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  • US officials concerned over Apple's AI partnership plans in China

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    Trump to Walmart you can eat the tariff cost….. It just keeps getting richer, or should I say the American consumer/taxpayer is just getting poorer.
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  • US officials concerned over Apple's AI partnership plans in China

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    anthogag said:
    Apple is doing what it needs to to be a player China’s market. 

    The US government should not take allies for granted and work with allies on AI. Part of China’s government’s AI success would be alienating America from its allies for AI research and development. 
    But should Apple be developing tools to help the Communist Party of China harm its own citizens? "Following Chinese law" is not good enough.


    The world will continue progressing without the USA. Nixon and Kissinger’s visit to China emphasized the importance of global interaction and business. America’s current response is to retreat and blame China, Russia, and the EU. However, this approach will only lead to further decline and backwardness.

    Currently, some in the United States (White House) are overreacting due to perceived setbacks. However, the only viable response to challenges posed by China, Russia, and the European Union is to maintain a belief in the principles of mathematics, science, and education not attacking some of the best colleges in the world in the United States.

    Instead of seeking scapegoats in the United States or the world, which has been exemplified by the UK’s Brexit approach, it is crucial to recognize that isolating America will only lead to further economic decline and a diminished global standing. China plays the long game and they do it without making a fuss the opposite of the ugly American approach.

    See Intel, Xerox, IBM and US Steel for what happens when you retreat from competition and hide into yourself and stop iterating. You can’t hide from competition you have to meet it straight on over time and it doesn’t mean sanctioning, tariffs and the outright bullying, or the denial of science, math, and education when the answers are not what you want you can’t make it up à la maga Trump style.

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  • Japan moves closer to requiring third-party app stores

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    So there will be reciprocal access to Sony and Nintendo online stores huh?  :smile: 
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  • iPhone Fold rumored to get both under-screen and hole-punch cameras

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    The Apple folding iPhone will appeal to a small audience of people who have the money to spend between $1500-$2500 for a smartphone and the pricing (set to make a profit,) will bring out the usual howls about a Apple device costing too much, along with the usual Apple is doomed because of its introduction.

    The introduction will also generate rage from those who can’t afford it but want it along with those that say they won’t buy it both of which have become vocal subsets these days, another aspect with the introduction you will actually start to see real commentary (not the softball type given Samsung so far) going forward on folding phones, in short because Apple entered (validated) the market. All the YouTubers will be front and center with Jerry-Rigged and Linus at the forefront offering words of glee…. Let the Circus begin.  :smiley: 

    Note: The Apple folding phone probably will be the best in class upon its introduction software/hardware wise and that won’t matter either.
    neoncat

  • 'Price is Right' contestants nowhere close to Apple Vision Pro's astronomical price

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    CarmB said:
    danox said:
    A M2 MacBook Pro plus a R1 SOC, Lidar sensor plus 6 other sensors, 13 cameras, 2 Micro‑OLED screens no the Vision Pro is not going to be less 2 thousand dollars anytime soon… Most have unrealistic expectations that also applies to expecting AI to be Robbie the robot (permanently tied to Google’s super computers back home undercover except Google won’t be forth with with that fact)….

    https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/specs/ Note: the next generation probably will have a Apple C1 or C2 modem too.

    There is a way to lower cost and weight. Develop a version that is tethered to an Apple device like a MacBook or desktop Mac, of which there are millions in use. Put this less expensive version out not to replace the untethered Vision Pro but to provide a more affordable compliment. For one thing, Apple has decided to call the current version the Apple Vision Pro and not the Apple Vision. So the next Vision Pro continues at a high niche price point and Apple launches a tethered Vision, minus the Pro, for the masses. To continue on the basis of a standalone device requires substantial compromises in order to check in at more palatable price. As such requiring an external Apple device for such a product makes more sense. 

    I think it could be cheaper in the second generation somewhere between $2000 and $2500 but it’s unrealistic to expect something under $2000 even for a stripped down version. I don’t think it’s gonna be less than a base MacBook Pro (with three modest upgrades) or a M4 iPad Pro (with similar modest upgrades).

     Both are under or in the neighborhood of $2000-$2500. Look at the bill of materials. It just isn’t gonna be that cheap (the Vision Pro has to many state of the art sensors/screens and a new secondary R1 SOC along with a possible C series Apple modem in the future).
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