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aslam said:

The top of the article says that prices would rise in the US and elsewhere. I’m struggling with rationalizing the “and elsewhere” part of it. I see how prices would have to rise for American consumers because tariffs would apply on products produced in China, but why would prices rise for those outside of the US? If I’m not mistaken, most of Apple’s product like iPads, Macs and iPhones are assembled in China with parts manufactured entirely outside the US. So that product, when sold to a Canadian or European, should cost the same as before, should it not? Canada hasn’t levied new tariffs on Chinese-made products or on parts from India, Taiwan, etc., so shouldn’t the price remain the same for Apple to produce the product in China and then sell it in Canada or Europe? Maybe I’m missing something or some element of the supply chain. Can someone elaborate on this for me?

One reason I can think of is to help balance the revenue and profit by raising the MSRP across the board so that it doesn't make sense to, say, drive to Mexico or Canada to get a new iPhone thereby allowing the unit sales to still be inline for a given country as well as balance the financial hit Apple would otherwise endure.

Additionally, Apple is a US company so a tariff may be added to goods entering, say, Canada, despite the product having its finally assembly and shipping in China.

Luis.A.Masanti said:

Why do people… almost always… expects ‘others to be fired’? (Obviously… never they.)

That people… posible… made a mistake, or even a lot.
Then… you want them to be fired. So, the company must hire new people…
…How do we assure that they won't do the same… or even worser… mistakes?
Maybe the only thing that is needed is a clarification or redefinition of the goals, timeframe, and controls.

Of course, we all remember that after the failure of MobileMe's launch Steve Jobs fired the team.
In the Maps fiasco… the —maybe only— person fired was because he did not want to sigh the apology.

And the real solution after those debacles was a change in the head of the project… Eddy Cue took the internet services.

Life is to have experiences. If the experience turns out as we expected, we call it ‘success,’ otherwise we call it ‘failure.’ But they are only experiences!

The only ‘real’ failure is to not learn from experience.

It's often scapegoating. Even if the problem stems from management if you fire the people doing the work you can try again with management knowing what didn't work before (i.e.: knowing what mistakes they should avoid making again). If it is successful then it's easy to to 1) take credit for fixing the problem (even though they caused it), and 2) being able to point the finger at the previous team that can't defend themselves.

For example, MobileMe had issues, but one of the biggest issues was out of the gate when Steve Jobs said it would be available to everyone at once. They should've done it in stages, first with .Mac users that wanted to try it out. This would allow them to gauge usage needs for both processing and bandwidth as well as work on bugs. To make matters exponentially worse, MobileMe went live the same time as the iPhone 3G, iOS 2.0, and App Store. The stupidity of this move meant that countless people are now also trying MobileMe all at once. I certainly tried to test the fuck out of MobileMe on that day since it was new and it basically didn't work for an unknown number of days. For this I blame Steve Jobs, not the engineers. If not for that boondoggle of a launch we may still be using MobileMe in name right now, instead of the renamed iCloud that came the next year.

michelb76 said:

>The folding screen will have no creases

Interesting, because the only Samsung tech that exists on the market definitely has creases. Unless Samsung created something entirely new for Apple.

Lmao at the price-point, I hope many people will buy it though, so the price could come down, unless Apple wants to anchor the foldable at that price, which I think is insane.

The only way I can see it done with known technologies is that is that the center is thinner than the edges of the "wings" so that when folded the casing is mostly equal thickness. This could allow a radius of the screen bend that doesn't lead to a fold. Although I would still be concerned that the folding the digital matrix thousands of times would lead to degradation of the substrate.

jpellino said:

Keeping servers in the states makes a lot of sense. They wouldn’t have them in China. They would never have them in Russia. And housing them anywhere in the EU means that they’d have to be subject to their laws. If the servers are in the United States, they can shut off any access to them based on laws and regions. I’m a little worried about the Houston installation because Texas’s grid is so unpredictable / unreliable.  

Apple also has data centers in China, Denmark, and Ireland, at the very least.

chuck burr said:

I just wait for a cellular MacBook with Face ID. It’s about time.

I wonder if the issue for not including Face ID is that multiple faces being recognized accurately is still an issue. I feel like they had planned to offer it with the inclusion of the notch years ago.

Unlike fingerprints, Apple does state that underage familiar members may cause Face ID to execute a false positive I also know of someone whose iPhone can be accessed by one of their friends.

How much space on the Secure Enclave does Face ID use over each fingerprint with Touch ID? If it's not space, is there another technical reason for not including it yet?