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I agree with all your points. My current iPhone is also a 13 mini, which is currently needing a battery replacement. I had been considering a replacement if that replacement had come in at $499 or less. I didn’t need the A18 cpu (I wouldn’t have rejected it); but I did want to keep the MagSafe I use everyday & I hoped for USB-C. The slightly stepped up A17 used in the iPad Mini 7 would have been fine if they wanted an older generation CPU that would do Apple Intelligence. Basically, I wanted an iPhone 14 with USB-C for $499 or less. Apple has chosen not to sell such a phone. My hope, at this point, is that they will update the 16E more often than the SEs, so that those absent features might be added. If not, I’ll wait until the regular 16 is two years old and hopefully get a better feature set for the same $599.

I wonder if they abandoned the SE moniker to allow a price over $500.

JFC_PA said:

Other than suspicions has anyone ever delivered actual proof of any PRC security violations involving TikTok? Relying on Trump, the originator of the entire jihad, is sAd. 

The only alleged evidence was redacted so much that it proved nothing. It came down to “trust me, Bro”.

Any chance that CarPlay 2.0 will include APIs to allow OBD dongle applications to display? I don’t normally keep an OBD dongle connected to the port; but it would be helpful when testing or tuning.

danox said:

9secondkox2 said:

Sneaky. China set up a front firm to not look Chinese to order chips who’d then send them to Huawei. 

That makes a heck of a lot more sense than tsmc shooting itself in the foot to violate sanctions. 

But if tsmc didn’t really know who the client was or vetted them thoroughly enough, it raises questions whether they really didn’t know or were actually complicit. Hopefully it’s not conspiratorial. That would suck for apple. 

That Suckage would apply everyone else that gets chips from TSMC, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Google and others not just Apple.

It’s a clever way of trying to force the sanctions to be lifted if it causes more damage to US companies than it does to the target.