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CheeseFreeze said:

michelb76 said:

Apple releasing a 10-25% speed increase every year will allow them to milk the A series for a long time. Smart business.

As long as they pair it with new abilities. We don’t need faster SoC’s if it doesn’t enable us to do new things, or do existing things considerably better.

Hence the significantly expanded Neural - seems like Apple will continue to offer additional AI-driven experiences.

However worth noting is that there has been significant press stating that the A15 would only be a mild bump, and that Apple has "hit a performance wall" - This is interesting because it's not just wrong, but appears to be a wide effort at astroturfing. It's an especially bold attempt because it infers that apple M-series would be similarly hobbled. (I dare say Apple wouldn't switch to their own silicone without a realistic performance roadmap.)

One has to be smart about these things - if having a genuine complaint approach the police or legal representation as relevant: blog posts are nothing more than PR. Also attempts to paint your employer a particular way with cherry-picking is never going to go well (this is often libel.) 

When Facebook talks about privacy - they talk about how only you *and facebook* can access the data, so it's safe from people like hackers. They do this to distract from the wider conversation of what Facebook is doing with your data.

Facebook aint your friend.

At this stage it's in Apple's interest for changes to come about via legislation, and it's a situation that bears some similarity to Apple's tax arrangements.

Apple could make changes to the App store (or their tax arrangements) - however both would certainly be sub-optimal for shareholder value. There are numerous consequences to making such changes if not specifically required to by law.

Secondly Apple shouldn't jump the gun - it's clear that there are political motivations at play: it's unlikely that a politician looking for "a win" is going to reverse course no matter what changes Apple introduces - frankly that's just politics, hence statements along the lines of "it's well past time for tech giants to do the right thing."

Also worth keeping in mind here is that there's no consumer groundswell asking for these changes: Apple's devices and ecosystem have enviously high consumer satisfaction.
Meanwhile there are plenty of competitor companies lobbying for the changes to accelerate their own profits.

Doubting that punchhole camera when Apple have been filing patents for behind-display camera technology for over a decade.