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  • Trump is too busy for his own tariff negotiations, so will dictate terms instead

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    9secondkox2 said:
    I think that’s only part of the story. 

    Jinping didn’t want to negotiate himself so he sent “his people” to do so. Trump did the same. 

    I think when key leaders want to negotiate, trump will do so. But he’s got really strong competent folks doing that, so he doesn’t need to overextend himself doing every little thing. He’s the president. He has a team. He’s empowering his team to do what they’re supposed to do - as leadership classes teach leaders to do. The guy does everything. It’s about time he lets the other guys rise up. When you have a talented team, you can trust them to do important stuff. 
    It's impossible to negotiate in the name of Trump if those tasked with doing the job are not aware of his constant swings from yes to know and back again.

    Look no further than Steven Horsford grilling Jamieson Greer on the House floor over the tariff pause. Jamieson probably found out about that during the grilling!

    How is it possible that a trade representative was so out of touch with what was going on? 
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  • iPhone 17 Air may debut advanced silicon battery for more efficient charging

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    tht said:
    Sounds crazy to use a new battery chemistry on a thin iPhone, and one with a silicon anode to boot. 

    Thought one of the issues with silicon anodes was they expand more, and battery casings need to account for this. A thin battery with silicon anodes sounds challenging here?
    I think things have become clearer now that we are on third or fourth generation silicon carbon batteries in smartphones and there have been no major issues. Over ten Android manufacturers are currently using them today. 

    Huawei developed a silicon carbon design back in 2018 and filed patents for it in June 2019.

    https://www.grepow.com/industry-news/Silicon-Carbon-Composite-Material.html

    Manufacturing is typically outsourced to TDK. 

    "Huawei high silicon anode battery

    Huawei has made significant progress in the field of battery technology, especially in the research and development of high-silicon anode batteries.
    ...
    Huawei has improved the conductivity and stability of the silicon anode by optimizing the material ratio and microstructure. It has also solved the problem of volume expansion of silicon materials during charging and discharging, and improved the stability and cycle life of the battery.
    ...
    Huawei’s high-silicon negative electrode battery has received positive reviews from the market for its technological innovation and performance improvement. This battery not only improves energy density, but also achieves a breakthrough in battery capacity without a significant change in volume. Huawei uses carbon coating structure and innovative flexible polymer binder to inhibit expansion and shedding; uses lithium foil to supplement lithium, which increases the first charge and discharge efficiency by 26%; uses nano-carbon tube technology in silicon negative electrode batteries to increase conductivity by 4 times, further improving the performance of silicon negative electrode batteries."

    https://www.epic-powder.com/market-darling-silicon-carbon-anode-battery/

    On the heat management side, Huawei has also made great progress with its graphene solutions. 

    I've already mentioned this is previous threads but if Apple really wants to go thin (and I mean really thin batteries of less than 2mm thick), silicon carbon would be a very strong candidate. 

    A good move. 
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  • Apple tests EU by adding scare screens to apps using third-party payments [u]

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    JMaille said:
    I find it curious that something that tells you a fact that is absolutely true is referred to as a "scare screen."  

    Also why would this be a scare screen for people who are intentionally looking for apps that don't use Apple's eco-structure?

    Amd finally, does anyone know whether the EU has something like the 5th and 14th amendments to the US Constitution that explicitly prevent the government and the courts from forcing someone to provide things to others without compensation?  --- Oh, wait, I guess that doesn't matter, we don't follow those rules in the US anymore so why should the EU?
    This subject came up in the US court case.

    Calling it a 'scare screen' is absolutely fine IMO because that is what it is and Apple is well aware of the fact. 

    Apple even tried to defend itself in court (the word that popped up during the trial was 'scary') by claiming that it was a term of art or some other crazy justification. I do not remember the exact words but the court outright rejected that explanation saying it strained common sense.

    Factual or not, the purpose of that screen is to seed doubt in the mind of the user (a scare tactic) and we can reach that reasonable conclusion as internal communication on this kind of wording was revealed during the court process.

    I don't know if the EU will see it as reasonable or not but Apple is playing with fire by deliberately treading the compliance/non-compliance line. 

    The term malicious compliance isn't far off the mark but Apple chose its path and will have to deal with the consequences. 
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  • Trump has a problem with Tim Cook, because Foxconn is building factories in India

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    Maybe Apple should move to Canada. 
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  • US & China pausing tariffs does not end the needless damage being done to consumers and bu...

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    AppleZulu said:
    jwdawso said:
    Hey guys - I enjoy your articles! But this article is just barroom talk and actually does a disservice to the AppleInsider brand. It will just drive away part of your followers. 
    Except it's not "just barroom talk." It's a level-headed review of the damage already done by the current administration's tariff and trade war. It's real, and it's going to hit a lot of people really hard. A 90-day partial reprieve on tariffs isn't going to fix the damage already done. Some things will be more expensive, and many things will be unavailable because businesses already didn't place orders for imported goods because they couldn't absorb the cost and they knew they couldn't sell anything by passing along the costs to their customers. The partial reprieve is better than no reprieve, but it does nothing to fix the instability and broken trust already created by this administration. Many businesses that didn't place orders under a 145% tariff won't be anxious to try at a temporary 30%, particularly because the administration's whiplash changes already going back an forth mean that an order placed now under the temporary expectation that the tariff will be 30% has a significant risk of being much higher by the time the goods are produced and arrive at the Port of Los Angeles. 

    If you're driven away by information sources that don't just tell you what you want to hear, then you should probably reevaluate how you seek out and take in information. If your other sources of news just tell you how great the current administration is, it's not news, it's propaganda. 
    We might not often agree on things but that was spot on. 
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