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22july2013 said:

For those of us outside the USA who have been waiting for 4+ years for this service, with no hint of it arriving in our countries, we kinda hope the service will die in the USA. Apple needs to think worldwide, and not provide services to Americans only. How many other Apple services are available in the US only?

Why do you think Apple would be capable of rolling out such a complex financial offering worldwide all at once? Every single product Apple brings to market is rolled out in the U.S. first. Then, when the bugs are worked out and the product is a success, it gets spread wider. Apple Card is not currently a success, thus this story. 

This is likely linked to the recent YouTube changes in terms that we got a chance to read this week. I actually skimmed thru them. Looks like YouTube has been turned into a separate LLC, now controlled by Alphabet. As such they are likely looking at ways to be self-funding instead of sucking at Google's teat, and part of that is maximizing subscription profit.  As such they want to cast off Apple's 30% fee for purchases thru the Apple App Store. It's annoying to Apple product users, but straightforward from a business perspective.

Running it now. Update was very fast, and it's working well.

9secondkox2 said:

if you’re just a simple common sense guy, you’ll work to can appreciate what he’s trying to do while retaining the ability to see where it may go wrong 

You don't know what he's trying to do any more than anyone else. Well-renowned economists are scratching their heads trying to figure out what he's doing, and I strongly doubt you know more about the subject than they do. Plus, he specifically said this was "not a negotiation" and he would "stay the course", neither of which proved to be true. As for "where it may go wrong", LOL, we've already seen where it went wrong. He tanked the bond market, which was going to cause a worldwide financial meltdown. That's according to that liberal rag "Fortune", BTW. 

darbus69 said:

Gimme a folder, it’s the one feature that’s missing for Apple-For someone who walks and rides bikes a lot it is the form factor I desire most. Hurry up Apple, not getting any younger😉

I'm a cyclist too and the last thing I want is to have to keep unfolding my phone during a ride to check a map or my Strava stats. 

>They must also believe that their confidential or private communications were obtained by Apple and possibly shared by third parties following an unintended Siri activation, between September 17, 2014 and December 31, 2024.

How do we know if Siri secretly recorded us??

SiTime said:

Many iPhones are assembled in China, but iPhones are assembled in countries other than China as well. Apple can continue to ship iPhones from India (and elsewhere ex-China) to warehouses in America at the 10% tariffs rate during the 90-day pause. America can get the India (and elsewhere ex-China) assembled iPhones, while the China assembled iPhones can go to the rest of the world.

India won't let it work like that. The phones assembled in India are for the Indian market. Indian laws (PLI, BIS, CRS) financially punish companies who import phones instead of making them in India. So Apple would run headlong into Indian tariffs while trying to avoid Chinese tariffs. 

jannl said:

advantage

There. That's the key to all those who oppose being in the EU:  "advantage". The EU prevents one country from screwing over another one to gain an advantage. That's exactly what this case is about; Ireland trying to get more money at the cost of the other EU members. As for Greece, it's in the spot it's in because it mismanaged its human resources, allowing too many people to retire far too early and mooch off the few who continued to work. It dug a hole that the EU is helping it out of; it would be in full-blown depression without the EU.  So all of you decrying the EU and cheering for more Brexits, you don't realize the implications of what you're saying. The EU is a *smart* thing to exist and to be a member of. Breaking it up would be a pretty direct analogy to breaking up the U.S.A.; each state would have to fend for itself. All 50 would struggle while the ignorant masses would cheer that each was able to achieve its own "identity". How foolish.

It actually makes perfect sense.

Not from a monetary standpoint. Apple stands to lose billions of $ a year from lost upgrades from users who want the latest and greatest iPhone.

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