Report: Apple's Fortunes In China Turn Around After iPhone 11 Launch

Benzinga ^ | November 18, 2019 | Shanthi Rexaline

[mrsmith]

Well then I’m going to take this opportunity to say I love that “old” stuff you post.
In thousands of years mankind hasn’t changed except for some influence of Jesus, and our Founders.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! BTW, "Apple's fortunes in China" ... just screams for a cookie joke.

[mrsmith]

Ha! Yes it does.

Notice this article speaks of “sales” and not “profits”.
I assume Apple lowered it’s prices in /china.
But, anyway, as long as they’re happy.

[SunkenCiv]

"Your privacy policies will drive sales in Hong Kong & China." [fortune cookie]

[ctdonath2]

Contrast an unwanted iPhone with the cubic feet of unwanted gear it replaces (dial phone, stereo, CRT TV, paper mail, records/tapes/cds, paper maps, camcorder, tape recorder, film camera, film, etc).

[Loud Mime]

I can see them driving thru the desert in that convertible as the song plays.

[ctdonath2]

Looking forward to paying for an iPhone 11 Pro when my bonus rolls in. Fantastic device, worth every penny. (Fair disclosure: writing apps for iPhones makes me good money.)

[mrsmith]

Any “smartphones” have HDMI port for video?

[ctdonath2]

iPhone Lightning/HDMI adapter: https://store.apple.com/xc/product/MD826AM/A

For 2-3x that, get an Apple TV and wirelessly connect.

Phones are too small to warrant implanting a permanent HDMI port.

[mrsmith]

Seems like it’s the ‘next step’ for “smartphones”, that little screen...

[newfreep]

“Rocket In My Pocket” - Little Feat Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GErwmiqK_I

[mrsmith]

Hey! Good link.
Some of the live Little Feat links aren’t that good.
That one is.

[SunkenCiv]

That sounds like interesting work!

[SunkenCiv]

Yup, the Gordo Cooper character and his wife's character were headed for Edwards AFB.

[SunkenCiv]

I watched a live version of that, a gloriuus mess performed by an underrehearsed oversized band, it was GREAT. Wishbone Ash also had a song by the same name, but I think it was an entirely different song. Doesn't sound like one they'd do, until one realizes that Lemmie was one of the WA founders.

[SunkenCiv]

https://bangnzdrum.blogspot.com/2012/08/frank-zappa-and-lowell-george-together.html

[SunkenCiv]

There are also USB-C and probably still micro-USB (both common on android devices) adapters to HDMI, make sure the phone will work with them first. :^)

[FXRP]

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Or what Emerson actually wrote: If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[SunkenCiv]

The question becomes, how does the buyer get the church organ out of the woods using that hard-beaten path?