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  • Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China

    Amazing to think that Carter sold his peanut farm because it was assumed that the responsibility of running the then-most-powerful nation on Earth allowed for no distractions. 
    muthuk_vanalingamStabitha_ChristieMplsPronnstompy
  • Trump 'Liberation Day' tariffs blocked by U.S. trade court

    randominternetperson said: What happens when the Sec of Homeland Security orders her U.S. Customs and Border Production officers to collect tariff revenue from ships in port after a court as said those tariffs are null and void?
    That would be obvious obstruction and contempt of court. A federal judge could potentially have U.S. Marshalls arrest officials involved in that. 
    Yeah. But what if nobody does anything? 

    The Supreme Court was very clear that the Administration "facilitate" the return of kidnapped and illegally deported Abrego Garcia. 
    How's that going? 

    (Let's please not argue that case; I merely use it as an example to illustrate that we're already seeing the administration simply ignore both the rule of law and court orders, with zero repercussions.)
    ITGUYINSDlondorrandominternetpersonmuthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondonwatto_cobra
  • Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China

    Xed said:
    AppleZulu said:
    spheric said:
    spheric said:
    The point is, that some on this forum have been attacking the president for @lying” about the phone, when in fact, up to this point? He’s said nothing. That is a false claim. 
    Again: 

    https://www.trump.com/media/trump-mobile-launches-a-bold-new-wireless-service

    “Trump Mobile is also excited to announce it will release the “T1 Phone” in August. It is a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States”

    That is a lie. It’s on Trump.com — which, I must assume, is the current president’s commercial website. 
    You said president Trump made that quote. He did not. Period. 

    That is the website of the trump organization which was handed off to his kids years ago. 

    Ah, I wasn’t aware. Yep, he still owns it, but his kids are running it since 2017. Okay. Fair point. 
    Notably this is not a blind trust. The president is free to ask questions and give direction as his sons “run” the company that he still owns and profits from. 
    I can't even fathom how deep someone has to be into the MAGA cult to claim that the convicted felon has no knowledge of the very organization that he's running. I feel bad for the American people in general for being raped (literally in some cases) by this convict, but I don't feel bad for the enablers that both support him on the top end or the idiots on the bottom end, which are the oddly the loudest voices that prop him him as some sort of deity.
    I think at this point it’s abundantly clear that he no longer has the mental capacity to be running ANYTHING. 
    tiredskillsStabitha_ChristiewilliamlondonMplsPronn
  • DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app

    dogolaca said:
    pixeltini said:
    Hmm, who could have guessed interfering with law enforcement efforts would be illegal? It's no different than attempting to block a police vehicle doing its duty to protect Americans against those who would do us harm. You know… gang members, drug dealers, convicted felons, cartel thugs, human traffickers, and so on.

    You forgot to include car washers, tacqueros, seamstress, day laborers and people waiting for the bus in your list of the dangerous people that the racist TrumpMiller goons are kidnapping.
    Also doctors, nurses, PhD students, cardiologists, medical research scientists, surgeons, journalists…
    dogolacadewme
  • AppleInsider's updated commenting guidelines

    Updated with a rule about attacking a post author, instead of what you should be doing in criticizing the post opinion.
    What kind of idiot would write that rule! 

    No…err…wait: 

    What an idiotic rule! 

    (Did I do it right?)
    muthuk_vanalingam
  • No India tariff deal means Apple will face iPhone import fees eight times higher than befo...


     And if Trump is one thing he is a negotiator 
    You misspelled "TACO". 

    muthuk_vanalingam9secondkox2
  • No India tariff deal means Apple will face iPhone import fees eight times higher than befo...

    Afarstar said:
    Apple will already be importing the first batches of the 17 range. What a mess from the most idiotic President ever. I thought he was on US companies side. 
    Only if they make him (and his buddies) rich. 
    9secondkox2
  • Boot Camp, Windows driver issue may be damaging new MacBook Pro speakers

    dysamoria said:
    wiggin said:
    Amelioration of the problem
    Somebody got out their thesaurus this morning. LOL
    What word would you have preferred? I give AI a hard time for constant typos and not proofreading, but I don't see a reason to get on their cases for utilizing an adult vocabulary.

    Not a very common word, by far. I don't know what it means, and I'm an adult.
    With all due respect: 

    Your ignorance is not the editors' problem. 
    (I knew what it meant, though.)
    bestkeptsecret
  • Apple grows to 7.4% of worldwide PC market as Windows continues to cede share to the Mac

    What a useless headline, and it just goes to show what a useless metric market share is. 

    Apple's sales DECLINED year over year. They just declined slightly less than the industry average. 

    While it's certainly worth reporting the numbers, spinning this as a "win" is ridiculous. 
    6Sgoldfish
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook urges employees to 'move forward together' in memo on 2016 presidential election

    I didn't vote for Donald Trump but the country has survived much worse than him. 
    People are afraid Trump will launch nukes at the slightest provocation.  Yet, Hillary supported the war in Iraq and was gleeful when we toppled Gadaffi.  Obama was supposed to be an agent of peace, but we're still dropping bombs and killing innocent people all across the globe under his leadership.  My expectation for Trump is he will be refreshingly reticent to get our country tangled in military action.  Hilary was already crossing swords with the Kremlin on the campaign trail over Syria.

    If we can stop the mass slaughter and incomprehensible fiscal expense of waging war like we have for decades, it just might let everyone in our country calm down enough so we can work together to build the America ALL of us want.
    We survived revolution, a civil war, two world wars, depression, civil rights, Vietnam etc. I think we can survive Trump. Liberals need to stop with the hyperbole and faux outrage.
    Amusing that you phrase it as civil rights having been "survived". It sure does seem like it, with Trump now in office. The era of civil rights can be considered over when a racist misogynist takes over the country, I guess.
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