Apple Awards Top Executives $60 Million Stock
Bonuses, Vesting in 2016

post from Daring Fireball on 04 November 2011 11:03:54 PM. © Daring Fireball

Josh Lowensohn, reporting for CNet:

The company on Wednesday doled out 150,000 shares each to most ofits senior vice presidents, short of recently-minted SVP Eddy Cue,who received a slightly smaller 100,000-share bonus, and designguru Jonathan Ive, who is an SVP, but does not fall under theSEC’s section for directors, officers, and principal stockholders.That works out to just over a $60 million payday to those who gotthe 150,000 shares, with Cue’s cut coming out to a little morethan $40 million, all based off today’s closing price.

Does that mean Ive might have gotten a bonus, but it didn’t need to be reported? Or that he didn’t get a bonus?

Update: Consensus via email and Twitter is that Ive is not a company director who falls under Rule 16 of the Securities Exchange Act.

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iCloud System Status

post from Daring Fireball on 04 November 2011 10:04:14 PM. © Daring Fireball

Re: the piece earlier today on transparency regarding Siri downtime — Apple should include Siri availability on the iCloud status page. Just a simple way to check whether an outage is on Apple’s end, before you start troubleshooting on your end.

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Apple Awards Most of Its Top Executives $60
Million Stock Bonuses

post from Daring Fireball on 04 November 2011 10:04:14 PM. © Daring Fireball

Josh Lowensohn, reporting for CNet:

The company on Wednesday doled out 150,000 shares each to most ofits senior vice presidents, short of recently-minted SVP Eddy Cue,who received a slightly smaller 100,000-share bonus, and designguru Jonathan Ive, who is an SVP, but does not fall under theSEC’s section for directors, officers, and principal stockholders.That works out to just over a $60 million payday to those who gotthe 150,000 shares, with Cue’s cut coming out to a little morethan $40 million, all based off today’s closing price.

Does that mean Ive might have gotten a bonus, but it didn’t need to be reported? Or that he didn’t get a bonus?

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TPM Browser Usage Stats

post from Daring Fireball on 04 November 2011 08:03:44 PM. © Daring Fireball

Browser usage stats from a popular political news and commentary site: IE and Firefox in decline, Safari peaking, Chrome on the rise.

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Real Security in Mac OS X Requires Apple-Signed
Certificates

post from Daring Fireball on 04 November 2011 08:03:44 PM. © Daring Fireball

Wil Shipley:

There are three primary ways Apple increases security ofapplications running on the Mac and the iPhone: Sandboxing, CodeAuditing, and Certification. While all these are incrementallyvaluable, none is perfect on its own.
The problem Mac developers are facing is that the two that Appleis enforcing on the Mac App Store (Sandboxing and Code Auditing)are implemented currently to be actively bad for developers andnot particularly good for users. And the method that would providethe most benefit for developers and users (Certification) isn?tenforced broadly enough to be useful.

A thoughtful, detailed, and well-reasoned argument. Let’s hope Apple is listening.

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realestateview.com.au launches iPhone app

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realestateVIEW.com.au has launched an iPhone app realestateVIEW.com.au 1.1, that combines up-to-date sales, auction results and median prices, with the ability to search for properties. Featuring thousands of properties across Australia, the app also acts as your own personal planner, allowing you to "check in" to properties and easily keep track of the homes you've visited as well as plan your journey. Updated daily, the free app provides the latest sales, auction results and median prices.

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Promises

post from Daring Fireball on 04 November 2011 04:03:38 PM. © Daring Fireball

Sascha Segan, writing at PCMag:

I think Apple did the right thing with the battery-life issue, butI’m frustrated by its lack of a public explanation for the Siriproblems. [?]
Unlike with a complex handset bug that needs lots of testing toverify, it’s relatively easy for Apple to know its servers areoverloaded and issue some sort of quick statement, for instance:“The tremendous popularity of Siri has led to stress on ourservers. We are adding capacity to resolve the problem, but fornow, be aware the service is in beta.”

How would that make anything better for iPhone 4S users? What practical difference would it have made in anyone’s life if Apple had released a statement like that yesterday? It’s very unusual for Apple to release anything labeled “beta”, and even rarer for something labeled “beta” to be the focus of a major advertising campaign. “Beta” is no excuse for an outage — if you ship it and promote it, people should expect it to work — but it is an explanation. Until Apple removes the “beta” label, problems with Siri are explained, but not excused, by it being beta.

Apple promotes its products as perfect objects produced by demigods.

No they don’t. It’s people in the news media, like Segan, who project such a message.

This marketing strategy is also why Apple’s bugs get so much morepress than other companies’ bugs, by the way. When you promiseperfection, any imperfection is news. When you call your products“revolutionary and magical,” that’s a high bar to set. Nobody elsepromises perfection quite to the extent Apple does.

My thesaurus does not list perfect as a synonym for either revolutionary or magical.

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Fricking Lasers

Good reporting from Adam Satariano and Peter Burrows for Businessweek:

Apple began innovating on the nitty-gritty details of supply-chainmanagement almost immediately upon Steve Jobs?s return in 1997.At the time, most computer manufacturers transported products bysea, a far cheaper option than air freight. To ensure that thecompany?s new, translucent blue iMacs would be widely availableat Christmas the following year, Jobs paid $50 million to buy upall the available holiday air freight space, says John Martin, alogistics executive who worked with Jobs to arrange the flights.The move handicapped rivals such as Compaq that later wanted tobook air transport. Similarly, when iPod sales took off in 2001,Apple realized it could pack so many of the diminutive musicplayers on planes that it became economical to ship them directlyfrom Chinese factories to consumers? doors. When an HP stafferbought one and received it a few days later, tracking its progressaround the world through Apple?s website, ?It was an ?Ohshit? moment,? recalls Fawkes.
That mentality — spend exorbitantly wherever necessary, and reapthe benefits from greater volume in the long run — isinstitutionalized throughout Apple?s supply chain, and begins atthe design stage.

Billion-dollar cash up-front deals for components. How many other companies can do that?

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Fishing Mania-New World - for iPhone/iTouch/iPad
optimized for iOS5

'Fishing Mania - New World' optimized for iOS5 provides ultimate addictive fishing game experience on iPhone/iTouch/iPad with three top fishing games in one. In a changing beautiful water world, you will enjoy fishing with various net-guns, spear-guns, laser gun, super dynamite and etc... In addition, you can build your own lovely fish farm. You can compete with your friends on Game Center and share screenshots/ achivements with your friends on facebook. And it has a HD version for iPad.

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Smash Turtle Game Slings into iOS - Frenetic,
Fast-Paced Physics Fun!

Strap on your bungee cord and get ready to stretch, sling, and smash your way to victory! Indie game studio Heyalda Corporation in collaboration with David Welch has launched their fun iOS game Smash Turtle. As Smash Turtle, you must defend your baby turtle eggs until they hatch by using a bungee sling and your hard turtle shell to bash into enemies before they fly off with your precious eggs. This simple and addictive game is now available on iOS devices for a low price!

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