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"Dan Ives told CNN that it would take about $30 billion and three years for Apple to move its global supply chain back to American soil."

You have misquoted Ives. He said it would take $30billion and three years for Apple to move 10% of iPhone production to the US.

“Apple has already announced a $500 billion investment in the U.S. along with Trump in February,” Ives noted. “The reality is it would take 3 years and $30 billion dollars in our estimation to move even 10% of its supply chain from Asia to the U.S. with major disruption in the process."

Quoted from: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-faces-complete-disaster-analyst-145000336.html

JP234 said:

Wondering what the terminal velocity of an iPhone is? Guessing that a fall from 20-25 feet might generate the same impact force as falling from 14,000 feet.

This isn't the first iPhone to fall from a plane.
You are not the first person to wonder about terminal velocity.

Rogue01 said:

The Toyota Supra is actually a re-branded BMW Z4.  The engine and all electronics are made by BMW.

Wireless charging is kind of ridiculous in a car.  Go over a bump and the phone moves slightly and no more wireless charging.  It is not that hard to plug it in, and the audio quality on a wired connection is far better than Bluetooth.

My iPhone never moves once placed on the charging mat and placement isn't critical. CarPlay uses Bluetooth only to achieve pairing. After that, everything is transferred via wi-fi.

mikethemartian said:

I wonder how long it is going to be until someone figures how to use this to hack your iPhone before you purchase it.

This would require the hacker to have access to the Presto hardware and all the documentation about how it works. If a hacker can obtain an iPhone before it's sold, there are far easier ways to hack it.

apple4thewin said:

Imagine apple makes data transfer available via magsafe like those patents many years ago

MagSafe/Qi chargers operate in the region of 360KHz. Why would Apple try to funnel data through that interface when multi-Gbps Wi-Fi is right there?

Me: "Hey Siri...."

With both less revenue due to demand destruction and less earnings due to higher taxes, Apple will have less money to invest in American manufacturing. I'd be surprised if Apple actually spends the $500 billion it committed to US expansion under the Biden administration. Would any of you invest in a future being whipsawed about by the mercurial Trump?

"And then there are thermal considerations. Apple's iPhone 15 Pro was infamous for getting too warm when pushed -- how will a similar chip perform in something even thinner?'

It's time for a physics lesson. My iPhone 15 pro measures 77mm wide X 160mm tall X 8.3mm thick. The sides of the phone present a surface area of (77*2+160*2)*8.2=3,886.8 mm2. The front and back faces present a surface area of 77*160*2=24,640mm2, or about 86% of the phone's total surface area. To a first approximation, iPhone internal heat will dissipate in proportion to the total surface area, which will shrink far more slowly with decreasing thickness than with decreasing display area. Peak internal temperature rise above ambient, to a first approximation depends on distance from the heat sources to the ambient. The shortest path will generally be through the front and back faces. The distance to those faces will decrease in proportion to the reduction in iPhone thickness, placing the heat generating internals closer to the ambient heat sink. At the same time, the available battery energy will as you've noted, be reduced by thinning the phone.

Reducing the thickness of an iPhone will very likely result in reduced heating.

tht said:

Rudimentary math states that 2024-2008 = 16 years. 

Thinnovation!

The wedge shape was retired in 2022, with the introduction of the M1 MacBook Air.


One might reasonably wonder why it took AI two years to tell us about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqwSZEQkknU

qaz123**spl2 said:

All the FBI needs to do in order to get the data off the internal "Hynix H2JTDG2MBR 128 Gb (16 GB) NAND flash" is to take apart the terrorist used iphone that was passcode protected. Remove the flash memory from the logic board then take another iphone 5c with no passcode and swap out the flash memory by re- soldering it to the new iphone's logic board that does not have a passcode. Put it back together and access the data with no need for a passcode. Or use this article on how to read bare nand flash chips with a microprocessor 

Th

http://hackaday.com/2012/09/20/reading-bare-nand-flash-chips-with-a-microcontroller/

Their IT Tech guys are not too bright...

As I understand it, for phones with Touch ID, Flash data is encrypted and decrypted by the secure enclave. So, moving the Flash device to another phone does you no good. The secure enclave in the new phone won't have the correct key.