As part of its sustainability program, Apple says that the cell phone antenna in iPhone 13 is made, in part, of up-cycled plastic from recycled water bottles.

That has to be the best single use I've ever heard of old plastic water bottles.

$AAPL
2/ All Apple stores worldwide — 515 — are now open for in-person shopping, Apple CEO Tim Cook says, as the company heads into its busiest season.

'…including our new store in The Bronx, which means we now have stores in each of the 5 boroughs of New York City.'

$AAPL
3/ Cook says $AAPL could have sold $6 billion more Apple products in the last 90 days, except for supply constraints, from chip shortages & supply chain bottlenecks.

Rev: $83.4 billion

Apple missed $100 in sales for every $1,400 it sold — because it didn't have the product.
4/ Apple says it expects to have an all-time record quarter in the Christmas / holiday quarter.

Tim Cook also says he expects supply chain constraints to be worse for Apple next quarter — to limit sales more than $6 billion.
5/ Of all consumer product companies, Apple is among the best-equipped of any company to weather those kind of supply limits.

If you can't get your Apple PowerBook — do you switch to Dell or just wait a couple months? Same with your iPhone 13?

Most of that demand postponed.
6/ But it sure has got to be frustrating — for Apple & any company — to have customers who want to buy your products & not be able to deliver them.

Delivery times for hot new MacBook Pros announced a couple weeks ago:

Order today, it might be delivered right at Xmas.

$AAPL
7/ Shop early.
8/ How do those missed sales work for Apple, an analyst asks Tim Cook?

Cook:

Holiday sales, where people are buying something as a gift for someone else, 'those might be perishable.'

A lot of other sales are Apple products 'people will wait for.'

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30 Oct
Univ of Florida bars faculty from testifying in voting rights lawsuit against DeSantis administration.

This is the opposite of the behavior a great public university.

It’s the opposite of the very point of tenure.

Story thin on who at UF decided this… washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10…
2/ Legal experts cannot find a single example of a university barring faculty testimony.

‘The university does not exist to protect the governor. It exists to serve the public.…Nothing could be more to the public good than a professor telling the truth to the public under oath.’
3/ This @NYT story is much more detailed.

UF Dean of Arts & Sciences David Richardson made the call, it appears.

At UF since 1983.

Appalling.

The good news is that lawyers hate being told not to talk. Support will pour in for the voting case.

nytimes.com/2021/10/29/us/…
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8 Oct
The Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 goes to:

Two reporters. Journalists.

Maria Ressa in the Philippines, holding Pres. Duterte accountable.

Dmitri Muratov in Russia, co-founder and editor of Novaya Gazeta, holding Pres. Putin accountable.

Fearless.
nytimes.com/2021/10/08/wor…
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The presidents of both nations are documented killers.

Just telling the story every day of what's happening is life-threatening.
3/ Ressa & Muratov received this year's Nobel Peace Prize 'for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy & lasting peace.'

—>
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5 Oct
Francis Collins, who lead the effort to decode the human genome & has run NIH for the last 12 years, is stepping down.

Collins is 71, and will return to working in his own genomics lab at NIH.

He tells NPR's @arishapiro he started work today at 4:30 am.

npr.org/2021/10/05/104…
2/ Collins is famously a scientist of faith. He wrote a book about reconciling faith & the scientific method, 'Language of God.'

He's also a singer. Shapiro asks Collins for 'a song to go out on.'

'How about "Here Comes the Sun"? Because we're going to get through this.'
3/ And you know what would make you smile at the end of your Tuesday?

'Here Comes the Sun.' (It's on my iTunes rotation. A Dan Fogelberg live rendition.)

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4 Oct
I appear to be the only person in US who didn't realize @Facebook @instagram and @WhatsApp are all offline.

Don't use any of them. Was on Facebook for a while but found it baffling & full of misdirection.

I do understand the power of Insta & WhatsApp.

@Twitter is my social.
2/ Here's a simple explanation for what took down @Facebook that some of us can relate to — from a tech person.

Facebook changed its permissions this morning, and the change accidentally disallowed Facebook's networking computers from finding & talking to each other.

Oops.
3/ The change likely propagated to Facebook's servers automatically.

But here's the catastrophe: You can't propagate the *fix* to the permissions automatically.

Because the computers you're fixing aren't allowed to find & talk to each other.

Gotta input permissions manually.
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4 Oct
William Shatner is going to space for real. Next Tues.

@blueorigin confirms Shatner will be 1 of 4 crew members for next sub-orbital flight.

Classic Shatner comment:

'I’ve heard about space for a long time now. I’m taking the opportunity to see it for myself.'

Shatner is 90.
2/ Shatner's Blue Origin flight will be aboard the company's New Shepard rocket—a 'pop-fly' flight identical to the one Jeff Bezos took this July.

Up to the edge of space in a 60 mile high arc, then back to return on land in Texas.

Shatner will be oldest person to fly to space.
3/ Other crew on the flight:

• Audrey Powers, head of flight ops for Blue, & a former NASA Mission Control flight controller

• Chris Boshuizen, co-founder / former CTO of @planet Labs, now a VC investor

• Glen de Vries, a health care exec & pilot

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What was the point of going to the Moon in the 1960s?

What did we get out of those trips—back on Earth?

If it was so important & so valuable, why hasn't the US (or any nation) been back in 50 years?

Every question answered. Plus fun!

In a podcast!

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2/ A podcast called 'Political Economy' is exactly the place to talk about Moon travel — the past & the future.

We went in 1969 because of politics.

The benefits were huge, back on Earth — but they were economic benefits, not 'Star Trek' benefits.

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3/ Right now, every day, we're building a new space economy.

That's about politics & economics, too.

And at every moment, brilliant engineering is the key.

For Apollo. For Blue Origin. For SpaceX.

Worth a listen. It will change how you see space.
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