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  • Apple's Mac Pro 'cheese grater' is 19 years old, and is the best Mac ever made

    9secondkox29secondkox2
    Totally agree with the title. 

    This thing was an absolute unit. The Jack Reacher of computers. 

    I bought one to run large venue multimedia presentation software around 2006, 2007. They were using a Dell desktop and it choked on the notoriously unoptimized and clunky software. Enter the Mac Pro, which judo slammed that software into submission, even though the Mac version of the app was worse than the windows version! The amount of fighting I had to do to get them to buy the Mac was immediately justified as I became the hero. Ha! Good times. During “off hours,” the Mac Pro was the primary video editing machine with Final Cut and content generator with Adobe CS. That machine was a seed planted that led to many a Mac convert within 6 months. LOL. 

    It looked the business. Cool, yet dead serious. The all metal construction made it an art piece as well. Suddenly, the old status quo studio needed new furniture, color scheme, and style. 

    It was the pinnacle. 

    If only Apple would get serious about the smack pro today and unleash a dominant spec predator like that upon the world again…
    blastdoor

  • Apple exempt from 100% semiconductor tariffs, thanks to its $100B U.S. investment

    9secondkox29secondkox2
    Good move. Unfortunately, Apple is beholden to other countries that aren’t so friendly with the USA. And with moves toward restoring favorable trade balance, Apple could be in difficulty. So they make an investment in lieu of manufacturing here for the meantime snd it allows for an exception. It’s the right call. The purpose of tarriffs is not to hurt American companies and this provides a way to ensure that Apple doesn’t suffer due to stubborn countries they partner with. Never seen an administration so agile and able to make huge moves in such succession and the wisdom to make the impossible posdible. 
    ForumPostXedtht

  • Apple's existing U.S. manufacturing partners main beneficiaries of new $100B investment

    9secondkox29secondkox2
    Here’s another photo as an alternative to the scowl photo from Trumps first term:



    The trophy Cook presented trump with today says “PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP Apple American Manufacturing Program.”



    Not sure how giving money to other companies is s manufacturing program. But it is an investment, so…


    ronnrealjustinlongselleringtongrandact73

  • Ex-TSMC staff arrested over alleged chip trade secret theft

    9secondkox29secondkox2
    Dang. It’s rough being Taiwan. Not only is China constantly making threats and moves against you, your national sovereignty misunderstood by most of the world, and “friends” who only care about what you can deliver, to having your most important trade secrets stolen and sold off to rivals. The penalty for rhis crime, whatever it ends up being, isn’t enough. 
    hlee1169ronn

  • US fears iPhone supplier BOE is a Chinese military company

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    anthogag said:
    It's easy to suspect Chinese companies because China isn't a democracy. China's government is always there planning for the long-term because they aren't going anywhere. A democracy is much more dynamic. The best route for China to get a long with the West is to become a democracy. 
    Not just thst, but they had a spy connected to Eric “the gas” Swallwell, had numerous spy balloons over the ISA, including military installations, had its scientists infiltrating American academic institutions, smuggling in biological agents that can destroy crops, etc. also, Chen and Lai were recently found to have been agents of the PRC conducting intelligence work under the guise of legal permanent residency (Chen) and tourism visa (Lai). And that’s just a drop in the bucket. 

    In the USA, companies do their own thing. In China, the government has its hand in everything, even Apple’s data centers. In some cases, the company acts as an extension of the government itself. 

    So it’s not just “being afraid of the unknown” or of something different. It’s having legitimate concerns that a proven adversarial nation will have ubiquitous reach inside American territory via the most poults smartphone in the planet. 

    That’s a really sneaky thing if true. Is it true? We don’t know yet. But such a concern is valid snd it’s good that the DOD is looking into it. 
    anthogagForumPostzeus423ronn