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  • Apple accused of cashing in as UK battles phone theft surge

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    The right to repair movement may have made it more profitable to switch/move stolen parts now (no surprise), Apple or any other company can make any device (smartphone) be a brick if it’s stolen, but that would require locking it down to the benefit of the owner, but the government entities still really want access to your device at their leisure.

    Any electronic item with sensitive information (mobile phones and tablets in particular) that can be connected to the internet should become a brick if it is stolen and the parts should not work if removed from the original device. I have no sympathy for the right to repair if it means creating a black market in stolen parts. Blaming Apple for something they didn’t want to do in the first place isn’t surprising…
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  • Apple appeals against EU mandate that it freely share its technology

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    Ford F150 trucks are an American thing not popular in Europe, so what, there has always been vehicles popular in Europe and Japan because of the road conditions what’s wrong with that? So if there is a fork in the road and iPhone’s in the EU countries are different so what, it was nice while it lasted, but it looks like there will be several different types of regional Apple devices cross the world due to Government interference.

    Where I have a problem with the EU is they threatened Apple for not bringing Apple Intelligence to Europe. If Apple chooses not to bring it or other features to Europe that’s their decision.

    The best Apple devices being sold in the USA, Canada, Mexico,, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, some parts of the Middle East, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, UK, China.

    Like tariffs, the rest of the world will move on even if the EU doesn’t but with some of the countries in the EU having high totals of Apple devices, I don’t think Apple will be going away, but I think a Fork will be stuck in regional devices.

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-market-share-by-country Some surprising countries are over 30% and some are over 40% noticed the lower end of Southeast almost all of the countries are over 30% and there are many other countries in Central and South America that are surprising in their penetration of iPhones, maybe the 16E iPhone, smaller iPads and Mini computer are not a bad thing for Apple worldwide over the long-term.

    What is interesting is that there are some countries that are over 30% penetration that you wouldn’t necessarily believe that Apple would have such a high number in that country, but whether the EU is in or out long-term I think Apple will be fine because of the multiple devices and multiple ecosystems.
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  • Apple's WWDC keynote YouTube page is now live

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    Rogue01 said:
    Is it going to be another cringy video, or an actual live keynote?  Either way, the announcements will likely be uneventful as they have been for the past few years.  More promises and then when the software gets released, another announcement saying all the features they advertised at WWDC will be 'coming soon' and not available (until Spring).   This has been their routine for years.

    I miss the days when Steve Jobs actually sold you on a new product, and you actually wanted it.  Now just a bunch of nobodies at Apple reading spec sheets.
    Give it up no one was as good as Steve Jobs in the tech/business world at presentations, part of his legacy is that every one of the other tech companies keep trying to copy him, and they fail, miserably, Apple just realizes they can’t equal Steve so they wisely don’t try to.

    Smart, move on Apple part like trying to copy Robin Williams, Muhammad Ali, or Steve Martin…. Some people are just born with charisma and showmanship.
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  • iPhone 16e selling well in Europe but can't beat its cheaper siblings

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    It’s a very good deal for those on a budget, however notice as usual most people if they can they try to get the upper end iPhones which defies the logic of the analyst/financial wizards who keep saying Apple should cater to the lower end of the market for marketshare.
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  • Apple teases OS redesign with new 'Sleek peek' splash page tagline

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    If Apple is so far behind, why are the Six flies of the Apocalypse (Google, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Spotify, and Epic) constantly buzzing around Apple to redesign or get access its ecosystems? And if they don’t get in, they petition the EU/DOJ, crying about unfairness and damage to their business plans.

    Apples disruption comes from its combination of MacOS, iOS, VisionOS, Apple Watch OS, iPadOS, and Apple Silicon. Designing a solution to stay connected to the internet and home to supercomputers for answers is easy, even Samsung can do it. But Apple aims for something higher than the information Broker/Ad companies.

    That’s what the competition is doing Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Amazon back in the day with Alexa always sounded good with that internet pipeline and Apple was always behind Amazon/Google and doomed because of it what happened to her and the smoke and mirrors show?

    The success of an AI model or Chatbot hinges on its constant connection to supercomputers. Privacy concerns are secondary, particularly when the objective is to collect vast amounts of public information. 

    This approach, is currently being employed by Google, Meta and now Microsoft, but Apples path is different from its competitors in terms of the privacy aspect, and the probability that they have new Apple Silicon (servers?) in play being upgraded and adapted in conjunction to their software efforts at the same time.

    WWDC 2025 should be interesting…


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