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.
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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.'
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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.
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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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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.’
2/ Both the Philippines & Russia are societies where journalism is one of the few ways to understand what's happening with power & corruption.
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.'
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.