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  • China widens ban on officials using iPhones but isn't enforcing it

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    mubaili said:
    All the compromises Apple has made over the years mount to not much. From now on Apple should be strong enough to say no more and prepare to move all its operations out. Apple can’t change a thing by continuing the engagement. The only Apple gets out is the damaged reputation. It’s no longer worth it. As a shareholder I am going to press Apple to pull out just like what Google has done many years ago. 
    Just because a minuscule amount of business will be lost that's no reason to walk away from the vast majority of a huge market, ceding it to Apple's competition and therefore strengthening that competition it needs to compete against worldwide? 

    Did Tesla pull out of China when the CCP banned Teslas, with their eight cameras, from government installations?  No, nor should they have.

    I lived in Vietnam for six months a few years ago, long enough to learn that drone use is highly restricted, as is taking any video of airports, military installations and even government buildings.  

    Each country has its own rules and the right to determine what is and isn't allowed.  You may have valid issues with China on human rights and how they regulate privacy, and for those reasons you may appropriately feel we shouldn't do business with China.  But this issue doesn't, in my view, rise to the same level.  It's hurting my 12,000 shares of Apple just like every other shareholder, but this will prove to be not so impactful on Apple's actual business. This too shall pass. 
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  • Major 'Apple Watch X' redesign rumored to arrive in 2024

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    I just wish they would add a round version to their offering. Yes, I know square is better for displaying data but I do not usually read a lot of my watch...lol. Use it for quick bits of info which would fit perfectly fine on a round watch.
    There will never be a round Apple Watch.  

    I wrote this here in 2015:
    Had the technology for a digital watch existed right from the start, it would have been absurd to create a round watch body/face, as there simply would have been no imperative to create a form so inefficient to the function of the timepiece.  Apple has simply set aside that imperative and determined that the best form is a watch body with straight sides, that simply extend the straight lines of the band around the wrist.  It's a more functionally elegant solution to the problem once you free yourself of the need to accommodate circular movements and the circular watch face those impose.  Today, traditional round watch faces are a cultural tradition, but culture evolves and so do forms and the fashions that reflect them.  Apple will not build round smartwatches, as they are not the appropriate form for the smartwatch paradigm.  It's just that simple.  The rest are doing so in order to differentiate from Apple and to take advantage of the existing cultural dogma.  The future will take care to correct their error.


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  • Twitter loses half its ad revenue, still weighed down by debt

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    I believe Musk is the only person on Earth smart enough to turn around this Twitter fiasco, and I know exactly how he can do it.  

    First, invent a Time Machine…
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  • New EU regulations mandate user-replaceable batteries in Apple products

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    gatorguy said:
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    red oak said:
    Its not a “significant win for consumers”,   Implementing this can lead to less water and dust proofing, heavier devices,  and less overall quality uni-body build 
    It's a massive win all round. 

    There was never any reason water and dust proofing had to be done the way the industry went about it. 

    Nano coatings have been around for years and have been specifically designed for waterproofing. 

    It's also worth challenging the very notion of waterproofing on a device not designed for regular immersion use, as made clear by the warranty of the device not even guaranteeing waterproofing and falling back onto a IP rating that 'should' suffice for the rated level of protection. Splash resistance is all that is really necessary for the vast majority of users.

    If a device is actually designed to spend most of its usage time in water, there is a provision for that:

    "To ensure the safety of end-users, this Regulation should provide for a limited derogation for portable batteries from the removability and replaceability requirements set for portable 
    batteries concerning appliances that incorporate portable batteries and that are specifically designed to be used, for the majority of the active service of the appliance, in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion and that are intended to be washable or rinseable. This derogation should only apply when it is not possible, by way of redesign of the appliance, to ensure the safety of the end-user and the safe continued use of the appliance after the end-user has correctly followed the instructions to remove and replace the battery. Where the derogation applies, the product should be designed in such a way as to make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals, and not by end-users."

    The 'quality vs accessibility' argument is not really the best way to evaluate the situation. Batteries should be easily replaceable and designers should be working to achieving that goal.

    In fact many parts of modern phones should be easily replaceable, even for qualified technicians. The less time needed to perform a repair and the less good components that need replacing, the better, so now the industry should be moving towards design for repair too. 

    Good to see something as simple as information getting some support too. Users should have simple, clear access to what type of battery they have in the phone. 
    I’m so much looking forward to your solution for the Apple Watch.  /s
    If only batteries for traditional waterproof watches were user-replaceable instead of just disposing of them or sending the watch to an expensive service center when the battery goes bad. /s


    Thanks for the disingenuous comment.  Traditional watches use far less energy versus a smartwatch and therefore the battery to overall volume of the device is much lower.  Apple has to look at every bit of volume in its watches (and phones) to pack in as much battery as possible while keeping the device size reasonable.  Requiring Apple Watch batteries to be replaceable toilet mean all Apple Watches might need to be as big, or bigger than, the Ultra.  It just makes no sense.  
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  • Apple's North Carolina Research Triangle Park campus will be enormous

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    Seems like there’s gotta be a medical/health focus on this site choice.  That’s a major focus of the Research Triangle.  Apple would want access to that professional employee base and proximity to the universities and other research entities there if they are planning a big push into some health-related products.  And Tim did say, a few years back, that Apple will ultimately be remembered for its contributions in the health field even more so than for the iPhone (a very significant statement to make). 
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