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  • Apple backs down on CSAM features, postpones launch

    anantksundaramanantksundaram
    They were utter morons to do this in the first place. 

    Glad that good sense prevailed, seemingly after all other options were exhausted. 
    elijahgbaconstangmuthuk_vanalingammobirdchemengin1darkvader

  • Apple, Intel join lawsuit against Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods

    anantksundaramanantksundaram
    GeorgeBMac said:
    anantksundaram said:
    Frankly, if it was up to me, I’d double down on the opposite: say, quadruple the tariffs, leave it there for the next 25 years, and use the proceeds to help pay for all the COVID damage caused. It might, collaterally, help move some production here as well (and to China’s competitor countries). 

    That should be the price society imposes on each of us for our hankering after our cheap electronics and t-shirts. 

    The "COVID damage" was caused by our inept response. 
    You might want to look up some data, before making such patently absurd statements like the one above. 

    Oh, when comparing, do so with like countries, not iron-handed dictatorships or nothing-little islands in the middle of nowhere. 

    That said, ignorance - even the willful, obtuse kind - is not a crime, so knock yourself out. 
    williamlondon

  • Apple, Intel join lawsuit against Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods

    anantksundaramanantksundaram
    Frankly, if it was up to me, I’d double down on the opposite: say, quadruple the tariffs, leave it there for the next 25 years, and use the proceeds to help pay for all the COVID damage caused. It might, collaterally, help move some production here as well (and to China’s competitor countries). 

    That should be the price society imposes on each of us for our hankering after our cheap electronics and t-shirts. 
    elijahgibillthe1maximusviclauyycwilliamlondon

  • Apple's Tim Cook: EU big tech rules threaten iPhone security

    anantksundaramanantksundaram
    EU regulators are seriously a bunch of losers. The people I run into from all over the EU are mostly somewhere else on these issues, however. 

    It’s a matter of time, with the UK at the vanguard… 
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  • HomePod is sold out, but isn't dead yet - Apple's 'end of life' explained

    anantksundaramanantksundaram
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    entropys said:
    entropys said:
    JWSC and Avon seem to be correct. 
    Spend a lot of time developing a product, then release with massive fanfare and an extraordinary price [and other limitations that is not well received in the market.
    so instead of correcting and fine tuning to fix the market problems, nothing.  Languishment. Another potentially great product dies from neglect because someone got egg on their face.

    Unfortunately it isn’t like the naughty kid sent to the attic and forgotten while the rest of the family fly to Paris for Christmas.
    They did correct and fine-tune, the same way they did the iPhone. The original iPhone isn't still on the market, it's been replaced by other, newer iPhones in different form-factors.

    They released the HomePod mini for that iteration.
    Mike, the iPhone is an established product that is the company’s bread and butter. This is about ecosystem peripherals I guess. HomePod, routers, displays, even the Mac Pro. These products are all potentially great, but had a few issues,  they don’t get updated/fixed, the technology ages, and then starts looking extremely poor value for money over time. If the first iteration isn’t a total success, the hardware limitations especially aren’t addressed. As for the software in the HomePod, desultory fixes might be a good way to describe them. 
    This product got shunned by leadership very early in the piece, which is a shame.
    My concern is that this was part of a home invasion strategy that now seems less defined, less robust.
    Quite so. Incoherent even.
    It wasn't the company's bread and butter when it was replaced.

    The point is, the ecosystem hasn't been killed. The HomePod mini still exists. 
    A sibling product that didn't get 'killed' is not my definition of an 'ecosystem.'

    There's nothing to suggest that the little sibling won't killed off either.
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