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The problem with Apple shifting production away from China to India, or with other industries trying to move to Mexico, and so on, is that the Orange One can abuse his tariff "emergency" powers on a whim. 

Shifting production and building facilities takes time. Trump can change his mind and throw a tantrum in five minutes.

mikethemartian said:

Does Cook realize that the Apple II predated the PC or does he think it all started with the Mac?

There were PCs before the Mac, and there were home computers before the Apple ][.

"I simply rolled back to iOS 18.5 like a gentleman."

You actually installed it? Because it seemed to me that 2/3's of the folks who were complaining were simply posting and reposting the same internet images over and over again.

Some early Macintosh Folklore regarding Bill...

"I Still Remember Regions"
https://www.folklore.org/I_Still_Remember_Regions.html?sort=date

Major issue with new release and personal movie library. I have a lot of movies I've acquired over the years, and the TV app refuses to display more than 75 of them in any given list, leaving me with empty tiles. Exactly 75 of them, to be exact.

Love my Apple TV, but I have a LOT of movies and shows I purchased over the years and the new TV app... well. It sucks.

Have persistent issues with tiles updating and as such the Movies library interface is almost unusable.

Apple’s New MacBook Pro is the most amazing notebook... that I’m not going to buy. Still maxes out at 16GB.

https://medium.com/@michaellong/apples-new-macbook-pro-is-the-most-amazing-notebook-i-m-not-going-to-buy-753fbcfb2738#.yzjsakvz4

Okay Daniel, I was going to write about this but you have the bigger audience, so here goes.

Apple wanted to allow users to block ads, but they didn't want to bake that capability into the OS itself. So what did they do? They opened up the system and allowed anyone and their kid brother to write ad blockers that users could download from the app store, if they choose to do so.

And many, many people did. Users got the blockers they wanted, and Apple could take a step back and say, "Hey. Wasn't us."

So, let's do it again. Apple should take a page from the "ad blocking" playbook and open the system to third-party encryption engines. Allow app developers to write encryption engines that the system installs and then uses to encrypt the disk. Allow users to install them. And in particular, allow developers outside of the US to create security plugins for the iPhone.

Apple will need to do a thorough job of vetting the code submitted to the store, but they already do that anyway for ad blocker plugins, and they sandbox those plugins to prevent them from transmitting user data and performing other nefarious acts.

Apple can bake in services to help them (Secure Enclave), but, by and large, the security code isn't theirs to break, they don't have access to the encryption keys to give away, and, in the case of developers located outside of the US, they're beyond the reach of the US government.