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  • Apple stocks plummet, as Trump threatens 104% tariff on China

    This is lunacy.

    And people used to complain about Biden being senile...
    At this point most of the world would settle for Bush/Cheney. 
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  • Trump blinks: Floats suggestion that Apple might get a tariff exemption

    jfabula1 said:
    michelb76 said:
    And I’ll take Donald trump and Bessent any day over some dude on the internet named “stabitha.”

    But seriously. There are so many ways to look at this. It definitely exposes predispositions. If you already hate Tru p, you’ll work to find the pessimistic angle. If you already like him, you’ll work to find the positive angle. And if you’re just a simple common sense guy, you’ll work to can appreciate what he’s trying to do while retaining the ability to see where it may go wrong - but also retain tje ability to see where it may go right. So far, for common sense folks, tje goal is admirable, results are mixed with the short time in action, and the pivot seems to preserve both the American tech company as well as the inherits of the action to begin with. The downside of all of it is of course the “short term pain” of stock volatility and posdible higher prices. But that was always a known quantity. Not some surprise. But the long term gain of fair trade is what the goal is. And it’s certainly at the very least worth the attempt. If it wasn’t trump, it would be someone else. The status quo is not sustainable without ceding our economy and leading status in the world. As one of the few truly free places in the world, this matters. We are all her for all things apple. They’re a great company. Another reason their great is that they stand for human rights, privacy, security, etc. on top of making the best stuff on earth. But take away the foundation of freedom upon which they operate and things go south. We see a microcosm in the EU and China. Hopefully, with the bold moves being made on the big stage, that’s as far as it goes. 
    If Europe decides to bond together and increase production and trade amongst themselves, they no longer need the US for 90% of the stuff and will have a much larger market than they would ever have had with the US. In reality they need very little US products because most of those are low quality and don't adhere to European standards and regulations. (cars, food) They trade with the US because of allyship. That's going to go out the window fast now. Europe has a reliance on US tech companies, but work is underway to reduce that. BRICS countries removing reliance on the dollar will absolutely hurt the US for generations. A next president is not going to be able to correct this. The damage done to the US in the past months will take decades to recover, if ever. There is no short term pain, only long term pain. There is a lot of gain for those in power though, but that's a very small group.
    It seems quite an argument, you are probably right if the status quo continues. America will be gone with $36T & counting owed….it’s sad but nobody is talking about it here but blaming a President who’s trying to do something about it, no suggested solutions either, just whine and whine. It doesn’t bother me if Apple is raising prices cause I can afford them, but the rest of younger Americans has no future for this $T we owed, unfortunately they will be the one paying for It. 
    Oh puh-leaze! 
    Deficits and debt only matter when there's a Democrat in the White House. This has been proven over and over again in the last 30 years or so.
    Clinton handed over to Bush Jr. a surplus and what did we get from the GOP?
    Obama, inherited a total sh!t show and it took him time but managed to bring back the economy and handed it over to Trump 45.
    Biden inherited another sh!t show and in 4 years post Covid, brought back the economy and handed it over to Trump 47.

    The GOP in the meantime has been giving us tax cuts that benefit mostly the 0.1%.  And now with tax cuts we also get tariffs across the board. Not only that, we also get war mongering with friend and foe while pretending to be anti-war.  Oh yeah, we're also getting "legalized" corruption, while gutting all government agencies that check all that.

    He's trying to do something about it?   LOL LOL LOL.   He's only enriching himself and his cronies. 
    Meme coin two days before his inauguration.
    Dinners at $1M a pop at mar-a-lago
    Trump golden cards.

    Tell us, how is all that trying to fix things?
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  • President Trump lashes out at China for violating new trade agreement

    digitol said:
    This will probably fall on deaf ears but Please I humbly plead that you refrain from posting political stories.  I totally understand  because traffic clicks $$$$  conflict model, but please.  If you feel you do well ($$$) with these types of posts, maybe consider a political section or dedicated mac political site.  Its horribly disturbing to see hobbies destroyed this way.  Humbly,  Long time mac user. 
    If the acts of a politician affect the price of Apple products or Apple the company, then yes Appleinsider should mention it.
    The fact that you don’t want this to be political, is ignoring the elephant in the room.
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  • Apple Studio Display update may arrive a year later than expected

    nubus said:
    bulk001 said:
    Unless it is a chip swap and camera bump, Apple seems incapable of delivering anything in any sort of a reasonable time frame. Apple Watch Ultra they were able to come up with a new color and not even a better chip. 
    Indeed! Apple delivered the Mac, iPod (developed and launched in less than 12 months), and iPhone... all under the same CEO. For a decade the next big thing was going to be Car and AVP. Concepts copied from Musk + Zuckerberg. One didn't ship and one shouldn't have. Apple upgraded AirPods Max, keyboards, trackpads, and the "charge on back" mouse to USB C thanks to EU but let everything else stay unchanged.

    I don't want to see Musk near Apple but someone should review project management and product development before Cook is going full Copland/Taligent on us. From Siri and iPadOS to not being focused on AI and still not delivering. Dell is shipping Tandem OLED in laptops and Asus (Asus!) is delivering Pro displays with tech Apple might use in 2026.
    The "Apple Car" was never a product. No Apple exec ever got on stage and said it will start shipping on <insert date here>. It was an internal project and the RUMOUR mill was working overtime on it.

    The Apple Vision Pro is a product and one may argue, not a very successful one.

    As for Tim Cook deliveries under his watch,  AirPods, HomePods, AppleTV+, Apple Music, APPLE SILICON,  APPLE WATCH, Pro display XDR, Apple Studio Display, Apple Vision Pro.
    So yeah, a little more than your stated "keyboards and trackpads". 
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  • Apple shareholders sue over Siri delays and massive losses

    nubus said:
    M68000 said:
    The debacle of Apple advertising “Apple Intelligence” before it was ready may be the beginning of the end of the Tim Cook era. 
    DOJ and consumers will take Apple to court on running ads for vaporware. Agree, this is the beginning to the end. It can take a while before he is replaced. Microsoft drifted for 10 years and behaved like a bond. We have seen Apple slide to #2, #3, and... well... the distance to Amazon makes it likely that Apple could drop one more spot. 

    As for his legacy we need to split CEO from COO. He was outstanding as COO.
    And you are all ignoring the elephant in the room. TARRIFS.
    Which Tim Cook has nothing to do with and has no control of.
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  • Craig Federighi says macOS would ruin what makes the iPad special

    So many posts yet most are missing the elephant in the room. Namely "software" and in particular, design of said software.
    If having full desktop "productivity" apps was the way to go, then the "Surface" would've dominated the market. But what really happened with it?
    People ended up using it as a full Windows laptop. In other words, tablet specific apps for the Surface, fell by the wayside. Two  main reasons for that.

    01) Developers don't want to spend extra cash designing multiple sets of apps. Most popular ones have a phone and a desktop app. Now if the desktop app can run on the tablet unimpeded, why spend the extra time and money to design a 3rd interface?

    02) Users will always default to what they already know, path of least resistance. So if you offer an already busy user, the same software but a different design, one for tablet and one for desktop, then most likely the user will opt for the desktop design they already know.

    Surface didn't catch on like wildfire and blow the iPad out of the water because of those reasons.
    Users who opt for iPad, love it because of its simplicity, intuitiveness and because Apple stuck with that original vision.  
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  • Apple shareholders sue over Siri delays and massive losses

    I would understand it if they tried to get the board to remove Tim as CEO.
    But suing them for not meeting their expectations of the price per share?
    Why not sue the Casino for not winning?
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  • How the new iPadOS 26 UI moving closer to Mac is a giant productivity boost

    Here are my “on a napkin” calculations.
    An iPad Pro 13” = $1299
    Smart keyboard w/trackpad = $319
    Total: $1618

    OTOH MacBook Air = $999
    MacBook Air 15” (you know productivity) = $1199

    Does anyone really think that folks arguing for “productivity” and “real work” are going to start buying iPads by the truckload because of this?
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  • Trump trade war delays Apple Intelligence's debut in China

    nubus said:
    Other companies have indeed outperformed Apple in AI, but only in AI. Apple has them beat literally everywhere else. 
    To investors Cook is delivering the worst performance during his tenure of the top 3. He spent a decade on not delivering Car and the company is stuck with phones and accessories (covers, services) without any growth.

    Cook is penny-pinching and trying to win by fighting the battles of yesterday. How did that strategy work for IBM, Intel, or Xerox?
    He also spent a decade solidifying Apple’s position with
    1) Airpods
    2) Apple Music
    3) Apple Silicon 
    4) Apple TV+
    5) Apple Watch

    Besides, when did he stand on stage and promise anyone, “The Apple Car” will be delivered ….

    williamlondon
  • No surprise - iPhone & iPad anchor Apple's ecosystem

    Unlike geeks and pundits who constantly want the iPad to be more Mac like, so they can do so called “real work” on it, the general public is going, “Meh, the iPad’s good enough for us”.
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