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Why hasn't Apple built a fab yet? Do they still not produce enough iphones to be able to use the full capacity of a major chip fab (it would need to be major because they need to produce chips at high yield at 45nm)? Another company in Apple's position might build a fab and farm the extra capacity out to other companies, but that seems to go against Apple's dna. Still, I think it would make sense to pay some premium for the security of being sure their chip supplier won't decide to stop supplying them with chips.
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Good advice for a lot of people. Odd article for HN though since so many of our discussions deal with doing startups.

I consider myself to be a bit of a "lurker" enjoying hearing about entrepreneurs' experiences in the sense that I have been happy working only part time for almost all of my adult life on many interesting jobs and having lots of time off for family, friends, writing, and hobbies.

That said, I have two childhood friends who have had big payouts doing software startups (one for $20m+ and the other for $300m+) and they seem happy also :-)
I'm sorry, but I can't help myself. It's silicon. Silicone is a kind of synthetic rubber.
an MBA from a good school can't hurt, and is bound to teach some useful management skills.

I'm not so sure. Reading Henry Mintzberg's writings, one gets the sense that MBA programs are dangerous. They don't actually impart useful skills but they convince their students that they do. I mean, consider Harvard Biz school's case study methodology. You get a bunch of people who know nothing about a company or an industry to read 20 pages of material, reduce all its problems to a single strategic question, then pronounce a decisions and that's it -- this is like a parody for designing a process that allows ignorant people to screw things up, all the while relishing their elite ignorance.
And you're comfortable with a system of laws that preempts women from doing start-ups? For one, that seems like it's not going to lead to good outcomes - it's in the country's and the world's best interest to have all capable young people able to be entrepreneurs.

Second, of course I'm comfortable subsidizing women, young people, poor people, and other groups, because I view the world in a Rawlsian fashion. That is, it is just chance that I am a healthy, young, and relatively wealthy young man. But if I were a woman, or an immigrant, or subject to any other set of circumstances, then I would want the same opportunities as anyone else.

As for the specific case of whether or not the healthcare laws should provide a way for all women to safely and affordably make babies - then I would say a hearty yes to this too. And as far as I can tell, this law benefits men and women equally. Unless there is a test tube involved, all babies need a man and a woman, so I really can't see how healthcare coverage for pregnancies has a sexist bias.

I hope you enjoy your youth and health, but when you get sick or old, I think you'll change your tune.
Apple may be able to sustain their growth despite aging product lines, continued smartphone commoditization, and increasing competition in slates over the coming year. But there's nothing in the article which supports such a view.

Being a hardware manufacturer may be a reason for lower margins, but its not an excuse for lower profits. And using the difference of $70 billion dollars in market cap as a some sort of justification for Apple's ability to continue to grow just doesn't make sense.

The heart of Siegler's prediction is the contention that Microsoft's profits will drop more than Apple's next quarter - the article contains no basis for this. Apple just had it's best quarter ever at $6 billion. Microsoft just did better than $6 billion in the quarter for the second year in a row. Microsoft's worst quarter last year was almost equal to Apple's second best quarter ever.

Essentially, Siegler's prediction is as sound as the idea that the curve determines Apple's profits.
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1. Fab-building is a nightmarishly expensive proposition, and worse, you need to keep on building them to keep up. I think that's a treadmill that Apple are happy to leave to their suppliers (Intel, TMSC, Samsung et al).

2. Intel might decide not to be such a good friend if Apple get into fabrication.
But Siegler is comparing profits, first and foremost. He doesn’t say to look only at the revenue, he clearly recognizes the importance of profits. I could understand you if he had completely ignored profits, but he did not. Profits were the whole point of this article and it’s completely reasonable to compare profits between Apple and Microsoft. (Isn’t the whole premise of this continued horse race coverage that the revenue milestone doesn’t really count and that you still have to look at how profits develop?)

Oh, and Apple’s Q1 earnings are actually insane. I don’t know how you could find fault with that particular headline. I think no one could dispute that Apple’s Q1 results were extremely impressive.

Can’t we attack people for what they actually say, not for what we think they are saying?
At this point, their "one trick" is advertising, but that's everything as far as the internet is concerned, and everybody wants to buy some.

Sure, someone might switch search engines (I have), but now they've got a huge market of third party sites running their ads for them, too.
“Being a hardware manufacturer may be a reason for lower margins, but its not an excuse for lower profits.”

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Look, Siegler is a journalist, not an analyst. He says “Apple has grown faster than Microsoft in the past which means that if nothing changes, they are going to overtake Microsoft’s profits sooner or later.” That’s a perfectly reasonable but not very well supported position, perfectly appropriate if you write for a tech blog.

Your objections are reasonable but sort of miss the point.

That one liner comment of yours was just unnecessary. You should have posted your response to me instead, that would have been much more informative.
Brilliant! You're saying we should set up healthcare laws so poor people don't have children.

While you're at it, let's completely fall down this slippery slope, and not insure people who smoke, people who play dangerous sports, or people who travel to countries with high rates of infectious disease.

Let's craft a healthcare system with all sorts of incentives not do things that might make perfect sense, and one that punishes all of people's foibles.
I've often wondered why Apple doesn't just buy AMD.
As many companies do, those with brand identification and a long history of success tend to ride more than one horse, e.g. Google, Sony, etc
In general hardware margins compared to software margins suck, in that once the sunk cost of software development has taken place you can sell the software with a near zero manufacturing cost. (I think everyone knows this.)

However Apple's hardware margins compared to other manufacturers hardware margins are quite huge. I've heard figures from those tear downs say that Apple have a margin close to 50% or more (or at least in the double digits). Compare that to a more competitive field (by this I mean more direct oranges to oranges competitors) like TV's (or Cars) where margins are squeezed tight in order to sell.

Also don't forget now that Apple have this whole *Store thing going where they make pure profit from the sale of software that someone else has made (and taken the sunk cost hit for). That means the ratio of profit to software development cost is near infinite, so how's that for a profit margin.
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>"The parent sits at 38 points while being almost entirely wrong."

Do you have any evidence that he's wrong, an argument why he's wrong, or even a different assertion of the facts?

This has actually been a fairly fact-filled, low-whine conversation, with reason-filled arguments. It's a topic (proper regulation of state-granted monopolies) that goes back hundreds of years (to American Colonial times, at least). The fact is, you need a monopoly on last mile connections because it's not feasible to let 3-4 ISPs run last-mile connections, even if it could be made profitable. To prevent the company with that monopoly from owning the whole telecommunications industry (at least in that region), governments sometimes force them to lease those lines to competitors at agreed-upon rates, so that those competitors can keep the monopoly (in this case, Bell) in check. But Canada's change has let Bell impose restrictions on those competitors' plans, so that those competitors can't offer better plans (at least in terms of cost/GB), which basically circumvents the whole reason to make Bell let competitors lease the lines.
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There are most certainly hidden APIs, there are things that YouTube and Yelp are allowed to do, that you just can't do through any of the publicly documented APIs.
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I can't imagine Intel and Apple being on the greatest of terms right now anyway, due to the Nvidia integrated graphics situation.
>> 1. Fab-building is a nightmarishly expensive proposition, and worse, you need to keep on building them to keep up. I think that's a treadmill that Apple are happy to leave to their suppliers (Intel, TMSC, Samsung et al).

Apple has the money, and if they can use the capacity the marginal cost of production should be lower for them, since there's not a third party taking a cut. Apple's also paying for the treadmill-running through their suppliers (unless they're getting chips at a loss, which I doubt). This is assuming Apple's internal demand is high enough to use the capacity of a whole fab.

>>2. Intel might decide not to be such a good friend if Apple get into fabrication.

If that's the case then Apple can threaten to tell on them. Intel has been down that road before, and I don't think they want to go there again. Also I think that, in the long term, Apple is trying to move away from Intel.
It was actually because of lobbying from printing companies so they could profit by changing all FDIC insurance signs at banks. Just kidding, you are correct, inflation should have pushed this up to $250k quite some time ago.
I guess I don't understand the distinction then. In the App Engine what is called a Model in the script looks like a table to me. It has rows and it has columns and those rows and columns contain data.
Some facts using Samasung's Q42010 earnings release: http://www.samsung.com/us/aboutsamsung/ir/ireventpresentatio...

1) In terms of their revenues, their telecom business is now bigger than their semiconductor business, though from a profit perspective the semiconductor business is about 30% bigger.

2) Year-on-Year growth is slightly higher in the telecom division.

3) Telecom division expects higher than market growth rate mostly fueled by smartphone sets.

4) Telecom has mainly seen very strong growth in their 'strategic' handset models - 40% growth over previous years. Their strategic models are all Android based (5 models in total). Their telecom division is relying on newer revs of these models to drive higher than market returns in 2011.

My (very simplistic) reading of this: Apple needs to diversify away from Samsung and create more options (duh). If the Galaxy series turns out to do better than expected next year, it gives Samsung more leverage to raise prices / cut production quotas on Apple's chips.
Man pages are suited to be as terse and technically correct as possible. I say leave the wording that is easier on beginners to web tutorials and books.
Yes. Most definitely. The guest posts on the weekend always seem to be written by execs at startups who are looking to build their reputation and to plant an idea or set of ideas in the media so they can point potential partners and customers to it and say "see, what we're doing is legitimate." As these people aren't trained writers I often find their central points hard to suss out.
My favorite Mark Suster quote :

"I became an entrepreneur so I could tell people to go f!ck themselves."

And that basically sums it up for me. I've said this to enough bosses that, this is a huge appeal for me. If you check my performance reviews they all list "has a problem with authority".

I've been to a QnA session with Mark and I learned so damn much from him. He's very open about the workings of VC. And I don't think I've laughed so much at any other entrepreneur Meetup. Guy is hilarious.
I think they are still missing the point. It's not about engineers nor money. It's about the user experience and the ecosystem that Apple can guarantee to their users.
They certainly aren't for everyone, but I don't think this article does much to accurately paint the pros and cons to help someone decide if it's right for them.

Well, in its proper context, the article is a counterpoint to The Economist's entire "Which MBA?" section and/or issue (http://www.economist.com/whichmba/). In the context of an entire section devoted to helping you decide which MBA you should do, this brief argument against doing an MBA at all is a helpful piece of contrarianness.

Presented out of context on HN where "MBAs suck" is conventional wisdom rather than contrarian iconoclasticism, though, it loses much of its effect.

(In my opinion, as someone with a PhD and 5/32nds of an MBA, the answer to "should I do an MBA" is "Do you want to do an MBA?".)
>"The third problem is not zero-sum, it's subset-sum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset_sum

That is correct. I have messed the names up :P
This certainly seems to indicate that great product diversity is not necessary for strong financial performance in the short to mid term. I think the question here is more one of longetivity - how long will this "one trick" remain relevant, and retain a large enough market to keep increasing the profits?

All those oil companies would run into a lot of trouble if, say, the oil ran out. On the other hand, Microsoft could keep generating substantial revenue even if people stopped buying the XBox for example. Their other (major) products such as Windows and Office provide enough diversity to keep them relevant, despite the loss of one or two major markets.
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Probably for many of the same reasons they tended to vote up the "I could clone Stack Overflow over a weekend" comments. I wouldn't confuse karma with market research.
But entrepreneurs are mostly healthy young men, and it doesn't cost much to insure healthy young men

You're begging the question. Perhaps healthy young bachelors are the ones quitting their jobs to make the next social-coupon-micro-dating websites because they are the only ones who aren't constrained by the factors we're discussing.
> Of these, Exxon, BHP, Shell and Petrobras have one trick between 'em: dig shit out of the ground and sell it.

I hardly think this is the same.

It is very expensive to 'dig shit out of the ground' and you will only make money if you manage to dig in the right place. Many a mining company have gone into the business of digging only to go broke shortly after, because the managed to dig in the wrong place.

Sure these companies make massive profits by digging, but they also spend a vast amount of money consolidating these profits by exploring for the next place to dig.

Their trick is not so much the digging, but their ability to keep finding other places to dig and their ability to then get the stuff out of the ground at profit.
For me, I have to say that the high point of that article was squinting to read the small, non-clickable graph and seeing "Queensland" (Australia) as one of the universities mentioned.

Oh, the article? Pretty bland.
I encourage you to see the documentary "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media".

The whole thing is on Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730...

(Better yet, read Chomsky's book on which the documentary is based, "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media".)
As far as I know, only Internet Explorer handles MHTML files, so if you use a different browser, this problem shouldn't affect you. Firefox, for example, treats them as text files.
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Or Freescale, who has more experience with small chips.
I think it helps if you've done this once already. Ie death marches at bigco.

The thing that everyone seems to have forgotten is that large part of the 80 hours at a star up as a founder, is self driven. Ie you'll jump out of bed everyday excited to get to work. If you can make sure you don't get burnt out, I think it's sustainable at 40 hours a week.

Michael Wolfe has some great answers on quora about how to run a startup and not get burnt out.
Alongside my basic diet was simple vegetables and meats (cheap cuts and basics like boiled potato and pumpkin), and other budget specialties like tuna and pineapple mixed together and eaten straight from the can(s). And a lot of rice.

I never, ever ate junk food simply because the cost wasn't worth it. Unless I happened across some great pizza coupons, then I would be all over that.

So while I ate a lot, it wasn't the only source of diet, to be fair. And I used to put in a big knob of butter, and specialised in the curry flavours. That makes it taste a lot better.
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I doubt that Apple is overly concerned about the specs thing for all the reasons already stated here, along with the fact that Apple products have (almost) never beaten their competitors on spec sheets, quite the opposite. It's the UX that's their strength; it's very hard to copy and they know it.
Neat, seems like the site is getting slammed, and what I really wanted to know was a summary of what it's about, here is for the benefit of others:

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The Turmeric platform is highly extensible and customizable. For example, you can easily plug in additional protocol processors, data formats, handlers and various other capabilities. The platform is also highly optimized for large-scale environments. eBay uses this platform internally. Most parts of it are now open source, replacing functionality dependent on commercial products with equivalent, open-source implementations. It also has new package names to match the open-source spirit. This is the first version of the open-source release of Turmeric, and might have some rough edges, so please provide feedback and contribute as you see fit."
Anyone have any thoughts on the "Many small apps including games" bit of this article?

Sounds like Mr. Page may have started taking steps to encourage more entrepreneurial spirit in Google. Can you imagine how fun some of those projects will be?
I wonder if Samsung is even really that interested in seeing Galaxy succeed or if it's almost more profitable to them just to have it as a bargaining point in dealing with Apple.

Somewhat relevant, I actually got to play with a Galaxy over the weekend and was really impressed with it (I thought the form factor might be weird, but realized it's very close to a Kindle/Paperback book in size).
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The Yelp case isnt a hidden Api. Its (seems) more of a preferred Api Key. You can do a view source on Yelp and get the facebook api URL Yelp runs to get your name and birthday. but its essentially restricted to the above two fields as I tried getting my other details through that URL by replacing the user_name field with say user_location and Api failed saying the apik key doesnt have permissions for that field.

BTW if all you want is to get some users name and birthday, you now have the Yelp apikey ( You did not hear that from me ;)
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>"It’s just wrong to attack this particular author about this particular question."

The headline wasn't "Microsoft Profits Beat Apple's (for the 83rd Time.)" Instead, beating Apple by more than 10% became "barely," lower margins become a justification for lower profits, and more revenue and greater market cap become what really matters anyway when it comes to Apple. That's what makes it typical.
They're probably talking about the expansion of Samsung's Austin fab. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/samsung-austin-semic...
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