krawall

Can we decide not to say 'drop' for releasing something? I think dropping is removing something that was there before. Like, eh, losing. I had to read the title a few times for it to make sense.

How bizarre that is. "Workers are very happy. ... pretty serious work bans and strikes." Are they listening to themselves? Unions are evil.

I don’t get it. The finewoven are the best cases hands down. 

I can't say much (negative) about the robustness of the lightning port, but lightning cables? Oh no. I had my fair share of trouble. Especially in humid environments the gold contacts just disappear, and no lightning cable, although optically in best condition except the plug, lasted longer than 2 years I would think. I had one notable exception which I use since 2014 or so, an aftermarket, very short (6") lightning cable that is used very rarely and still works although it starts failing in one orientation. 

Third party (I guess some unlicensed) would stop working faster than original ones. I remember also going to the HK IFC Mall Apple Store with my collection of "burnt contact" lightning cables and they would just hand out replacements after verifying those were originals -with no other questions asked. (they replaced with unpackaged, loose cables). It is a known fact in parts of the world that the lightning plug doesn't age very well.

Now, the USB-C doesn't have the contacts exposed, so you're not touching it with your fingers and it's not getting damage from other, possibly sharp, objects in your backpack.

Because the USB-C has the contacts hidden, I see it as far superior. It is sadly bigger, and the presence of a tongue as others have mentioned make it possible for the port itself to be damaged where the lighting port has so far been very resistent to damage.

I still have had no damage to USB-C cables or ports though and I had lots of damage to lightning cables - in all fairness I use lightning cables longer than USB-C but I did jump on the USB-C MacBook Pro bandwagon from day one - I have some experience. I also have upgrade to USB-C where I can and finally have to say that I was not intending to upgrade to this year's iPhone but if it changes to USB-C that alone would be reason for me.

This is really silly. Ok, Apple fell short on the initial commitment (by around 13M) and they wanted to pay up 10M so that the ban is lifted and the Government said "not enough, and by the way we want a billion now".

I mean, it's  Indonesia. I don't have high expectations from that government.

Of course Apple was also stupid to fall short of the 107 or so million promised investment and then only offering 10M which was a loss to the agreed amount. 

So what's Apple doing now. Investing 1B and then... oh the next country comes along. Rinse and repeat 190 times.

It really sets a bad precedent. In one way, these are mega companies that are involved in this, and yeah let them pay a bit, it's all fair and square. Except, it's not, it's extortion and should be called out for it. 

But OTOH, an investment is an investment, meaning that yes they spend 1B, but they are supposed to get something back for it. So it's not all money down the drain. 

I just can't shake the feeling it's maybe a backhand of the Indonesian government of what apple was doing all the time? I mean, these companies are picking the best countries to do business with (Looking at you, Ireland) and they have free reign to do that, so perhaps Indonesia got sick of "we'll invest in the future, trust us!" and just called Uno reverse...

foregoneconclusion said:

At this point, it's already clear that the Trump administration only has two goals when it comes to economics:

A. Do as much damage to the U.S. and world economy as possible. 

B. Stuff pockets with $$ from insider trading and corrupt/illegal financial dealings.

It's pretty obvious, so I'm not sure why you get downvoted.

I think it's time for the gloves to come off. honestly... this is a disgrace. How long are you guys across the pond (westwards, to be clear) watching this disaster unfolding?

Yes the US are very important for the whole world's economy, but there's limits to everything. We should stop this appeasing and just call out things what they are. The US government decided that diplomacy is no longer "in", so the rest of the world should not be trying to uphold principles towards the US that are not reciprocated.