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  • Apple's fight with Trump's tariffs will shift the cost to customers

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    A margin drop of 8.5 to 9% isn't sustainable for the investor crowd. 

    That made me laugh really hard. For one Apple has ridiculous gross margins, more than pretty much any other company in the world, a reduction may not be great but "not sustainable"?!? GTFO. The other neglected part here (as usual, US people only know/care about 'murica): the US is the largest regional market, but the rest of the world is still larger and not affected by the tariffs.

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  • iOS 18.4 lands with more Apple Intelligence, Apple Vision Pro app

    profprof
    The killer feature of this update: Updates from the App Store are finally as quick as they should be. Almost too quick, the update buttons (and changes) shift quite a bit when installing a ton of app updates.
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  • Apple doesn't appear to have plans to revive the iPhone mini

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    hmlongco said:
    People say they want one. Apple makes one. People don't buy one. Apple stops making one.

    Rinse. Repeat.

    People did buy it, one dealer I know told me that they sold more iPhone Minis months for months than any other non-Apple or Samsung brand model. Sometimes it's not entirely clear why Apple ditches a product; all bad sales rumours are only unconfirmed speculation. One other products I totally loved was the 17" MBP which was killed but luckily reintroduced as the 16" MBP. Maybe the same will happen to the Mini but maybe not... with that product I have the suspicion that they feel they can't get the margin that they want because people see it as a lesser instead of a more premium product... it's funny to see how that "oooh, but thinner is better and more premium" iPhone Air will play out.
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  • The EU is betraying iPhone users and weakening privacy for political gain

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    You're so horribly misguided in your smear piece but one question that keeps on popping up in my head: Why the frog do you even give a shit? Cui bono? As you've said so eloquently yourself: We Europeans have not requested your opinion and are even less looking for you to be our saviour. If Apple decides that the European market is not relevant enough to comply with the DMA; fair game to not serve it or less well then. I'm thinking hard of desirable features which are missing, I can truly live without the (botched!) Apple AI and US people do envy us for the ability to have third party app stores already... If you want to moan and bitch about bonkus laws, try the UK for the back door requirements or the US for their spy laws... oh wait, supposedly doesn't bother you due to being a US citizen: frog the f off!
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  • How to turn on Siri on macOS without sending your Contacts to Apple

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    lotsacaffeine said:
    I’m not sure I understand all the fuss. Siri sends contact names to Apple to process requests, at the time of the request. It doesn’t upload your contacts en mass when you toggle Siri on…

    Excerpt from Apple’s privacy statement:
    When you use Siri and Dictation, your device may send contextual data to Apple, including from third-party apps you allow to integrate with Use with Siri Requests, such as:
    • Contact names, nicknames, and relationships (for example, “my dad”), if you set them up in your contacts
    • Form of address, if set in language and region settings
    • Music and podcasts you enjoy
    • Names of your and your Family Sharing members’ devices
    • Names of accessories, homes, scenes, shared home members in the Home app, and Apple TV user profiles
    • Labels for items, such as people names in Photos, Alarm names, and names of Reminders lists
    • Names of apps installed on your device and shortcuts you added through Siri


    I'd also be very surprised if they'd just send the data once when enabling the feature, that doesn't make sense at all. And with most people using crap services like WhatsApp, the data is out in the wild anyway; it's not like sending it also to Apple would make much of a difference... if anything I'd prefer Apple to have it rather than Meta. I use neither, so ho hum...
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