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  • Trump may have added 25% iPhone tariff specifically to punish Tim Cook

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    That corrupt-to-the-bone man child needs to spend the rest of his days in jail, and with him many more of his family members and allies. America is a mess.
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  • Trump's 25% smartphone tariff starts just in time for the iPhone 17

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    sighting said:
    Oh no what would one of the richest most profile companies in the world do? How about stop using cheaper labor and move manufacturing back to the country that buys 40% of your products and oh wait makes 12% less profits..   I don't know how people are not pressuring companies like Apple to focus on the people instead of the profits.. I blame the Stockmarket. I t made us forget why we do what we do.

    You clearly have zero knowledge of cost and supply chains. First, this transition will take more than 6-8 years to complete. Moving a very complex production chain to the US will take years, from building factories to overcoming regulations and hiring and retaining talent (which isn't even there!). Then, most of the parts and raw materials will have to be imported, oh no wait - tariffs...sourced from the US. Most of the raw materials aren't even there. Anyway, basically you end up with semi-empty factories because no one wants to do the work or labor is too expensive, a lack of raw materials and parts, and $5000 phones. 
    You are clinging on a past that no longer exists and doesn't make any sense today. 
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  • Apple Vision Pro review one year later: time to exit the preview

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    I have the Vision Pro dev kit, basically the same hardware but with an extra USBC port and a bunch of accessories, but otherwise close to the product you’ll get from Apple today.

    The device was both released too late and too soon. 

    Too late because Meta pushed an entire ecosystem for years - at a huge loss, albeit with a different positioning.
    if Apple didn’t have Meta as competitor I bet their current positioning would have been different. They just couldn’t enter the market so late with a “Samsung let’s copy” approach. So it became a “spatial computer” instead that no one wants.

    Too soon because they weren’t ready by a long shot. Most of the apps are iPad apps projected on a flat plane in a 3D space. The only way they can sell that odd reality is because of their “spatial computer” positioning: these are windows on your spatial desktop! Sure, whatever. The end result is that most of the UX isn’t truly spatial. It’s just flat stuff in a 3D space. The spatial nature isn’t leveraged. 
    The “you can have 10 monitors” argument is also nonsensical. Nobody needs it. And you can buy pretty decent monitors for $500-$700 if that’s what you need. 
     
    The truth is, you’re not really productive with a VR device. Especially one that feels way too heavy on your face and puts two monitors right in front of you. 
    AVP it’s a terrible device for gaming. Meta was smart enough to go for a dual approach where you can switch between hands and controllers based on your use-case. 

    So at least with the Meta Quest, you can consume spatial videos and many fun games for $550 or so. On AVP, you can’t really do much.
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  • EU antitrust chief & Apple foe Margrethe Vestager out after 10 years

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    9secondkox2 said:
    Good riddance to one of the most incompetent and destructive politicians in global history. 
    Destructive in what sense? I’ve seen her do the exact opposite.
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  • iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus may have been the bestsellers in debut weekend

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    I think it’s pretty insane that Apple still puts a 60 Hz screen on a $900 iPhone 16 and I believe this demonstrates how desperately they are trying to extract more value out of the iPhone Pro.

    People are starting to become fed up paying € 1500 or so for a Pro phone with enough storage (excluding insurance and cover). It’s a commodity device.

    I happen to own both the 15 and the 15 Pro (with the former being for work). The screen sucks on the 15 (120 Hz does a lot for the perception of speed), but for the rest it feels like the same device, unless you are focused on prosumer videography. 

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  • Upcoming M4-based Mac mini rumored to replace USB-A with more USB-C ports

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    commentzilla said:
    I'm happy to see they are ditching USB-A. I avoid USB-A ports and only buy USB-C / Thunderbolt devices and I use UBC-C / Thunderbolt  to connect directly to HMDI, DisplayPort, etc, since no hub or adapter is needed. A transition I started back in 2019.
    Same here! Been strategically replacing them with USBC. This is also why I’m waiting for the new Apple keyboard that ditches lightning. I refuse to buy the current version just because of the port 😅


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  • EU backs down on Big Tech tax ahead of US trade deal

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    9secondkox2 said:
    Sounds good. Trade is the way to get the EU to stop hurting American companies. 

    No extra taxes on big tech is s good stsrt, but we need WAY more than that. 

    The baseline isn’t right now. It’s before the DMA. 
    American companies are hurting the EU with policies that are completely unacceptable. 

    Have you ever considered the fact that the world doesn’t see the US as the central source of truth, or standard? 

    America is an arrogant, selfish nation and I’m actually really glad Europe has woken up with Trump. This includes a very important step in detaching ourselves from big tech gradually. It is not a trustworthy partner. 
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  • visionOS 2.4 beta brings several long-awaited features to Apple Vision Pro

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    I think all 5 active users will appreciate these updates. 
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  • iPadOS 19 rumored to get more Mac-like in productivity push

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    charlesn said:
    If Apple wanted to give the iPad Pros a real sales boost, make them capable of booting into either iPad OS or Mac OS at the user's discretion, which Apple Silicon can do. 
    That would be a terrible mistake IMHO.
    First of all, it creates a terrible user experience, having to constantly boot between OS’es based on your use case.
    Secondly it would create the narrative “we don’t know what the iPad is about so we give you all the option”. No, instead the iPad has its own positioning and the operating system is designed around that. 
    In such case the better option would be to phase out iPadOS entirely and make macOS more tablet friendly, and make that the standard. Which will never happen too.

    The problem with the iPad Pro is that it competes too much with Apple’s laptops in what it enables, except art (drawing on the tablet) and perhaps a few other things. This means that now the perception is that the iPad Pro is a more limited, more cumbersome expression of a laptop, where it’s harder to “get shit done”. To me the iPad Pro was by far the most disappointing Apple purchase ever. 

    The better product to me is the regular iPad; it comes at a lower price point compared to a desktop based product and clearly positions itself as a light computing / media consumption device. It’s amazing for that. 



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  • Apple's AI ambitions go beyond Siri LLM with Knowledge chatbot and always-on AI copilot

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    MassiveAttack said:
    AAPL again screws up...  Release in 2026? IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!! 

    When Craig was asked by Toms Guide if Siri will be rolled out in 2026, he avoided the answer and explained the root cause.
    When Toms Guide asked Craig again for release in 2026, Craig looked over Joz. 
    Joz said he confirmed.

    Craig has no idea if Siri will be ready.. And the marketing guy said yes... 

    I bet that Siri will not be ready at iOS26, iOS26.1, iOS26.2 etc. 

    Maybe 2027..Maybe...

    But  By time they are ready, everyone will be on the next iteration of AI.

    Apple is rotten.
    Come on man.... Do you think Craig is going to communicate development timelines in an interview after not communicating them at WWDC? Get real. 
    They have overpromised and are controlling damage now, which means "it's done when it's done". They are pouring millions into AI and they cannot possibly release something that isn't solid. It's such a foundational piece that ties into their existing software and hardware, as well as upcoming hardware, that just the QA/QC involved is a process that requires time, lots of time. They know they are behind. But it's also a company that exists for decades. It'll be fine.

    Stop the LinkenIn influencer speak.
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