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Apple to build $1B campus in Austin, increase employment nationwide
I imagine many of these new domestic operations will support Foxconn’s new factories being constructed in multiple states. Factories filled with robotic assembly platforms can be located and run from the USA better than almost anywhere else. Foxconn robots replace about 2/3rds of the labor associated with assembling an iPhone, and those robots cost less than the one-year wage of a Chinese worker. -
Apple now has up to 50 doctors on staff for health tech work, report says
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Some iPhone apps handing precise location data to as many as 40 businesses
“Developers in turn may be willing to sell that data as an alternative to putting pricetags on their apps.” This is PRECISELY what no app should be allowed to do, or else Apple execs should stop saying they do not monetize user data. Allowing a third party to directly monetize personal data places Apple in the position of accomplice. Deceiving users about the practice means that Apple is obstructing the search for truth and the protection of privacy. -
ECG feature in Apple Watch is already saving lives [u]
I have a healthy heart, but I would not consider doing WITHOUT this cutting-edge technology, or Apple’s other innovations either. It is not that expensive — a few dollars a week. The make-believe technologies that we see in the movies will in real life be designed and sold by Apple, Inc. Apple Watch is one of them. -
Apple begins selling 18W USB-C power adapter separately for iPhones & iPads
jungmark said:The vast majority of users get along fine w the 5W. I charge my iPhone overnight. Plug in at work or car when I'm low. Rinse and repeat.