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humbug1873 said:

So most of these analysts haven't considered the growing anti-US sentiment outside of the US. Do they really think this will not negatively impact Apple sales outside of the US!? Sounds a bit naive.

Anti-US sentiment isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. This very specific thing is new, but anti-US sentiment in general is quite old. If anti-US sentiment was going to be an issue for Apple selling products overseas, then it would have been an issue for all of Apple’s existence as a company.

iooi said:

Tariffs were announced on April the 2nd and this was after the Q2 ended. What are those analysts smoking?

Tariffs were announced well before April 2, 2025. Tariffs were announced well before the election. Trump made it incredibly-clear during the run-up to the election that he was going to slap tariffs on basically every country if he were elected. It was one of the few policy positions that Trump gave actual specifics on during the campaign. Trump has been publicly advocating for tariffs since the 1980s. None of this is a surprise. It’s not a surprise to analysts. And it’s not a surprise to many consumers (some of whom were pulling-forward some big ticket purchases back before even inauguration day).

I know some people don’t take Trump seriously in the things he says, but Trump told everybody that these tariffs were coming well before these tariffs came.

AppleInsider said:

The company is also raising dividends by 4%, bringing payments to $0.25 per share.

Apple raised dividend to $0.26 (up from the previous $0.25).

arichter138 said:

eightzero said:

"However, Apple may not consider it enough of an issue to address it with time and labor costs." Really? A multi-trillion dollar company can't afford this? You know...to keep their customer base happy? Seriously, how much "time and labor costs" are we talking about?

The real issue isn't the cost of time and labor costs to fix this one particular issue, but the can of worms it opens up on every other product/sw that is beyond the last date of support that is found to have a bug/defect/vulnerability.  If Apple fixes this one, but not a different one later, how many class-action lawsuits get spun up against them using this as reference or precedent?

This wouldn’t be precedent setting. And also that wouldn’t stop someone from filing a lawsuit anyway.

Apple has already provided security updates to products that were discontinued for a very long time. For example, on July 29, 2024 Apple released iOS 15.8.3 for the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. That update (at that time) was provided to the iPhone 6S/6S Plus just under 9 years after those iPhones were released and just under 6 years after those iPhones were officially discontinued.

There might be even better examples of even older products receiving updates from Apple. The iPhone 6S/6S Plus example was just the one that immediately came to mind when I read your comment.

Edit: Oh, yep, there was an even better example to use. Apple provided yet another update for the iPhone 6S/6S Plus. That update (iOS 15.8.4) happened just a few weeks ago (March 31, 2025). So that would have been 9 years, 6 months after release and 6 years, 6 months after being discontinued. 

I wonder if the fire station is going to be an all-glass cube.