It’s the same in many fields. Trainees learn by doing the easy, repetitive work that can now be automated.

Yeah, but we’ve had countless examples of loss-making tech companies with sky-high valuations. Amazon didn’t make a profit for something like 20 years. Investors of course want returns, but they can differ on the timeframe they’re willing to wait for them.

It seems like Vision Pro allows selective focusing.

What does that ~70% refer to? Japan is about 5% of Apple’s global revenue and iOS is installed on around 50% of Japanese phones.

It’s not being sold off. It’s an investment. Raspberry Pi has suffered from supply shortages that could be mitigated by entering into a partnership with Arm — and which would help further its charitable goals. Sales were down by more than a quarter in 2022 due to shortages.

And Arm isn’t the only minority shareholder. Sony, which manufactures its boards in Wales, also owns a stake.

These aren’t unusual commercial decisions to secure manufacturing and supply, and therefore maximise the dividend it pays to the foundation, while retaining majority control.

It’s even worse than that. X is used so widely in trademarks that it’s guaranteed to attract lawsuits. Facebook had to settle several claims over the change to Meta, and the use of X is a much bigger problem than that. And Musk is so dumb that he’ll probably try to fight them and end up paying a fortune in legal fees anyway.

Edit: Relevant article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/problem-with-x-meta-microsoft-hundreds-more-own-trademarks-new-twitter-name-2023-07-25/

Just to be clear, Apple isn’t asking the Swiss apple growers to change their logo. And it definitely isn’t forcing them.

I assmue some journalist saw Apple making a very boring Swiss trademark application and decided to call up a local company with an apple in its logo to see what they thought about it. There’s zero chance the company will have to re-brand.

The US apple industry uses an apple logo without any problem: https://usapple.org/

There’s some truth to this. Apple did used to mean basically any fruit. That’s where we get “pineapple” in English. The Dutch call oranges “Chinese apples” and the French call potatoes “ground apples”. Any new fruit or vegetable that came along was basically just some kind of apple. So I think Apple might have a case here.