Inside the Gorilla Glass Factory of Corning $GLW (video)

Inside Corning's Gorilla Glass Factory

A rare look inside Corning’s oldest glass factory where it makes Gorilla Glass for iPhones and a variety of other devices. The factory, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, runs 24/7 and human hands never touch the glass — only air and robots.

In the middle of bluegrass and bourbon country in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, is Corning's oldest glass factory. It was built in the 1950s to create lenses for glasses and then in the 1980s it transitioned into making LCD glass panels. But about six months before the first iPhone was released in 2007, Steve Jobs made a call to the CEO of Corning and asked the company to create glass that could withstand scratches and breakage for a new Apple product. Before that, phones were typically covered in plastic. Corning quickly developed Gorilla Glass, and this factory went through a complete transformation. The same company that developed the glass for the Edison bulb in 1879, is now making the glass that covers 6 billion smartphones, tablets, screens and wearables worldwide for Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony and Huawei and a variety of other manufacturers. Watch the video to get a rare look inside the factory to see how Gorilla Glass is made. CNBC.com video above published Feb 9, 2019.

Corning Incorporated
NYSE: GLW

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Domain: corning.com
Investor Relations: investor.corning.com
Industry: Glass & Ceramic Materials
Founded: 1851
Headquarters: Corning, New York, U.S.
Employees: 46,200

Faster smartphones with more functionality and longer battery life require smaller, more complex chip package designs.
Check out how Corning’s precision glass portfolio is helping chipmakers meet these requirements: https://t.co/3SLaVPq0ov pic.twitter.com/WvcGkAdab7

— Corning Incorporated (@Corning) February 13, 2019

It’s #NationalInventorsDay! Today, we celebrate our scientists worldwide and their contributions to solving tough technology challenges that transform people’s lives.
Learn more about our history of innovation: https://t.co/KeuQmT471I pic.twitter.com/pQc6v3Z5q4

— Corning Incorporated (@Corning) February 11, 2019

Eight years ago, we debuted our vision for the future with our "A Day Made of Glass" video. Since then, we've pushed boundaries and redefined possibilities to bring you #LifeInTheGlassAge!
Check it out: https://t.co/OadWTt0Xgz#GlassAge pic.twitter.com/I4YqM7Am39

— Corning Incorporated (@Corning) February 7, 2019

On this #ThrowbackThursday, we're taking it back to 2011 when we shared our vision for a more connected, collaborative, and interactive world - all made possible by Corning!
Check out "A Day Made of Glass:" https://t.co/4AeUXkfBT1#GlassAge pic.twitter.com/uebtScNecg

— Corning Incorporated (@Corning) February 7, 2019

#DidYouKnow your mobile phone is enabled by microchips that allow faster processing and reliable communication? Learn more about how Corning is supporting microchip manufacturing with durable optical materials: Link to release https://t.co/xKPvLjyhqW #PhotonicsWest #Booth1265 pic.twitter.com/Iv2YHN6lIj

— Corning Incorporated (@Corning) February 6, 2019

With the need to download more content on your smartphone, data centers that process this information are getting increasingly more complex. Learn more about how Corning's new glass polarizers are enabling greater data center design flexibility: https://t.co/EJ8AnQIUUI pic.twitter.com/3rkvhS3IrE

— Corning Incorporated (@Corning) February 4, 2019

#DidYouKnow Corning® Gorilla® Glass is not just for your mobile consumer electronics devices?
We're collaborating with companies like Elevecture to deliver this innovative solution to the architecture industry. Learn more: https://t.co/3MK85m6lxo#GlassAge pic.twitter.com/o4uW9CaEz9

— Corning Incorporated (@Corning) February 1, 2019

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Apple $AAPL Q2 FY18 Results LIVE Webcast May 1, 5pm EDT

Steve Jobs 1997 Interview: Defending His Commitment To Apple

CNBC.com video above published Apr 27, 2018: In an October 1997 interview with CNBC, Apple CEO Steve Jobs spoke passionately about returning to the company he founded.

Apple Inc.
Principal domain: apple.com
Stock Exchange: Symbol |  NASDAQ: AAPL

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Investor Relations | Apple.com FY18 Second Quarter Results Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 5 pm ET

Listen to the conference call webcast

Apple (AAPL) Q2 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript | SeekingAlpha.com

Press Release May 1, 2018:
"Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2018 second quarter ended March 31, 2018. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $61.1 billion, an increase of 16 percent from the year-ago quarter, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.73, up 30 percent. International sales accounted for 65 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

“We’re thrilled to report our best March quarter ever, with strong revenue growth in iPhone, Services and Wearables,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Customers chose iPhone X more than any other iPhone each week in the March quarter, just as they did following its launch in the December quarter. We also grew revenue in all of our geographic segments, with over 20% growth in Greater China and Japan.”

“Our business performed extremely well during the March quarter, as we grew earnings per share by 30 percent and generated over $15 billion in operating cash flow,” said Luca Maestri, Apple’s CFO. “With the greater flexibility we now have from access to our global cash, we can more efficiently invest in our US operations and work toward a more optimal capital structure. Given our confidence in Apple’s future, we are very happy to announce that our Board has approved a new $100 billion share repurchase authorization and a 16 percent increase in our quarterly dividend.”

• The Company will complete the execution of the previous $210 billion share repurchase authorization during the third fiscal quarter.
• Reflecting the approved increase, the Board has declared a cash dividend of $0.73 per share of Apple’s common stock payable on May 17, 2018 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 14, 2018.
• The Company also expects to continue to net-share-settle vesting restricted stock units.
• From the inception of its capital return program in August 2012 through March 2018, Apple has returned $275 billion to shareholders, including $200 billion in share repurchases. The management team and the Board will continue to review each element of the capital return program regularly and plan to provide an update on the program on an annual basis.

"Apple is providing the following guidance for its fiscal 2018 third quarter:

• revenue between $51.5 billion and $53.5 billion
• gross margin between 38 percent and 38.5 percent
• operating expenses between $7.7 billion and $7.8 billion
• other income/(expense) of $400 million
• tax rate of approximately 14.5 percent

"Apple will provide live streaming of its Q2 2018 financial results conference call beginning at 2:00 p.m. PDT on May 1, 2018 at www.apple.com/investor/earnings-call/. This webcast will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter."

Consolidated Financial Statements  View PDF

Data Summary View PDF

 source of infographics (above and below): Statista.com 

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Price Too High? iPhone X Prices Around The World & iPhone Pricing History

Price Too High? Charts of the iPhone Pricing History and iPhone X Prices Around The World:
source: Statista.com

A Price Too High?

Chart: What The iPhone X Costs Around The World | Statista.com

iPhone X Price Too High? Apparently Not:
source: Statista.com

Apple Inc. (investor.apple.com) NASDAQ: AAPL

See also:

• What We Need For $AAPL at $200+ | Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | SeekingAlpha.com: "The Apple iPhone X is exciting. The question is how much can it drive revenues."
• Why We're Bearish On Apple For The First Time Ever - Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | SeekingAlpha.com: "We would not be surprised to see Apple shares fall as much as 15% to 20% in the near term as the market may ultimately be unimpressed with the iPhone X."
• Chinese manufacturers now export 40 percent of their smartphones, nearly double the amount 3 years ago according to CLSA.com, and Huawei smartphone shipments to Europe increased by more than 50 percent in H1 2017, putting Huawei close to overtaking Apple as the world’s second-largest smartphone vendor.
• Apple Acknowledges Cellular Connectivity Problem in New Watch | WSJ.com
• Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE--Reality v. Hype--faster processor but connectivity problems, no Apple Music streaming now, battery drain with LTE, Siri unreliable--TheVerge.com review.

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Nolan Bushnell Keynote: The Future of Technology (video)

Keynote "The Future of Technology", Nolan Bushnell

CeBIT Global Conferences - 23 March 2017: Keynote "The Future of Technology" / Nolan Bushnell, Founder Atari & Father of the video game industry 

Interview with Nolan Bushnell

Published on Mar 23, 2017: Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, engineer and published author. He is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater. Often cited as the Father of the video game industry, Mr. Bushnell introduced videogames to the masses with "Pong" and many other legendary games.

Over four decades, Bushnell has been a prolific entrepreneur, founding numerous companies, including: Catalyst Technologies, the first technology incubator; Etak, the first car navigation system whose mapping is still the basis for car navigation systems today; Androbot, a personal robotics company; and ByVideo, the first online ordering system.

With his latest startup, BrainRush, he is intent on fixing education with software that uses gamification principles to "addict" students to learning. 

Nolan famously was also the first and only boss Steve Jobs ever had when he worked at Atari. In Walter Isaacson's book "Steve Jobs", Nolan is described as one of the most important mentors and influences in Job's life. Nolan published his first book in 2013, "Finding the Next Steve Jobs". In it he explains how to find, hire and nurture creative people.


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Ben Horowitz on the Lessons He Learned From Intel's Andy Grove (video)

Ben Horowitz on the Lessons He Learned From Intel's Andy Grove:

Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z.com) co-founder, discusses the death of former Intel  (intel.com) CEO Andy Grove with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Markets." (Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg Television, is an investor in Andreessen Horowitz. Published March 22, 2016).

When Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison told Andy Grove he was the only person in Silicon Valley who they would willingly work for, he told them he wouldn’t have hired either because they were “a couple of flakes.” He was at least half serious and didn’t crack a smile. “It didn’t matter,” said Ellison, the founder of Oracle Corp. “Both Steve and I admired and respected Andy. We enjoyed all of our precious time with him, including the memorable and characteristic abuse.”--source: Bloomberg

Books written by Andrew (Andy) Grove:
A. S. Grove (1967). Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-32998-3.
A. S. Grove (1988). One on One With Andy Grove. Penguin Putnam. ISBN 0-14-010935-8.
A. S. Grove (1995). High Output Management. Random House. ISBN 0-679-76288-4. (originally published in 1983)
A. S. Grove (1996). Only the Paranoid Survive. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-48258-2.
A. S. Grove (2001). Swimming Across: A Memoir. ISBN 0-446-67970-4.
Robert Burgelman and A. S. Grove (2001). Strategy Is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future. ISBN 0-684-85554-2.
Robert A. Burgelman, Andrew S. Grove and Philip E. Meza (2005). Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases. McGraw-Hill/Irwin. ISBN 0-07-312265-3.

Andy Grove quotes:

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Your career is your business, and you are its CEO.

You need to try to do the impossible, to anticipate the unexpected. And when the unexpected happens, you should double the efforts to make order from the disorder it creates in your life. The motto I'm advocating is — Let chaos reign, then rein chaos. Does that mean that you shouldn't plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate fires, so it has to shape a flexible organization that is capable of responding to unpredictable events.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly

And try not to get too depressed in the part of the journey, because there’s a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can’t motivate your staff to extraordinary measures. So you have to keep your own spirits up even though you well understand that you don’t know what you’re doing.


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Nest CEO Tony Fadell Interview: Steve Jobs, Apple, iPod, Google, Nest

Nest (nest.com) CEO Tony Fadell: Studio 1.0 (Full Show 11/04) - Host Emily Chang sits down with the father of the iPod and current CEO of Nest, Tony Fadell to discuss his time at Apple working alongside Steve Jobs, and the future of the connected home. (Published on Dec 1, 2015)

@tfadell - iPod, iPhone, Nest & angel investor

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The Problem With Apple $AAPL

June 22 -- Bloomberg Businessweek's Paul Barrett reports on how Taylor Swift forced Apple to back away from an earlier decision not to pay royalties for songs played on its new streaming-music service during a three-month free trial. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets.”

5th UPDATE: July 1 Apple Music - Lefsetz Letter: "If you don’t think Apple Music looks just like Beats Music, you never used Beats Music. Except there’s more clutter and it’s less intuitive."

4th UPDATE: June 22: Taylor Swift shames Apple Music into changing its policy: Why Apple needs her more than Spotify - The Washington Post

3rd UPDATE: Apple iPhone sales and revenue significantly declined in the quarter ending in March, 2015, as compared to the previous quarter--statistic source further below at iPhone UPDATE.

2nd UPDATE: June 16, 2015, see: Record labels attack Apple deals that would leave them 'completely screwed' - Telegraph

UPDATE June 10, 2015: Apple Music, a new music streaming service discussed further below, is now the subject of antitrust investigations--It was reported this morning in the Wall Street Journal and Seeking Alpha that both the Attorney General (AG) of New York and of Connecticut are now investigating whether deals made by Apple for its new music service violated Antitrust laws. Apparently this joint investigation is probing whether Apple pressured music labels or whether the labels conspired with Apple and one another against popular freemium services such as Spotify in order to favor Apple Music. New York AG Eric Schneiderman and Connecticut AG George Jepsen were among a group of attorneys generals who in 2013 sued Apple for "conspiring to raise the prices of e-books" for which Apple agreed to pay a $450 million settlement.

UPDATE June 9, 2015, 1PM EDT (US): Can Apple Music Lure Customers Away From Spotify?Technalysis Research President Bob O'Donnell discusses Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference with Bloomberg's Angie Lau on Bloomberg Asia's "First Up" in the video above.

Apple WWDC15 message - source: apple.com

Apple: "Live stream of Apple's WWDC 2015 keynote address, viewable in Safari and on Apple TV  —  Our live broadcast begins at 10 a.m. PDT.  Follow along and share your favorite moments from today's #AppleLive event.  Live streaming video requires Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X v10.8.5 or later; Safari on iOS 6.0 or later." (emphasis added) source: http://www.apple.com/live/2015-june-event/

Of course, one can just do what Domain Mondo did--watch the whole thing (Apple WWDC15 Keynote) LIVE at twit.tv, via a Chrome browser running on a Win7 laptop.

Screenshot of Apple stock 30 minutes into Apple WWDC 2015 Keynote (source: google.com)
check current price here

The problem with Apple? It's falling behind. Things may "look" good today, but underneath, the "rot" has begun--for background reference read The Innovator's Dilemma--

Apple Watch?  IT’S A LOUSY WATCH: "I’m completely flummoxed how Apple screwed up so bad. Really makes me believe the company is doomed. Because there’s no Steve Jobs, there’s no VISIONARY, no one to say what’s right or wrong, when to go or stop."--Bob Lefsetz

Apple Music? Apple is "strong-arming" (quote from Leo Laporte) its Beats music streaming onto iPhone and iPad users--will strong-arming succeed?--Apple Streaming - Lefsetz:"If Apple were all-powerful, iTunes Radio would have killed Pandora ... the public has no loyalty. It abandoned MySpace for Facebook… advertising and promotion don’t win online, it’s all word of mouth for excellent products. Instagram and Snapchat were not sold by hype. Why does everybody believe that a big press story will put Apple streaming over the top?"--In other words, music today is all about YouTube, Spotify, free or freemium online and paid LIVE.

Apple Photos?--don't waste your time--just get Google Photos. UPDATE: Google Photos is the best way to store photos - Business Insider, July 7, 2015: "Apple's photo management is a mess"-- "I wanted to use iCloud and Apple's Photos app, but I got sick of not knowing why certain photos didn't sync or why my camera roll wouldn't back up for over a month."

Apple Cloud?--far behind Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

Apple iPad?--no growth there.

Other Apple Services? You can get free or cheaper, and usually superior, services from Google, Facebook, Amazon, et al, or pay a premium for the Apple brand and its often inferior services--e.g., Apple maps.

Apple App Store?--very profitable today but native apps are so yesterday--that is why Apple is abandoning its iTunes music store for its streaming service (see Apple Music above).

iPhone? Apple's Crown Jewel today but for how much longer? Voice service is in the process of moving to 4G LTE (VoLTE)--soon all phones will work anywhere with any carrier with just one chip for everything--voice and data. Expect Amazon to give away free phones to its Prime Customers. Google is not far behind.

UPDATE: Statistic: Apple's iPhone sales declined by over 10 million units, and its iPhone revenue declined by over 10 billion dollars, in its most recently reported quarter (ending in March, 2015), as compared to the previous quarter.

Steve Jobs must be rolling over in his grave.

See also: Domain Mondo: Apple Watch, Apple Music, Apple #FAILS? $AAPL, Google Search Trends

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Becoming Steve Jobs, Story Behind the Legend (video)

`Becoming Steve Jobs’: The Story Behind the Legend -

Rick Tetzeli, co-author of “Becoming Steve Jobs,” speaks with Cory Johnson about the process behind the writing of the latest biography of Apple co-creator Steve Jobs. He speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (March 27 - Bloomberg)

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”― Steve Jobs

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Web standards for the future, W3C video, HTML5, Open Web Platform

Web standards for the future from W3C
The W3C community works hard to create Web standards. In this video, learn why. Get involved at w3.org/participate

Steve Jobs (2010): "We have two platforms we support. One is completely open and uncontrolled, and that is HTML5. We support HTML5. We have the best support for HTML 5 of anyone in the world." "We then support a curated platform, which is the App Store," Jobs said, adding that "we've got a few rules." (source)

Open Web Platform Milestone Achieved with HTML5 Recommendation:
Next Generation Web Technologies Build on Stable Foundation

From the W3C Press Release:
"28 October 2014 — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a Recommendation of HTML5, the fifth major revision of the format used to build Web pages and applications, and the cornerstone of the Open Web Platform. For application developers and industry, HTML5 represents a set of features that people will be able to rely on for years to come. HTML5 is now supported on a wide variety of devices, lowering the cost of creating rich applications to reach users everywhere. "Today we think nothing of watching video and audio natively in the browser, and nothing of running a browser on a phone," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "We expect to be able to share photos, shop, read the news, and look up information anywhere, on any device. Though they remain invisible to most users, HTML5 and the Open Web Platform are driving these growing user expectations." HTML5 brings to the Web video and audio tracks without needing plugins; programmatic access to a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which is useful for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly; native support for scalable vector graphics (SVG) and math (MathML); annotations important for East Asian typography (Ruby); features to enable accessibility of rich applications; and much more...." Read more here.

Next up? See HTML 5.1 Nightly

About the World Wide Web Consortium:
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. The Open Web Platform is a current major focus. Over 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, Keio University in Japan, and Beihang University in China, and has additional Offices worldwide. For more information see http://www.w3.org/ In 2014 celebrate both W3C's 20th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of the invention of the Web by Tim Berners-Lee.

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