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  • Apple A19, C2, M5 chip identifiers all leaked in early iOS 18 code

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    ApplePoor said:
    Apple has to keep making incremental updates for cash flow. 

    The thought that the M5 might have two parts is intriguing as that could mean the MacPro tower could possibly support external I/O  cards in the tower.

    With the White House meandering Tarrif policy (we the users pay the tariff, something not comprehended by the current occupant of that structure), we will probably see significant price increases this fall and going forward. The Golden Goose may be in Jeopardy.

    No doubt the price of some goods will rise, some will not. It all depends on the relative market power of the buyer and the seller on how much of any tariff will be passed on to the consumer, or absorbed through margins.  Some importers of course will use the tariff as an excuse for even higher price hikes. It all depends on the product and its market position. But you cannot blanket say the users will pay the tariff.

    The general 10% tariff is a revenue raiser, the higher tariffs are punitive and generally reciprocal to some form of restriction on US goods or in response to an export subsidy or other incentive. Interestingly, prior to WW1 there was no income tax and federal government raised revenue through tariffs on imported goods.

    I spent my entire career in favour of open markets, but I am no longer so sure. Free trade depends on everyone playing by the same rules.  And they do not. All too often it is free trade for me but not for thee. The most open markets are the USA, Australia and  New Zealand (Canada for example has so many tariffs  its government even has a handy tariff finder website for anyone thinking of exporting to it). But even then there are  trade barriers such as quarantine (can be abused)  or subsidies on production that can just be regarded as export subsidies even if that is not their purpose. Everyone else pays lip service to free trade but protects local production through import bans, quotas, tariffs and subsidies. So while I don’t agree with what Trump is doing, there is a part of me that likes seeing the international hypocrites finding out how it feels.
    Alex1Nwilliamlondonmeterestnztht

  • Apple plans low-cost MacBook based on iPhone processor

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    I think RAM would be an issue. It would not be a standard A18 pro and not be subject to derision in that front.

    i am a bit disappointed in the screen screen size though. I would hope it was an attempt to revive the 11 inch MBA (I still have one) or the failed 12 inch rMB, but with more ports.

    it better have more than one port.
    williamlondon

  • Apple's 'F1' ad in Wallet won't hurt you, but it might save you $10

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    We pay a premium for Apple kit to not have this kind of shit.
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  • Car makers reject CarPlay Ultra as an Apple overreach

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    AppleZulu said:
    Apple's latent plans to build its own car undoubtedly drove at least some other carmakers to develop and begin implementation of a plan to do their own dashboard software. Letting an actual competing carmaker live in your dashboard would indeed be nuts.

    Then Apple dropped the car plans. I suspect that decision was at least in part due to other carmakers starting to back away from CarPlay. CarPlay reinforces the Apple ecosystem and sells iPhones. Trading that for a gamble on a new car in a densely competitive market, maybe not so much.

    With that question out of the way, some companies like GM may now be feeling double-crossed, because CarPlay really does provide a huge service to carmakers. For the one-time cost to the car manufacturer of including a dummy terminal, Apple provides updated software for satnav, music, phone, and more in perpetuity. Any future need for more powerful hardware to run that software is also handled by Apple, by selling updated iPhones.

    Carmakers are used to selling cars as finished products, with no expectation that they will ever update anything on a car that has left the showroom.  Sure, scraping customer data and selling subscription services could be a whole new revenue stream for carmakers, but that comes with the huge costs of creating a new division that must develop, manage and update all of that for years after a consumer buys a car (while also creating something slightly newer and better but yet still backward compatible for new car models). Apple is able to include the cost of years of software updates, including new features, in the price of an iPhone, and users are accustomed to buying a new iPhone every four-ish years to accommodate even more new features. For a car, people expect the average lifespan to be a lot more than four years. Consumers are also unlikely to be enthusiastic about paying to replace a head-unit or some $1,000 computer component every few years just to run new software in the car they already paid $30,000+++ for. 

    So I think even with the expanded CarPlay Ultra, a lot of carmakers will start to adopt it. Late-model Honda/Acura cars (and many others, no doubt) already have digital instrument-cluster screens that can interface with CarPlay. With "regular" CarPlay, mine already displays podcast or song titles and album covers inside the tachometer. It seems pretty likely that CarPlay Ultra will be rolled out there soon enough. 
    For our second and third cars we went with cars old enough that you could still swap out the entertainment unit with a kenwood wireless CarPlay after market unit. 
    williamlondon

  • Apple Vision Pro will help get to the bottom of colonoscopy cancer detection

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    I have always wanted to be totally immersed in someone’s colon.

    And for some reason, this story reminded me of Dr Nikolas Van Helsing. Even though he isn’t a gastro.
    williamlondon