I HATE APPLE

for some reason i can now read it as usual, guess it fixed itself.

I shouldn't give a shit, but it's depressing to know how rich the obnoxious knee-jerk apple fanboys have gotten by gorging themselves on apple stock for the last 20 years

I should have bought apple stock instead of a powerbook when macos x came out, is the short version of the story

Without the iPhone it could have gone a very different way. Also it’s not too late to buy in

if you bet on Apple in 1998 that was a long bet to make

I tipped my dad to buy AAPL at the late date of April 2013 when it was in a bit of a trough, it’s up 260% from then.

I've got a friend who is an uber-fanboy--like, he literally buys every new apple device, and buys them the day they come out. There's no way he hasn't been buying like thousands of dollars of stock every year. to be so zealous and have so much faith in something and then have it actually work out and pay off must be nice!

i bought in 2006 and sold in ... 2007. galaxy brain.

feel like I need to take silby on as general financial consultant based on posts this week

My actual financial advice is “get a job, don’t buy a car, don’t buy a house, don’t travel, don’t drink, don’t have kids, plow money into Vanguard funds, spend what’s left on books”, picking stocks is for lunatics like my dad

lol caek

I bought that powerbook in probably 2001/2002, let me go take a peek at the stock price

oh sweet I'd have $200K

My actual financial advice is “get a job, don’t buy a car, don’t buy a house, don’t travel, don’t drink, don’t have kids, plow money into Vanguard funds, spend what’s left on books”, picking stocks is for lunatics like my dad

roffle

My actual financial advice is “get a job, don’t buy a car, don’t buy a house, don’t travel, don’t drink, don’t have kids, plow money into Vanguard funds, spend what’s left on books”, picking stocks is for lunatics like my dad

realizing this is generally true (along with rumblings of the 2008 crisis, which i knew enough to know i didn't understand) is why i sold my 20 apple shares.

If every apple product you ever bought included one share of apple stock, do you think they would end up paying for themselves?

don’t drink,

otm and go fuck yourself, you're fired

I still get 1.5%

I mean this sort of retrospective speculation is totally worthless not only because of counterfactuals but like if you or anyone spent $2k on a laptop 15 years ago it wasn’t like an investment in Apple was what you were choosing between. I could’ve saved/invested even more money instead of buying a piano but you can’t play money. You may be able to get wasted on money though.

it's a hell of a drug iirc

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry-steve-jobs-daughter

God what a fucking asshole.

that excerpt is really well-written, i'll have to pick up her memoir

Jobs was such a monumental dickhead.

Out of all of them, The Man And The Machine documentary is the one that's the most accurate. Fearsome cult-leader asshole.

No, no, Walter Isaacson said he was lovely, with just a few quirks because he knew better than those other dunderheads.

I’m not sure if this is Apple or LinkedIn doing this but something has populated my iCal with the birthdays of everyone I’ve ever worked or done business with. The value to me of knowing treat the AP clerk at a company I worked at 5 years ago is 36 tomorrow is minimal.

Happy birthday Geoff Hurd.

yesterday i got into my parents' car for the first time in two years and it immediately started playing my current Apple Music track on the car speakers without any intervention from me whatsoever

Yah the birthdays thing has bugged me for years. I’ve read countless forum posts about how to fix it and nothing works for me.

where do it come from tho!?

no idea. thought maybe it was a facebook or google sync thing, tried a bunch of stuff with those, some worked for a minute but would always come back

A pop up that says "A new iOS update is now available. Please update from the iOS 12 beta" every minute or so – and gives you no way to update. ARRGH

Latest music app no longer allows you to move songs around ona shuffled playlist, or hit “play next” to insert a song into the queue? 😡

I seem to still be able to do that.

Ffm!!

can’t wait for apple’s netflix clone to be full of average content and have a clunky/buggy ui that they don’t fix until 2021

Hope they update the SE with oled

Or at least start making phones that you can use with one hand again

The current X is very usabywitb one hand.

Hoping that wasn't deliberate.

lol

hi silby! I never left, I’m a terrible lurker

I seem to still be able to do that.

https://i.imgur.com/y63VZ5x.png

phone got stolen over the weekend and had to buy a new one yesterday

oh look today is the new iPhone announcement and price drop

did you buy from apple? they usually do like two week's refund/swap on new product announcements iirc?

verizon u_u

Not that this is news but

Me: Hey Apple, three movies I bought disappeared from my iTunes library.
Apple: Oh yes, those are not available anymore. Thank you for buying them. Here are two movie rentals on us!
Me: Wait... WHAT?? @tim_cook when did this become acceptable? pic.twitter.com/dHJ0wMSQH9

— Anders G da Silva (@drandersgs) September 10, 2018

xp gbx, I'm pretty sure carriers like Verizon are required to take returns for 14 days.

For real? I'm gonna have to look into this