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Apple shows no signs of wanting to offer products that compete with the ultra high end systems used for the most advanced animation and video editing functions.  They don’t want to offer systems that are open and extensible. They certainly don’t want to provide a means for Nvidia or AMD to inject their gpus into the Apple ecosystem.  Apple wants absolute control of their platform to optimize revenue and profits. The only upgrade path Apple wants to offer is chucking old systems and buying new systems.  You can’t even add memory or storage to any Apple product these days. For a company that hypes their environmental friendliness, their product strategy does not overall result in friendly environmental impacts.  They tout use of recycling. The best recycling is getting maximum life out of each product they sell through design and upgrade options vs recycling a three year old Mac book pro because the ssd failed and there’s no way to repair it. 

apple4thewin said:

ajeffrey said:

This is just blatant extortion by the Indonesian Govt. Why should Apple invest $1 billion in a country just so they can sell their products there. If I were Apple I would tell them where they can put there request and sell older iPhones, it's only the Indonesian public that will suffer.

The real question is if Apple make $1 billion in sales in Indonesia 

Apple needs to make a billion dollars in profits, not sales, in Indonesia, to justify the expenditure. I’m not sure if they manufacture anything there. 

Now I hat the M4 is out, in the “lowly” iPad, Apple will be forced to accelerate M4 upgrades in its entire product line.  Sales of Macs will dramatically slow down as people await the M4 deployment.  Unless one absolutely needs a Mac now, people will defer their purchase, awaiting the M4 upgrade.  And if the M4 has some specific features to enhance Apple’s AI strategy, that will be yet another compelling reason to delay a Mac purchase.  I predict a rapid M4 rollout across all Macs. 

This article doesn’t give Xerox enough credit.  Xerox invented the GUI which was copied by Apple and Microsoft.  Xerox also invented Ethernet which was initially deployed over a very expensive coaxial cable called Thicknet, which was so named due to the thickness of its coax cable.  And later evolved into ThinNet which was a much thinner and less expensive coaxial cable.  Xerox developed the STAR workstation which ran the GUI software and a STAR server for centralized file storage and sharing.  They also invented the network attached laser printer to print the online developed documents, as there was no way to share documents external to an organization.  The article implies Xerox didn’t productize the GUI software to avoid killing its copier business.  This isn’t accurate as they actually had commercial products for sale using the GUI software.  They failed at marketing and developing a business strategy for this new technology.  Certainly having years of running their cash cow and very profitable copier business made developing a proper business strategy a challenge.  But be clear, the GUI was invented by Xerox and productized.  

paisleydisco said:

" but the case isn't going to end today, it is going to run for years."

when drumpf's department takes over there will be a shake down for $

it's all he knows. 

Could you leave politics and your hatred for Trump out of this?  This suit was initiated during the Biden administration, so it’s really got nothing to do with Trump.  The government is designed for shake downs.  Be it a parking ticket, taxes or something more serious.  It’s got nothing to do with who’s president. 

lordjohnwhorfin said:

Madbum said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

Madbum said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

Madbum said:

Joe Biden needs to go. I am sorry but I am not usually political but this guy is ridiculous 

This started two years into the Trump administration.

And it was dead when San Jose court decided for Apple but brought back when Biden appointed the socialist Kanter . Did you even read the article above?

Considering that I wrote it, yes, I did. The DoJ didn't stop after the trial. It may have slowed, but didn't stop.

Epic v. Apple was ruled on in September 2021. Kanter was appointed on November 2021.

I read up on Kanter after seeing  your article here. This is 100 percent Kanter, the guy  is a communist socialist if you read what he has wrote in past.

Anyways, you can defend Biden if you want to but I have a right to my position as well . Or do I?

You are absolutely entitled to be uninformed and stupid. You can even air out your uninformed statements, because for the time being we’re still in a democracy. You better pray Biden gets reelected if you want that to continue.

Praying for Biden to be re-elected is like praying for the  world to collapse.  If he gets re-elected his VP will be president within a year (I pray Harris isn’t his VP). Joe’s running a hard race until November.  He has no plans to be in the White House for a full four years. 

The Mother Nature part of the announcement was kind of goofy.  The eco push was getting a bit overplayed.  Especially when they said something along the lines of “we won’t rest until all carbon is removed from the atmosphere.”   Better not go that far, or all plants will die as with the rest of us. 

mfryd said:

22july2013 said:

DAalseth said:

I fully expect 47 to push through a law requiring Apple to build in a back door. With that, there will go our security. 

How would you feel if the back door only was installed for non-American iPhones. Would you be comfortable with that? When you say "our security" are you talking about Americans, or citizens of the world, including Hamas?

Trump doesn't have the constitutional authority to create any law. Maybe you know that, but the way you worded it sounded like he has some degree of law-making authority.

It would be a challenge to install a backdoor for only non-American phones.

The iPhone gets a lot of security from the fact that the hardware/software architecture is designed to not allow backdoors.  If you change the underlying architecture to allow backdoors, then American phones will essentially have backdoors, we will just have to live with the promise that they won't be opened.

We know from experience, that US law allows the government to obtain search warrants without the subject knowing he is being surveilled.  We also know that Apple is a US based company and subject to US law.  Should Apple be presented with such a warrant they would be obligated to open the backdoor.

Thus, in practice, you can't have backdoors that apply only to non-US phones.

Now whether or not you think that Apple's level of privacy is a good or bad thing, is a different topic.

Apple gets warrants all the time to provide access to iCloud data.  Your phone may be a secure sanctum from the government because of the security built into the phone and software.  But unless you take the extra step of doing a single key encryption of your iCloud data, all of that iCloud data is shareable with the government when Apple is presented with a valid warrant.  

There’s also data in motion that the government has a better ability to hack not.  So I wouldn’t be too worried about backdoors on phones. The government has other ways a getting your data. 

realjustinlong said:

22july2013 said:

How would you feel if the back door only was installed for non-American iPhones. Would you be comfortable with that? When you say "our security" are you talking about Americans, or citizens of the world, including Hamas?

Trump doesn't have the constitutional authority to create any law. Maybe you know that, but the way you worded it sounded like he has some degree of law-making authority.

Fear mongering about Hamas potentially having iPhones without a back door is ridiculous. There are news stories from 10 years ago about Hamas in particular avoiding cellphones to prevent Israeli assignation attempts. https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2014/02/gaza-israel-islamic-jihad-hamas-mobile-war.html

This is why the Israeli government is using exploding pagers to attack Hezbollah and civilians in Lebanon.

While presidents currently do not have the constitutional authority to create laws, a large part of the platform that he campaigned on is consolidating powers into the executive branch. All he would need to enact those changes is a supportive house, senate, and judiciary… and a removal of the filibuster.

You don’t understand the political realities of what Trump is challenged with.  Everything you say about how easily he could enact new laws is very ignorant of political realities.  

Look at how many executive orders Biden issued on day one of his presidency.  Look at the student loan executive orders by Biden that were found to be illegal by the Supreme Court, yet Biden kept issuing new ones. You have a very one sided and incomplete comprehension of what the current administration has done and a very warped perspective of what you think Trump can do.  TDS. 

bloggerblog said:

What happened to open markets? I guess they're okay as long as no one can outperform us.

Do you think China had an open market?