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Apple's $100 billion investment has almost nothing to do with US iPhone manufacturing
An entire city worth of employees work at a factory where they work 12-14 hour days for three months at a time while living in factory housing away from their family. Not exactly something we're going to reproduce in the US. And no, automation isn't the solution, not in the short term.8thman said:I have seen the statement about China’s “skilled labor”
several times but no one describes exactly what that means and is it only in regards to labor for Apple devices, or are these skills different.
Also, I’d like to know more about Apple’s “Training Academy”. If you already written about it, please point me to it!
What are these mystery skills that Americans are unable to acquire. Is it the tediousness of small parts assembly that makes it unattractive? How much is automated??
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iPhone 17 may have been spotted in the wild
Sorry to say, but the law is quite clear, when in public, it is fair game. While I can't take a photo of someone and use it commercially, there's nothing stopping anyone from taking photos, recording video, or capturing audio of anyone in public.Stabitha_Christie said:I love a good rumor as much as the next person but can we not normalize this kind of behavior? While it isn't illegal to take someone's photo in public is still an invasion of privacy and promoting this kind of thing will only lead to more instances of this kind of thing.
Like I said in the piece, it's not something that's going to be a problem because these kinds of design changes are very rare. Nearly every other prototype iPhone has looked identical to its predecessor with the exception of iPhone X, which was prototyped in a literal brick-sized box IIRC.I wouldn't worry about this becoming a common way to leak iPhone information.
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DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app
9secondkox2 said:Great. Obstruction of justice is a criminal offense. Doesn't matter if it's done via an app or not.
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.9secondkox2 said:
Totally different issues.Mike Wuerthele said:
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.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.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.
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.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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New Vietnam trade deal means Apple will pay at least five times more in tariffs
None of the tariffs are reciprocal, to be fair. But that's what the admin called them on "Liberation Day." Also, exempt? Nope. The initial exemption was downstream only and didn't apply to any new tariffs levied after the order. A lot has changed since then anyway.LongTermAppleGuy said:Is the new tariff rate a reciprocal tariff? If so, most Apple products, including all you mentioned will still be exempt. This question must be answered before penning any speculative headline about the impact of the trade agreement .
These are the newly agreed upon tariffs via the deal Trump made. So, no longer temporary adjustments meant to push countries into deals, but the one that will remain in place. It is fully applicable to Apple's products until a specific exemption is announced, if one ever is (which it won't be).
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New Vietnam trade deal means Apple will pay at least five times more in tariffs
Apple won't absorb it directly, that's too much. But it also won't raise prices in just one location. Prices will go up globally, that way the price change is less overall.davgreg said:
Or absorbing the tax as a cost of doing business.narwhal said:I'm guessing this will be the first year that prices for Apple hardware will be HIGHER in the US than other countries. The next iPhone could be $1000 in the US and $750 in Canada. Apple has a choice of either tanking its US sales or bribing an insane despot.
Apple maintains a very high margin.
