muthuk_vanalingam

mike_galloway said:

spheric said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

22july2013 said:

lwr32 said:
And how often was Obama on the golf course?

Obama played golf 333 times during his 8 years, which is more than Trump. Trump's golf tally is harder to count, because one of his homes is on a golf course, and he's not always playing golf when he's at that home.

We know how much Obama played golf because the administration was transparent. We don't don show much Trump paid golf because the administration is not transparent. Also, in his first term he spent 102 million on golf. At the time was just 12 million under what Obama spent on golf for his two terms. So far in this term he has spend another 18 million. So he may or may not have played as much golf as Obama but he has spent more on golf and the personally profits from the money the government spends on his golfing. But he is totally about trying to cut government spending. 

Oh, he’s played way more golf than Obama. 

https://trumpgolftrack.com/

Isn't it a lot better that your presidents play as much golf as possible - at least they are only messing up the green rather than the whole world

Just FYI - As far as I recollect, @Spheric is from Europe, not USA. @22july2013 is from Canada (for sure) and @Stabitha_Christie is from USA (I am assuming based on post history) . So you have to be careful in making assumptions while posting in a forum like AppleInsider.

tiredskills said:

I'll be rocking the 13 mini until it stops working then.  And when it does, if Apple aren't selling a reasonably sized phone I'll probably be looking elsewhere for someone that does.

For last 5 years, ONLY Apple is selling small size phones. The ~2000+ android phones which launched in last 5 years do NOT have even a single usable phone with a size similar to iPhone 13 mini. So, you will have to consider feature phones if not Apple's iPhones.

pmurphyjam said:

I think a folding iPhone by Apple will only happen after the super thin Air iPhone. Reason being it will be required since the folding iPhone will have to be very thin. Additionally it will require a decent camera so this will require new cameras and lenses from Sony to work. These two technology hurdles will have to be overcome first. Additionally it will use the new Apple Modem and new Apple WiFi chip which will need to be proven to be reliable. These chips will work in a thinner iPhone and Qualcom chips won’t. I think the display OLED technology is there now. This folding iPhone will also fold vertically not horizontally so it takes up less space in your pocket and you can just swing it open quickly.

There is no evidence to backup this statement. The evidence to the contrary is already available. Apple designed C1 modem in iPhone 16e is at least 20% inefficient when compared to Qualcomm modem in iPhone 16. You can look at the battery capacity and talktime tests from GSMArena automated battery life tests in the link https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_16e-review-2805p3.php.

Pema said:

There is an old proverb, 'we live in interesting times'. I would suggest that now it needs to be updated to say 'we live in insane times'. 

In 1933 sociopathic criminals took over the Reich Chancellery and ended up murdering millions of people and ultimately causing the death of 12 Million Germans and a destruction of a great many German cities. 

Now we have a similar sort of situation whereby the plans of the current US administration is going to unleash God only knows what on the world. Just consider some of the recent moves: Patel (a certifiable lunatic) taking over the FBI; RFK (a dangerous conspiracy theorist) taking over the Department of Health; Musk moving chess pieces around the government like its a board game. 

Now the tariffs are going to ruin Apple's most profitable market outside the US. 

I don't see how we don't end up with mass chaos and WWIII.  

I am from India and I don't have much knowledge on US politics. But one point to make as an outsider - In the last 10 years, under which party's rule in US did the major conflicts in the world occur? There were no major wars in the world during Trump's first presidency. And two major conflicts (Russia Vs Ukraine, major escalation of Gaza conflict) occurred while Joe Biden was president. For the outside world, it does look like Democrats are the ones creating major conflicts in the world, in order to maintain US supremacy in the world order. Trump's presidency was not so bad for world peace, indeed it was damn good when compared to Biden's term. Not sure how Trump's second term would turn out to be in terms of peace in the world, but hoping that it would be similar to his first term. If that happened, then world is better off with Trump as POTUS.

chasm said:

While I use iCloud quite happily at the 50GB tier, I have numerous clients who have iPhones, iPads, and/or Macs and don’t use iCloud at all. So clearly it’s not impossible to use Apple devices without it, or to sync devices’ content without it.

That said, iCloud makes it pretty effortless, which people like. Shame on Apple for making things effortless!

Kudos to Apple for keeping the free storage capped at 5GB for 13 years. They should certainly maintain it at the same level for another 130 years effortlessly.