Obama halts delivery of F-16s to Egypt amid unrest

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has decided to halt the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Egypt for an undetermined period due to the "current situation" on the ground there, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

"Given the current situation in Egypt, we do not believe it is appropriate to move forward at this time with the delivery of F-16s," Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters, adding Obama's decision was made with the unanimous consent of his entire national security team.

Violence has surged in Egypt since the military overthrow of Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's first democratically elected president.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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Transport Canada introduces emergency rules for train safety

OTTAWA ? Transport Canada announced six emergency rail safety rules Tuesday in response to the Lac-Megantic runaway train disaster, but its senior officials declined to answer direct questions about whether it had failed in previous years to respond to weaknesses highlighted both in internal and external audits.

In a news conference responding to recommendations from Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigators last Friday, the department said the new rules would be effective immediately and in place for about six months, leading to permanent rule changes for the industry.

The new measures ban one-person crews for locomotives carrying train cars with dangerous goods. They also place new restrictions on unattended trains on main tracks, as well as defining minimum requirements for their braking systems.

?The disaster brought to light several industry practices which have caused some concern,? Gerard McDonald, assistant deputy minister responsible for safety and security at Transport Canada, said in a conference call with reporters.

?Given that and with an abundance of precaution, we thought it would be prudent to implement these measures now.?

The disaster, which claimed dozens of lives and destroyed multiple buildings, also resulted in the release of about 5.7 million litres of oil into the air, water and soil around the small Quebec town, provincial officials estimated this week, making it one of the largest environmental disasters in North American history.

But Transport Canada officials ended the news conference when reporters started asking whether the department failed to respond to previous warnings about oversight weaknesses, raised in an audit by the federal environment watchdog in 2011 and an internal audit done five years earlier.

McDonald suggested that the 2011 audit, which recommended sweeping changes and a new risk management system in the department?s oversight of the transportation of dangerous goods, was not related to the new emergency measures unveiled Tuesday.

He was also unable to respond to revelations from internal Transport Canada documents, released to Greenpeace Canada through access to information legislation, that his department had ?identified no major safety concerns with the increased oil on rail capacity in Canada, nor with the safety of tank cars? used for transportation of dangerous goods.

Despite longstanding warnings from the Transportation Safety Board and others about the existing steel cars and other issues, Transport Canada had dismissed the rail safety concerns in a memo prepared for International Trade Minister Ed Fast in January 2013.

The assistant deputy minister suggested he was not familiar with these recommendations.

?I can?t verify what that document is, so I?m not going to speculate about it,? McDonald said.

Transport Canada announced the emergency measures as some federal MPs returned to Parliament to begin hearings, spearheaded by NDP transport critic Olivia Chow, on rail safety issues.

But MPs eventually accepted a motion from Ontario Conservative Jeff Watson, who questioned whether an immediate parliamentary study was necessary, to delay the hearings, pending further results from the ongoing Transportation Safety Board investigation in Lac-Megantic.

?This committee also should be concerned in deciding whether to commence a study now whether that draws important resources out of the field where they belong,? Watson told the House of Commons transport committee. ?That doesn?t mean there won?t be a study. The answer from this side of the table is not a ?no?, it?s a ?not yet.??

Liberal transport critic David McGuinty supported the Conservative proposal to delay the parliamentary hearings, explaining that it would allow federal officials to focus their attention on the ongoing investigation and rebuilding efforts, but he said the government also needed to provide more details about its actions and its response to the disaster.

Meanwhile, Chow suggested that the Conservatives and Liberals wanted to ?take the summer off,? adding that immediate hearings could help address longstanding safety concerns and reassure other communities fearing similar disasters in their own backyards.

With files from Andrea Hill, Postmedia News

Six emergency rules introduced Tuesday by Transport Canada:

?Ensure that no locomotive attached to one or more loaded tank cars transporting dangerous goods is operated with fewer than two qualified persons on a main track or sidings;

?Ensure that no locomotive attached to one or more loaded tank cars transporting dangerous goods is left unattended on a main track;

?Ensure, within five days of the issuance of the directive, that all unattended controlling locomotives on a main track and sidings are protected from unauthorized entry into the cab;

?Ensure the directional controls, commonly known as reversers, are removed from any unattended locomotives, preventing them from moving forward or backward, on a main track or sidings;

?Ensure that their company?s special instructions on hand brakes are applied to any locomotive attached to one or more cars that is left unattended for more than one hour on a main track or sidings;

?Ensure that, in addition to complying with their company?s special instructions on hand brakes referred to in the item immediately above, the automatic brake is set in full service position and the independent brake is fully applied for any locomotive attached to one or more cars that are left unattended for one hour or less on a main track or sidings.

Source: Transport Canada

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Sony Xperia Z Ultra now available in India for INR 44,990

Sony?s recently announced 6.4-inch smartphone Xperia Z Ultra is now available in the Indian market. Listed at retailer Saholic.com, the device has been priced at INR 44,990. The retailer expects to ship in seven days, suggesting that they might be waiting for the actual stocks.

The first smartphone to reach to reach Indian shores with Qualcomm?s Snapdragon 800 processor, Sony Xperia Z Ultra was originally announced at the Mobile Asia Expo last month. The smartphone features a full HD TRILUMINOS display, Android 4.2 and 2GB of RAM. The phone also comes with 3,000 mAh battery, 8MP rear camera and 2MP front camera.

Sony Xperia Z also support handwriting recognition and is compatible with any pencil and selected stylus or pen (capacitive stylus or metal pen with tip diameter over 1mm).

The pricing does not seem to surprising considering the specifications of the device and this also not a device for everyone.

Sony Xperia Z Ultra key specifications

• 6.4-inch Full HD TRILUMINOS Display for mobile powered by X-Reality for mobile engine
• Waterproof and dust resistant (IP55/IP58)
• 2.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor
• 8-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front camera
• Battery STAMINA Mode
• Android 4.2
• 3.5 mm audio jack (CTIA), aGPS, GLONASS, ANT+, Bluetooth 4.0, DLNA, NFC and Wi-FI
• MicroUSB with MHL support
• 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, microSD card slot

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No more mail at your door? Delivery changes eyed

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Americans for generations have come to depend on door-to-door mail delivery. It's about as American as apple pie.

But with the Postal Service facing billions of dollars in annual losses, the delivery service could be virtually phased out by 2022 under a proposal a House panel was considering Wednesday. Curbside delivery, which includes deliveries to mailboxes at the end of driveways, and cluster box delivery would replace letter carriers slipping mail into front-door boxes.

The proposal is part of broader legislation by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, designed to cut costs at the cash-strapped agency by up to $4.5 billion a year. The Postal Service had a $16 billion loss last year.

The agency has been moving toward curbside and cluster box delivery in new residential developments since the 1970s. The Postal Service in April began deciding whether to provide such delivery for people moving into newly built homes rather than letting the developers decide.

"A balanced approach to saving the Postal Service means allowing USPS to adapt to America's changing use of mail," Issa said. "Done right, these reforms can improve the customer experience through a more efficient Postal Service."

About one in three mail customers has door-to-door delivery, Issa said. The shift would include safe and secure cluster box delivery areas, he said, especially for elderly customers who receive Social Security checks and prescriptions through the mail.

About 30 million residential addresses receive delivery to boxes at the door or a mail slot. Another 87 million residential addresses receive curbside or cluster box delivery.

The cost differences are clear. Curbside delivery costs average $224 per year for each address, while cluster box delivery averages $160. Door-to-door delivery costs the agency about $350 per year, on average.

Sue Brennan, a Postal Service spokeswoman, said, "While converting delivery away from the door to curb or centralized delivery would allow the Postal Service to deliver mail to more addresses in less time, doing so is not included in our five-year plan."

Brennan said the agency's five-year plan does call for shifting 20 percent of business address deliveries from door-to-door to curbside and cluster box delivery through 2016.

Rep. Steve Lynch, D-Mass., said the plan to move some 30 million residential addresses from to-the-door to curbside and cluster box service would be virtually impossible in dense urban areas such as his hometown of South Boston crowded with triple-deckers ? three apartments stacked on top of each other.

"You'd have to knock houses down in my neighborhood to build cluster boxes," Lynch said. "This will not work."

It might work in places like Manhattan with big apartment buildings, he said.

"Look, there's no availability for cluster boxes in many communities around the country," Lynch said.

Issa's plan allows for people with physical hardships to get waivers allowing them to keep door delivery. There's also a provision giving people the option to keep door delivery by paying a special fee to cover the additional cost.

Issa's bill also allows the Postal Service to take into account factors such as poverty rates and population density in deciding which areas would be allowed to keep door delivery.

The financially beleaguered Postal Service, an independent agency, gets no tax dollars for its day-to-day operations, but is subject to congressional control.

The Postal Service is pursuing a major restructuring throughout its retail, delivery and mail processing operations. Since 2006, it has reduced annual costs by about $15 billion, cut its workforce by 193,000 or 28 percent, and consolidated more than 200 mail-processing locations.

The service's losses are largely due to a decline in mail volume and a congressional requirement that it make advance payments to cover expected health care costs for future retirees. About $11.1 billion of last year's losses were due to payments for future retiree health costs.

The volume of mail handled by the Postal Service has decreased steadily as the popularity of email, Facebook and other electronic services has grown. Total mail volume handled by the agency fell to 160 billion pieces last year from its all-time high, 213.1 billion in 2006. Revenue fell to $65.2 billion last budget year, from a high of $74.9 billion in 2008.

The Postal Service is considering several options to fix its finances, including negotiations with unions to reduce labor costs and another possible increase in prices.

The service earlier this year backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery after running into opposition in Congress. It has tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully over the past several years to persuade Congress to approve ending Saturday mail delivery and to free the service from the advance health payments.

The Senate last year passed a bill that would have stopped the Postal Service from eliminating Saturday service for at least two years and required it to try two years of aggressive cost cutting instead. The House didn't pass a bill.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/no-more-mail-door-delivery-changes-eyed-195317141.html

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Motorola X Rumored Specs: Not the Droid You're Looking For

Android Police has gotten ahold of the alleged specs of Motorola's upcoming Moto X smartphone, and they're not very impressive. But at least that means you can afford it.

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China Wind Turbine Control Systems Industry 2012 Deep Research Report

Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) July 17, 2012

This is a professional and in-depth research report on China Wind Power Control Systems Industry. Firstly the report describes the background knowledge of Wind Turbine Control Systems, including Wind Turbine Control Systems Concepts Classification production process and product specifications as well as technical parameters; then statistics of two Wind Turbine Control Systems PLC companies (Bachmann and Bechhoff) and 4 foreign Wind Turbine Control Systems Manufacturers along with that of 11 domestic Turbine Control Systems Manufacturers control system products (1.5MW, 2.0MW, 2.5MW, 3.0MW, 5.0MW, 6.0MW) are covered. These include but not limited to capacity, production, cost price, production value, profit margins and other relevant data.

Statistics of these enterprises and their Wind Turbine Control Systems products also cover information on customers, raw materials, company background information, summary statistics and analysis of relevant data on these enterprises. The research covers companies in China Wind Turbine Control Systems Industry, their production market share, various models (1.5MW, 2.0MW, 2.5MW, 3.0MW, 5.0MW, 6.0MW), production market share, China Wind Turbine Control Systems demand supply and shortage, China Wind Turbine Control Systems 2010 -2016 production price, cost, profit, production value, profit margins, etc. At the same time, the report analyzes and discusses supply and demand changes in Wind Turbine Control Systems market and business development strategies with a comprehensive analysis on China Wind Turbine Control Systems industry trends.

Finally, the report introduces a 500sets/year 1.5MW Wind Turbine Control systems project Feasibility analysis and related research conclusions. In a word, it is an in-depth research report on China Wind Turbine Control systems industry.

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Table of Contents for this report include:

Chapter One Wind Turbine Control Systems Industry Overview 1

1.1 Definition 1

1.2 Classification and Application 1

1.3 Wind Turbine Control Systems Structure 5

1.4 Wind turbine control system functions 7

1.5 Wind Turbine Control Systems Industry Outlook 8

Chapter Two Wind Turbine Control Systems Manufacturing Technology and Processes 14

2.1 Wind Turbine Control Systems Design 14

2.2 Wind Turbine Control Systems PLC 19

Chapter Three China Wind Turbine Control Systems Production Supply Sales Demand Market Status and Forecast 20

3.1 Wind Turbine Control Systems Production Overview 20

3.2 Wind Turbine Control Systems Demand 27

3.3 Supply and Demand of China Wind Turbine Control Systems 105

3.4 Cost Price Value Profit Margin 106

3.5 Wind Turbine Control Systems Customer relationship List 107

Chapter Four Wind Turbine Control Systems PLC Key Manufacturers 109

4.1 Bachmann electronic GmbHAustria 109

4.1.1 Bachmann Introduction 109

4.1.2 Bachmann Wind Turbine Control Systems PLC products and technologies 110

4.1.3 Bachmann Performance in China 115

4.1.4 Bachmann Competitive Advantage 116

4.1.5 Bachmann wind turbine control system PLC production capacity price analysis 117

4.2 BechHoff electronic GmbHGermany 119

4.2.1 BechHoff Introduction 119

4.2.2 BechHoff Wind Turbine Control Systems PLC Products and technical characteristics 121

4.2.3 BechHoff Performance in China 123

4.2.4 BechHoff Competitive Advantage 124

4.2.5 BechHoff Wind Turbine Control Systems PLC Production Capacity Price analysis 124

Chapter Five Foreign Wind Turbine Control Systems Key Manufacturers 126

5.1 AMSC Windtec 126

5.1.1 AMSC Windtec Introduction 127

5.1.2 AMSC Windtec Wind Turbine Control Systems Products and technical characteristics 129

5.1.3 AMSC Windtec Performance in China 130

5.1.4 AMSC Windtec Competitive Advantage 131

5.1.5 AMSC Windtec Wind Turbine Control Systems Production Capacity Price analysis 133

5.2 DEIF A/SDenmark 135

5.2.1 DEIF Introduction 135

5.2.2 DEIF control systems Products and technical characteristics 136

5.2.3 DEIF Performance in China 138

5.2.4 DEIF Competitive Advantage 138

5.2.5 DEIF Wind Turbine Control Systems Production Capacity Price analysis 139

5.3 Mita-TeknikDenmark 141

5.3.1 Mita-Teknik Introduction 141

5.3.2 Mita-Teknik Wind Turbine Control Systems Products and technical characteristics 143

5.3.3 Mita-Teknik Performance in China 145

5.3.4 Mita-Teknik Competitive Advantage 145

5.3.5 Mita-Teknik Wind Turbine Control Systems Production Capacity Price analysis 146

5.4 MLS Intelligent Control Dynamics 148

5.4.1 MLS Intelligent Control Dynamics Introduction 148

5.4.2 MLS Intelligent Control Dynamics Wind Turbine Control Systems Products and technical characteristics 149

5.4.3 MLS Intelligent Control Dynamics Performance in China 151

5.4.4 MLS Intelligent Control Dynamics Competitive Advantage 152

5.4.5 MLS Intelligent Control Dynamics Wind Turbine Control Systems Production Capacity Price analysis 153

Chapter Six Domestic Wind Turbine Control Systems Key Manufacturers 154

6.1 Chengdu Forward Technology Co., Ltd 154

6.2 REnergy Electric Tianjin LtdREE 159

6.3DEADongfang Electric Auto-control Engineering Co., Ltd.DEA 165

6.4 Chongqing KK-Qianwei electronic equipment Co., Ltd.Denmark KK joint venture 169

6.5 Beijing Techwin Electric Co.,LtdGoldwind 176

6.6 Beijing Corona Science & Technology Co., Ltd. 179

6.7 Nanjing Sciyon Automation Group Co., Ltd.002380 185

6.8 XJ Electric Co.,Ltd 193

6.9 Beijing Hollysys Co., Ltd 195

6.10 China Datang Technologies&Engineering Co.,Ltd 199

6.11 Zhejiang Zhongke Automation Engineering Technology Co., LTD 201

Chapter Seven China Wind Turbine Control Systems Downstream Co-operation Wind Turbine Manufacturers 204

7.1 Goldwind750KW 1.5MW 2.5MW 3.0MW 5.0MW Direct Drive 204

7.2 Sinovel (601588) 214

7.3 Guodian United Power 225

7.4 MingYang Electrical1.5MW 3.0MW 235

7.5 Dongfang Electric 242

7.6 XEMC Wind powerXEMC Direct Drive 250

7.7 Shanghai Electric1.25MW 2.0MW 3.6MW 255

7.8 Vestas (850KW 2.0MW 3.0MW) 260

Chapter Eight Feasibility Analysis of China New Wind Turbine Control Systems Projects 275

8.1 Opportunity and Risk of China New Wind Turbine Control Systems Project 275

8.2 Feasibility Analysis of Wind Turbine Control Systems Project 276

Chapter Nine Wind Turbine Control Systems Industry Research Conclusions 279

List Of Tables and Figures

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Apple Q3 2013 conference call highlights

Apple has just announced their Q3 2013 financial results and now they're doing the conference call. There'll be a lot of boiler plate, repeated, and some interesting questions from analysts, typically answered with more boiler plate. But, there could be some sparks as well. We'll update with highlights as the come up!

• 31.2 iPhone sold, 20% up from last year. Ahead of expectations.
• iPhone 5 the most popular. Happy with iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 as well.
• 51% increase in the US. Once again #1 in US smartphones. 39% share.
• 10,000 of custom enterprise apps. American Airlines, Cisco, GE, SAP, have deployed more than 25K iPhone each. NASA, NOAA, ATF, NGIA are supporting thousands of iPhones. iOS 6 was granted validation by DoD to connect to networks.
• 14.6 million iPads. Tough comparison. 1.9 channel inventory swing. Down 3% YoY.
• Novartis, SAP, other have deployed over 20K iPads each.
• 3.8 million Macs, 7% decline but higher than expectations. Global PC market declined 11%, so Mac "growing". People love the new MacBook Airs!
• New Mac Pro still coming later this year.
• OS X Mavericks bringing more than 200 new features. Coming in the fall.
• State of Maine 94% selected Apple products. LA school board approved massive iPad rollout.
• 2.4 billion for iTunes, up 29%. Both content and apps. Total 4 billion iTunes, software, services.
• HBO Go, Watch ESPN on Apple TV. 1 billion TV episodes to date.
• 5 year anniversary of App Store. Over 900k iPhone apps, 375k iPad apps. 11 billion to developers, 50% in the last 4 quarters.
• 320 million iCloud, 420 million Game Center, 900 billion iMessages, 8 trillion push notifications.
• Good Technologies says iPhone 5 most frequently activated device of any kind, iPad 83% of tablets.
• Continuing to invest.
• iWork for iCloud coming this fall.
• Excited about iOS 7 coming this fall.
• 4.1 billion Apple Retail. Strong growth in iPhone sales, MBA launch.
• 6 new stores, 408 stores, 156 outside US. 9 new stores in September quarter, 27 new openings in fiscal 2013. 23 relocations in f2013.
• 10.1 million average per store, down from 11 last year. 84 million visitors. 16k per store, per week.
• 106 billion in cash offshore.
• Retired over 4 million shares of Apple stock. 17 billion of debt issued. 2.8 billion in dividends. 16 billion cash on share repurchasing.
• 9 million additional shares retired via open market.
• Expectations: 34-37 billion next quarter, 36-37 gross margin.
• Pleased with record iPhone, growth in software and services, continued popularity. Excited about OS X and iOS, new products coming fall, 2014.

• Q&A time!!

• Q: New products this fall, usually gross margins come down but not this time. Why?

• Peter Oppenheimer: Largely flat, slightly down. On track for busy fall. More detail in October.
• Q: Why channel inventory down? Balance sheet?
• PO: More stores this year than last. Component inventory up as well.
• Tim Cook: iPad and iPhone reduced inventory significantly. iPad down 700k, iPhone down over 600k. Typically don't like to have more inventory than they need, if can reduce, do so. Slight decrease in Mac, iPod.
• Q: High end of smartphone market saturated, growth harder to come by? New innovations, services, reinvigorate high end of market?
• TC: Key catalyst will always be new products and services, existing categories and new categories. Distribution opportunities, carrier relationship, expanding retail, online, and indirect channels. Also have market expansion opportunity. Already over 60% in enterprise, think there's growth opportunity. Doesn't subscribe to view higher end has hit its peak.
• Q: iPad more of a pause ahead of refresh, broader dynamic?
• TC: YoY 2.4 million unit decline, 80% were just due to changes in channel inventory. Reduced this year, increased last year. Overall declined by just 3%. Year ago had just announced first iPad with Retina display. Hit within mid point of their expectations for iPad sales. Not a surprise. Most recent data is iPad web share accelerated further, now 84% of web traffic from traffic. Incredible. If other tablets are selling, doesn't know what they're being used for. Incredible quarter in US education. (Repeating PO's comments from earlier.)
• Q: Gross margin bridge? Down 150 basis points. Mix of products similar.
• PO: Very pleased with gross margin in the quarter, high end of the range. Sequential decline not a surprise, understood effects. 1) Lower sequential revenue, lost leverage. 2) Expected a different product mix. Had some puts and takes, ultimately ended up in range.
• Q: iPhone ASP down 5% sequentially, 10% last 2 quarters. Higher mix of 4 and 4S?
• PO: Down 4% YoY, about $27, primarily due to mix, headwinds. iPhone 4 accelerated. Sequentially $32, mix.
• TC: iPhone POV, moves on 4 and iPhone 5 being most popular. Very strong sales in emerging pre-paid markets. India up 400%. Very strong in US, up 50%, Japan up 60%, UK 50%. iPhone accelerated from previous. Unusual pattern for Apple. Very happy.
• Q: China absent?
• TC: China was weaker in quarter, although data sheet doesn't tell the complete story. Sell through with inventory changes only down 4% for year ago. HK was down more. Mainland China up 5%. Lower growth rate, attribute it to many things, including economy there. In HK, international shopping haven. More dramatic down turn there, not totally clear why. Down 20% on sell through. Weighed greater China down.
• Q: Trade in program?
• TC: Haven't announced anything. Rumors only. Number of channels do trade-ins now, US and different reasons. Reason is that iPhone residual value stays high, high demand, more lucrative. Win/win from many points of view. Nothing from Apple.
• Q: Opposed to it?
• TC: Not opposed, like environmental aspect. Encouraging.
• Q: How do we turn China around?
• TC: Put it into perspective. 4.9 billion. 14% of the company. Very significant. Grown significantly. Very strong market. 27 billion on trailing basis in the last year. iPad sell through was up 8%, mainland was up 37%. Share numbers for iPad over 50%. In arc of time, China huge opportunity. Don't get discouraged over 90 day cycle.
• Q: More affordable pricing, think about growth in emergency markets, could address with more appropriate products? Both levers?
• TC: Reference to iPhone 4. Number of 1st time smartphone buyers iPhone 4 is attracting is very impressive. Want to attract as many of those as we can. Saw that beginning to happen end of Q2. iPhone 5 most popular by far, really happy to provide high quality iPhone 4 running iOS 6 to as many first time buyers as they can. Great product for that buyer?
• Q: More weapons you could use?
• TC: Always more weapons, more tools in the toolbox, but great way for buyer to get in. Customer sat!
• Q: Growth, last Q new product categories. Are there categories big enough to move the needle for Apple?
• TC: We'll see. Working on products they're really proud of, will announce when ready.
• Q: Russia, pricing?
• TC: Good. If you look at Russian market, 80% of phones are sold retail, outside of carriers. Sell through a number of national chains. Activation's in Russia for iPhone set a record. Really happy. Contribution from carriers exist but much less. Not well understood. Continually looking for other relationships. Opportunity.
• Q: Commodities? Pricing?
• TC: DRAM pricing increased, upper pressure. NAND pricing stable, following seasonal trends. LCD prices fallen, expect further reductions. Others in balance, expect decline at historical levels.
• Q: New products assumed shipping next quarter?
• PO: Can't comment.
• Q: You say better, Wall Street wants more. Does your organization limit?
• TC: here to make great products, focus on that and financial metrics will come. Not mutually exclusive.
• Q: Don't need to find products to get growth?
• TC: Start at the product, most important is customer wants products. Don't start there, create things people don't want. Try hard to focus on making great products, enriching customers.
• Q: Don't think high end is saturated, yet ASP down? Will continue to trend lower?
• TC: Don't project ASP, give guidance that has assumption. Underneath iPhone numbers saw significant growth in iPhone 4, lower price point. iPhone 5 doing well. Allowed us to significantly beat vast majority of expectations. Sell more low end, mix changes. 3GS last year, comparable position. Selling a lot more 4 than 3GS. Understand market and distribution better. Will get better and better at that over time. How that changes mix, he doesn't know. Product has highest mix during first few months of sale. Natural seasonal decline. iPhone, iPad, on Mac. Doesn't see anything fundamentally change that.
• Q: What are puts and takes in September quarter?
• PO: tailwind is component costs favorable. Conversely, some effects pressure. Dollar and Yen.
• Q: Share buyback.
• PO: Before any further buybacks, issuances, 11 million share benefit.
• Q: iOS in the Car?
• TC: Very important. Part of ecosystem. Just like App Store, iTunes, content, services, messages, Siri, having something in the automobile is important. Something people want. Apple can do it in a unique way, better than anyone else, key focus.
• And that's it!

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