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  • Apple stock finally claws back some losses following mixed Trump tariff message

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    Hope all the shorts took a bath.
    watto_cobra

  • New Apple Watch ad reveals how the Emergency SOS feature saved a man in Australia

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    Really great ad. 

    I was thinking the brief background shot of the land didn’t look like Bryon (far too dry and no big cape with white lighthouse) and the dramatisation didn’t happen in Australia, but then a westpac rescue chopper turned up.
    mattinozwatto_cobra

  • A flood of panic-buying has started in anticipation of major iPhone price increases

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    That’s right Mfryd, it is easy to forget that these policies are what Trump voters voted for. That they are likely to not work doesn’t matter as Trump promised to do them. Ironic that a politician actually moving to honour their election commitments might be just as harmful if not more so than the usual lying liar variety.

    From the perspective voter in West Virginia, no doubt  they figure they have nothing to lose, and if it doesn’t work, it will bring down the progressives, mega rich and political class in Dc benefitting from the current/old system. The forgotten people will settle for destruction of that system, as it doesn’t work for them.

    why it came to this is a question we all should be asking ourselves.
    watto_cobra

  • BBC cries foul over lack of branding for its Apple News stories

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    jfreedle2 said:
    DAalseth said:
    I hope the BBC wins and nails Apple and Google to the wall. Quoting without attribution is simply theft. It’s not ok when AI scrapers do it, and it’s not ok when news aggregators do it, it’s not ok when a high school kid does it in a report. It’s just not ok. 
    The BBC is using AI to generate the case and is delusional to think that Apple would not credit the source of any “news” article. I could see Google doing it. The BBC should lose, but given the corruption in the UK, I doubt that the case will be decided on facts.
    Well, yes, I hope Apple does properly credit the source in its headlines/ notifications. The question is how prominent the logo and attributions should be. It does not have to be one or the other loses, but a negotiated outcome. Apple pays the providers for what it aggregates.

    Now, I do have a bit of concern that outfits like the BBC and Murdoch press  intend to use this process as a stalking horse to demand social media platforms like Facebook, instagram, X and tic tok start paying for stuff their users decide to post on their platforms. They do not have control of what people publish unless they go down the content control ( aka censorship) path. Which should be a no no.  
    watto_cobra

  • A flood of panic-buying has started in anticipation of major iPhone price increases

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    Panic demand being brought forward.  An alternative approach would be to just keep existing phones for a longer upgrade cycle. Which has the added benefit of seeing how things pan out.
    muthuk_vanalingamblastdoorssfe11watto_cobra