed. Anyway, large iPhone 6's should be more than enough anticipation and excitement for massive revs, if that even matters. I'm beginning to think this stock is immune to good news.
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Post by JDSoCal on Aug 9, 2014 12:00:01 GMT -8
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Post by Mav on Aug 9, 2014 12:59:53 GMT -8
Smart Apple politics, though if Chinese authorities can raid Microsoft's offices for any old pretext...
For now I think AAPL's just in a bit of a lull in between news, even though the Sep. 9 date is a big deal. Don't know what the future holds for price action of course, but longer-term chart, financial trends and story all seem as strong as ever.
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Post by aaplcrazie on Aug 9, 2014 13:02:15 GMT -8
Unreal how quick again The World is Afire, oh and look were back doing Air Strikes over Iraq, wow guess the last 10 taught us not nothing much at all. How come we were not Airdropping Water over Toledo and Detroit? Ok my head is starting to hurt now.
Go Apple and AAPL
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Post by JDSoCal on Aug 9, 2014 16:09:20 GMT -8
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Post by Mav on Aug 9, 2014 16:24:15 GMT -8
Will Hachette "reveal" Bezos' email next?
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Post by aaplcrazie on Aug 9, 2014 18:37:45 GMT -8
On the e-mail front I got a response within 2 days from one I wrote to Tim Cook...
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Post by Mav on Aug 9, 2014 18:50:51 GMT -8
Whatcha write?
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Post by aaplcrazie on Aug 9, 2014 19:20:19 GMT -8
It was in relation to an Aperture Issue I was experiencing back in Summer 012, it had to do with the switch over from the regular version to the App Store Version and not being to upgrade correctly. Had trie d all the usual channels and gotten nowhere. Included a couple of screenshots to illustrate kept it short and sweet. Concluded with:
" If there is any way you could perhaps offer a way out of this maze that would be fabulous."
Got a call from Apple Executive Corporate Relations "I'am calling concerning your E-Mail to Tim Cook"!! And within half an hour was talking directly to someone inside the Aperture Group who sent me some files and stayed on the phone while I installed them and Aperture was up and doing it's thing!
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Post by Mav on Aug 9, 2014 19:26:18 GMT -8
Nice!
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Post by rezonate on Aug 10, 2014 7:07:48 GMT -8
Will Hachette "reveal" Bezos' email next? Amazon sent me a letter because I'm a registered Kindle Direct author. Basically making their case with a set of isolated statistics. They failed to expose the totality of impact across the eBook spectrum, but only told us about Big 5 impact. Which I called them on in my reply. At the end of the day, paperbacks came in at one tenth the price and shifted the industry. I'm happy to let the fight play itself out for eBooks too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2014 8:17:27 GMT -8
Amazon is seeking a monopoly in the guise of near term "lower prices" for consumers. It's great to see push-back on this aspiring monopolist. Now, Disney is pushing back against Amazon. I've stopped buying on Amazon myself.
Here's the letter from Amazon:
A Message from the Amazon Books Team
Dear Readers,
Just ahead of World War II, there was a radical invention that shook the foundations of book publishing. It was the paperback book. This was a time when movie tickets cost 10 or 20 cents, and books cost $2.50. The new paperback cost 25 cents — it was ten times cheaper. Readers loved the paperback and millions of copies were sold in just the first year.
With it being so inexpensive and with so many more people able to afford to buy and read books, you would think the literary establishment of the day would have celebrated the invention of the paperback, yes? Nope. Instead, they dug in and circled the wagons. They believed low cost paperbacks would destroy literary culture and harm the industry (not to mention their own bank accounts). Many bookstores refused to stock them, and the early paperback publishers had to use unconventional methods of distribution — places like newsstands and drugstores. The famous author George Orwell came out publicly and said about the new paperback format, if “publishers had any sense, they would combine against them and suppress them.” Yes, George Orwell was suggesting collusion.
Well … history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Fast forward to today, and it’s the e-book’s turn to be opposed by the literary establishment. Amazon and Hachette — a big US publisher and part of a $10 billion media conglomerate — are in the middle of a business dispute about e-books. We want lower e-book prices. Hachette does not. Many e-books are being released at $14.99 and even $19.99. That is unjustifiably high for an e-book. With an e-book, there’s no printing, no over-printing, no need to forecast, no returns, no lost sales due to out of stock, no warehousing costs, no transportation costs, and there is no secondary market — e-books cannot be resold as used books. E-books can and should be less expensive.
Perhaps channeling Orwell’s decades old suggestion, Hachette has already been caught illegally colluding with its competitors to raise e-book prices. So far those parties have paid $166 million in penalties and restitution. Colluding with its competitors to raise prices wasn’t only illegal, it was also highly disrespectful to Hachette’s readers.
The fact is many established incumbents in the industry have taken the position that lower e-book prices will “devalue books” and hurt “Arts and Letters.” They’re wrong. Just as paperbacks did not destroy book culture despite being ten times cheaper, neither will e-books. On the contrary, paperbacks ended up rejuvenating the book industry and making it stronger. The same will happen with e-books.
Many inside the echo-chamber of the industry often draw the box too small. They think books only compete against books. But in reality, books compete against mobile games, television, movies, Facebook, blogs, free news sites and more. If we want a healthy reading culture, we have to work hard to be sure books actually are competitive against these other media types, and a big part of that is working hard to make books less expensive.
Moreover, e-books are highly price elastic. This means that when the price goes down, customers buy much more. We’ve quantified the price elasticity of e-books from repeated measurements across many titles. For every copy an e-book would sell at $14.99, it would sell 1.74 copies if priced at $9.99. So, for example, if customers would buy 100,000 copies of a particular e-book at $14.99, then customers would buy 174,000 copies of that same e-book at $9.99. Total revenue at $14.99 would be $1,499,000. Total revenue at $9.99 is $1,738,000. The important thing to note here is that the lower price is good for all parties involved: the customer is paying 33% less and the author is getting a royalty check 16% larger and being read by an audience that’s 74% larger. The pie is simply bigger.
But when a thing has been done a certain way for a long time, resisting change can be a reflexive instinct, and the powerful interests of the status quo are hard to move. It was never in George Orwell’s interest to suppress paperback books — he was wrong about that.
And despite what some would have you believe, authors are not united on this issue. When the Authors Guild recently wrote on this, they titled their post: “Amazon-Hachette Debate Yields Diverse Opinions Among Authors” (the comments to this post are worth a read). A petition started by another group of authors and aimed at Hachette, titled “Stop Fighting Low Prices and Fair Wages,” garnered over 7,600 signatures. And there are myriad articles and posts, by authors and readers alike, supporting us in our effort to keep prices low and build a healthy reading culture. Author David Gaughran’s recent interview is another piece worth reading.
We recognize that writers reasonably want to be left out of a dispute between large companies. Some have suggested that we “just talk.” We tried that. Hachette spent three months stonewalling and only grudgingly began to even acknowledge our concerns when we took action to reduce sales of their titles in our store. Since then Amazon has made three separate offers to Hachette to take authors out of the middle. We first suggested that we (Amazon and Hachette) jointly make author royalties whole during the term of the dispute. Then we suggested that authors receive 100% of all sales of their titles until this dispute is resolved. Then we suggested that we would return to normal business operations if Amazon and Hachette’s normal share of revenue went to a literacy charity. But Hachette, and their parent company Lagardere, have quickly and repeatedly dismissed these offers even though e-books represent 1% of their revenues and they could easily agree to do so. They believe they get leverage from keeping their authors in the middle.
We will never give up our fight for reasonable e-book prices. We know making books more affordable is good for book culture. We’d like your help. Please email Hachette and copy us.
Hachette CEO, Michael Pietsch: Michael.Pietsch@hbgusa.com
Copy us at: readers-united@amazon.com
Please consider including these points:
We have noted your illegal collusion. Please stop working so hard to overcharge for ebooks. They can and should be less expensive. Lowering e-book prices will help — not hurt — the reading culture, just like paperbacks did. Stop using your authors as leverage and accept one of Amazon’s offers to take them out of the middle. Especially if you’re an author yourself: Remind them that authors are not united on this issue. Thanks for your support.
The Amazon Books Team
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Post by rob_london on Aug 10, 2014 11:31:21 GMT -8
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Post by Luckychoices on Aug 10, 2014 14:18:38 GMT -8
My wife and I live in Los Altos, California_about 1/2 mile from 1066 Crist Drive, where Steve Jobs lived as a teenager and where the first Apple computer was built in the mid 70's. We go down this street to get to a local market and frequently see folks having their picture taken by their companions to document that they were actually there, in front of the house where Apple began. I very much enjoy seeing this activity because it reminds again me how much Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak changed people's lives. Several months ago I stopped to offer to take a picture of three young men, who were taking pictures of each other, so they could all be in the same photo. A couple of days ago, on a return trip from the market, I stopped again. This couple happened to be from Barcelona, Spain and were including an actual apple in their photos. After I took several pictures of them with their camera, I took a couple with my phone and, when I look at it, I remember how excited they both were. As my wife and I drove off they were continuing to take photos of each other (with the apple) while standing in front of the house. www.cnn.com/2013/10/30/tech/innovation/steve-jobs-historic-home/Sent from my iPad
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2014 14:38:14 GMT -8
Gruber is now taking Google money and pimping its apps, in addition to more self-congratulatory noise about "Vesper," a very boring solution in search of a problem. I think I'm going to stop reading him as well -- I don't give a rat's ass about the Yankees either. John, people don't follow you on Twitter for your latest musings on Derek Jeter or sports in general.
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Post by nagrani on Aug 10, 2014 16:54:38 GMT -8
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Post by Mav on Aug 10, 2014 17:18:48 GMT -8
Nowhere was it mentioned that Judge Koh suggested bumping up the settlement to $380M from $324M or whatever.
Typical Bloomberg. And if principle isn't a factor - it's "pocket change"
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Post by jmolloy on Aug 10, 2014 17:21:46 GMT -8
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Post by jmolloy on Aug 10, 2014 17:23:06 GMT -8
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