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jfabula1 said:

$1.5 trillion trade deficit? How did we get into this mess. That Buffon is doing something about my kids future, otherwise America will be gone. Debt up to our noses. $36 trillion and nobody is mentioning and not even Apple can survive.

That's not how any of this works. The national debt and trade deficit are two very different things. Also, everything is now more expensive and scarce versus before the current administration took over.

A $45 million parade being held on Trump's birthday. Four $55 million F18 jets in the Red Sea after the administration kept extending the Truman's deployment, exhausting sailors to the point of breaking. Over $18 million spent on golf alone since January with estimates around $60 million if you include travel costs and his frequent visits to his home in Florida. Biden was being attacked by right wing media for spending an estimated $11 million across two years of his presidency.

But yeah, Trump is saving us all kinds of money. Art of the Deal or whatever cultish nonsense people keep saying.

9secondkox2 said:

The fact that the usa gets 30% out of this whole China only gets 10%

This isn't a deal. Americans are paying more for goods. We're just back to where things were before Trump took office, except everything is 10% more expensive for Americans. China lost nothing in this. And it isn't even a deal, it's a pause on tariffs from the US, which means China reduced their reciprocal tariffs caused by Trump from 145% to 10% to match the pause rate. No negotiations were made.

Hopefully this means apple can breathe easier while continuing to diversify the supply chain and get serious about efforts at home.

Not happening. Apple isn't bringing any extensive portion of the supply chain home. The effort would take decades to even get the factories built, let alone training the humans to operate it (if you can find anyone willing to dedicate their lives to it). The result would be an iPhone being built here in 20 years that cost $8,000. Great. The world will have moved on from smartphones by then anyway, so why waste time chasing that result? Even Cue suggested iPhone might be rendered obsolete by some kind of technology in a decade.

Rogue01 said:

9secondkox2 said:

No need for a MacBook Pro redesign. It’s pretty much perfect in its most recent form. 

The current form is terrible with the unnecessary notch.  In an Enterprise environment with lots of required software that runs in the menu bar, icons are constantly hidden by the notch and users don't know what to do to find and move the icons.

So you'd rather have a smaller display or a larger laptop instead of installing a Menu Bar management app?

docno42 said:

Thank god for all of us Epic followed through and won.  A new golden age of apps will likely be upon us - just think of all the apps that devs never bothered to follow through on because of Apple's arbitrary, capricious and fickle application of the rules?  

Tim Sweeney?

DAalseth said:

Steve Humiston said:

DAalseth said:

My systems are Google Free. This isn’t a way to get me excited about Apple Intelligence.

Nothing wrong with that.. but you should be excited about AI, if you like technology... and right now Apple Intelligence is the like the Zune of AI

Why?
I’m not being snarky I honestly want to know what it would do for me. So far I’ve seen writing tools that will revise my work to remove my voice and style. I’ve seen art tools that make things that are far worse than what I create already. I have not seen anything that makes me think, “Yeah I really want my phone to be able to do that.” The articles here and elsewhere have not sold me on it.

Honest question: Why do I want AI, from Apple or anyone? 

What, you don't believe the grifters? 

The poorly named "AI" that has been overhyped by terrible companies is actually a decent technology set. It will be *everywhere* eventually, but not in a flashy marketing way. It's going to be more like revolutionizing the way cars burn fuel so they are more efficient. Data gathering, processing, and presentation all benefit from LLMs to an extent, as long as you limit the dataset. Get too big and hallucination rates increase by magnitudes.

So no, there's really no real consumer use cases and likely won't ever be. AI is inherently a boring autocomplete machine that shouldn't even be marketed. Just look at Apple. Word processing and summaries? Yep, that's the best use of the technology. Apple Health data parsing? Also great for users, just not hugely marketable.

Altman tried to make advanced Excel spreadsheet parsing look sexy by saying it'll overturn democracy and end the need to work. The hype cycle is nearing its end and AI will soon fade into a background technology where it should have been all along.

Moderation note: Do not attack Senator Warren as a person on here. Yes, I'm aware of her nonsense, but it doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand. Also, China is not a country with a third world economy and I wouldn't classify its workforce as "slave labor." This is just insulting and unnecessary for the topic at hand.

We can have a conversation about these things without resorting to extremes and insults. Like, it is perfectly fine to say you believe the tariffs are necessary and that getting manufacturing out of China is a good thing. You can even say that it'll be difficult for America to compete with the incredibly inexpensive labor available in China and India.

There's no need to put additional, non-factual, qualifiers on these things that do nothing except ramp up the rhetoric and arguments.