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I have a Windows phone. I think it's great and better than the iphone and Samsung I've previously used. But I also don't use that many apps or other fancy shit. But it still astounds me that MS inflicted Windows 8 on PCs. Wtf were they thinking. Phones and tablets, awesome, but PCs. Retarded.<br><br>
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I hope you're wrong, cause I've just recently taken a fairly sizeable (for me!) position in their stock.</p></blockquote>
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I don't think you have anything to worry about. Apple could launch the iPoo and people would still buy millions of them. <br><br>
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<p>I've owned their stock several times before, Rancid, and made a bit. But funnily enough it's not their iAnythings that motivated me this time.</p>
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<p>Their last results call failed to make any mention of the line item that showed they spent $9.7bn on R&D in the year to April. I'm betting that the research wasn't simply on developing the new Apple Pencil, or any computer product for that matter. They also spent $11.2bn on tooling and equipment in the same period, again not to produce the pencil. What is it for? People can guess but nobody knows for sure.</p>
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<p>It looks to me that they may be on the way towards an iPod type pivot into a different tech path, and if that's the case they are well underpriced.</p> -
<p>Wife's laptop updated to Windows 10 the other night, lost detection of HMDI out for audio - no end of faffing about sorted it (drivers, restarted, etc, etc,). Rolled back to Windows 8.1 and hey presto it's all working fine again.</p>
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<p>I hope you're wrong, cause I've just recently taken a fairly sizeable (for me!) position in their stock.</p>
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<p>I have gone the other way, so hope I am correct. I abandoned my Apple stock and have bought Microsoft.</p>
<p>Hololens and associated patents are going to kick ass</p>
<p>I am betting (along with many others) that Apple are developing a vehicle. If that is the case, it will be a huge risk and a long term proposition.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/28/apple-rd-spending-hit-81b-in-2015-suggests-continued-work-on-massive-project'>http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/28/apple-rd-spending-hit-81b-in-2015-suggests-continued-work-on-massive-project</a></p> -
<p>this is the first and only issue after the upgrade, I was so glad to be rid of the abomination that is Win8/8.1...</p>
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<p>8.1 was fine imo - didn't like native 8 with the tablet/pc interface mash up. But we've got 8.1 at work so that helped with getting familiar with it.</p>
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<p>Is that a joke?</p>
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<p>They are practically forcing it on you.</p>
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<p>Prove it then by supplying a link ;)</p> -
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<p>Prove it then by supplying a link ;)</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.microsoft.com/en-NZ/windows/windows-10-upgrade'>https://www.microsoft.com/en-NZ/windows/windows-10-upgrade</a></p> -
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<p>I have gone the other way, so hope I am correct. I abandoned my Apple stock and have bought Microsoft.</p>
<p>Hololens and associated patents are going to kick ass</p>
<p>I am betting (along with many others) that Apple are developing a vehicle. If that is the case, it will be a huge risk and a long term proposition.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/28/apple-rd-spending-hit-81b-in-2015-suggests-continued-work-on-massive-project'>http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/28/apple-rd-spending-hit-81b-in-2015-suggests-continued-work-on-massive-project</a></p>
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<p>I think its more likely they'll simply buy the underlying basics with their $200b of cash. A step in for Volkswagon for example wouldn't bother them. Nor on a different tack Netflix, although NF is massively over-valued, unlike VW. I'm betting their R&D spend is not on a vehicle, its on an operating unit you drop into a vehicle. So then they just need the vehicle, come on down VW...</p> -
<p>I have been reading quite a bit on the ethics of driver less cars. Quite fascinating stuff, and not easily solved. And there no consensus on it at all. So I think whilst it is almost inevitable and sooner than many think, the implementation will be..... tumultuous.</p>
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<p>And whilst Gollums theory makes practical sense... I just dont see Apple letting others design cars and they just provide the 'OS' .. they would love to invent a curved bumper.</p> -
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<p>I have been reading quite a bit on the ethics of driver less cars. Quite fascinating stuff, and not easily solved. And there no consensus on it at all. So I think whilst it is almost inevitable and sooner than many think, the implementation will be..... tumultuous.</p>
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<p>And whilst Gollums theory makes practical sense... I just dont see Apple letting others design cars and they just provide the 'OS' ..<strong> they would love to invent a curved bumper.</strong></p>
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<p>That was good laugh to start the day! You're spot on though - they'd probably be as excited about designing the chassis as the tech elements.</p> -
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<p>I have been reading quite a bit on the ethics of driver less cars. Quite fascinating stuff, and not easily solved. And there no consensus on it at all. So I think whilst it is almost inevitable and sooner than many think, the implementation will be..... tumultuous.</p>
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<p>And whilst Gollums theory makes practical sense... I just dont see Apple letting others design cars and they just provide the 'OS' .. they would love to invent a curved bumper.</p>
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<p>It's interesting to see discussions of trolley problems in the real world.</p> -
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<p>And whilst Gollums theory makes practical sense... I just dont see Apple letting others design cars and they just provide the 'OS' .. they would love to invent a curved bumper.</p>
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<p>Next model of iPhone is all-glass. So I'm expecting their car division to follow suit :whistle:</p> -
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<p>I disagree, my Surface kicks the ass of the iPad piece of shit my wife tried to use.</p>
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<p>I have had zero issues with my Windows 10 desktop, in fact it has been nothing short of outstanding.</p>
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<p>Apple is on the decline.</p>
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<p>Out of interest what model of Surface do you have? A lot of the lower end models only have 4GB of RAM that cannot be upgraded, which makes me worry about performance.</p> -
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<p>Next model of iPhone is all-glass. </p>
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<p>I woke up after a night out to find my S6 Edge all cracked. Glass isn't a particularly endearing design feature after that happens.</p> -
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<p>I woke up after a night out to find my S6 Edge all cracked. Glass isn't a particularly endearing design feature after that happens.</p>
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<p>I don't like TouchWiz to start with, so not into Samsung gear. But i really, <em>really</em> never saw the point of the Edge line.</p>
