temperor

Well I have an iPhone 16 Pro and a 16e,  my colleague as well, to ran tests on general connectivity, so no speed comparison but cellular call capabilities and internet connection stability availability … well the 16e beats the Qualcomm chip in every test. Next we will check speed but that is not so important as both are plenty fast when you have a connection. (16e trumps internet connectivity because the QC modem is very finicky about signal quality)
As reference we drove a stretch of 200km’s and the 16e never drops a call and when there is bad signal and distorted voice, the 16e recovers without any issue, while the QC drops or never recovers and you need to initiate a new call … 
And we did not cover battery drain, the 16e shines in that department as well … what else can I say … QC will loose a lot of business, fortunately they can extort some more money via patents … even if they are FRAND, they do not seem to care about that.

If there is any panic buying going on, it will be this quarter. Nobody panicked in Q1. There was a lot of talk, but nobody was panic buying …

Apple is not planting anything, they are enabling NGO’s so if you want to complain, complain to the NGO’s …
Look nothing is perfect, but they are very deliberate in making products as energy efficient as possible, average laptop consumes 1/2 the power of a PC and that since 2020. 
More and more products are build with recycled materials. All that believe this can be done overnight and without trial and error is delusional …

Or maybe it took a high-profile company like Apple for people to realize that AI isn't exactly what they imagined it to be.
I’ve experienced this with all kinds of AI models, even the big ones running in the cloud—you can never fully trust them.
However, when it comes to tasks like proofreading and improving the tone of my writing, Apple Intelligence works like a charm. Perhaps that's what most people truly need and use.

Apple’s paper demonstrated that AI shows no signs of reasoning capabilities. To me, it’s just a massive database where SQL has been replaced with natural language.

avon b7 said:

temperor said:

avon b7 said:

temperor said:

PS: the solution is simpel, and it will het the EU where it hits hard, just make a US Apple ID, all will work and all the revenue you spent will benefit the US government as taxes will land in the US . Look who is laughing now.

That kind of thinking went out the window a very long time ago. 

Back when books were mostly on paper I would buy plenty of English language content direct from Amazon US. Even with shipping it was cheaper than buying the same imported content locally. 

As the business grew, it popped up on the EU radar and, poof, the loophole was gone. An EU directive placed obligatory, country-of-origin sales tax on all transactions via cards based in the EU.

Size matters, as Apple is learning, but it was good while it lasted. Apple should feel the same. 

You just need a US payment method, not hard to come by ;-) Is the only way you can pay for apps/services if you have a US Apple ID

It's now actually unusually hard for certain social groups to get an EU payment method even in the EU. The anti fraud/laundering protections can be pretty strict.

The US has always been a bit of a laggard with banking technology. What are the minimum requirements to open a bank account there? 

You just buy US gift cards … easy peacy …. Long time ago a bought like 1000 US dollar gift cards when there was no iPhone in my country and that served me well for a couple of years, ready to do it again, in fact I’m even already contemplating to do it now.