Rogue01

Actually, 18.4 fixed the random disconnects with my iPhone 15 Pro using a USB-C to USB-A cable with my factory stereo.  It would randomly disconnect, iPhone 15 Pro not responding and then reconnect, or sometimes have to pull the cable and plug back in to get it to reconnect.

But I have noticed that if you are listening to music on your phone with the now playing screen and you unplug and turn the car off.  When you plug back into CarPlay the next day, it will resume the music but be on the home screen with icons instead of the Now Playing screen.

At least it stays connected now because it was really annoying when using Waze for a destination for navigation prompts and the phone randomly disconnects losing your Map display and not hearing the navigation prompts until you get it reconnected.

But yeah, CarPlay is a S**tshow and Apple thinks they want to take over the entire car with CarPlay 2.0?  Not a chance with all these bugs.

HiramAbif said:

Wesley Hilliard said:

slickdealer said:

The most likely scenario remains that China lowers tariffs on US goods and our reciprocal tariffs automatically adjust.  

Why all of these articles fail to mention how reciprocal tariffs work baffles me. 

It seems you are the one that doesn't understand how tariffs work. The tariffs enacted by the Trump administration were calculated using the trade deficit divided by the exports. That's not how you determine what China's tariffs are on US goods.

China's original rate was less than 5%, but now they've got no choice but to respond to the US tariffs. The only way prices go down on imported goods is if the US lowers tariffs, not China.

All tariffs are a tax on the country that imposes the tariffs. It is basic economics. The US government tried to impose tariffs in the 1930s to save the economy, but spoiler! It failed and led to the great depression.

The great depression was NOT caused by tariffs, and in fact tariffs have been utilized since the country's founding, and accounted for up to 95% of the revenue to the government up until the income tax was created in the early 20th century. 

You are incorrect.  Look up the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.  It caused the US to sink further into the Great Depression.  "Hoover signed the bill against the advice of many senior economists, yielding to pressure from his party and business leaders. Intended to bolster domestic employment and manufacturing, the tariffs instead deepened the Depression because the U.S.'s trading partners retaliated with tariffs of their own, leading to U.S. exports and global trade plummeting. Economists and historians widely regard the act as a policy misstep, and it remains a cautionary example of protectionist policy in modern economic debates."

Then go watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off as Ben Stein's famous classroom speech also explained it.  We are headed for another depression due to Trump's misguided Tariffs.  The economy is crashing, if you haven't been paying attention.

The Air is now thicker and heavier than the Pro, which defeats the entire purpose of the Air.  The Air was meant to be the thinner and lighter model, as it once was.  But all iPads run the same OS and apps so the base model runs everything equally well compared to the Pro or Air.  

Will it be a live keynote, or another awful cringe-worthy video?  Maybe they will be apologizing for Apple Intelligence instead of trying to push out more half-baked features.  They already blundered with Siri, unless they try and do damage control and more promises of features that won't be ready with iOS 19.

I miss the days when Apple released new software and the features they previewed at WWDC were actually in the release version.  Instead all we get are 'coming soon' and then 'maybe next year'.  I stopped watching the videos because they were nothing more than reading press releases and spec sheets.

Mike is right.  The M1 iPad Air is a far better iPad than the A16 iPad 11, hands down.  The M1 outperforms the A16 and both iPads are essentially the same device, but the Air has the laminated display, the iPad doesn't.  The Air supports the Pencil 2, the iPad 11 doesn't.  Buying refurb is essentially a brand new iPad with new outer case and new battery.  The iPad 11 should have been an M1, or even an M2, not an outdated A16.