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discountopinion said:

The tariff game sort of makes sense in its destructive chaos. I do not like it one bit, but there is some method in the madness.

Ensuring that chips, electronics and other increasingly strategic products have a geopolitically diverse footprint makes perfect sense. There is a huge concentration risk at present which does not help anyone other than China.

Short term we will stumble and make mistakes brining these processes back to the US and Europe. That is ok and normal for any large transition. But a change like this does not happen on the Trump time scale, but if Trump does not blowtorch the industry to move then it will likely never do so.

Love him or hate him - Elon Musk’s Tesla is the most geopolitically resilient company from a supply chain standpoint. Very few other companies are.

I want to see a future where high tech is manufactured and invented in hubs of awesome across the globe. We are in the very early stages of spinning up the robots economy and why on earth should a small island off the coast of China be a single point of failure and why should mainland China be a single point of failure for such a large quantity of goods when many other countries can do the same work to build planet wide resilience.

So why does Trump want to cancel the Chips & Science Act?  Why is tree no cognizance of the amount of time it will take to move production of cutting edge chips to the U.S.?  Why tariff the countries making the equipment used to make chips?  There’s no sense in this destructive chaos.  It’s Trump being transactional and trying to get as many parties to the table as possible, but not to create constructive policy or trade partnerships.  He’s doing this as a means to garner brides got himself and his cronies.  It’s a power grab, without concern for the destruction done to America’s position in the world.   

Seems like a lot of years I’ve been waiting for the use cases.  And a lot of years ago I presented my view of how Apple could bring two separate screens together seamlessly, but it would require a complex hinge mechanism with some sort of edge protector for each screen that steps out of the way at the last sub-millimeter as the phone unfolds and the two screen edges come into contact.  That seems the only way to have the same hard surface display as iPhones have today, with no crease showing or forming over time.  But what do I know, maybe there’s some miracle tech coming that will allow a hard surface display to fold exactly flat at the fold, like a piece of paper in the hands of an expert origamist.  But what is the use case?

And here’s something to add to the story.  I had colon cancer last year.  Stage 3, bad stuff.  Two major surgeries, one to remove a segment of my sigmoid colon and install a colostomy bag and another nine months later to take down the bag and reconnect my innards, plus six months of chemotherapy in between.  This had me all day every day laying in bed with one or the other of my two iPhones in hand, watching YouTube or researching investments, etc. admittedly an extreme amount of time with phone in hand, but what if I wanted to lay in bed for just two hours doing a variety of tasks on my iPhone fold, watching video and running spreadsheets, etc, how would I hold this unfolded beast?  I mean, I’d want it unfolded for such uses, wouldn’t I?  Larger screen better for spreadsheet work and for videos, right?  How does one hold an unfolded foldable smartphone for two hours while laying prone?   

bestkeptsecret said:

Time for some pics!



My box is still shrink-wrapped from 14 years ago. The iPhone came with a nice dock as well!
Most importantly, the phone still works!

Still a beautiful and elegant device.  It doesn’t look dated, as any other phone from that era certainly does.