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Apple removes Siri team lead as part of AI strategy shift
What is a joke is to trust a company that intentionally bypassed Safari's security settings to spy on people, and trust them so much that you would actually place their spy microphones in your house. Just say the wrong thing even as a joke and next thing you know, you could be stopped at the border by various customs officials with a hand on their gun. People putting Google and Amazon "smart speakers" in their home do not seem so to be so smart themselves.Outside of this forum I’ve never met any one who didn’t think Siri was a pathetic joke. More a pain to use than worth trying. I actively try to stay away from Miss Annoyance. Alexa on the other hand works great and was cheap. -
Tim Cook may have met with Trump during WWDC to discuss second term priorities
hexclock said:foregoneconclusion said:The 2017 tax cuts that CEOs used for stock buybacks are due to expire. These are the same tax cuts that the Fed predicted would increase inflation. Go figure…Reducing the corporate tax rate to compete with other countries allowed US companies to repatriate billions of dollars back to the United States.According to the CBO those tax cuts increased federal tax revenue because the economy grew. Inflation came from all the crazy spending congress has done over the last few years, starting during the pandemic. -
US will not tolerate EU fine against Apple, says White House
Whitehouse is right here IMO. Unless Epic, Nintendo, and third party app stores for iOS all reduce their own commissions to developers to zero as well, Pres. Trump has full right to raise EU tariffs to the amount to recover any illegal fines to US companies.
It is not fair that all other platform vendors can charge a platform fee commission while Apple is not allowed to do same to recover costs of development, support, and marketing. Core platform licensing fees can be negotiated to be on similar or even slightly lower than that of other platform vendors but it can not be zero.
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Tim Cook may have met with Trump during WWDC to discuss second term priorities
semi_guy said:In short, greed caused inflation. Crazy spending in excessive tax breaks, low interest, and government handouts to industry added a second wave to the inflation. Pandemic spending prevented many companies and individuals from going bankrupt and that spending ended 3 years ago. However, companies realized they could raise prices and still maintain their customers. Hence, many companies have reported record profits in the past couple of years: greed... -
Apple may want to monetize advanced Apple Intelligence features in the future
araquen said:I am skeptical. Apple Intelligence is not a product, and everyone gets that wrong. Apple Intelligence is functionality that is intended to enhance and improve the various platforms Apple has (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, etc). How do you monetize that without monetizing the OS? An OS Apple offers for free. -
Video: iPhone X vs OnePlus 6 - Benchmarks
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UK drops App Store investigation, says it has better things to do
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US will not tolerate EU fine against Apple, says White House
AppleZulu said:shrave10 said:Whitehouse is right here IMO. Unless Epic, Nintendo, and third party app stores for iOS all reduce their own commissions to developers to zero as well, Pres. Trump has full right to raise EU tariffs to the amount to recover any illegal fines to US companies.
It is not fair that all other platform vendors can charge a platform fee commission while Apple is not allowed to do same to recover costs of development, support, and marketing. Core platform licensing fees can be negotiated to be on similar or even slightly lower than that of other platform vendors but it can not be zero.
So what you’re proposing here seems to be that the federal government should collect $570 million in taxes from US consumers who buy EU-made goods and then give those tax dollars to Apple so they can pay the $570 million fine to the EU.That ought to show ‘em.
Meanwhile US manufactured cars gain market share, gain advantages of scaling up volumes, drop in costs > positive feedback loop.
So yes, tariffs may be paid by US importers. But in the long run, it leads to reorienting of supply chains and jobs that go with it. -
EU might fine Apple for failure to comply with DMA, for real this time
"the report fails to state exactly how Apple isn't complying with the law and what is drawing the potential fine in November."
# Seems like Ms. Vestager does not want to even tell Apple how to avoid the fine because she just want the fine paid first then she will let them know. Courts should have something to say about that. -
US will not tolerate EU fine against Apple, says White House
tiredskills said:shrave10 said:Appeal to what? A kangaroo court that always fines US companies guilty and EU companies innocent?