SmittyW

libertyandfree said:

 Once again Apple teases with a low price for a crippled SSD of 256GB.  Apple is such a fraud when it comes to their environmentally preaching since they install small SSD that makes their device obsolete too soon and thus enters the landfill.  How is that good for the environment?  

I'm only using 140GB on my work computer, and the vast majority of that is from large, inefficient apps that will be replaced soon.

macgui said:

I'd like to see Apple make a phone that they can't won't sell to the EU. An FU EU phone. But apparently the EU market is too big for Apple to ignore. Maybe they also fear more scrutiny as blowback.

Agreed. As much as I want Apple to push things, the timing is terrible for that; politics between the US and EU are only going to get more contentious over the next year or two, and Apple is likely to get caught up in it.

I'm surprised at all the naysayers here, Apple has always pushed us into the future, and charging ports aren't going to be in it. I was hoping for a portless, perhaps even buttonless phone this year if they could pull off force/capacitive button and haptics. The 'air' moniker is particularly relevant vis-a-vis pushing the envelope. Hopefully we'll get that version in 2026, although now that's probably not going to happen because the focus will be on foldables, so 2027 it is I suppose. 

Hallelujah!!! About gd time. I remember when Tim hinted at this happening 'soon' in a customer email over 10 years ago, or something like that.

It actually worked. I can finally get rid of my gmail account!

I'm having a real hard time understanding why Apple doesn't just keep the amazing all glass back and titanium design for the pros (extend the camera bump across like the others) and leave the aluminum frame for the base iphone and air. I don't see how the rounded rectangle on the back of the pros won't look awkward. Happy to be proven wrong.

dewme said:

Can't you just mount an eye bolt on top of the headset and tie a helium ballon to it?

Lol, grok just calculated that the diameter of the balloon needed to equalize the weight of the AVP is 1.2 meters, totally doable

I'm super excited about the iPhone 'air,' but I want to be able to take spatial videos and pics. Apple should really come out with a GoPro like device with dual cameras. In addition to promoting the Apple Vision Pro, it'd be great to see what Apple can do with bigger sensors, not to mention 3rd party lenses. 

Wesley Hilliard said:

SmittyW said:

tht said:

Looks like any other Apple Store?

What I would like to see are sound dampening materials, inside the store. Place is loud!

Obviously, I'm big on being carbon neutral, if not negative. So, roof has to be either a solar PV panel set, painted white or passive radiative cooling panels. There should be battery storage. Windows are thermally efficient or solar PV. Parking lot, if an open field, not a garage, should be covered by PV panels.

I'm guessing Apple considers the 'liveliness' of the noise a good juxtaposition to the minimalist style. Although, perhaps the noise is why they include trees in some of their stores.

Personally, I was disappointed about the carbon neutral part. Geologically speaking, we're at record-low CO2 levels. The plants/algae, and thus every other form of life on this planet, need more CO2. %0.04 of the atmosphere is anemic.

Regardless, I can't wait to visit this store, maybe even for the opening, it looks amazing. 

CO2 was thousands of PPM in pre-human history more than 32 million years ago, so yeah, from that perspective we're at a "record-low." However, the sun was 32 million years younger! It put off less heat than today. And atmospheric conditions and needs for life that existed then were very different too!

Science is cool. If you learn more than one snippet of out-of-context data, you can learn why climate change is an incredible issue and why suggesting we need more CO2 is not only incredibly ignorant but dangerous thing to say.

I won't delete your comment, but you went well out of your way to share such incredible misinformation about climate in a story about an Apple Store. I will assume our forum members are knowledgeable enough to ignore this, so I'll leave it.

Don't be weird. Stay on topic. Thanks.

Are you a mod? That was on topic, by the way (if I'm missing something here, please also inform Tht).

Also, what makes you the arbiter of climate knowledge? What fundamentals of life have changed since then? I'm pretty sure that photosynthesis, the carbon cycle, etc. haven't changed. CO2 has a negligible, if any, impact on temp; we've experienced ice ages with 10x the amount of CO2 we have now, which is undisputed. Furthermore, the volstok ice cores clearly show that the increase in temp comes *before* the increases in CO2 (by 400-800 years), as one would naturally expect via outgassing of CO2 from the oceans.

The actual cause of global temp fluctuations has already been discovered (hint: it's not CO2; hint #2: it involves the earth's only source of external heat energy).

Lastly, feel free to call me weird, or some other name. But, I'd ask that you don't use ad hominems as rhetorical framing to dismiss my points. 

Smart move on Tim's part, I don't want Apple to get shafted by new tariff policies. Or maybe he's happy that Trump is getting rid of the bird and whale killing windmills, or maybe he wants and invitation to Mar a Lago to see another live performance of YMCA by the Village People.

Wesley Hilliard said:

SmittyW said:

Wesley Hilliard said:

canukstorm said:

DAalseth said:

I wonder if Trump knows it won’t change. He made all sorts of really stupid promises to his supporters. These Executive Orders let him say he followed through, but like his promise in 2016 to ‘bring back coal’ none of them stand a chance in hell of happening. He knows that but he’s just going through the motions. It’s also good misdirection so people talk about this, while he and his crew are doing real damage behind the scenes. 

As a non-US citizen, how do Executive Orders work?  Are they not binding?  For example, the issue of birthright citizenship is a hot button topic which from my understanding is protected by the 14th Amendment.  Can an executive order just overturn that even though it's in the Constitution?

Nope. Many of Trump's executive orders were actually illegal. An executive order is kind of like a promissory note that conveys the intentions of the administration. They are binding for federal employees and offices, but can't go beyond that and can't violate the constitution. The orders can later be considered by Congress and the Supreme Court if they need further legislation to make them more official, or if they need to be blocked.

For example, his orders about birthright citizenship aren't allowed, period. He can't actually provide amnesty to ByteDance from a law that was passed. And he can't withdraw from the WHO like that. He's being sued already and there are a lot of people on both sides of the isle that are unhappy with the many of the executive orders and what they do. Congress will likely overturn several. We'll see.

You need to do some more research and look into what 'US jurisdiction' means. Might want to look up supreme court precedent while you're at it. You are welcome.

Also, that's a shame about the WHO, looks like Tedros is going to have to go back to embezzling funds from the Ethiopian government again. Poor guy.

I'll repeat what I said in a previous thread: wtf are you talking about?

Low effort, poor tact comment. Not unexpected, though. 

entropys said:

I find it all very entertaining.  

One lot of yanks are currently overloaded with euphoria at the thought of a wrecking ball tearing the establishment down, the other lot are crying in their cups.

and why not call it the Gulf of America? It isn’t as though the left aren’t busy changing place names all the time.

So entertaining. And good point, why not? I don't care much either way, but it's pretty hilarious reading these posts that are so self righteous, self assured, and.. triggered lol.

Get with the program Tim, don't want to squander that $1M! Let's not be on the wrong side of those tariffs.