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Apple stock bloodbath continues after China applies retaliatory tariffs
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/sdw2001 said:DAalseth said:
Why? Why would you do that? His first term he tried the same thing albeit on a smaller scale and the US lost, badly. He started a trade war with China and China won, big time, they came out vastly stronger on the world stage than at the start. Now he’s doubling down on trying to tariff his way to prosperity. What’s that old line about insanity being trying the same failed strategy over and over and expecting the same result.sdw2001 said:I don’t know whether or not this tariff strategy will work, but I’d give it better than 50-50 odds.
What on earth would make you think someone who has gone bankrupt as many times as Trump would have a clue about international trade? Why would you trust the judgement of someone with no macroeconomic training or experience, who when given a chance the first time failed by any and every measure. Why would you believe in him to do better this time with the same failed policies he failed with the first time?
We’ve seen this movie before.
Because your comment about China is completely inaccurate. That's why. As is your comment about him "failing by every measure." That's just bizarro-world Trump Derangement coming through. His first term saw massive increases in real income, low inflation, low unemployment, and a dozen other positive economic indicators. That is, before Covid. You know, Covid.... when you and yours demanded we shut the country down through the election? When Trump was called a murderer for wanting to get back to life? Even with the economic carnage that the Left demanded, the economy was well into a robust recovery by the end of 2020.
As for Trump "going bankrupt," that is misleading, and I think you know it. He never declared personal bankruptcy. He did use Chapter 11 bankruptcy with business numerous times. If it makes you feel good to say "he went bankrupt," go ahead. It has nothing to do with his business acumen. If anything, going Chapter 11 six times and still coming out on top is impressive.
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RCS messaging will get end-to-end encryption on iPhone
GSMA has finally accepted open-source MLS as the RCS encryption standard as expected. It's had strong support for a few years now, and already integrated with other mobile operating systems since at least 2023, just waiting on GSMA to make it official so that Apple will join the band.
Apple should have no issue with rolling out the update since E2EE using MLS has been in the works for months now. How they'll handle China may be the remaining obstacle, but perhaps that too will be a non-issue.
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iPhone RCS still isn't widely supported, and is waiting on carriers to act
Good news. The standards group has finalized E2EE as of this week, and Apple has stated they'll be integrating it with RCS in a future version.
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Apple confirms that Apple Intelligence Siri features are taking longer than expected
Somewhat shocking opinion piece by John Gruber. In general he's always been pretty upbeat about Apple, but not today.
"What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a company in disarray, if not crisis. The Apple that commissioned the futuristic “Knowledge Navigator” concept video in 1987 was the Apple that was on a course to near-bankruptcy a decade later...
Last week’s announcement — “It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year” — was, if you think about it, another opportunity to demonstrate the current state of these features. Rather than simply issue a statement to the media, they could have invited select members of the press to Apple Park, or Apple’s offices in New York, or even just remotely over a WebEx conference call, and demonstrate the current state of these features live, on an actual device. That didn’t happen. If these features exist in any sort of working state at all, no one outside Apple has vouched for their existence, let alone for their quality....
Why did Apple show these personalized Siri features at WWDC last year, and promise their arrival during the first year of Apple Intelligence? Why, for that matter, do they now claim to “anticipate rolling them out in the coming year” if they still currently do not exist in demonstratable form?
And now they look so out of their depth, so in over their heads, that not only are they years behind the state-of-the-art in AI, but they don’t even know what they can ship or when. Their headline features from nine months ago not only haven’t shipped but still haven’t even been demonstrated, which I, for one, now presume means they can’t be demonstrated because they don’t work."
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino
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Apple confirms that Apple Intelligence Siri features are taking longer than expected
...which may require scrapping Siri altogether.loopless said:You guys don’t reflect what most people use Siri for. Apple intelligence is not Siri. All the other tools like summaries and email categories are actually super useful. Apple has to build out massive AI compute farms and integrate Siri into iOS and apps, that takes time. And Apple likes to get things right.
EDIT: There are reports coming out this morning that Apple has wasted more than a year trying to integrate Apple Intelligence with Siri before determining it just wasn't going to work. If accurate, that would help explain the "new" Siri moving to 2026.
