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I miss when tech news wasn’t so political. And that’s not a criticism of the writers and editors of this site. All of this specific political news is also very relevant Apple news. If you are covering Apple news, this is what you need to write about in 2025. 100% understandable.

I just miss when the biggest news of a particular week (a week that wasn’t WWDC, a product announcement or whatnot) might have been leaked CAD files for an Apple Watch or a rumored prototype case mold of an unreleased iPhone, lol. I look forward to the day when that can be true again.

sherwinzadeh said:

I just hope they don't pull an iPhone mini on us and give us something we want but make it underpowered. At it's price point, I don't want any compromises, especially in the camera, compared to a Pro Max.

The only thing underpowered about the iPhone 12/13 Mini was the battery (because physics — smaller phone, smaller battery). Other than the actual size of the phones, the battery and the pixel density (technically higher on the Mini because of the smaller display), the iPhone 12/13 Mini were identical to their 12/13 non-Mini counterparts. Same A-Series SOC (with the same amount of cores), same amount of RAM, same cameras, same capacity options, same contrast ratio, same brightness, etc. There were no performance differences between the Mini and the non-Mini.

It seems different brands of the same company are valued separately. So if you add Alphabet’s brands (Google and YouTube) together, that also adds up over a trillion USD.

And if you add up Microsoft’s brands (Microsoft, Linkedin, Xbox) that would get to nearly a trillion USD as well.

I don’t see Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard on the list. Maybe each individual gaming franchise of Activation Blizzard is valued separately (and none of them individually made in the top 100). Otherwise it seems like Activision Blizzard should have made the list as well. Or maybe it got included as “Xbox”? Not sure.

Microsoft also kinda/sorta has an ownership-ish stake in OpenAI (ChatGPT — on the list). So I suppose that would get added in as well in some way.

I’m sure that’s the exact phrase Apple wants everybody to use: “AI monster”. Lol

When I think of “AI monster”, I don’t think of anything positive, haha. Skynet, Cylons, HAL 9000, Ultron, Agent Smith, Omni Consumer Products (OCP) from RoboCop.

OCP especially. The scariest monster out of all of those is the corrupt politically-connected American mega corporation headed-up by a bunch of greedy sociopaths. Quite the monster indeed, lol.

It’s $3500?!?!?

I’m on Apple news sites all the time and even I didn’t know it is $3500. For some reason I thought it was $2500 or so. So I would have been way off as well. Although my bid of $2500 would have been the highest without going over.