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  • Trump says Tim Cook complained to him about the EU

    My expectation would be that this isn’t true. Cook does t seem to love dealing with Trump. He may go to places like Davos which I don’t like. But Trump would be much more exhausting to talk to. Someone like Trump doesn’t shut up. I could see him accepting the call, but Cook is much more private than Trump. He’s not one to complain to someone with as loose of lips as Trump. 
    9secondkox2baconstangwatto_cobra
  • Apple A16 chip is now being produced in the USA

    For people saying, “oh these chips are made in the US then shipped somewhere else” you don’t seem to get it. Right now Apple is so incredibly dependent on operations in China. If war broke out between the US and China. (Realistically right now a China would be much smarter to look north and absorb large chunks of Russia. Winning a land war with Russia would seem to be much easier than picking a fight with its many heavily populated south Asian countries. Though China clearly would like to reabsorb Taiwan.)

    Right now if America went to war with China or Taiwan that would mean no access to the best fabs in the world (also the fabs would be destroyed and the kinda behind them lost.)

    by ensuring Apple and other companies can build advanced chips off the Island it gives China less leverage and motivation. One of the benefits for taking Taiwan would be disrupting the west. Because without Taiwan we as a society would be falling back on much older less efficient fabs in the US and Europe they can’t make power efficient chips that are perfect for mobile devices.

    also Apple has manufacturing operations in China, India and Brazil. I suspect those plants in Brazil are in part there because Apple is hedging their bets not just because the labour is cheap. 

    It’s also pretty obvious that as soon as it’s practical Apple will move device assembly to robots. Even if it costs more they’ll have at least some products being made in part by robots so that as climate change destabilizes the warmer/poorer parts of the world, they’re still able to pump out devices. (Also let’s be honest, COVID  put a huge wrench into things. So the sooner they can move to a system where they don’t have to rely on large groups of humans breathing the same air, the sooner they will.)
    ronnwatto_cobra
  • Apple stock getting hammered after international market crashes

    In other words Buffet with one interview dropped the value of his other half? Genius.

    the stock market doesn’t measure anything accurate aside from the level of delusion and panic of the world’s richest sociopaths. 
    muthuk_vanalingambaconstanggatorguy
  • How iOS 18's Web Eraser content-blocker morphed into a distraction-hiding tool

    Advertising is responsible for so much of why the internet is terrible. It also costs wester economies billions each year just in seniors getting scammed by scammers leveraging Google and other companies automated systems to put criminal content directly in front of vulnerable people. 

    (My mom has recently been trying to help an elderly woman who clearly has mental health issues because she blew 100 grand over the course of a year in a pig butchering scam with someone who connected with her in the comment section on YouTube. Why did this even happen? Not because it was unpreventable, but because YouTube’s engagement numbers are driven in part by scam accounts. Does the woman bare some responsibility? Sure but she clearly doesn’t have all her wits with her, but now she might end up homeless because she’s no longer getting old age, all because YouTube didn’t bother putting in any protections that remove scammy content. )
    xyzzy01timpetusPetrolDavebadmonk
  • Apple in talks to bring ad-supported Apple TV+ option to UK, US

    The ads in the App Store and Apple News+ are bad enough (honestly I tend to use Feedly more than News+ for that reason.) if ads start creeping into Music and TV+ they I can just switch over the pirating those. At this point TV+ is the only streaming service I still bother paying for. But I will not go back to constant advertising. 

    Ads are for people too stupid to figure out how to get around them. I have better things to do. 
    elijahg