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  • Apple COO Jeff Williams retiring later in 2025, replaced by SVP Sabih Khan

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    Moderation note: racism is an obvious problem. This is the only warning you're going to get. Do not post racist content or face a ban.
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  • DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app

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    Great. Obstruction of justice is a criminal offense. Doesn't matter if it's done via an app or not. 
    pixeltini said:
    Hmm, who could have guessed interfering with law enforcement efforts would be illegal? It's no different than attempting to block a police vehicle doing its duty to protect Americans against those who would do us harm. You know… gang members, drug dealers, convicted felons, cartel thugs, human traffickers, and so on.

    And let's call out the specious idea that Ice Block is no different than a radar detector or warning drivers of a speed trap. A speed zone warning is an alert to POTENTIAL law breakers. Ice Block interferes with police efforts to apprehend individuals who have ALREADY BROKEN AT LEAST ONE LAW. Do you see the difference? Well do you?

    Pardon me for using logic and pointing out the obvious. Now go ahead and hurl the Leftist phrases you learned from CNN.
    It is exactly what I have bolded. Courts for decades have upheld the right of people to do exactly that. Apple Maps now will warn you of a speed trap, and the administration doesn't seem to care about that.

    Why? Because it's legal. Because ruling after ruling, it's been ruled as protected by the first amendment. 

    So has freedom of the press, which is what the administration is apparently more pissed about.
    Totally different issues. 

    The key difference between the red light / speed trap warnings is that they help limit the POTENTIAL of committing a crime/violation - it's actually a great deterrent - whereas ICE raids are about addressing ALREADY COMMITTED crime/violations. You can't deter an already committed crime. 

    Speed trap warnings in Apple Maps are helpful to avoid breaking the law and getting busted for it. ICE maps apps are simply helping criminals get away with crime. Huge difference. 

    You don't aid and abet a criminal in escaping the police during a raid or chase. In the same way, you don't aid and abet illegal aliens to escape the law.  

    This is likely not going to go well for the maker of the app. 
    Sending dozens of officers walking in a straight line through a city park armed to the teeth is the opposite of seeking out people that already committed crimes. 

    Again, 65% of people kidnapped by ICE have zero convictions. 93% have zero violent convictions. Trump has ordered an unrealistic goal of 3,000 arrests per day. Most of the people deported to foreign slave prisons were sent without due process, separated from their families, then tortured for fun by the government Trump is working with.

    Letting people know that they could potentially be in the area of a indiscriminate police force exclusively rounding up brown people to sate the president's quota is no different than telling people about a flash flood that's about to upend their lives and potentially bring death and suffering. At least in this case the ICE app works where our government does not.

    not to mention it and CNN's reporting are both completely legal. The funniest part is the app is only this popular because of Trump bringing light to it.

    stop spreading propaganda and nonsense. Unless you can name the law that is being violated, you're just spamming at this point.
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  • What's new in iOS 26 beta 3: Wallpaper color options, stronger blur effects, and more

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    Alex1N said:
    From my reading of the article, it sounds as though ‘Liquid Glass’ is being phased out even before the beta program has finished. Is this the case?
    Nope. Like with a lot of big Apple changes, they are announced then refined. It's still very much what Apple showed during WWDC. The elements still flow together, objects magnify under your finger, and elements are transparent and reflective. They've just toned down some aspects of transparency in certain locations to improve legibility.
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  • What Apple products will get hit the hardest by Trump's new tariff orders

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    twolf2919 said:
    "For Apple, Monday's list of tariff letters means it faces even more costs than it did before April's omnibus announcement for importing goods in the future." - why is that?  The announced tariffs on Japan, Korea,  Malaysia, and Khazakstan are tariffs the US will begin charging for goods coming into the US from those countries.  As far as I know, Apple doesn't import goods - INTO THE US - from any of these countries.  It is importing parts from them into China, Taiwan, and  India - so these US tariffs are irrelevant, no?  Far more important is what  China, Taiwan, and India tariff goods from those countries at.
    Right, but if Apple were to build products here, these tariffs would increase the cost of imports. It directly contradicts the supposed purpose of the tariffs.

    Also, the Trump administration is writing more rules around tariffs to penalize companies that try to get around tariffs by moving products between countries before importing them to the US, like Apple did with India.

    It's complicated, but this isn't going to be zero effect on Apple for sure. It just adds to the overall costs of tariffs, which are already astronomical.

    TLDR: None of this is working how it should or how it was promised.
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  • DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app

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    pixeltini said:
    Hmm, who could have guessed interfering with law enforcement efforts would be illegal? It's no different than attempting to block a police vehicle doing its duty to protect Americans against those who would do us harm. You know… gang members, drug dealers, convicted felons, cartel thugs, human traffickers, and so on.

    And let's call out the specious idea that Ice Block is no different than a radar detector or warning drivers of a speed trap. A speed zone warning is an alert to POTENTIAL law breakers. Ice Block interferes with police efforts to apprehend individuals who have ALREADY BROKEN AT LEAST ONE LAW. Do you see the difference? Well do you?

    Pardon me for using logic and pointing out the obvious. Now go ahead and hurl the Leftist phrases you learned from CNN.
    65% of people kidnapped by ICE have zero convictions. 93% have zero violent convictions. The app works like a crowdsourced app similar to Waze. Users can report sightings the same way they can report a pothole in Waze. It is against the first amendment for the government to restrict speech of any kind.

    They built a concentration camp on asphalt in the middle of a swamp surrounded by alligators they hope will eat them. These are facts.

    Careful with the CNN leftie stuff. We're not going to tolerate ad hominem attacks, insults, or any kind of propaganda.
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