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  • Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions

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    Pathetic. The Trumpists are not even right-wing or conservative in the normal sense, just tribal, recklessly macho and inept.

    What's more, Americans knew who they were voting for last year because they watched him for four years, and then he reminded them last year who he was and told them what he was going to do in his second term.

    They voted for him anyway and now their prices will rise because of the tariffs, many of them will lose their jobs because of the recession and their retirement savings will shrink because of the stock market decline, caused by the combination of uncertainty and the coming stagflation.

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  • Phil Schiller will be Apple's ecosystem defender for quite some time

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    The guy who said 'can't innovate any more, my ass' with the macPro trashcan? Please ...
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  • iPad Pro hands on: Luxury technology in an impossibly-thin package

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    dee_dee said:
    This isn’t luxury anything until the toddler software is improved. 
    Mixed feelings about this one: have been working with the 13” iPad Pro pretty solidly for the last few days; traded up my iPad Pro 11 2nd Gen & I would have expected that there would have been a significant improvement between the two.

    Not so, really. Vastly overstated and overpriced. There are surprisingly few differences in day-to-day use & this incudes some reasonably cpu-intensive tasks, eg, photo & video editing. Performance difference is ‘slightly’ better; screen difference the same really, noting HDR playback from Apple+, Netflix etc. Slightly better. The single most improved difference is the camera now in landscape, finally, obviously, well overdue. The biggest minus in this respect is the downgrading of the cameras & surprisingly, I really miss the zoom lens.

    The other surprise was in adding ESR’s latest Rebound Keyboard. Has been brilliant & now with a row of function keys. I’d half expected I’d persevere with that for a while then eventually cave in and buy the outrageously expensive new Apple Magic Keyboard. But not so, this ESR device is very, very good & not going anywhere. AUD$113 shipped vs. $AUD$549. A no brainer. Oh, and the balance is much better than Apple when actually used ‘on my lap’ (90% of the time). The Apple is still fwd heavy and overbalances, even more so with the new model which has a steeper angle on the Pad attachment. The ESR also provides a magnetic sleeve with sides protection for the iPad, also missing from Apple. ESR; fast bluetooth, no lag. Yes separate charging.

    Another surprising plus for me is re. the (what I’d also thought) ‘toddler software’ and crippled iPadOS. Not quite so much at all with the Keyboard & which opens up so much extra functionality in this iPad. Now I am able to much more easily, say, access & work with the file system & dirs, ditto for local NAS, Cloud, printing & the rest. Keyboard trackpad & keyboard controls, stage manager & navigating windows etc etc. Very, very surprised with this one & clearly the keyboard brings the iPad alive in ways I hadn’t previously realised. My laptop hasn’t needed to be opened since this arrived (an excellent Ausus touchscreen unit).

    Mind you, I have the feeling that this would have been exactly the same on my previous iPar Pro 11 also running iPadOS 17.5. The biggest difference was the addition of the ESR Keyboard. I’m hoping and expecting that WWWDC & iPadOS 18 will actually begin to truly leverage what might be under the hood here in this very pricey 13” iPad Pro, but do have the feeling it will be more of the same; underwhelming & only marginal improvements. We’ll see.




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  • New Apple aluminum Magic Keyboard introduces backlit keys & function bar

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    Yes, BUT - in Apple's so-called 'post PC' world, can this keyboard /iPad combo actually be used as a laptop? ie work well on one's lap? The earlier models are hopless, have poor balance and just fall over.
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  • Apple Intelligence second wave arrives today -- what you need to know

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    zimmermann said:
    I have this friend that bought the same clever all electric Volvo as I did. Immediately she disabled al the features I have come to like and find very helping after I got used to them. It took a while of adjusting, but now I don’t want to go back. I expect the same to happen with A.I. in Apple things, perhaps even more so as it is Apple and I’m one hour per day in my car, as with my phone… 
    Another bunch of needless, interfering digital pest shite that I don’t need and certainly have disabled in the beta. Perhaps Apple should better examine the general usability of iOS & iPadOS basics …. eg, is so dreadful, still, to simply enter or edit a text field in say a search engine. Hopeless, picking and poking and totally avoiding the obvious.

    Other point: all this crap usually comes turned on. 
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  • J.D. Vance shouldn't open his mouth about Apple if he doesn't have a clue

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    Meanwhile, is apparently perfectly fine for Apple to do EU money laundering in Ireland?

    Otherwise, who in the hell cares about these particular moronic American politicians. Far more compelling matters going on across the world than this kind of parochial rubbish.
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  • Apple Intelligence & Private Cloud Compute are Apple's answer to generative AI

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    1) I don’r care and only want to to that AI OFF, and 2) zero updates to iPadOS usability, pathetic. All that money for an M4 iPad & keyboard & we get nothing.
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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook personally invested $1 million in Trump's inauguration

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    m4m40 said:
    Fucking gross.
    Totally agree ... the land of 'money, guns, lawyers & celebrities' & they act like its normal. Not to mention any sensible use of taxpayer money & public health care. 
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  • How and where Trump's new tariffs affect Apple

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    lordjohnwhorfin said:
    I still can’t believe people voted for this moron. It’s sad to see the pathetic joke this once great country has become.
    Yes, and now Americans need to OWN this, you people created this disaster.
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  • Photos iOS 26 vs iOS 18: Small changes, huge impact

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    Once again, seems to be built for doomscrolling, phone & social media addicts. The OS spends the majority of time simply bugging you with endless notifications and suggestions about garbage. Needs quite a bit on unnecessary fiddling to turn all this junk off ...

    The main issue is despite all this needlass eye candy, long-standing bugs and poor operation are still there, eg:

    - touch screen text editing is still hopeless & near impossible to postion the cursor correctly if say you wanted to correct a typo or add a word in a search string; takes forever, works very badly & often is easier just to write the whole thing again. This is in stark contrast to say Android or Win 11 touch.

    - It insists on changing user settings for no good reason, eg, like standby mode where nearly every time is not as you left it.

    - not least: after sw updates, the phone more often than not refuses to aswer calls, or picks up to no sound etc - despite any number of time-wasting 'fixes' (focus settings etc etc etc); basically, the phone is too often incapable of serving its most basic fuction - answer a call. These nitwits have truly lost the plot.

    Is not in any way 'better', is far more annoying than anything else.


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