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brianjo said:

The EU made Microsoft allow others to have access to the software. The only way to restrict this to EU customers would have been to create separate versions of the software specific to the EU.

Read the agreement between EU and MS:
"We  (MS) devised a new engineering approach that will create and extend new kernel level APIs so that PatchGuard will be retained, the security of the kernel will be protected, and yet security vendors will have an opportunity to meet their needs through these kernel level API extensions."

Not that this is the first time. Norton updates have caused a lot of kernel failures on Windows.
MS did nothing in 18 years and still you blame EU.

thrang said:

Umm, so we really want the EU or other governments to start directing product development? 

At times we do. The car industry didn't remove lead from gas. The tobacco industry invented nicotine products with watermelon flavor for kids. We got baby powder with asbestos as it was cheaper to produce. Food with carcinogenic ingredients. Building materials that burst into flames. Would you say Boeing did improve quality after government let Boeing control Boeing? That banks could do better without regulation?

This time it is about Apple producing e-waste and letting taxpayers pay. Apple agreed 15 years ago to fix it but did nothing. What would you have done?

20 years of Mark Nefarious tracking every kid on the planet while trying to look innocent is too much. His hoodies are stained and tired. His platforms are distributing hate and lies for profit while selling our privacy. FB is much worse than it used to be while iPhone is better than ever.

32% on TSMC, 34% or 24% on the camera modules, 25% on displays, and assembly is up by 26% to 46%.
There is no way to move production now = the next 5 years everything will be +30% or margins will take a hit.
Will production move to the U.S.? Not likely as U.S. workers are expensive.

It seems the choice stands between expensive and expensive.

Xed said:

I get why a lazy grifter will keep on grifting if he can get away with it, but what is impossible for me to wrap my head around is why so many people see his pathetic coward and fool that cares nothing about them as some sort of strongman and protector.

It is indeed interesting. Went on two road trips to the Deep South. A lot of Confederate flags, Trump 2020 signs, counterfactual history museums, and a Code Orange when passing a local school as they had their second shooting in a week.  These people are scared of vaccines but like fracking and smartphones. They stand for the national anthem but see the attack on Capitol as required "to protect the values".

Can it be fixed? I hope so.

This is not about BBC or the person. No company should ship a technology hallucinating about suicide. 

9secondkox2 said:

It’s been unfair for a very long time. Fair is good.

The trade deficit towards EU is 3%. It is mainly unfair to EU as Boeing and Northrop are not delivering on time. So put a 1.5% tariff on EU now - and the we can reverse it when Boeing starts shipping. Fair?

lukevaxhacker said:

Very simple in concept: return production to the U.S., although hasn't been done for years. 

Workers in the clothing industry are paid 50 cents/hour doing jeans for Levi's in Lesotho.
The 50% tariff won't move jobs to U.S. (do you really want to work for 50 cents/hour?). Even 500% wouldn't do it.
The tariff will only make products more expensive, reduce margins at the cost of shareholders, reduce jobs in the U.S. to keep margins/due to reduced sales etc.

You don't even have enough workers to do all of it. Go make a proper plan instead!

jfabula1 said:

Good Apple, let’s appreciate that instead of negativity. Americans can do better because we used to be the ONES.

U.S. is no longer about manufacturing. You're selling services to the world better than anyone else. Let Vietnam make your jeans and workers in Mexico pick avocados. And then do your work at AWS, Adobe, Apple, Google, Tesla, Nvidia,... somewhere - but stop going Amish on the world.

Wesley Hilliard said:

To all the people saying we don't need China, where are we supposed to get all of our rare metals from? 

Greenland! Surely the ice is on average 1 mile deep but that is why climate change is such a positive concept (tariffs and Teslas are nice too). How to handle the native population? Once again President McKinley is our inspiration: take their land, invalidate their courts, and drill baby, drill!.