avon b7

Chock_Mossley said:

MassiveAttack said:

He is right. Apple is not as innovative as Apple was before. 
Apple Intelligence = Apple Incompetence. 

But will Nothing still be around in 7 ~ 10 years? 
I dunno.

It’s not like EVERY OTHER tech company’s first attempts at AI haven’t been dumpsters fires. They held off on what they did, because they didn’t want a put a glue on pizza debacle. That said, I’m fine if they never release it. AI is a smoke show that isn’t going to get much better than it is now and it’s all based on stealing from others

You'd have to define 'dumpster fire'. 

Perplexity Pro has suited my needs very well. AI in language translation, NLP, NLG, image/video creation/manipulation is amazing and constantly improving. 

LLM's in industry are having a massive impact on almost everything they touch (with the huge exception of customer service Chatbots). 

"Apple's "good faith efforts to engage" with the European Commission."

I think this takes the biscuit.

It's fine for Apple to disagree with the EU but to 'comply' with a requirement that expressly goes against anti-steering tactics by imposing a seperate system that effectively imposes the same financial burden on developers under a different name is not engaging in good faith efforts.

Apple is really earning itself a bad name here. 

Even Trump must know that nothing substantial can be done in this term so I can only imagine this is just some kind of damage limitation exercise with two possible outcomes in his mind.

To strongarm Tim Cook into announcing more on-shoring or to say that Apple and others aren't doing their part (in spite of tariffs) and then to start his usual blame game.

He'll say it's not his policies but US companies not doing enough. All completely oblivious to the fact that everything is of his own doing.

In a 'damned if you do and damned if you don't' scenario, Apple and everyone else should take the hit, short term (up to the end of Trump's term) and pass the tariff's onto consumers and label the increase as such.

The EU should do the same and apply reciprocal tariffs.

China has already stood it's ground and it looks like the EU is doing the same but in a politically different manner. 

I doubt that stand-off would last long and Trump will blink, just like he did with China. 

In such an unstable period, we might actually see Republicans begin to take a stand and push for changes in approach (with mid-term elections very much on their political horizons). 

The idea of impeachment for gross mismanagement of policy or similar (both foreign and economic) surely must be something worth looking at. I know it's been whispered from time to time. 

For Apple, as I've said for a while now, the perfect storm has emerged. Partly its own fault and partly out of its control. 

It has plenty of room to reduce margins to stimulate sales in other world regions and offset a unit sale decline. Shareholders would have no option but to understand and swallow that bitter pill. 

Any further concessions to Trump are likely to be met with further unreasonable demands. 

AppleZulu said:

It's also interesting to ponder the implications of imposing a tariff on a specific product designed by a specific American company but manufactured abroad, while not imposing the same tariff on competing products from, say a Korean company. What exactly is such a policy supposed to be accomplishing? 

Exactly! 

Reading through this thread I was thinking about the very same issue right when I read your post.

It just makes no sense to punish Apple and single it out. 

I fear this may be some form of mental rambling that flashed across his mind and before he had time to really think it through, he was 'Truthing' it to the wider world.

Not sure how Lutnick or Bessent will be able to spin this one. 

Or will this 25% get 'paused' too? 

On another level, claiming Tim Cook was made aware of this some time ago does put him in a bit of a predicament. Perhaps he simply ignored Trumps petitions. 

canukstorm said:

avon b7 said:

My guess is a thin (very thin?) puck-like device with a thin (very thin?) LED strip around the base.

Brushed metal (caressible) or glass (lickable). 

Internal wireless connectivity (no ports) and using mics/speakers from other devices. 

Cloud processing plus subscription. Bingo! 

Honesty, the 'sci-fi dream' is what it's always been: AI with an interface of some kind. Ideally voice and a screen. That's it.

Would a humanoid robot be a plus? Yes for some situations, but if it's going to sell in hundreds of millions, I'll rule that option out.

Ha! Good find! But not thin enough!