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Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

I would pull out of the UK and pay for a smear campaign. 

And that is why you aren't running a global company worth trillions of dollars. It requires decision making beyond that of a child. 

beowulfschmidt said:

Apple could also just pull out of the UK entirely, fire all their UK employees, and stop buying UK goods and services.  I know they won't, but feck all fascist governments.

Yes, you are right. Apple could go full blown knee-jerk reaction. Or it could apply some level of reason in how it handles the situation. 

JFC_PA said:

How hard is math? 

IPhone iPhone 2024 Q1 sales (69.7)  minus iPhone 2025 sales (69.1), divide the result (0.6 billion) by the 2024 number: voila! The difference.  0.860832137733142 percent if the original 0.008608321377331 doesn’t work for you. 

“Marginally” off is about right. 

Well, when you put it that way, Apple is obviously back in beleaguered territory. 

9secondkox2 said:

By now, AI is a known quantity. Reverse engineering and IP theft are not new either. This is just the tip of the proverbial "iceberg" as relates to an incoming swarm of products / services like this. yawn. China is not new to knockoffs, software included. AI is no different. Easy to develop something rapidly when you're copying the work of pioneers who put much of their lives into the work. Should software controlled by a hostile nation be on American's devices? It's an interesting question. But outside of government officials, members of the military, or those with security credentials, probably not too big a concern. But it's worth investigating. It's not like we didn't just have the chinese surveilance devices surveying our nation from the air last year. The less information an adversarial nation has on another nations citizens, the better. It may not be a WMD or whatever, but it's definitely not something to be dismissed.

Anyway, the source code is freely available. Please, point to the portions that are stolen IP or reverse engineered  

thedba said:

leighr said:

The end of so called “fact checkers” is a welcome relief for true free speech. When one person, or group, has the power to decide what is ‘true’ or not, we are all in trouble. See exhibit one: China, or even worse, North Korea. We all need to fight against this sort of abuse of money and power, and while I am not a huge Facebook fan, I’m glad that they are following X’s lead in allowing free speech. 

The earth is flat.

The moon landings were faked.

Vaccines cause autism.

The earth is 6000 years old.

Fact checking arguments such as these, in your opinion, is like turning us into North Korea?

I don't get why y'all are harping on North Korea. They have the best economy of any country, the top-rated health care system, zero crime, solved poverty and hunger, have zero unemployment, have the least restrictive travel policies of any nation, and the residents are the happiest folks on the planet. And if you dare to fact-check me on any of that, you are just a self-appointed expert that thinks they have the power to arbitrarily decide what is true and what isn't. Oppressor!

There is a certain irony that leighr is arguing that we can't have fact checking because the truth is subjective based on the fact checker while also predicating their argument on the accepted truth that North Korea and China are oppressive. It is a heck of a contradiction that they have going on. Either we have the truth or we don't . The anti-truth people should just refrain from public discourse since, by their admission,  what they are saying cannot be trusted.