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  • Apple to build AI servers in Houston, invest $500B in U.S. economy

    sunman42sunman42
    Why is it the big corporations keep building fabs or factories in the worst of all possible places (south-central Arizona, which has no water to speak of, and looks to have less every year for the foreseeable future; Houston, which is ground zero for massive flooding associated with hurricanes; Taiwan, which has frequent earthquakes and typhoons, not to mention being in Beijing’s crosshairs)?
    williamlondonwatto_cobrawelshdog

  • Tim Cook's tweet hints at new name for iPhone SE 4

    sunman42sunman42
    22july2013 said:
    *snip*

    Elon's four car models are S,3,X,Y.

    ——

    And one of his nine, or is it eleven, rugrats is named “X” <something unpronounceable> <something else unpronounceable>. So what? Tesla isn’t doing so well lately; maybe Tim should call the new phone the IPhone BYD to help sales in China. Or if it’s made in India, the “iPhone Exile all Muslims” to curry (sorry) favor with the political leadership there.

    Honestly, can’t we just wait two days and find out?

    ronnbaconstang

  • Services buoy slumping iPhone sales in record-breaking holiday quarter earnings

    sunman42sunman42
    JFC_PA said:
    lol. A 0.008608321377331 drop in phone sales revenue is “slumping”?

    Good one. More in line with the text itself “marginal”. 

    Buy a better headline writer. 
    Not clear where you got that number, that had neither a per cent symbol nor a unit after it. iPhone sales revenue declined $600M. While that's notch in terms of the overall sales picture for Apple, it's a fair chunk of change. I mean, would you turn $600M down if someone offered it to you?
    Chidorograndact73ronncharlesnmuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobraddawson100neoncat

  • Trump's chip tariff threat takes aim at Apple's TSMC partnership

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    hmlongco said:
    "They needed an incentive and it will be they will not want to pay a tax"

    They (TSMC) do not pay the tax. The American company that imports the product pays the tax, and and they usually pass that increase on to the consumer, resulting in higher prices.

    TSMC makes the same amount of money per chip no matter what.

    [snip]

    If you believe the people who try to assemble a BOM for every Apple product, a 100% tariff on the A18 chip would cost Apple (not TSMC) an extra $45 per iPhone 16. Add in a buck or two for Apple having to deal with the federal customs bureaucracy, and if Apple wanted to pass all that along to the customer, how many people (not TSMC) salivating for the latest model would be deterred by a $50 price increase? Or maybe less, if Apple decides to eat some of it.

    ronn

  • iOS 18.3 arrives with Visual Intelligence update, notification summary changes

    sunman42sunman42
    M68000 said:
    sunman42 said:
    This is weird. I had Apple Intelligence turned off in Settings -> Apple Intelligence and Siri in iOS 18.2 on my iPhone 14 Pro. Installed the 18.3 update today, and I no longer have an "Apple Intelligence and Siri" in 18.3, only a "Siri" one. Looks like I can't even opt to turn Apple Intelligence on (not that I can imagine doing so).
    I think you need iPhone 15 pro or newer to run whatever this apple intelligence feature can do.   Your phone is not supported.
    I suspect you are right. I guess I have a very valuable iPhone now.
    williamlondondewme