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  • Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...

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    13485 said:
    I'm not sure how promoting their important environmental achievements is considered "virtue signaling" (which is apparently code for "I disagree with whatever that is"). Regardless, you can have the exceedingly dry product pitches that have been the norm since Jobs, or you can have a little creativity mixed in. The skit was OK, and it beats having Tim Cook read the same data in front of the camera.

    We all miss the showmanship of Steve Jobs, and, it must be said, his interaction with the live audience. These canned presentations, very well done though they are, are kind of boring, especially for an incremental product intro. 
    “Virtue signaling” is where you make sure everyone knows what you are doing.  (And use it as a selling point or marketing hook) Instead of letting results speak for themselves.  This is virtue signaling to a degree.  Used to a score points so people will like your product and buy it.  I’m not saying that Apple only does it to score the points.   I’m pretty sure they truly believe in what they are doing.  So it’s not the most egregious form of virtue signaling, where the act itself has been done just to score the points.  
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  • France threatens total recall of iPhone 12 over RF power concerns

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    MacPro said:
    This, in a country with no nuclear power stations; they like to be safe... oh wait a minute...
    Their stance on nuclear is great.  Nuclear power is safe. 
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  • Entire iPhone 15 lineup's camera specs detailed in last-minute leak

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    These leaks/additional tumors don’t confirm anything.  They may reinforce existing leaks/rumors, increasing our confidence, but they don’t confirm anything. 


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  • Apple's own 5G modem is now expected to arrive in 2025

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    avon b7 said:
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    wood1208 said:
    No one except Apple knows when Apple will introduce it's own home grown 5G in products.
    Qualcomm will know. 

    In a recent earnings call they stated that there would be no further material revenues from Huawei. Last week Huawei released its own 5G capable phone. 

    Expect the same to happen when it comes to losing Apple’s modem revenues. 
    In essence, Huawei is getting the fruits of the few SMIC DUV machines in China, to make a nominally 5nm SOC, that may sell in China something on the order of up to 40 million units, at great effort and expense, but will not, to put it charitably, be competitive with any leading Qualcomm SOC, and certainly not any A Series.

    For that, the U.S., et al, will yet again tighten the screws on any incoming semiconductor, AI, or aerospace tech attempted to be exported from the West.
    Looks like you completely missed my point, which was Qualcomm will know and be forced to eventually make it known during an earnings call.

    Except Qualcomm may not know.  Apple may debut their chip in only one line of phones at first (say, an SE update) so Qualcomm may not detect materially significant changes in orders until after the Apple modem chip makes its public commercial debut.  Apple may then move the chip into all their other lines later.  Affecting Qualcomm, but after the chips debut publicly 
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  • China completely bans use of iPhone for government business

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    waveparticle said:
    China is a US-imagined foreign adversary advocated by China haters for centuries. LOL
    BTW, NYC banned TikTok use for security reasons. In case you missed this domestic news. 
    Lol.  Pull your head out of the sand. 
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