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  • Japan could be next to force third-party app stores on Apple

    sphericspheric
    danox said:
    a) EU investigates: Protectionism to cover the fact that they are technologically incompetent! Corruption! Europe is behind in tech across the board hardware and software wise, and they are hostile to tech startups. East Asia has an original operating system/major usable software and a AI software problem. Europe/Asia are hostile to very smart individuals standing out from the crowd with a new idea that goes against the grain and usually they historically end up coming to America execute their idea (like the Manhattan Project).
    Thank you for proving my point, and adding an extra absurdist cherry on top by making it about the Nazis. 

    I'm sure France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the other non-German/non-Austrian EU members are absolutely thrilled to hear your take on why they envy the United States for the Manhattan Project. 

    Beautiful! 

    danox said:
    b) US DOJ investigates: Political activism! Compared to the US defense companies the tech companies don't play Lobby (play bribe ball). The US government doesn't like that. The USA government doesn't like Silicon Valley because most of the Tech companies in Silicon Valley generally minus a certain masquerading car company don't need a hand out to get stuff done.
    Again, thanks for proving my point. 

    Extra credit for making it sound superficially non-partisan. 
    danox said:
    c) Japan investigates: Revenge for "sliding down" in the tech industry. East Asia is behind the USA in building OS/hardware combinations (particularly ground up operating systems/online stores/major programs) Without Android/Windows they are lost.
    Ah, shame. You could have so easily mentioned the Second World War, here. 

    Partial credit for making the argument sound vaguely technical by implying something about vertical integration. 

    Not quite as funny as the previous two explanations. 
    danox said:
    d) Korea investigates: Corrupt protectionism (also, as seen here: Revenge for "sliding down" in the tech industry — except Samsung is constantly one of the top 2 smartphone manufacturers globally) Samsung is struggling in chip design today they no longer can spy on Apple directly, operating systems and most software design when combined with hardware they are lost most of what they do is second rate/half a__ when left to their own devices Apple had to beat them over the head to do anything right sorta like Intel back in the day. Samsung is about to loose the rest of the world outside Korea/USA to the Chinese smartphone makers. Why? OS software combined with hardware is beyond them they do nothing better (smartphones) than the Chinese companies.
    Again, thanks for proving my point. 

    This is the App Store Monopoly Investigation Thread. 

    The Hardware Engineering and Espionage Threads are thataway 👉
    danox said:
    The USA isn't without its own problems particularly anti-unionism, and the willingness to sell land to non citizens (all the English speaking currently countries share that cultural problem.
    Relevance: ∩ = null set

    Ah well. Sometimes you lose, and sometimes, you're the catcher standing out in left field shouting at some Asians in the bleachers. 
    muthuk_vanalingamctt_zh

  • System Settings getting shuffled again in macOS 15, among other UI tweaks

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    jrcw said:
    Why has Apple consistently refused to include a Install/Uninstall applications manager?
    Because installation/deinstallation is usually just a drag-and-drop operation. Who cares whether there is a few KB of inert preference files sitting in your ~/Library/ folder until you maybe decide to reinstall at a later date? 

    Applications that require an installer should all come with a DEinstaller, since what they actually install (and where) varies greatly from product to product. I don't blame Apple for not keeping track of everything third-party out there. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Japan could be next to force third-party app stores on Apple

    sphericspheric
    So… lots of countries/regions all coming to the same conclusion about Apple's App Store. 

    The opinionati on AppleInsider: 

    a) EU investigates: Protectionism to cover the fact that they are technologically incompetent! Corruption! 

    b) US DOJ investigates: Political activism! 

    c) Japan investigates: Revenge for "sliding down" in the tech industry

    d) Korea investigates: Corrupt protectionism (also, as seen here: Revenge for "sliding down" in the tech industry — except Samsung is constantly one of the top 2 smartphone manufacturers globally) 

    I look forward to many more creative explanations that blame anything but Apple. 
    avon b7muthuk_vanalingamctt_zhwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • If China invades Taiwan, TSMC can wreck Apple's chip production line remotely

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    davidmalcolm said:
     the fact that we know they were working on Covid as a bio weapon
    This is anything but accepted fact. Stop presenting it as such. 
    ronnroundaboutnowdewmeelijahgwilliamlondonAlex1Nctt_zhmelgrosswatto_cobra

  • Apple wants all of TSMC's 2nm chips, so they sent Jeff Williams in secret

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    libertyandfree said:
    macxpress said:
    beowulfschmidt said:
    No doubt someone will claim that Apple has an unfair advantage, and buying all of the first batch is simply a tactic to suppress other potential buyers.
    Apple also used to purchase all of the NAND Flash chips for its iPods, iPhones and certain Macs back in the day too....because it had the money to do so and it wanted to make sure the supply of NAND Flash wasn't the limiting factor in getting their products out the door. 

    tmay said:
    I very much doubt that Apple would be inclined to purchase 2nm SOC's for the equivalent of a "year's worth of revenue" at $173 B, given that Apple is typically about 25% of TSMC revenue (something on the order of $18 B in 2023). 

    Still, what would Apple want to do with all of those additional transistors that they are "allegedly"  purchasing? 

    My guess would be iPhones and some type of updated Mac....and obviously more M4 iPads. 

    Now this is absurd since no way is Apple securing $100B+ from TMSC Apple doesn’t spend anywhere close to that on semiconductors over a few years.  Let’s do some simple math; iPhone processors are about $30 each and for 200M iPhones that’s only $6B per year and lets assume Apple sells 25M Mac’s and those CPUs say cost $200 each that’s another $5B  and  Apple sells about 50M iPads and assume avg processor cost of $60  that adds another $3B.  So we are at about $14B per year even if I’m off by a factor of 2 it’s no where near $170B even over a few years.  
    You're apparently in the right order of magnitude, here. 

    in 2022, Apple was reportedly responsible for 23% of TSMC's $72 billion revenue, which is about $16.6 billion. They've locked up the entire production of N3B 3nm process, as everybody else will be switching directly to N3E. 
    watto_cobra