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Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Personal blog · ped30.comhardwarebusiness
Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, a personal blog at ped30.com about hardware and business. Since 2017, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Piper Jaffray: Apple Owns GenZ”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Apple-focused blog for analysis of Apple's business and products, including Tim Cook's 2018 privacy speech, Apple's R&D spending, and tracking of analyst predictions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Apple 3.0
Most-linked posts?
- /2018/10/24/tim-cook-brussels-data-security/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-24
- Piper Jaffray: Apple Owns GenZ2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-11
What Hacker News says?
Someone provided this link above https://www.ped30.com/2018/10/24/tim-cook-brussels-data-secu...
Comment linking /2018/10/24/tim-cook-brussels-data-security/
on “Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex””Submitted Google pays 15B to be default Apple search engine for another year as a story · 8 points
HN discussionVideo available here: https://www.ped30.com/2018/10/24/tim-cook-brussels-data-secu...
Comment linking /2018/10/24/tim-cook-brussels-data-security/
on “Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex””Submitted Apple's perfect storm added a record $191B to its market cap as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLike with the butterfly keyboard? The one which they called a "pig" internally where "lipstick won't fix it", but which they kept selling for years? That totally broke my trust that Apple will address quality issues. https://www.ped30.com/2021/03/23/apple-butterfly-lipstick-pi...
Comment linking /2021/03/23/apple-butterfly-lipstick-pig/
on “Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak”Submitted Analyst: Apple is cornering the market for VR laser tech as a story · 4 points
HN discussion>perjure yourself. https://www.ped30.com/2017/11/06/tim-cook-has-some-explainin... It doesn't seem like perjury is such a big deal. Nobody is arresting Tim Cook for perjuring himself in front of Congress. Clapper did it too. Sessions as well. In fact, it has become a regular occurrence. It seems you're nobody until you've lied to Congress.
Comment linking /2017/11/06/tim-cook-has-some-explaining-to-do/
on “The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the Rich to Avoid Taxes”Submitted Tim Cook has sailed Apple safely through the macro storms as a story · 3 points
HN discussion83% of US teens have an iPhone according to Piper Jaffray in April 2019 [1]. That number is biased, however, as 1) it's solely based on a survey done in high schools, and not every teen will feel comfortable admitting they have something else than an iPhone 2) the surveys are performed by DECA Inc. which is more affiliated with private schools and public high schools in affluent neighborhoods. Still, I estimate that…
Comment linking /2019/04/08/apple-piper-jaffray-genz/
on “US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In”Submitted Piper Sandler: 87% of U.S. teens carry iPhones, 30% wear the Apple Watch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA minor point, Apple's R&D spend is significantly lower as a percent of budget compared to most of the market. I found this article really interesting: https://www.ped30.com/2019/03/10/defense-apples-14-billion-r... Edit for context: in 2018, 11.6bn or 5.1% of revenue. Compare to Amazon it's half as many dollars and 1/3 the percent.
Comment linking /2019/03/10/defense-apples-14-billion-rd-budget/
on “Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity”Submitted Auto makers oughta feel threatened by CarPlay as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks! I took a quick look and it doesn't seem like there's any plugins out there for grayscaling in Safari right now. If you're talking about mobile safari though, you can do it on an OS level and toggle it by pressing the home button three times in a row - https://www.ped30.com/2018/01/13/apple-iphone-gray/
Comment linking /2018/01/13/apple-iphone-gray/
on “Show HN: Grayscale the Web – A Chrome extension to help avoid mindless browsing”Submitted Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip, according to sources as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPhilip Elmer-Dewitt does this. Here [0] is his most recent report card for 4Q18. [0] - https://www.ped30.com/2018/02/02/best-worst-apple-analysts-q...
Comment linking /2018/02/02/best-worst-apple-analysts-q1-2018-edition/
on “Apple Plans Giant High-End iPhone, Lower-Priced Model”Submitted Does Apple have to worry about Tim Wu? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI haven't seen any iPhone X 2-for-1 deals, in the US at least. Samsung's OLED production glut can't be pinned solely on Apple [0]. Most of the "Apple slashes iPhone X production forecast" rumors seem to be... unreliable at best [1] [2]. [0] - http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/02/apples-i... [1] - https://www.ped30.com/2018/02/20/nikkei-slashes-apple/ [2] - https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/9584211072…
Comment linking /2018/02/20/nikkei-slashes-apple/
on “Apple Plans Giant High-End iPhone, Lower-Priced Model”Submitted For the first time in years, Apple is hiring more software than hardware people as a story · 2 points
HN discussionApple Park is "for us" — that is, Apple employees, for values thereof that don't include parents. http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/05/16/apple_s_new_... https://www.ped30.com/2017/12/05/apple-park-childcare-daycar...
Comment linking /2017/12/05/apple-park-childcare-daycare/
on “Why doesn’t Apple make its devices as carefully as it’s making Apple Park?”Submitted Cook takes Siri from Cue, gives it to Federighi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe last paragraph in this article implies otherwise: https://www.ped30.com/2018/11/12/lumentum-wells-fargo-apple/ > UPDATE: A friend of the blog dug up this press release from last December, when Apple invested a few hundred million in one of Lementum’s chief competitors: Apple awards Finisar $390 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund Now, this is an Apple friendly blog; I don't know whether the two companie…
Comment linking /2018/11/12/lumentum-wells-fargo-apple/
on “Apple iPhone sales fears rock Wall Street”Submitted Apple has lost many of their top chip designers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A third of US teens use Apple Watch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daniel Ives: Apple’s Services biz alone is worth $1.5T as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wired: Apple is trying to kill the monster it helped create as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RBC raises its Apple price target $13 to $145 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple augmented reality lenses pass the prototype stage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Joshua Cohen, Apple University’s Resident Philosopher [audio] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding Marty Rimm as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Piper Jaffray: Apple Owns GenZ as a story · 1 points
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