https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/03/apple-collects-nearly-all-of-the-profit-in-the-worldwide-smartphone-market

Correct. My argument is market share isn’t everything, if you can’t make a profit on it.

Good catch. I pulled the wrong article. They still pull a disproportionate amount of the profit for the smart phone market.

From the outside yes however the guts / systems have had significant iterations / improvements.

I think it depends on the class. I can type way faster than I can write, but some classes don’t require extensive note taking.

Even better when you look at how the profit is split...:

There’s some false logic in market share if you don’t also look at the profit margins. You can have 90% market share, not make a profit, and go bankrupt.

+1 for club membership, I’m a big fan.

Airlines lump deicing into the “weather” bucket. It’s a delay, but not due to FAA groundstops. I’m sure that accounts for some of variance in the numbers.

Aging, comfort, and prob the ability to easily handle kids / car seats. I have a 2011 WRX and my parents struggle to get in / out of it. They also struggle with our 2013 Legacy. They have no issues with their Outback.

SQ5 Sport back.

Meh, I see it as the funding path to keep the crazy supercars coming. All of them looked at Porsche making bank with their SUVs and said “We want some of that please”.

You can normally tell the ID checker person you’re just going to the restaurant and they let you in.

I think they flat out killed the color. I can’t find it on anything. You used to be able to get it on the Q3 as well (which was weird to start with). Looks like it’s an S3 / RS3 color only.

Gmail has ads? Next you’ll be telling me YouTube has ads...

Older NASCAR was fire. Tide car was my jam for a while.

Having had quite a few as rentals, they just chew up highway miles like it’s nothing. The most relaxed yet connected I’ve felt in a while. It also felt like it wanted to do 90 without any effort and seemed annoyed if I was doing anything less.

Don’t tease me. That would be my dream.

Sign me up!

My first car out of college was a 2011 WRX hatch. I’m hitting the point where an Autobahn style cruiser is what I’m looking for. I used to travel a LOT for work. Having top tier status at National allowed me to test drive a large majority of the Audi family (Q3, Q5, Q7, A4, A6) along with BMW’s and other stuff. I’m a…