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  • Foxconn head predicts a surge in US manufacturing in the coming years

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    dewme said:
    The sky’s the limit … for US manufacturers of industrial automation and process control hardware, software, systems, and services companies. 
    And for big price increases if more manufacturing is done in North America.

    There's a reason why US companies tend to keep the intellectual development and design of consumer products here, and outsource the manufacturing mostly overseas. It's to keep the cost of the products down, and the profit margins up. Changes in the cost of production is always, ALWAYS passed on to the domestic consumer (that is, you and me).

    I actually do, believe it or not, get what the president is TRYING to do with his tariff fever, but it's already backfiring and -- despite some lovely PR releases from companies waving the flag -- will only increase costs on North American consumers. The basic problem with his approach is that you can't just wish up more factories in the US over the course of a year or two -- it will take a couple of decades, and in the meantime YOU will be paying quite a bit for practically everything made outside the US.

    A plan to increase self-reliance on manufacturing will require a carefully-crafted program that is implemented and executed across the next few decades. The rewards will be long-term, not short term -- sadly this requires some short-term sacrifice, patience, and vision between all branches of federal, state, and local government that I don't see as possible anymore without a major societal sea change away from hyper-partisanization.
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  • US lawmakers denounce UK's secretive attack against Apple encryption

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    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if your intended prosecution against someone relies entirely on breaking encryption for every user everywhere, you are a) a police state and b) have no case.

    It’s shocking to think the UK thought it could just steamroll over everyone’s rights everywhere and grant itself an exclusive license to see anyone in the world’s data on a whim. As a reminder, this demand to bypass all legal protections for all the citizens of the world was made in secret from a secret organization that required that any compliance with these insane demands could not ever be reported to the user, other governments — nobody except itself.

    Frankly the UN should be looking at severe sanctions against the UK, and the US in particular should be regarding it as a hostile action. Everyone involved in this overreach should be fired.
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  • Underwhelming performance of Apple Intelligence will hit iPhone sales, Kuo claims

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    I doubt it. Apple Intelligence is a feature in development, not a selling point. People will continue to buy iPhones for the reasons they bought the last one they bought.

    That said, regardless of your “feelings” about Apple Intelligence one way or another, I can assure that nearly EVERY person with access to the writing tools should make more use of at least that aspect of AI.

    For me, the Genmoji/Image Generator will be the part I use the least, but see that’s the great thing about Apple Intelligence — you can use what proves useful to you, and ignore what isn’t useful to you. Gosh, it’s almost like they designed it to work like that.
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  • Don't wait to update: iOS 18.3.2 fixes an actively exploited issue

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    msuberly said:
    Apple Intelligence is a horror
    Only if you’re stupid.
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  • iPhone 16e vs iPhone 16: A new Apple Intelligence-powered entry-level option

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    As for the price of the 16e, it is in fact in line with the rest of the models. The SE was the anomaly, because Apple was then interested in trying to capture more of the Android/cheapskate crowd.

    I think it's very very VERY obvious that the result of that experiment was not to Apple's liking. Not enough shift from Android, in short.

    I completely get that buying a $600 is not in the monthly budget for some people as an outright spend. Waaaay too many people working at or near the minimum wage these days through no fault of their own.

    But if you can't afford to FINANCE a smartphone at a cost of $25/month -- which is what the iPhone 16e would cost, not counting a cellular plan -- then your priority should not be a smartphone, it should be on housing and food.

    And in America, not getting sick.
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