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Harris: Negotiating mobile privacy standards with tech platforms avoided regulation
“Over the course of six months, we worked out, I think, an all too rare example of government and industry coming together to solve a problem. Short of regulation or litigation or legislation. And what we did is we came up with an understanding that would, that…”
Evans: Apple's 900M active iOS devices rival 1.5B global PCs
“There's only one and a half billion PCs on Earth, and Apple has nine hundred million iOS devices out there.”
Evans: MacBook Touch Bar is powered by an Apple Watch chip
“The technology underneath it is an OLED screen, and the chip That's driving it, apparently, is actually Apple Watch, basically.”
Chen: Apple developer APIs allow on-device neural network inferences
“So what is clear that you can do with the Apple neural network stuff is you can get trained networks, and then you can run the classifiers, make inferences is what they call it if you read the developer documentation, On device.”
Evans: Apple OS X has roughly 80 million users
“So we have OSX, which is a platform that has about eighty million users”
Evans: Apple iOS has 700M to 800M active devices
“And then there's a platform with eight, seven or eight hundred million active devices, iOS.”
McKinnon: Apple Touch ID dramatically increased iPhone passcode adoption rates
“They've turned on passcodes and more people are, have their phones locked now than ever before because they made it easier. You didn't have to type in that code and now they have a fingerprint reader.”
Evans: Apple retail generated 10% of total company revenue
“The Apple retail business, which until they stopped disclosing it was about 10% of Apple revenue.”
Evans: Apple generated $65 billion in lifetime revenue from 400 million iPods
“They sold, what was it, four hundred million of them, and they did something like sixty-five billion dollars of revenue.”
Evans: Apple sold 75 million iPhones, capturing 15% global market share
“Apple sold, getting on for 15% of all the phones sold on Earth in the last quarter, in the December quarter... Seventy-five million units.”
Evans: Apple never sees health data stored in iOS 8 repository
“So Apple is making this repository in iOS eight that stores all the health information from a watch, from any wearable that you have, anything you input into it. Any app on the device can ask for that with permission. Apple never sees it”
Evans: iPad sales hit flatline while iPhone continues strong growth
“And the iPhone is growing quite strongly, and the iPad has been effectively flat for a year.”
Apple reorganized into a horizontal structure under Craig Federighi
“A, they'd moved from a vertical to horizontal integration organization. So you have Craig Federiga responsible for all the software, for example.”
Evans: Apple reported 83% of iPhone 5S users use fingerprint scanner
“And they gave a number that I think it was 83% of all iPhone five S users use a fingerprint scanner,”
Mars: Apple built a $1 billion data center for Siri's launch
“Apple built a one billion dollar data center at the time that Siri was released.”
Evans: Tech giants occupy the top five spots by market valuation
“Today, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and yes, Microsoft are all the five, are the five biggest companies on the stock exchange.”