SuntanIronMan

gavinthain said:

Answer these as honesty as you can?

If you make a mistake at work, how would you like to be treated? 

Do you ever make mistakes?

These are C-Suite executives for a three trillion dollar market capitalization company. When someone like them gets fired, they leave with millions of dollars as a severance package. If it’s Tim Cook, it’ll likely be tens of millions of dollars (maybe even hundreds of millions). They’ll be treated just fine.

Pema said:

Foldable iPad makes perfect sense. Avoid having to carry a separate keyboard-as-a-case. 

A foldable iPhone is a waste of time and money on a phone that by 2026 will reach the 20th anniversary of a product that has been milked just as long. Why not invest the resources on a new product to excite the Apple devotees? 

I mean, that’s easier said than done. Just make an exciting new product category. No problem.

New products to excite were going to be the Apple Car and the Apple Vision Pro. For former is obviously not going to happen anymore and the latter is… well… it’s a new product.

And Apple is investing resources now on another new product. It’s called Apple Intelligence. And… it’s… also new.

melgross said:

blastdoor said:

Apple's silicon design team appears to be among the strongest teams in the company, and among the best silicon design teams in the world (if not the best). 

I wonder if Apple will buy or build their own fab so that they are both designing and manufacturing their chips. I know what the knee jerk reaction to that suggestion will be, but TSMC margins are steadily going up, which means that's profit Apple is missing out on. Time and time again, we have seen Apple identify suppliers with fat profit margins and then take over that business themselves. 

Maybe a way to start could be a joint venture with TSMC or Intel to build an Apple fab in the US. Apple could finance and own the fab and pay their partner some patent licensing and management/operation fees. Eventually Apple could then take over the management and operation. 

A modern fab costs up to $25 billion, and rising. It also takes years of experience to get the fab up to optimal performance. I doubt Apple will be willing to spend that money and take years to get it running properly. Then there are the risks of having a problem as fab companies gave. So now, 2nm is a year late from tank and others. But these companies have a number of favs. The build a new one and one by one, upgrade their older ones. How could Apple do that? They would have to have a fully functioning 3nm fab and build a 2nm fab.

no. Apple decided to not do that, and they’re right.

I know of a company that has shiny new leading-edge fab in Arizona, is struggling financially, has been selling/spinning-off various parts of its company and now has a new CEO.

I’m not saying Apple would buy Intel fabrication business. Not only am I not saying that, but I’m darn-near positive that Apple would never, lol.

BUT (just to speculate wildly): If Apple did want to get into fabrication (which it doesn’t), there is a quick way to skip all the time consuming parts that you mentioned. It would just require a large sum of money (which Apple has), Intel’s willingness to sell (which it might) and some government approval (since Intel took CHIPS Act money that requires Intel to not sell their fabrication business for some time).

Again, I’m not at all saying this is something that would happen. And it wouldn’t never be as simple as that. Just having fun speculating about something that definitely won’t happen, lol.

netrox said:

Why would they think it's a good idea to remove port when it can be used for high speed data or recharging more efficiently? 

Thinner phone (as the article says). If you have a USB-C port, then the device (of course) needs to be at least as thick as a USB-C port.

If you look at the recently released Oppo Find N5 foldable, it’s basically as thin as it can possibly be. (Specifically: the half with the USB-C port is basically as thin as it can possibly be.) It’s just ever-so-slightly thicker than a USB-C port. The only way to go meaningfully-thinner would be forgo the USB-C port entirely.

If this iPhone is specially suppose to be the thin phone (that’s the reason why it is being made), then removing the port will help to accomplish that goal. 

Wait, what? “Rumor Score: Likely”, but what’s the rumor?

I feel silly asking because it seems like I’m missing something super obvious. But I did read the article twice and I don’t actually know what the rumor is. Or is the rumor simply that Apple will try harder and nobody will get fired?