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  • 20 years of Apple Ring rumors continue with leaker's lament

    Maybe Gurman can front Apple the resources it’ll take to bring the ring to market, including the essential resources like cash, people, a facility, and employees salaries for a cut of the downstream revenue? 

    Apple has clearly allocated the time, resources, and facilities they need to support their current near term and long term development efforts. I doubt they have set aside a big boatload of time and resources to dedicate to working on something that somebody outside of Apple thinks they should be working on. 

    I could be wrong. 
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  • Trump's new China trade deal is still bad for US business & consumers


    Interesting article. 

    As we’ve seen in this admin, things are always in motion and never stuck in the mud. 

    So we will see how these deals turn out for the long term benefit of America. 

    But one thing is for certain: something msjor had to be done. Constantly losing ground to other nations was not sustainable. Sure, you might get a cheaper iPhone today, but you may not even be able to get an iPhone tomorrow. 

    I’ll take long term over short term any day. 
    Except, there's no long-term gain to be had, and just more wealth shifting up away from the middle class to the upper on this path.

    If he really wanted to restore manufacturing to the US, he'd fund education to the maximum extent possible. We do not have the manufacturing manpower base or educated populace needed to do this!

    He and his party are doing the opposite.

    "Things are always in motion" is not a good thing for international trade relations or US businesses that don't know what to expect, or budget for, on a day-to-day basis.
    It’s been 5 months. And the tarriffs less than that. And deals still in motion. Can hardly conclude what you’re saying from that. 

    Is it possible it doesn’t work as hoped? Sure. We live in an uncertain and imperfect world full of people acting in bad faith, etc. but is it worth a shot? 100%. The alternative is to continue to decline. One way it’s much closer to certainty of success is if one group of people stop attacking the guy every time he breathes, and gets behind what’s obviously a noble goal, things would go much smoother and have a better outcome. 

    Manpower is fully available. Have you looked at the unemployment rates? Education is a matter of training. Unfortunately, much of what passes for education today has little to do with reading, writing, and arithmetic. That’s thanks to a partisan led federal education department. The states do a better job. Almost anyone can learn how to do repetitive things, no matter how detailed. The key is starting. Sure it takes time. But it never happens unless you start. A lot of unemployed people today would love to have these jobs. 

    Things being in motion refers to the agility of the current admin and their near unprecedented ability to pivot in an instant, constantly evaluating and executing. Not just rolling with something bevause they already were heading in that direction. If it’s not advancing favorably, the smart thing to do is pivot. And keeping things in motion also helps guard against letting bad faith heads of state pin them down to bad deals. 

    China is tough. Bevause of the usa pressing the “easy button” decades ago, we have built up an enemy into being a major force on the world stage. It will not be easy to wean off of the “cheap” Chinese manufacturing, but it will be the wise thing to get started on. If not, the ISA will just keep declining until it’s no longer the superpower it has been. If the answer is not what the President is doing, it’s certainly not also the status quo - or worse, pouring even more money into our adversaries - or even other economies in general. 

    Bold and italics mine. This is a ridiculous assessment of what this administration does. Fire, Ready, Fire, with no "aim" step and a "ready, fire" sequence out of order is no way to run a global trade program, much less a lemonade stand. There's no plan. There's just a hope that this will work, and design to shift money up and out of the middle class.

    I'm with you on "China is tough." But, that's about all in this few paragraphs that I agree with. High tech US manufacturing that the CHIPS act started is not going well, and that's been years. The US has been cutting funding to education in a bipartisan effort for half a century. No education effort. No "Almost anyone can learn how to do repetitive things, no matter how detailed" effort.

    Look up "No child left behind" and where we are now, and which administration started the requirement to educate for tests, not for learning, and tell me it's a partisan-led federal education department. The states do not do a better job, and there's no realistic way you can say that.

    Penalizing US businesses and therefore US consumers to do this isn't the way to do it. Not funding education and further cutting for the umpteenth time with the big beautiful bill is not the way to do it.

    Could it work? Maybe. Is it likely to? No.

    It's more likely to crush small businesses in favor of the big ones, and drive the middle class deeper into debt.
    While I tend to agree on msny of your other topics, It’s obvious we disagree fundamentally on most of not all things related to the current administration. 

    I’ll agree to disagree. As far as who turns out to be right? We shall see. 
    The tariffs are a complete and total disaster, bruh.

    But I gotta say that I really enjoy seeing you twist your brain into a mental pretzel trying to rationalize the decisions of someone who "doesn't know what the fuck they're doing." (TacoMan's words, not mine)
    The only mental acrobatics are coming from the side pretending this didn’t need to be done. No ine said it would be easy or quick. Just that it is a much needed beginning to strengthen our standing. 
    When you have to lie and make false statements the. You are most certainly the person doing mental acrobatics. That you can’t make your case without falsehoods only understanding how weak your argument is. You would get a lot further if  engaged in an intellectually honest discussion. 
    The more commenters who react to a poster’s nonsense, the more attention the poster receives, which is exactly what he/she wants. 

    As a slight aside, I would be much happier if the response buttons were labeled Agree and Disagree instead of Like/Dislike. There are several instances where I don’t agree with someone’s comment, but I respect their opinion and willingness to chime in on the subject. The words Like/Dislike seem too personal. Maybe it’s just me. 
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  • Five ways macOS Tahoe makes you radically more productive

    In my opinion “productivity” is highly contextual so it always comes down to whether or not a particular “productivity” enhancement is going to help you perform the things you do easier, with less friction, and in a way that’s intuitive for you. I’ve tried various clipboard managers and have yet to find one that is essential to my workflow. When it’s nonessential I tend to forget it’s there so it becomes dormant ballast on my workstation. There are also other tools and utilities that get baked into my brain and I’d struggle without them. 

    My point here is whether we want a computing environment, of which the operating system is a foundational component of, where you only add features that you need or one where every conceivable feature is built in and things you don’t use are ballast. Yeah, I totally understand that everyone’s needs can be very different. 

    In my opinion a higher functioning clipboard manager has a rather narrow target audience. Those who use one know they need one have already sought out the one that best fits their needs. Everyone else is none the wiser for its absence. Apple adding one isn’t going to have much of an impact on the broader user base. No matter how much hay Apple tries to make with these highly promoted new niche features, if the uptake is tiny maybe they should be investing more in core features. 
    williamlondon
  • Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China

    Vanity has no limits. 

    I have to keep asking myself every day: “Am I actually sleeping and having a nightmare that I will eventually wake up from?” When I look out the window at the flags my neighbors are flying I halfway expect to see a red flag with a hammer and sickle. 

    Something terribly wrong has happened to our country. Anti science, anti intellectualism, anti democracy, anti truth, fake patriotism, corruption-as-a-service (CAAS), anti experiece, the constitution shredded, congress retired-in-place and in sleep mode, judiciary pwned by political factions, the transcripts of daily White House briefings that have to be filed in the “Fiction” area of the library of congress, grift, anti accountability, etc.

    Some scientists have floated the idea that life itself is actually a massive simulation. If it is I’d say that the simulation has encountered the results of some really shitty code behind the simulation and we’re currently running in a zombie state with the orange screen of death showing. 

    Wake us up, we’ve suffered enough already. 


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  • Apple's continued lack of native apps on Vision Pro isn't a good sign for the platform

    The Vision Pro is a singularly unique product from the standpoint of user interaction and engagement. Getting someone to strap on a headset on their face requires overcoming a huge amount of friction because it is so unnatural. But once it's strapped on it's probably the most frictionless form of human - computer interaction ever developed so far. Nevertheless, I still feel like it will continue to grow in popularity as people's lives become ever more disengaged from physical interaction and become more and more done through virtual and remote interaction.
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