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Trump may have added 25% iPhone tariff specifically to punish Tim Cook
I’m very pleased if Tim Cook didn’t just jump when Trump called him to. Too many leaders around the world just do what Trump asks and usually get rudeness as part of the conversation. He is a president dealing with other presidents so they are at the same level.
I’m certain TC has better things to do than whatever bit of new nonsense Trump has thrown about.
Trump only does chaos: confuse your message and you confuse the other party of your deal which means in the ensuing chaos they will probably do what you want.
Trump only does deals to suit himself, not the US or anyone else. I’d love to know how much he’s made out of the rises and falls in the stock market with his flip-flop tariff game. Definitely insider trading.What is it with suddenly expecting ‘respect’ for whatever the US/Trump has done? You get respect by earning it, not demanding it.
Tim, you do your thing, running, arguably, the most successful company ever, and leave Trump to his own thing of the moment.
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Apple Vision Pro $3,499 mixed-reality headset launches at WWDC after years of rumors
Is a Dad really likely to play with his children or are you likely to be in a meeting wearing a huge headset? Obviously, fantastic technology. Will it catch on? 3D TV didn’t because people don’t want to watch telly with a headset on.
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Watch 51 classic movies for free on Apple TV+
Not in the UK either.
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Who will deliver useful AI to the masses?
AI is, of course, not that at all. It is just a very costly, in terms of the finance and the environment, way of bigging up a higher level of data processing. It adds hugely annoying pop-ups, drop downs and utterly pointless interruptions. I am perfectly capable of doing my job without messages telling me I am not replying to the last email or that I haven’t followed something up. I also don’t need suggestions on how to organise my life: I can do that far more quickly than wasting my time creating countless lists with pretty colours of what I need to do. I can save myself a lot of time, just doing it.
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'F1' could be the last Apple TV+ theatrical release
I think it is a real shame that cinema as it used to be has died out. Our local cinema had one huge screen probably at least 100 feet (30 metres) across, in a very large space. We had a 19-inch (0.5 metre) tv. Now we have multiplexes with lots of small screens (some probably not more than 20 feet (6 metres) and a 50-inch (1.5 metres) tv.Consequently, going to the cinema to see a big screen film was exactly that and a great experience. We can now see a film on something at home not much smaller than at the cinema.
Big screen films should be seen on big screens, the bigger the better, such as the IMAX format.
The basic problem again is quantity not quality: we don’t need 10 new films every week, we need far fewer big blockbuster films.
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Doctor decries Apple gift card discount 'scam' after failing to understand the terms of th...
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Apple turns off data protection in the UK rather than comply with backdoor mandate
The UK is not a democracy, sadly. UK governments though voted in by the public do very little for the public.Most elected politicians have no knowledge of the role they are taking on, many have never actually worked. They, therefore, have an idea and expect the civil service to put that idea into practice. A lot of the ideas are simply vanity projects and even those which aren’t are not usually based on proper research. The result is a load of completely un-thought through nonsense, on which vast amounts of tax-payers money is wasted. Not only that but most money which is spent goes to the already wealthy, the same people as the politicians and their elite clique.
The elite absolutely do not want end to end encryption because it’s hampers their ability to control the population and, preferably, keep it in a state of constant fear.
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Trump's new China trade deal is still bad for US business & consumers
Ultimately, there is no point accepting anything Trump say as fact or truthful and he’ll change his mind when it suits him. He only wants to cause chaos from which he personally profits.
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EU hits back at Apple withholding Apple Intelligence from the region
I’m at a loss to understand the EU position on any of its complaints. Apple certainly does not have any sort of a monopoly over any aspect of any of its product range. All tech companies offer different things in different regions. No tech company has every application or product available in all regions at the same time and sometimes there are years apart, if at all.
Apple is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t. MS Office, particularly Word is pretty much ubiquitous. I’d much rather not use it but have to because every other business does. There never seems to be any complaint about that.
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Apple goes to court to fight UK demand for iCloud encryption backdoor
One of my reasons for buying Apple kit is the security it brings. Not so that I can commit terrorist acts or abuse children but so I know my personal data is safe.
If the UK government wants to see what is on my devices, it can ask me. If I refuse it can go to court for an order which forces me to release what the government wants to see.If a backdoor is created, then it, effectively, creates a free-for-all. There is no going back.
It is, of course, abject nonsense that the government only wants to protect us from terrorists, they want control. The UK has the highest amount of surveillance in the world already.
