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  • Trump's 104% tariff against imports from China goes live

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    I wonder how Tim feels now about helping to pay for Trump’s inauguration to the tune of 1 million.

    I’m so glad I got my iPhone 16 Pro a month ago . . .and in Europe. Let me know if you want any Apple products from here. 
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  • Apple's folding iPad or MacBook: What to expect, and when it will ship

    fred1fred1
    Why don’t any of the images here show any continuity between the screens? Or are we talking only about two separate screens?
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  • Jake from State Farm ends up on the Severed Floor in silly ad crossover

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    I don’t have insurance with State Farm or ever watch Severance, but I liked the ad. 
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  • Apple has officially killed off the Home Button

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    AmberNeely said:
    randominternetperson said:

    In fact, the introduction of the iPhone 16e also means that you cannot purchase any new Apple products that feature a Lightning port

    That really is a milestone. I hadn't noticed that.

    We need an in memoriam for that little guy. So much better than all the alternatives at the time.
    THANK YOU. I know people are like "ugh Apple and its proprietary charging ports" but it was such an upgrade over the 30-pin, which was honestly a nightmare, and microUSB?? I still have a few things that use microUSB and they are one of the most "death by a thousand paper cuts" interactions you can have with a charging port. Especially on all-black electronics where the port is kind of obscured (like Bluetooth speakers and the such.)

    I dunno. I do prefer USB-C, I think it's a far and away better than the rest of the USB lineup, and I do think its better than Lightning, but at no point in my life did I ever look at a Lightning charger and get mad. (Definitely can't say the same for the 30-pin or microUSB... and don't even get me stated on miniUSB.) 
    Yes, it was a huge improvement over the 30-pin connector, but the key word here is “proprietary”. I remember when the lightning port was first presented and Phil Schiller made a big deal about the courage it took Apple to do this. Yes, courage to invent a port that would require everyone, including headphone manufacturers (this was before Bluetooth was so common) to pay Apple a premium to use their connector. Courageous? Not sure. Lucrative? Very. 
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  • Tim Cook teases Feb. 19 launch of what is probably the new iPhone SE

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    It’s a new version of an existing product. That’s why he calls it “the newest member of the [existing] family.” If it were a new class of product it would be an addition to the family. 
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