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He just needs his firmware rebooted.

NickoTT said:

It disgusts me that this is what business leaders in this country now have to do. Kiss the ring of a clueless wannabe dictator. I do not fault Tim. He is only doing what he needs to do in the best interest of Apple.

I could not agree more. In any other admistration Trump's actions would be called out by everyone for hwat they are — extortion. Trump is like an evil 6yo child who must be praised and appeased lest you find yourself banished to the cornfield or worse.

But he did warn us what he was going to do. We did have prior knowledge and experience with what would happen if he was elected. No one is safe, even those that voluntarily supported him. Unless you have tonnes of money. Then you might catch a little slack. What business can make any real decisions going forward, when Trump is capricious on his best day and a loose cannon on any other. The emperor has no clothes, no plans, only half-baked concepts. He does have his sycophants. It will be a very rough 3.x years at least, for Cook and the rest of us.

I have it on good authority it'll get worse before it gets better. I just have to have patience and not get the yippies. That's all I gotta do. Who it gets better for won't be The Average Person or Family.

WTF.

Why after composing a post, do I get a Verify Your Human post that, when verifying, wipes out my post?

Bloomberg said they have:

> 100 interviews
17 individual sources
3 full statements from companies
1 statement from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and
0 tampered boards 

One board wouldn't prove that Apple, Amazon, or any company was an unwitting conduit (supposedly) to CN. But it would prove that it happened to somebody, or at least that it exists. And yet nothing so far.

MAGA creed:

He hates what I hate, so his character doesn't matter.
Except that you're not rich so he doesn't care about you, tiny character flaw.

He won't back down.
How about a debate where he got his ass handed to him.

He tells it like it is.
What a mess that is, nothing but word salad.

The military loves me.
Except that he thinks they dead, bullet riddled and losers.

I love the poorly educated.
I just don't give a damn about them.

It would take one ultra scary mf-candidate to make me vote for Trump. He's about as bad is gets. A garden gnome would get my vote over Trump. A sack of hammers would get my vote over Trump. He is a clear and present danger. The fact that his cult base doesn't see that or doesn't care says more about them than him.

I saw that interview on YouTube. It was silly with the host not taking Hassett to task for his rank stupidity or deceit. Take your pick.

25% must be "tiny" since it's not half or 3/4 of the cost, so sure Apple will eat it and iPhones won't cost as a penny more. Let's just wait and see — it'll all just work itself out. Yeah, right.

Trump surrounds himself with intelligent people? WTF. I thought that poster for got the /sarc tag till I saw their second post. Delusional. Except for maybe two Repubs who didn't vote for the Big Beautiful Bill, no one on the right side of the aisle is trying to control moderate or influence him toward what was once "normal". Not even close.

Trump is the White House with all his vassals wearing fealty pins of the felon's likeness instead of the American flag. Trump was corrupt long before coming to the White House the first time and he's only leveled up since then. He has surrounded himself not with advisors but with enablers. An inner circle who fear him and are out for themselves like the authoritarian they serve. Hassett won't try to influence or manage him.

Trump would be a laughing stock if it weren't for the fact that he's POTUS. So he appoints Hassett as one of the "intelligent" people around him? The Spin is weak in that one. He was clearly selected for his Cult appeal. Hassett said that if Apple had a supply of iPhone somewhere that 'they have to sell them Right?" So Apple won't raise the price. Huh? Apple will eat  25% increase in cost? Any wonder why The Felon has had six bankruptcies in his private businesses? And Hassett has a PhD in economics?

As Trump gets loonier and loonier (anybody see Ol' Bonespur's speech at West Point?) and yet manages to maintain his malicious self, people like Hassett try to spin his actions as something reasonable that won't harm Apple or the American people. Neither Trump nor his administration have any interest in the American people in general other than what we can do for him regardless of the cost to us. 

Big Beautiful Bill, beautiful coal. Yeah intelligent influencers. They've done a great job reining him in so far. We just have to be patient and ignore the yippies. It'll all work out. Right.

Trump is right about one thing. It will get worse (much worse) before it gets better. He'll see to it.

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toddzrx said:

mark fearing said:

Incompetence at a level only America could produce...

Indeed!  The Biden admin was awful.  Fortunately Trump is righting the ship.

humbug1873 said:

I pulled my investments, money  and accounts  out the US in preparation for the current idiot ... in December .. and plan to keep my money out of the US and away from US companies for the foreseeable future.

I don't like to deal with idiots, that elected that clown not once but twice instead of putting him into a jail cell. From a country that did this mistake once before almost 100 years ago. Don't give in to fascists.

It's time we get liberated form US dominance. So liberation day was right.

Your loss.  If you're so smart, how come you're not running Germany?  And we have an historical record that proves you're lying: Trump is not a fascist; his first term already proved that.  On the other hand, Germany is trying to outlaw AfD.  Things that make you go "Hmmmmmmmm".

teejay2012 said:

Does it matter what Trump says the tariff is going to be? Mexico and Canada had a fully executed trade agreement with the US, one that Trump himself negotiated, approved and signed, and 1 month into office, he tore it up. Trump changes his mind as much as New England weather. No one trusts him or the US anymore.

No one trusts Trump anymore????  Like the Saudis, Qataris, and other allies in the Middle East that welcomed him with open arms this past week?  And the many many nations that are trying to cut new trade deals because of the tariffs (which is the whole point of them)?

All the commenters so far on this article have their heads firmly planted in the ground.  You refuse to view reality for what it is.  Your side lost the election in 2024 because your woke progressive policies are losers.  The majority of the US wants nothing to do with men in women's sports, with sky-high inflation because of massive government spending, nor foreign wars popping up due to weak US foreign policy.  We've seen clearly the stark differences between Trump's first term and Biden's, and that's why Trump won last fall.  This isn't rocket science.  You all will do better to accept reality sooner rather than later.

I think the overriding factor in both terms can be boiled down to one simple idea. 

Everything he wanted to propose with trade could have been achieved with none of wild swings, billions lost or antagonising friends and foes alike, by simply sitting down with people and putting his goals on the table through civilised conversation. 

There was zero need to do what he did. 

In Trump's first term he demonstrated that he knows next to nothing about tariffs and trade deficits. He continues to demonstrate this dearth of knowledge and that he's learned nothing about how they work and their effects on economy. He wields them like a bully on a playground, slinging threats and untrue claims.

I should be used to it by now, but I'm still amazed and disappointed at how many people choose to accept ridiculous claims of numbers that change by the hour as fact without any substantiation whatsoever. I err— Trump's charts and Sharpie and occasional sheets of paper "receipts" that no one ever sees are presented by him as "fact" and accepted by MAGAs as "facts". Their "research" never goes any deeper than FAUX News, which isn't a news program at all according to Murdoch. 

Trump won because his campaign pandered to haters of democracy, because he continuously made impossible campaign promises which he has continually ignored or walked back. He, along with Musk, have wreaked havoc on those aren't rich white Americans. Yes his administrations stand in start contrast to Biden's. Even as this administration tramples the legal rights of people under the Constitution, MAGAs support him. Only a few have realized that his actions have only benefitted him and a small circle billionaires. He plays golf with Democracy burns, under his orders. Orders with are often illegal under the Constitution.

Democrats were busy arguing amongst themselves, assuming after his first run at (not for) Democracy, he wouldn't win a second term. Others wanted to "make a statement" that they didn't find either choice acceptable. Everyone who didn't vote for Harris is responsible for the greed, hate and malice that passes for a Presidential administration. Trump has lied all his life. Criminality has been a way of life for him, and holding the highest office in the land hasn't tempered his ego nor instilled any sense of dignity or honor.

That this behavior is acceptable by so many would be surprising, until you examine what's important to his supporters. We are seeing the deliberate eroding of a government of the people, by the people and for the people. MAGAs and Republicans are all too happy to overlook all criminal, illegal, and unethical actions of Trump and his minions.

So can anyone be surprised that his ignorance of tariffs and trade deficits caused all of this chaos? Chaos has been weaponized by Republicans. When he walks back his folly and calls it victory, Republicans cheer. Trump claims 150 or 200 countries (depending on the time of day) are begging to cut deals with the US. But he doesn't name any. MAGAs just accept it.

Some of us have never trusted Trump. Nobody ever should. Roll over and accept it? No fucking way. Not as long as it's still legal to vote. For now.

Being based on the Mac mini doesn't mean it has to look like the mini. What I want to see is more ports than the mini. I don't care if there are no Type-A ports, just USB4 and T3 ports. And the latest HDMI, not one or two steps behind. Apple uses "Pro" indiscriminately so I'm not sure what to expect from Studio-Lite. 

AppleZulu said:

Watch instead for some bluster followed by a reversal. Watch for Trump and his inner circle to buy Apple stock this afternoon and sell after the reversal. 

Then see him claim this whole circus act a "win".

MacPro said:

gatorguy said:

macxpress said:

gatorguy said:

Does there seem to be an unusual amount of Apple firmware issues in the past few weeks, some serious enough to that require them pulled? Maybe it's relatively common and I've just not noticed. At the moment, it's hitting a big range of Apple products.

In the past year, Android devices . . .

This isn't about some platform dick measuring contest. I've never used an Android product and probably never will. Android's issues aren't my concern. Apple's are. I give Android credit where, and hold Apple accountable for. Deflection is not a friend.

Betas are avoided because I'm just not that adventurous. Kudos to those who are. I only want Apple to figure it out before it becomes a release candidate.