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  • Every HomePod should still be compatible with HomePod Software 26

    chasmchasm
    Bobolicious: your tinfoil hat needs some loosening. LOL
    williamlondonAlex1N

  • Trump tariffs return until June 9 after appeals court stays injunction

    chasmchasm
    Tariffs are a TAX on the consumers in the country that issues the tariffs. They do little harm to large companies that make the goods the tarriff-issuing country needs.

    But they hurt the HELL out of small businesses both in the issuing country and the exporting country.

    Tariffs are a constitutionally enumerated power of CONGRESS (Article 1, Section 8), though Congress ceded to the executive branch the power to negotiate trade agreements in 1934. Some additional tariff authority was ceded to the executive in laws passed in 1962 and 1974, which was a mistake in my view.

    Congress should claw back those two latter changes via new legislation. Yes, the current Congress is lopsidedly partisan in line (mostly) with the current president, but that's part and parcel of the US' imperfect system, and voters at least have a chance to address partisan imbalances every two years.

    So I encourage any US residents reading this to be sure you are registered to vote. I also encourage voters who tend to prefer one party over another to bee willing to cross your usual party lines in order to stock Congress with representatives that have a plan to undo the tariffs in favour of other, better measures that might better address the concerns the president has raised.
    beowulfschmidtwatto_cobra

  • macOS 26 may not support 2018 MacBook Pros, 2019 iMacs, or the iMac Pro

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    I had planned on upgrading my 2019 Intel i9 MBP either later this year or early next year, so the fact that it is still supported under the next version of macOS pleases me, if for no other reason than avoiding a huge drop in the price I'll get when selling it.

    As for the AI luddites here:
    1. You can turn off Apple Intelligence with a switch if you like, Amish.

    2. Most of the tools of Apple Intelligence work as advertised. Writing tools are great, Image Playground I'd rate as "okay" (not something I routinely need, but the non-human images seem rather good), the ChatGPT integration really helps Siri answer random questions (you can turn off the "ask for permission every time" thing if you want).

    3. What's missing, and IMO the only thing the entitled whiners have a legitimate grievance about, is the delay in app intents/Siri awareness. It is indeed disappointing that that's been delayed, but there's an important consideration here that I don't think the whiners are taking into account: Apple is going to do this -- however long it takes -- without compromising your privacy, even when you are interacting with ChatGPT. Your data is not being used to train the ChatGPT.

    That is a claim no other AI engine can make. Maybe that's not important to you, but it is very important in the long run.

    I get it, nobody likes to feel like they are "behind" their colleagues using other AI engines. Just like Mac users in the 90s didn't like feeling slower than PC users back before the Intel deal. I've been there, it's mildly annoying.

    But for the vast majority of Apple users, you're not behind anybody except in novelty tricks. Apple remains the platform for productivity + privacy + security work of all sorts.

    And btw -- some of you should really be leveraging those writing tools.
    williamlondon

  • California Attorney General threatens lawsuit over potential 25% iPhone tariff

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    AppleZulu said:
    You still haven’t answered my question. Trump’s demand that Apple open a US iPhone factory in weeks or face a targeted 25% tariff is impossible. If you’re Tim Cook, what’s your response to an impossible demand? 
    "See you in court." :)
    danoxbaconstangmacguiforegoneconclusionwatto_cobra

  • Trump's 25% smartphone tariff starts just in time for the iPhone 17

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    bushman4 said:
    Apples biggest problem is not the 25% tariff it’s the fact that they’ve fallen behind on AI , Foldable iPhone etc. 
    People will pay for technology that’s state of the art with all the bells and whistles. Apple has to catch up on AI or buy a company and integrate it into Apples AI
    also Apple glasses everybody’s waiting let’s go

    In point of fact, foldable phones are a pretty neat product (I've played with one), but the fact that they retail for around $2K has not done much for sales.

    You don't see them in the wild outside some of the richer Asian nations, and they are certainly not a mass-market item even several years after introduction, to say nothing of the poor durability of them.
    ronnBart Y