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The world is going upside down

By | Published January 30, 2013


Record earning, stock downed 10%; while missed earning, stock soared 10%.
WTF is going on here?

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A billion dollars in net profit per week is no longer good enough it seems

By | Published January 24, 2013

Via TechCrunch:

Apple generated more revenue in one quarter than Google did in all of 2012. Hell, Apple is getting close to generating as much revenue in one quarter as Microsoft does in an entire year. Perhaps even more incredible is that Apple made over a billion dollars in profit a week for the first time ever. Profit is the money you get to keep. You know, the kind Amazon doesn’t make. Or, to look at it another way, Apple generated as much profit in two weeks as Google did in their entire last quarter.

Yet with Apple posting a record of $54.5 billion in revenue and a record quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion, the stock fell 10%. What were the investors thinking? Are they high on drugs or simply too greedy that nothing is good enough anymore?

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An open letter to Apple on its App Store’s guideline

By | Published January 23, 2013

Dear Apple,

Your excuse reason for removing 500px was because it did not adhere to Apple’s strict guidelines on artistic nudity pornography. If that is the case, may I raise some complains to have the following apps remove from App Store and iOS devices for the following reasons:-

1.Ability to view nudity or pornographic materials

  • All browsers including your very own Safari.

  • All RSS Feed Readers such as Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, Feedly, etc.

  • All Social apps such as Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ etc.

  • All Photo sharing apps such as Flickr, Instagram, and many more.

  • All video apps such as Vimeo, YouTube, Daily Motion, etc.

2.Ability to send and receive nudity or pornographic materials

  • All communication apps such as your Messages, Whatapp, Skype, Viber, Facebook Messenger, to name a few.

  • All emails apps.

How about just restrict iOS applications to just games and some productivity tools and do away with Internet connection while you are at it, so your users will have no chance at all to view any nudity and pornographic materials?

Yours truly,

Apple Fanboy since 1999

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So this is how iPads and iPhones get made

By | Published February 22, 2012

Bob Weir, ABC reporter:

  • Two shifts (one full day) can produce 300,000 iPad camera modules.
  • 325 people assemble one iPad, taking five days to do it.
  • 10,000 unibody iPad shells can be produced per hour
  • One person cleans the burrs from these shells by hand, 3,000 per shift
  • Each shift lasts 12 hours, with two hour-long meal breaks
  • An average meal costs a worker 70 cents
  • Workers take a siesta back on the line before returning to work
  • Workers live in dorms, eight to a room
  • There are lots of extra-curricular activities, including sports and study (the language lab is stocked with iMacs)


    • There you have it. High tech gadgets produced by low tech labors.

    [update - 23rd Feb, 2012]

    Further information gathered by Asymco on the production cost of an iPhone:

  • iPhone takes 24 hours to be built.
  • Of that 6 to 8 hours is spent in “burn-in” to install and test the software and components automatically.
  • In the ABC report the wage of workers on the line is given as $1.78/hr. 17 hours of labor input would imply $30 labor cost per iPhone.
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    Mountain Lion bids farewell to RSS

    By | Published February 22, 2012

    Brent Simmons:

    A Macworld article on Mail in Mountain Lion says that RSS reading has been removed from both Mail and Safari.
    Obviously that could change — but there’s a good chance it won’t.



    I doubt anyone ever use RSS on their Mail and Safari apps. Although many presume RSS is dead, replaced by twitter and facebook, I think that it is still relevant. Check out feedly if you are into collecting RSS feeds.

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