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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by mcphage on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @11:17PM (#15078263)
> That business is tettering on failure

They sold over 4 million Macs this past quarter, so I don't know what you're going on about here.

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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by trapperkeeper74 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:44PM (#15085486)
Numbers today are all well and good, but goodwill and rate-of-change indicate future trends. People will tire of $3000 laptops with nonfunctional WiFi and Apple Authorized Service Centers voiding their AppleCare warranties.
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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by mcphage on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:18PM (#15087124)
> Numbers today are all well and good, but goodwill and rate-of-change indicate future trends

Well, they're down YoY, from 4.2 million to... 4.18 million. So in another 200 years, they'll have all disappeared.

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