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Apple couldn’t tell fake iPhones from real ones, lost $2.5M to scammers(arstechnica.com)

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BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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For reference, Apple currently has roughly 70 billion USD as cash on hands. 2.5 million USD is 0.0035% of their cash reserves.

If you have a yearly salary of 50k USD, that would be equivalent to losing 1.78 USD.

I am bad at math, so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

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ayaya@lemdro.id
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If you want to do less math you can just drop some zeroes and say it’s the same as making $70k while losing $2.50

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jrbaconcheese@yall.theatl.social
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Or make $7000 while losing a quarter. Or to bring it to wallet-level, making $7 while losing one-fourth of a penny.

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GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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How useful! I can’t count the number of quarter-pennies I’ve lost…

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