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!
― Dan I., Friday, 3 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
i bought in 2006 and sold in ... 2007. galaxy brain.
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
feel like I need to take silby on as general financial consultant based on posts this week
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
My actual financial advice is âget a job, donât buy a car, donât buy a house, donât travel, donât drink, donât have kids, plow money into Vanguard funds, spend whatâs left on booksâ, picking stocks is for lunatics like my dad
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Friday, 3 August 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, 3 August 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
roffle
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 August 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
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.
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Friday, 3 August 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
If every apple product you ever bought included one share of apple stock, do you think they would end up paying for themselves?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 3 August 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
donât drink,otm and go fuck yourself, you're fired
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 3 August 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
I still get 1.5%
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 3 August 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
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 wasnât like an investment in Apple was what you were choosing between. I couldâve saved/invested even more money instead of buying a piano but you canât play money. You may be able to get wasted on money though.
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 3 August 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
it's a hell of a drug iirc
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 3 August 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry-steve-jobs-daughter
― éž, Saturday, 4 August 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
God what a fucking asshole.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 August 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
that excerpt is really well-written, i'll have to pick up her memoir
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 4 August 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
Jobs was such a monumental dickhead.
― DJI, Saturday, 4 August 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
Out of all of them, The Man And The Machine documentary is the one that's the most accurate. Fearsome cult-leader asshole.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 4 August 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
No, no, Walter Isaacson said he was lovely, with just a few quirks because he knew better than those other dunderheads.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 5 August 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
Iâm not sure if this is Apple or LinkedIn doing this but something has populated my iCal with the birthdays of everyone Iâve 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.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 9 August 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
Happy birthday Geoff Hurd.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 9 August 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 August 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
Yah the birthdays thing has bugged me for years. Iâve read countless forum posts about how to fix it and nothing works for me.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Thursday, 9 August 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
where do it come from tho!?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 August 2018 01:39 (five years ago) link
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
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
A pop up that says "A new iOS update is now available. Please update from the iOS 12 beta" every minute or so â and gives you no way to update. ARRGH
― Alba, Friday, 31 August 2018 10:35 (five years ago) link
Latest music app no longer allows you to move songs around ona shuffled playlist, or hit âplay nextâ to insert a song into the queue? đĄ
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 1 September 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
I seem to still be able to do that.
― Jeff, Saturday, 1 September 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
Ffm!!
― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, 1 September 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
canât wait for appleâs netflix clone to be full of average content and have a clunky/buggy ui that they donât fix until 2021
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 September 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
Hope they update the SE with oled
― calstars, Sunday, 2 September 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
Or at least start making phones that you can use with one hand again
The current X is very usabywitb one hand.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 2 September 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
Hoping that wasn't deliberate.
― Alba, Sunday, 2 September 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
lol
― calstars, Sunday, 2 September 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
hi silby! I never left, Iâm a terrible lurker
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 2 September 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 2 September 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/y63VZ5x.png
― éž, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
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
― gbx, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
did you buy from apple? they usually do like two week's refund/swap on new product announcements iirc?
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
verizon u_u
― gbx, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
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
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
xp gbx, I'm pretty sure carriers like Verizon are required to take returns for 14 days.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
For real? I'm gonna have to look into this
― gbx, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
Folks, stuff disappears from iTunes, etc. all the time for any reason you can think of. For example, a band I was in pulled everything offline because we got into a dumb fight - no strategy about leasing, non-ownership, etc. just old fashioned creative differences.
I know I keep shouting about this, but back *everything* up. Make a copy of it and put it in a different place for when your house eventually burns down or floods out.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
Sure, good advice, but even better would be if apple stopped saying "buy" or "purchase" for media that was really just being rented.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
the built-in weather app's watch complication is fundamentally broken, and the best advice i can find is to factory reset the whole watch. utterly fucked.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
somehow checking 'show apple music' in iTunes wiped out a year's worth of "loved" settings on the songs in my library. oh boy
― calstars, Thursday, 13 September 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
for a three year old service that is appalling
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 September 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
No more model for sale with a headphone jack, so I guess the 6s is my last iphone, unless I decide it's worth it to spring for a nice lightning DAC and to deal with the bulk (their adapter sucks).
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 13 September 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link