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  • Apple plans low-cost MacBook based on iPhone processor

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    opinion said:
    Apple makes an OS adapted to each hardware platform, it’s brilliant. To mash it together would be a disaster.
    It's the other way around.  Apple markets their hardware platforms based on the OS they allow it to run.

    The iPad Pro with magic keyboard is essentially the same hardware as a MacBook Air.  The major difference is that the iPad is only allowed to run iPad OS, and the MacBook Air runs Mac OSX.

    Keep in mind that under the hood, all of these (iOS, iPad OS, tvOS, Mac OSX, ...)  are essentially the same operating system.  The primary difference is the user interface layer.
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  • Apple shareholders sue over Siri delays and massive losses

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    thedba said:
    nubus said:
    M68000 said:
    The debacle of Apple advertising “Apple Intelligence” before it was ready may be the beginning of the end of the Tim Cook era. 
    DOJ and consumers will take Apple to court on running ads for vaporware. Agree, this is the beginning to the end. It can take a while before he is replaced. Microsoft drifted for 10 years and behaved like a bond. We have seen Apple slide to #2, #3, and... well... the distance to Amazon makes it likely that Apple could drop one more spot. 

    As for his legacy we need to split CEO from COO. He was outstanding as COO.
    And you are all ignoring the elephant in the room. TARRIFS.
    Which Tim Cook has nothing to do with and has no control of.
    Actually, Tim Cook does have some control over tariffs.   He donated a million dollars to Trump's inauguration fund, and that got Apple a temporary exemption from some of the worst tariffs.   Cook could identify other ways to transfer money to Trump in order to exempt Apple from tariffs.

    The challenge is that Trump is starting a side hustle selling cell phones and cellular service.  This means we may be seeing carefully constructed tariffs that apply to all phones except for his.   This means that a payoff from Apple would need to be large enough to compensate for the loss of Trump's cell phone revenue.
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  • Apple shareholders sue over Siri delays and massive losses

    mfrydmfryd
    mknelson said:
    Apple's easy defence: the stock price history.

    It was on a pretty steady upward trend until the end of 2024. The big fall was after Trump announced his tariffs.
    The stock price history is not a sure fire defense.  The claim can be made that had Apple delivered on its promises, then the stock price would be much higher than it is today.

    In other words the price increase from AI never materialized.
    williamlondonbaconstang