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  • Apple's satellite plans could be stalled by Elon Musk's Starlink


    Appleish said:
    Has Tim Apple considered giving Elmo a million dollars?
    No but he did give Mango Mussolini $1M for his inauguration. I guess $1M doesn’t buy you much these days.
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  • Apple's satellite plans could be stalled by Elon Musk's Starlink

    AppleZulu said:
    DAalseth said:
    you wanted your comic book villain?
    Huh, what’s the word. You know, for someone working inside the government, trying to use government contacts, and coercion, to get them to restrict competition, to benefit that persons company. To use the tools of government to establish athemselves in control of an abusive monopoly.

    There’s a word for that. Corr…corru…something. 
    The corruption here is monumental. To use one of Trump’s favorite phrases, “it’s like you’ve never seen before.”

    Musk is a guy with billions of dollars in US government contracts across a dozen departments annd agencies. Now he’s been given license to dig into every one of those agencies with the power to fire employees and cut off funding (while the GOP Congress shrugs at this unconstitutional usurpation of their power and authority). So what do you think it means when one of Musk’s companies “requests” one of those threatened agencies to take actions to give him advantage over a competitor?

    Before anyone tries to respond with some sort of tortured rationalization, imagine the paragraph above with the name “Soros” substituted for “Musk,” and see if your rationalization still suits you before you post it. If it feels wrong if someone you don’t like is doing it, then you should probably realize it’s also wrong when your preferred characters are doing it. 
    Are you saying that every accusation is a confession? 
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  • EU antitrust agency may not fine Apple much to avoid tariff war escalation

    nubus said:
     Let’s not focus on moving goalposts and instead simply be glad someone is standing up for Apple in the face of abusive and corrupt foreign powers. 
    3 countries having North American geographical areas are on the "15 least corrupt countries list" according to transparency.org.
    U.S. is not one of them. U.S. is globally #28 and #5/6 in North America. Did you try to fix your own house first?

    I guess not. The White House is now a Tesla showroom funded by taxpayers while the next round of tariffs affects everyone but Tesla. The art of being a back scratching swamp creature.

    All of this for an article based on hearsay from a lobbyist. Have you considered that EU can't keep fines and has no smartphone production to protect?
    Fixing the corruption of the last four years is exactly what’s going on these days. Look no further than the USAID farce. So there is a great effort going on there. The president talking up an American car he bought after that same company has been vandalized, terrorized, and assaulted by coordinated criminals seems like a pretty dang good thing to do to most Americans. 

    Of course the eu has no iPhone of its own. If they did, they’d make money instead of stealing it from American companies - especially apple. You can cover for the corruption as much as you want, but the first round was obvious as it attacked the business models of American companies. And now they stopped pretending and showed how blatantly criminal they are by simply singling out apple by itself, shifting goalposts yet again. All the while the suck getting richer by the billions. And where are those billions going? So it’s best that Apple has a powerful ally who not only says he’ll do something about the abuses, but actually does something about it. 
    Boy do you “Muppets” know how to double down.
    So they are fixing the corruption by gutting the CFPB, you know, the anti-scam police. And by firing the ispectors general. Whose job is to root out “corruption”.
    Boy did they ever show that USAID who’s boss, didn’t they. I mean who’s job would it be to, I don’t know, let’s say go to Greenland for a little photo-op with Usha and JD and sell the natives on the idea of joining “America!!!!!!”. An agency like USAID could’ve refurbished a hospital, built an arena, then hand out little American Flags and hand out Hershey chocolate bars to children and have them wave at Usha as she stepped off the plane.
    But no these “geniuses”  gutted USAID (American soft power). 
    So the Greenlanders just rejected poor “Usha”, snif snif, and rebranded MAGA = Make America Go Away.    
    But worry not, Elon will definitely convince them when he steps off the plane yelling “CHAINSAW!!!!”. 

    Now you go on saying that Europe is stealing iPhones from American companies. Must be news to millions of European citizens who paid  €1000+ a pop for one. Or maybe Tim Cook should’ve just stopped all shipments to the EU. Maybe Tim should be consulting with Mr. Doggie, I mean DOGE himself. Look at how well he’s running Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX to the ground, despite his so many successes like 
    Full Self Driving….. ah wait a minute
    Landing Starship on the moon…….no that’s not it
    Building the Hyperloop……. Oh not that
    While he is getting the equivalent of $8 million a day of public money,  at the same time he is cutting grandma’s cheque and is cutting back on waste, fraud and abuse while gutting agencies that would regulate him. And he’s doing all that with “Big Balls” while the 2nd in command is playing golf at Mar-a-lago. 

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  • Apple Watch could gain cameras for Visual Intelligence

    I want a camera on my Apple watch but only if it looks like the thumbnail.


     :D 
     
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  • Apple may be working on two new Studio Display models

    macxpress said:
    wozwoz said:
    Seriously, how long can it take to release a monitor update? The existing model sits too high ... and I have been waiting a long time for one that is not ergonomically compromised.  The current height variable Studio Display only goes UP:  hopefully, Apple will figure out how to make it go down in height as well.

    They sell this display with a mount that goes up and down. I'm not sure why this is such an issue for you. I guess maybe you want like an iMac G4 type arm which had a lot of adjustment, but was very compromised with quality issues. Those arms failed a lot. 
    Yes and the "privilege" of having your monitor go up or down will set you back an extra $400. 
    Or if you buy a standard mount and later you get a standing desk and want say a VESA mount, you got to bring in your monitor to the Apple store. 
    So you're saying that Apple's crack design team couldn't figure something like this out? You know something that was available with the old iMac?
    Who are those designers? Did they poach them from Elon Musk's Cyber Truck division? 
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