rob53

I give credit to Apple designers in their effort to expand the camera capabilities of iPhones but there comes a time when designing exterior sets of lenses might be a better option for many users. Traditional camera users have always purchased exterior lenses to meet their specific needs. I have some Sandmarc external lenses and will probably purchase their brand new 6x, focusable telephoto lens. This lens screws into the Sandmarc case, properly positioning the lens in relationship to the iPhone camera lens. I know iPhone users might want everything within the phone but there comes a time when there won't be enough room to put quality camera components inside such a small device. Of course having both would serve everyone's needs.

maltz said:

So... they rolled their own encryption algorithm.  Ugh.  That has never ended well.  Granted, Apple is probably much better than most, but no matter how big you are, you just can't have anywhere near the bandwidth of the entire world's cryptographic community furiously looking for unexpected exploits like you do with publicly proposed algorithms.

Apple is large enough to have members of the "entire world's cryptographic community furiously" working for and with them to provide Apple users with the most secure encryption algorithms and processes available. 

It's amazing that Apple is the only company being forced to open up its system. Meta, Microsoft, Spotify and Epic Games don't make any hardware, they only make software. Without Apple's hardware, or in the case of Microsoft any PC hardware, there wouldn't be any third-party software being developed. Apple makes hardware and software and does a great job of integrating the two. The others are simply leaches, forcing Apple to allow them to use Apple hardware for free. Of course the EU doesn't want to admit they're complicit in forcing a company to allow other companies to use Apple hardware just because they say so. Maybe I should go to an EU country, walk into a store and simply take something without paying for it. That's what the EU is doing--get something for free. As for the hypocritical CEOs of worthless companies like Meta and Microsoft, we all remember that neither company is capable of producing any hardware people actually want to buy.

rhbellmor said:

As an Apple shareholder I hope Apple has factored this cost of doing business in Europe into their pricing in Europe.  Seems to me Europe looks at large U.S. tech companies like Apple to pay for their bloated national budgets.

The US already supports a lot of the EU making these stupid lawsuits revolting. The EU doesn’t make many products used worldwide, especially compared to the USA. I hope Apple starts charging a high tax on everything going to the EU. The USA will continue to support a dying continent and the EU needs to remember that. 

I don’t want a folding phone. How would a folding phone work for people using it for productive tasks, like videography or even photography other than selfies? My iPhone is thick enough, I wouldn’t want something thicker. It’s a gimmick to satisfy kids.  I want a good screen, not a flexible screen that will end up breaking in half.