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okypinoky said:

metalcase said:

This is an APPLEINSIDER top story?  What does this have to do with Apple? Are there not already enough websites spreading political division and hate?

Absolutely concur!

Thanks Appleinsider for a completely useless article that serves no other purpose than to bash the President of the United States.  As a Veteran that has served under several Presidents with different ideologies - what has happened to America where all we do is bash our dully elected leaders simply because we are of different opinions.

This Country simply lacks pride and this stupid article just showed its true colors. 

Idiots.

It's not an opinion to state the fact that the Trump Org has backed off the false claim that their T1 phone would be built in the US, or that the T1 phone and Trump Mobile itself are at best a crass move by the family of the President to profit off his presidency. 

I have enough pride in this country to say that the whole thing is at best below the dignity of the Office of the President, and it is a disservice that President Trump has not publicly objected to it and asked his sons to shut the whole embarrassing thing down. I also have enough pride in the country to observe that this isn't just a crass faux pas, but yet another grift where the President himself is seeking to profit off the presidency in an activity rife with deep conflicts of interest as he takes executive actions that will affect competitors to this new "business." My pride in the country demands that this should stop and the people sullying our government be held to account for it.

Mike Wuerthele said:

metalcase said:

This is an APPLEINSIDER top story?  What does this have to do with Apple? Are there not already enough websites spreading political division and hate?

Short answer: We can cover anything we'd like. Ink by the barrel and so forth.

Longer answer: Apple and Trump intersect in about 10 different ways. If you can't see the connection to Apple because, charitably, his sons decided to do this and license the name, launching in SEPTEMBER, you know, iPhone release season, while their father shit-talks Apple for not manufacturing in the US, while they at the same time try to pull a fast one about US manufacturing, I don't know what to tell you.

We do not require you to read everything we write. If you don't like something, move on to the next piece, or the 10 before that, or the 50,000 before that.

If there's hate to be had here, it's the Trump sons that are doing it in this case. Pointing out the lies is hardly that. Facts don't care about your feelings or political side.

A common retreat in the MAGA playbook when unpleasant facts are pointed out is the pearl-clutching "stay in your lane" lament. The same people who voted a D-list TV celebrity into office will tell every actor, musician, comedian, or athlete to stick to entertaining and keep their opinions to themselves if they don't subscribe to the cult, or in this case, will tell an Apple-centric publication to shut up about this Trump Phone grift even as Trump has targeted Apple, now effectively a business competitor, with government fiats that have already no doubt cost Apple millions of dollars. Your answer that this is your lane is correct and fully justified.

Not that consistency has any relevance in this administration, but you’d still have to think that the existence of the Trump phone, even as temporary vaporware, now shields Apple (and others) against the previous threat of a “smartphone tariff.” 

Apple's latent plans to build its own car undoubtedly drove at least some other carmakers to develop and begin implementation of a plan to do their own dashboard software. Letting an actual competing carmaker live in your dashboard would indeed be nuts.

Then Apple dropped the car plans. I suspect that decision was at least in part due to other carmakers starting to back away from CarPlay. CarPlay reinforces the Apple ecosystem and sells iPhones. Trading that for a gamble on a new car in a densely competitive market, maybe not so much.

With that question out of the way, some companies like GM may now be feeling double-crossed, because CarPlay really does provide a huge service to carmakers. For the one-time cost to the car manufacturer of including a dummy terminal, Apple provides updated software for satnav, music, phone, and more in perpetuity. Any future need for more powerful hardware to run that software is also handled by Apple, by selling updated iPhones.

Carmakers are used to selling cars as finished products, with no expectation that they will ever update anything on a car that has left the showroom.  Sure, scraping customer data and selling subscription services could be a whole new revenue stream for carmakers, but that comes with the huge costs of creating a new division that must develop, manage and update all of that for years after a consumer buys a car (while also creating something slightly newer and better but yet still backward compatible for new car models). Apple is able to include the cost of years of software updates, including new features, in the price of an iPhone, and users are accustomed to buying a new iPhone every four-ish years to accommodate even more new features. For a car, people expect the average lifespan to be a lot more than four years. Consumers are also unlikely to be enthusiastic about paying to replace a head-unit or some $1,000 computer component every few years just to run new software in the car they already paid $30,000+++ for. 

So I think even with the expanded CarPlay Ultra, a lot of carmakers will start to adopt it. Late-model Honda/Acura cars (and many others, no doubt) already have digital instrument-cluster screens that can interface with CarPlay. With "regular" CarPlay, mine already displays podcast or song titles and album covers inside the tachometer. It seems pretty likely that CarPlay Ultra will be rolled out there soon enough. 

anthogag said:

The showrunner for Lessons in Chemistry is the replacement? Lessons in Chemistry was very boring. 

Lessons in Chemistry was quite brilliant.

I can see how you'd be disappointed. however, if you thought it was supposed to be Captain Marvel.