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Post by aaplsauce on Nov 8, 2021 22:54:49 GMT -8
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Nov 9, 2021 3:00:30 GMT -8
Apple Card offers 0% financing to customers confused about Apple Card Monthly InstallmentsThis is from the link that Applesauce posted this morning. From the comments section: I think that this is commonly called “bait & switch”. Why not simply offer 0% to everyone that purchases an Apple product? Are they afraid that someone will pay the entire balance for that month and their 0% had been waisted? This type of thing can do more harm to how people view the company then if they had not offered a special interest rate to begin with. Wake-up Tim.
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Post by chinacat on Nov 9, 2021 5:37:58 GMT -8
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Post by 4aapl on Nov 9, 2021 10:10:31 GMT -8
Nice! I'd guess that the runway has the advantage of being flat, and the speeds and height involved would give it much more force forward than down, so it likely skipped or tumbled instead of taking the full downward force. I know our 8+, and all of it's replacement screens, didn't hold up well. But our other iPhones have done pretty good, even in occasional or even frequent unplanned testing.
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Post by hledgard on Nov 9, 2021 11:29:20 GMT -8
Nice post, 4aapl !
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Post by nwjade on Nov 9, 2021 16:13:01 GMT -8
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Post by 4aapl on Nov 9, 2021 19:52:52 GMT -8
Thanks! It was actually fun, and a little unnerving, to try to do a rough estimate on downward velocity and compare it to forward velocity, mainly because I remembered that acceleration/velocity/distance formulas should be derivatives of each other, but I couldn't quite remember how to do that. It might be nearly 25 years since I needed to take the derivative of something. Sometimes that is unnerving, realizing you've forgotten something. And unlike a name that might eventually make it's way to the surface, or something you never really had down (partial differential equations), this was something that was easy. We still have a couple years until the kids take initial calculus courses, but it's coming for us, the day that they need help with math and we need help too. Maybe Musk's brain implant will come soon enough. It wasn't too long ago that they didn't understand negative numbers (what's that, and when would you ever have negative numbers?), and we still have imaginary numbers going for us. Some of their "new math" methods are strange, and my wife is surprised I don't know some of the math tricks (ie adding up digits to know if a big number is divisible by 7). But there's still a lot of knowledge in there somewhere, even if I have to derive it.
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