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  • UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on iPhone users worldwide

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    Stabitha_Christie said:
    Xed said:
    Apple could also just pull out of the UK entirely, fire all their UK employees, and stop buying UK goods and services.  I know they won't, but feck all fascist governments.
    By that logic, they need to pull out of the USA immediately. 
    Because Apple is in the US that means they should prop up fascism and a police state?
    Not directed at you personally, but people need to learn what fascism is. Fascism is a type of authoritarianism but not authoritarianism is fascism. 

    Fascism is a far-right system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

    The U.K. is capitalist, and we can certainly argue that this would be a stringent movement control the rest of the definition doesn't fit at all. There U.K. isn't governed by the far-right, it isn't a dictatorship, there isn't violent suppression of opposition and the list goes on. So, yeah, not fascism at all 
    As a member of a follow commonwealth country i’d like to point out that a monarchy is in fact a dictatorship and the spy powers requested then probably back doored to friendly media companies is a form of suppression that is still domestic terrorism even if not directly violent. 

    Even if the monarchy is useless, feckless and gormless.

    given this is coming from the supposedly left wing party it would suggest the right wing religious faction is in command of the party. 

    It would seem you are at least proto fascist 
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • Apple makes room for new Macs by rethinking retail Vision Pro demo stations

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    Cesar Battistini Maziero said:
    Apple needs to rethink the vision pro.

    Back to the drawing board.
    I’m sure they never left the drawing board. 
    I also doubt you’ll like the response. 
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  • Apple makes room for new Macs by rethinking retail Vision Pro demo stations

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    I can’t read the vibe here. Did you mean to suggest this was some adhoc thing that happened and not just the plan from when the area was installed.  

    Only have one store to judge from but it seems to me Apple do move things around and to the front/ground to suit different marketing pushes. 
    ForumPost9secondkox2watto_cobra

  • Trump says Tim Cook complained to him about the EU

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    Wouldn’t such a call if it happened and was initiated by the CEO of most companies be a breach the duties of the roll?

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  • Apple's former hardware chief and current Apple Vision Pro lead is retiring

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    sloaah said:
    JamesCude said:
    The positive spin at the end of this article is kind of embarrassing. AVP is obviously a huge flop to anyone not immersed in the Kool Aid. Though of course, Apple will be just fine with its many other successful products.
    From a sales perspective it’s been pretty much bang on target with strong international demand, contrary to lots of initial negative reports. Latest IDC reports say that Q2 sales have risen by over 11% vs Q1, and should be on target for roughly 400-500k units this year. Prior to launch, supply reports said that production for year one was limited to roughly 400k units due to Sony’s production capacity limits for the displays. 

    If anything it’s just a reminder of how crazily accurate Apple is at anticipating consumer response. No other manufacturer can achieve sales within a 10-20% margin of their original estimates when it’s a completely new device. 

    Personally, my own view is Vision Pro sadly hasn’t received the developer attention that it needs, but I can’t see how anybody would call it a huge flop on the metrics which actually matter to Apple (sales). 
    I thought I would have seen a product in my pro-niche by now. Then again most of the pro-niche apps for the first Mac took a year to launch. 

    If the visionPro team aren’t talking to some interesting Mac apps and asking them why they haven’t launched yet then they are missing an opportunity. I thought Xplane would be supported before now. That sort of training would seem like a big opportunity. 

    williamlondonwatto_cobra