godofbiscuitssf

nubus said:

Cook deserves every cent of his salary. All the best to him and the team at Apple.

There are average Americans living paycheck to paycheck that have a lot more to deal with because of Trump than 45 minutes twice a year face to face who deserve more recompense than Cook does.

blastdoor said:

We are likely to soon find out if these tariffs are a shakedown for bribes or if Trump is really serious about them. 

I used to think they were mostly a shakedown but now I think he might be serious 

You're missing the point of a shakedown:  you pick and choose whom you shake down.  Without putting the hurt on *some*, you can't appear serious to those you truly expect to *pay*.  That's why Trump likes tariffs.  He can impose them on those he just hates, and can easily declare executive carve-outs for "national interest special cases" wherever he sees fit.

gatorguy said:

godofbiscuitssf said:

And in the USA, the US Government will manipulate Apple Intelligence to reply that the body of water officially known internationally as "Gulf of Mexico" is instead supposedly "Gulf of America".

LOL! The US Government doesn't proactively manipulate Apple Intelligence results, unlike the Chinese authorities. "Yeah but" doesn't equate.

Staying on topic would make this a better discussion thread.

So keeping it there, Apple's Private Compute in China will not be so private. Agencies will presumably have access to all cloud processed user requests as needed. 

Have you seen the President's latest outfits??

And in the USA, the US Government will manipulate Apple Intelligence to reply that the body of water officially known internationally as "Gulf of Mexico" is instead supposedly "Gulf of America".

iOS_Guy80 said:

Seems like the National Legal and Policy Center it’s just looking for issues to justify their existence.

No yeah, I mean, I trust any corporation.  Especially the ones making obscene profits whose corporate culture I know something about.