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  • Tim Cook isn't going to get fired, and Steve Jobs isn't rolling over in his grave

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    mikethemartian said:
    If he meets shareholders future expectations he will stay, if he doesn’t he will go. It is as simple as that.
    Dropping from #1 to #3 and on his way to #4 due to sales stalling, the Google deal, tariffs, and an infinite number of lost legal battles. Cook made Warren Buffett sell 2/3 of his holdings. Clearly shareholders are not pleased. In a decade of cloud computing and AI we experienced Apple having the best chip, being first with Neural Engine, and then... instead of doing a gaming console, cloud computing, or shipping AI... he killed the server business and spent 10 years on a car and headset with the same success as when Sculley did Newton.

    The Google deal is around 10% of profits for Apple and tariffs are hitting hard. Apple will remain relevant but Cook can't bring Apple back to #1. He was an outstanding COO, made Apple scale, and probably saved Watch by transitioning it from fashion to health (or somebody did). It really is time for the next CEO.
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  • AWS showdown: Apple once considered providing cloud services to developers

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    iOS apps need cloud services and those developers are on Mac. Going for cloud would is so obvious. With Apple Silicon and the need for AI even more so. Imagine if Apple had used the experience from Neural Engine and aimed for the cloud. But instead Nvidia, AWS/Amazon, Azure+OpenAI/Microsoft, and GCS/Alphabet are cashing in.

    Apple could have stayed a solid #1 on market cap by investing in this.
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  • New Vietnam trade deal means Apple will pay at least five times more in tariffs

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    longfang said:
    Kuminga said:
    No, these countries all had trade barriers on US goods

    Did you know that Australia does not allow US beef because they say it’s poisonous due to poor US ranchers techniques ? Are you dead from eating UA beef? I am not.

    Europe did same to American chickens .

    That is why US export numbers so low and what Trump trying to fix 
    From personal experience, US chicken smells funny. 

    The smell is due to US doing acid washes of chicken (used to be chlorination). It is a way of compensating for poor hygiene standards. In general US food standards are good and on fresh dairy products the US standards are higher than EU. But for chicken and food additives US standards are driven by the industry.

    On beef the problem is the US use of drugs/hormones in some products. There is a massive zero-tariff quota for clean US beef with USDA helping farmers. Stop complaining and start producing something people want to buy. Tesla showed that Europeans are ready to buy US cars. US wine makers are doing fine (or used to). It really is all about the product.
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  • OLED MacBook Pro still expected for 2026, possibly with Samsung's help

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    Rogue01 said:
    The big problem with OLED would be the screen burn from the dock and menubar, and any other fixed item on the screen, which would rarely change.  
    The menu on macOS 26 is designed for OLED. Other vendors have been doing OLED for 9 years. Lenovo is even doing a rollable OLED for laptops where size can be adjusted. Display tech is essential to a premium laptop. Let us have OLED.
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  • New Vietnam trade deal means Apple will pay at least five times more in tariffs

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    mknelson said:
    Can the Vietnamese population afford an imported American SUV? Farm products seem more likely if they can't get from a more regional partner already.
    The main export is likely from Boeing due to a deal made in 2023 when Biden did a visit to Vietnam. As for farm products Americans are literally exporting peanuts.

    Let us keep our fingers crossed for our heroes in Cupertino. Using the margin of Apple as fodder for the Big Beautiful Bill makes it somewhat less beautiful.
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