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Useless and hopeless... fixing the existing mechanisms to actually work would be a good start. Why I would want to limit regular communication is a mystery to me (maybe someone should revisit the name iPhone) -- that's the main reason why my kids have a mobile phone to begin with. Who gives a crap about sexting (and other things prude Americans can't stand) in Messages and Facetime if Apple makes it impossible to really block shite "social" media apps and websites that make it super easy to even accidentally stumble across much worse stuff!

No one needs "artificial inflation" (or "AI") battery management. Adding a few no-brainer options to iOS like letting a phone stay permanently in Low Power Mode, giving a few more controls on how to save power and allow iPhones older than iPhone 15 to also limit charging to less than 100% would be a good start.

nubus said:

Hard to see anyone on Android switching. You have Samsung A56 and Pixel a9 both featuring 120Hz variable rate displays with more brightness. Even A55 did so. They all have flexible cameras (multiple lenses) and they are available in.... colors! Their AI features do work and in far more languages priced way below. 16e is not the switcher phone.

If 120Hz and high brightness are the only killer features you can find on an Android find that users care about, then they might as well stay on Android. The camera on those midlevel Android phones are utter crap and the A18 runs circles around the Exynos 1580.

Hiking internal prices (which are already higher than in the US) to make up for the margin losses in the US will put a massive damper on those non-US markets. Of course Apple knows this and will do what is best for them. However I'm really surprised that Morgan Stanley is farsighted enough to suggest such a dumb move...

The whole Google thing is a complete disgrace for Apple and totally hurting their: "pay the premium for our stuff, we care about your privacy" story and reputation. Stop f*cking around and kill that irresponsible deal already. Apple is really lucky their "AI" shit never got off the ground in the first place because they're the ones seeing the least hurt when the current LLM jokes implode for real. We're already seeing the first clear indications of that: The search results are filling up with all the same LLM generated nonsense slob, ranking optimised to show up at the very top, fake information popping up everywhere, search engines starting to provide "AI" assistance to filter through all the shit but hallucinating equally nonsense answers while the "AI" utilities get not only fatter and slower but also yielding worse results because there're no actual quality training data so their in[g|c]esting their own "AI" generated "data". Meanwhile the big companies are trying so sell some hat tricks as reasoning capabilities which is one of the corner stones of actual intelligence. It's a shame Eddy is actually outing himself as the same utterly clueless person as all the other tech leaders, I thought they would actually be different at Apple.