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  • Apple hampered its Siri ambitions by penny-pinching

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    Blaurieter said:
    No, Siri has been going down hill for a long time - who can say what "vision" Apple has left - just more distractions.
    Apple is mainly doing products for 1 feature per year while keeping tiers making products mediocre by waiting or by tier - often by both. That is why we can't get OLED on Mac or anything beyond 60 Hz unless "Pro". We get more buttons, lenses or transistors just to make things look fresh.

    Same on iOS. It is bloatware caused by annual updates with features being piled on top. Thousands of settings instead of going deep and trying to figure out "what are people are trying to do". 

    Not that the hardware is bad. MBA is a very nice computer but the main difference between now and 19 years ago is battery life. User experience hasn't changed much.
    williamlondonAlex1Nentropys

  • China calls Trump's trade war a joke, jumps tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%

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    Wesley Hilliard said:
    To all the people saying we don't need China, where are we supposed to get all of our rare metals from? 
    Greenland! Surely the ice is on average 1 mile deep but that is why climate change is such a positive concept (tariffs and Teslas are nice too). How to handle the native population? Once again President McKinley is our inspiration: take their land, invalidate their courts, and drill baby, drill!.
    gwydionqwerty52williamlondontiredskillswatto_cobra

  • Apple's high storage prices may be key to mitigating iPhone 17 Pro price rises

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    hugo62 said:
    The real problem for Apple could well be international resentment and dissolution with America,
    Apple is beyond U.S. Cook is (mostly for the better) no Musk.Replacing Apple will be hard in the EU - with China it is a different story but that was already the case. For now it seems the Chinese government isn't going after Apple.

    The minimum tariff is 10%. That is 20-25% cut of margin and will directly reduce the value of Apple. Add that Americans will have less to spend due to inflation from other products, job losses, and stocks. Again something that will affect discretionary spending. Supersizing products worked for 15 Pro but mostly it fails. iPad Air, the muscle-pad, is beefed up but so is the price. It doesn't sell.
    williamlondon

  • Trump blinks: Floats suggestion that Apple might get a tariff exemption

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    It’s been unfair for a very long time. Fair is good.
    The trade deficit towards EU is 3%. It is mainly unfair to EU as Boeing and Northrop are not delivering on time. So put a 1.5% tariff on EU now - and the we can reverse it when Boeing starts shipping. Fair?
    muthuk_vanalingamgatorguyradarthekatdanoxlordjohnwhorfinDBSyncspheric

  • Trump's 104% tariff against imports from China goes live

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    'Designed by Apple in California assembled in the European Union' 
    Maybe, but the EU has similar issues that manufacturing the US has. 
    EU has one thing that US is no longer is able to offer: Political stability supporting long term investments backed up by a strong legal framework. One might not like EU, but it is extremely predictable (took 15 years from Apple agreed to a common charger to delivery of USB-C). 

    Predictable is not something Trump is capable of.
    kiltedgreenmuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra