kellie

You can certainly identify the liberals in this audience based on comments.  All of these “big evil corporations” fund the profitability of virtually everyone’s retirement savings.  Ignorance is certainly bliss. 

cincytee said:

The immediate effect might be the loss of $20 billion in payments to Apple, but Apple would clearly then institute its own search engine, which would generate billions in revenue, much like Google, so the overall impact would be much smaller financially and also put Apple in charge of its own search revenues. The question then would be whether that in itself would raise regulatory scrutiny.   

The Google deal yields pure profit for Apple.  There are no costs to Apple to generate this revenue.  For Apple to create and operate its own search engine would be very expensive and wouldn’t yield the net profit the Google deal produces.  It’s also potentially at odds with Apple’s marketing message about the importance of privacy.  

The fundamental question is why is building your own cell chips important to Apple?  Cell chips are vastly different from the CPU and controller chips Apple has experience developing.  Will having their own cell chip differentiate Apple from competitors? I think not unless Apple offers  some superior level of performance, which I doubt.  They are having trouble coming up with something that’s functionally equivalent to Qualcomm.  Why did Intel sell their cell chip operations?  Probably because they had trouble offering a product that could compete with Qualcomm, especially given the IP issues.  In my opinion Apple has made a multi billion dollar mistake going down this path.  They should just accept that they have to have Qualcomm as a partner.  And focus their efforts on technologies that can differentiate their products and entice non-Apple  consumers to switch to Apple products.   This mistake will ultimately be a business school case study. 

Should people stop using this hone cases which reduce the dissipation of heat from the back of the phone? Or should cases be modified to allow more airflow?

So you’d think a company as big as Apple would have tested for heat issues before releasing product.  They should certainly be able to test a new phone, running ios17 using the top 10 apps that people run. They loose lots of credibility with post release bug fixes.  Though the Silicon Valley way is to ship the shit and fix it later.  The bigger problem is if it’s a hardware design related problem and they need to de-tune the performance levels to get the temperature down. Of course, Apple could never admit there was a design flaw b