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How Tim Cook gets Trump to help Apple
Absolutely agree here and even as an outsider to US foreign policy, those tariffs were both directly and indirectly devastating for farmers who were already struggling. They were bailed out to the tune of billions but that only makes tariffs all the more laughable.foregoneconclusion said:
You should revisit Trump's use of tariffs from his first term. The soybean tariffs were such a disaster for American farmers that Republicans had to do a taxpayer funded bailout of those same farmers. So instead of boosting trade, it depressed trade and created debt levels so high that it could have destabilized American soybean production.libertyandfree said:
Well history of the first four years of the Trump Administration proved you wrong and most Americans, via the recent election, disagree with you.DAalseth said:Don’t bother trying to put lipstick on a pig. The next few years will be bad for everyone. Cook’s relationship with the man known for stabbing his friends in the back will not make any difference.
As for Tim Cook, he has no option but to table dialogue with whoever is running the show politically and in the interest of the company.
It's impossible to please everyone all the time so he will get flac from somewhere whatever he does but that's part and parcel of being a CEO.
Neither Trump nor Biden were fit for office (for different reasons) but of the two, Trump is by far the more reckless candidate on all fronts.
Stormy weather ahead and for multinational CEOs it's all about weathering the storm or somehow convincing Trump to listen to reason.
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European Union evaluating if Corning monopolizes the smartphone screen market
Take a look for yourself...9secondkox2 said:If this doesn’t show just how evil and overreaching the eu is, Nothing will.If something is the best, EU VIEWS IT AS ANTICOMPETITIVE. if everyone wants your stuff, because you’re that good, prepare to pay ridiculous fines and get holes poked in your business to make you not so good anymore.Another attack on an American company.Sickening.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_5681
Where is the overreach if an organisation opens an investigation to see if a company is breaking antitrust legislation and is providing the grounds for it?
Should companies be allowed to go unchecked if their business practices might mean they are abusing dominant position, harming competition and stifling innovation?
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European Union evaluating if Corning monopolizes the smartphone screen market
Best or not is not the issue here.mike1 said:God forbid you make the best product.
It's about abusing dominant position and harming competition, which in turn stifles innovation.
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Cook says Apple wasn't first with AI, but will be the best
The industry is tough. Apple has slacked in some areas and deserves criticism for slacking.auxio said:
If Apple doesn't try anything new, the media says they're not innovating. If they do, and it's not an immediate success, then they're a dud. Those who can, do, those who can't, critique.Pema said:we shall see.
1) Apple Car
2) Apple Vision Pro
3) iPhone 16
Apple needs a few hits to help us forget the duds.
Can you think of a valid reason (valid for consumers) as to why they went through all of 2023 without updating the iPad?
I was faced with the option of buying an already outdated iPad last Christmas and at full Apple retail prices (third party outlets were barred from applying discounts).
I criticised that by taking my money to a competitor.
When the 'new' amounts to implementing Android features on iOS and adding a button, that deserves criticism.
Refusing to call the camera button a button deserves criticism too.
This year's iPhone update was not great IMO and I can fully understand people wanting/expecting more for their money.
It is very subjective of course so YMMV but when the colour of an iPhone reaches headline status and people double down on the word 'iteration' you know something is off.
How about something simple: true fast charging (wired and wireless and reverse) up to competing flagship offerings, and the same for the non-pro screen refresh rates.
That at a minimum.
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Cook says Apple wasn't first with AI, but will be the best
It was not 'hesitancy' IMO but 'impossibility'. Apple goofed strategically. Nobody expects Tim Cook to actually come out and say so of course and that's fine.auxio said:
You know why Apple was hesitant about AI, but you'd rather dance around it with investor hype. To do AI properly you need to collect data about everything people do on your platforms. And to get people to agree to that, you need to hide the fact that you're doing it in convoluted terms of service agreements. Or what I call, sleazy business tactics. Something which Apple doesn't have the stomach for. Having business ethics is something which should be applauded in my books.avon b7 said:Tim has to talk it up. It's his job but sometimes he does go overboard.
We think it's the best. Yeah! I can't imagine him going on record as saying anything else, so long as 'think' is in there somewhere.
At least he is admitting that they are behind.
Yes, they have done ML for a long time but so has everybody else, and arguably better and more far reaching but I'm sure he'd still say he thinks it's the best.
I can't blame him for that but Apple made a strategic goof here and that's why it is behind and only the very latest hardware will be able to run it. If this were some kind of long term, well thought out strategic plan, at the very least, iPhones would have shipped with more RAM for the last few generations.
The reality looks more like' Yikes! We need to get rolling on this fast!'
That's why we got the initial response of not even uttering the letters 'AI' and doubling down on ML instead. In hindsight that was foolish but Apple literally had nothing to offer up back then so at least it is understandable.
One year on, AI was at least utterable and even became the star of WWDC but still there was nothing to show for it until 'later'. The new iPhones came and still AI was the star and STILL there was nothing to show for it and now the complete feature roll out isn't expected until 2025.
From the moment that the generative models became news and quickly stormed to over 100 million users, Apple has been on the back foot.Yes, it all takes humongous amounts of data to create viable solutions. There are ethical issues surrounding both the foundational data and the use of resulting AI solutions but they have been known for decades. From theory to reality and beyond.
Obviously, hesitancy is not a valid explanation here and let's not forget all the ML talk from Apple a couple of years back and everyone trying to claim Apple wasn't 'behind' because they've been 'doing ML since 2017'.
ML requires huge amounts of data too! Yet Apple wasn't 'hesitant'.
The problem is that Apple was caught wrong footed - strategically.
Huawei launched an entire AI platform back in 2018 with absolutely everything needed to get moving on AI. From cluster systems with thousands of cores to software frameworks (CANN/Mindspore) to chipsets for cluster systems (Ascend Max) right down to earbuds (Ascend Mini/Nano) and everything else in between.
Or Nvidia. Or Google. Or Meta.
Apple didn't move when it should have. It's now late to 'where the puck is'.
It isn't the end of the world but in terms of actual shipping products, it is trying to catch up.
