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  • India loosens 30 percent sourcing requirement on sale goods, paving the way for Apple Stor...

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    wood1208 said:
    Hope, cheap Chinese phones don't flood the Indian market.
    They already did.

    I have very little trust and faith in the Indian government. What they want is 5 years from now Apple will have some of its manufacturing ecosystem in India.

    But simply looking at how they deal with all these request, and how little understanding they have, and how unwillingly admit what problem and wrongs they have as a country. I can only see Apple bringing in the lowest, poorest, simplest form of manufacturing to India.

    Then in five years time they will ask the stupid question why iPhone XV still isn't manufactured in India and be very unhappy with it.
    racerhomie3watto_cobra

  • Second iPhone battery fire in two days affects Spanish Apple store

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    I think the problem is they are filled with massive orders, they cant follow the proper procedure. Heating the phone, melt the glue and take it apart should be a 99.99% save operation. However if you have to forcefully take the battery out because the glue has not been fully melted, it will likely ( especially with older battery ) causes a slight fire or burn, as I have experienced.

    Note: The glue was designed to be heated up and melt easily within a reasonable temperature, the procedure in itself should not heat up the batteries and causes explosion of any kind.
    watto_cobra

  • Wi-fi to get security updates in 2018 with new WPA3 protections, old hardware likely left ...

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    I think this may likely further delay 802.11ax. Not necessarily a bad thing because 802.11ax meetings seems to be a pile of bloody mess at the moment, i would rather the take longer to iron out all the crap then constantly feed the market with beta products. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple sues group that occupied Paris store to protest company's unpaid taxes

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    I wish someone could, enlighten me as to why they continue to protest, and what basis.

    A US Company, following every rule and tax code inside a EU country or France, and paid their profit tax back to US government, IF they decide to bring those profit back to US.

    Does US ask L'Oréal, LVMH, both HQ in France to paid all their profits made in US with US tax code? ( I really dont know the answer to this question )

    It is silly.
     

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  • TSMC said to have locked up all 'A12' chip orders for Apple's 2018 iPhones

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    cloudmobile said:
    blastdoor said:
    Samsung? Pfft. They're done. 

    The more interesting competitor to TSMC now is Intel, because Intel offers the potential to integrate the cellular modem into the SOC. 

    But I wonder if Intel might have waited too long to get serious about going after Apple's business. These fab processes are difficult to assess by marketing name alone -- TSMC's 10nm is as good as Intel's 10nm, for example. But my impression is that the transistor density of TSMC's 10nm is better than Intel's 14 nm, and that TSMC's 7 nm MIGHT beat Intel's 10nm. If so, then Intel might have finally lost its fab process lead. And that would be a very big deal if true. 

    But Samsung? Ha. They're done. 
    Intel would have to 1) start making ARM SOCs instead of x86 ones and 2) make SOCs that are competitive with the ones made by Samsung and TSMC. Right now, Intel doesn't even have the foundries to make ARM chips, nor the expertise to make them or operate them. Getting that would take years and billions of dollars. That is why Intel spent years and billions trying to get mobile device makers to use their mobile x86 designs instead, and when that failed they decided to exit the mobile business to focus on IoT. Now that Windows runs on ARM nearly as well as it runs on x86, Intel is probably freaking out. And the multiple security issues that have been identified with their chips will only give manufacturers more incentive to switch from x86 to ARM for Windows PCs that don't require professional/workstation type performance. Yes, Samsung is done, but they never really needed Apple's SOC business anyway. They've had 4 straight record quarters without it. Time to let the Samsung thing go. Apple's lawsuit against them was going on 9 years ago, and Samsung has made 20 times as much money supplying Apple with components than Apple would have ever gotten out of that lawsuit anyway. And there is also the not insubstantial fact that Apple has taken far more design ideas for the iPhone X (and 8/7/6S/6) from the Galaxy S and Galaxy Note lines than Samsung ever did from the 1st and 2nd generation iPhone for their iPhone knockoffs that didn't sell anyway.
    Oh dear No. Intel has been making ARM Chips, ( They are using ARM inside controllers ) and they do have the license to Fab ARM chips. Basically the highlighted word are false. Search Intel Custom Foundry.
    watto_cobra