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avon b7 said:

ajeffrey said:

This is just blatant extortion by the Indonesian Govt. Why should Apple invest $1 billion in a country just so they can sell their products there. If I were Apple I would tell them where they can put there request and sell older iPhones, it's only the Indonesian public that will suffer.

It's Apple's call but the rules as dictated by government have to apply.

The US wants to revive manufacturing too and is using strings
-attached subsidies and tariffs to try and push companies to manufacture domestically.

Indonesia wants investment. 

It's up to them how they go about achieving their goals (as long as they don't fall foul to legal challenges). 

MacPro said:

... and then poor Tim vomited.  

The threatened crippling import Tax on foreign goods could severely damage Apple.  Hopefully, Apple will either be further ahead of decentralizing products than is generally known or given a pass if it puts the Home Button back.

lowededwookie said:

How is Apple overvalued? Of ALL computer and software manufacturers Apple is the only company producing exciting hardware. Intel is loosing the plot with its pathetic small speed updates and yet the PC world laps them up. AMD is let’s face it dead in the water and has done nothing truly exciting since they started to take on Intel at their own game.

It’s for this reason I knew in 2006, when Apple went Intel because PPC was too slow in giving Apple what it wanted, that Apple would ditch Intel for their own chips. I was laughed at and yet here we are at the M4, fours years into Apple’s transition.

I mean, to be fair, Intel did keep its promise last year that by 2023 they’d have a chip capable of beating the M1… around the same time Apple released the M3.

If stock performance was based on products shipped then surely it means Apple is incredibly UNDERvalued.

But Buffet is right, the economy will tank. How can it not? The way it’s all set up it’s all on a knife’s edge. Currencies aren’t based on tangible products anymore and haven’t been for decades. It’s all smoke and mirrors and is essentially the greatest Ponzi scheme history has ever seen. It HAS to collapse. I’m not so sure having huge cash reserves will be a benefit though. If the economy crashes and the dollar has no value then surely you’ll just be sitting on a huge pile of worthless paper.

Possum-us said:

Ewww never simp for Giant Corporations no matter how much you enjoy a product of theirs. They are not your friends nor do you have to follow the narratives they choose to push. They are not working in your best interest. The priority is always them over you in time of need.

I think you miss understand "planned obsolescence". You talking like a serf which is alarming.

I am on Appleinsider, even though Apple is a giant cooperation I like Apple over many other choices out there.
But non of them are ever perfect, and in this consumer relationship I would never speak to the benifits that go against mine.
They have no clue or care about me and will do what makes their margins wider before ever thinking to adopt the "true needs" of the customer.
This situation always has this huge imbalance.

 The only thing we have in this form is a minute ability to drive narrative and point out directions you feel are sus and go against past assertions.

In this example it has nothing to do with something you can get somewhere else it is what is exclusive to Apple and what this can signify (and does signify) because of Apples past. 

The touchID is said to not work because of the OS version. The idea of the T2chip was to provide this secure enclave.
This was later integrated in there ARM chips and has been functional through out the change (intel and ARM).

This removal will work its way into "everything" this chip does if they convince people it is the OS, major changes, while the root hardware needed is the same.

The more comfortable they feel blaming it on something else the more they remove. ie the T2 chip was needed to stream 4k video or other media related services.
Well this old intel hardware with the same screens they use in current gen hardware will not be viable

Slowly removing the core "convenience" and usability to not "force" but genrally push you to adopt something new you don't honestly need for the function.

You look at what apple removes as well from there software side and being able to downgrade OS. There are features that really are not tide to anything innately different between OSes. There is more because of the new architectures but the practice has always happened far before the change.

Also crazy as it is to say after what I said

I think Apple does the best job of this in the system they partake in, they always give just enough. ie the lesser evil towards my goals.

But like I said I am not going to do what you did and prop narratives they want, that is ridiculous