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Apple rumored to release iOS 26 at WWDC, instead of iOS 19
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White House says Trump doesn't want to harm Apple and iPhone prices won't rise
I saw that interview on YouTube. It was silly with the host not taking Hassett to task for his rank stupidity or deceit. Take your pick.
25% must be "tiny" since it's not half or 3/4 of the cost, so sure Apple will eat it and iPhones won't cost as a penny more. Let's just wait and see — it'll all just work itself out. Yeah, right.
Trump surrounds himself with intelligent people? WTF. I thought that poster for got the /sarc tag till I saw their second post. Delusional. Except for maybe two Repubs who didn't vote for the Big Beautiful Bill, no one on the right side of the aisle is trying to control moderate or influence him toward what was once "normal". Not even close.
Trump is the White House with all his vassals wearing fealty pins of the felon's likeness instead of the American flag. Trump was corrupt long before coming to the White House the first time and he's only leveled up since then. He has surrounded himself not with advisors but with enablers. An inner circle who fear him and are out for themselves like the authoritarian they serve. Hassett won't try to influence or manage him.
Trump would be a laughing stock if it weren't for the fact that he's POTUS. So he appoints Hassett as one of the "intelligent" people around him? The Spin is weak in that one. He was clearly selected for his Cult appeal. Hassett said that if Apple had a supply of iPhone somewhere that 'they have to sell them Right?" So Apple won't raise the price. Huh? Apple will eat 25% increase in cost? Any wonder why The Felon has had six bankruptcies in his private businesses? And Hassett has a PhD in economics?
As Trump gets loonier and loonier (anybody see Ol' Bonespur's speech at West Point?) and yet manages to maintain his malicious self, people like Hassett try to spin his actions as something reasonable that won't harm Apple or the American people. Neither Trump nor his administration have any interest in the American people in general other than what we can do for him regardless of the cost to us.
Big Beautiful Bill, beautiful coal. Yeah intelligent influencers. They've done a great job reining him in so far. We just have to be patient and ignore the yippies. It'll all work out. Right.
Trump is right about one thing. It will get worse (much worse) before it gets better. He'll see to it. -
It's still cheaper to import iPhones with 25% tariffs, than assemble in the US
The most important thing to that convicted felon is that Cook bow to him. He's not concerned with bringing manufacturing back to America. That's theater. He wants the 'Muricans to think he's a hero. He's flexing his ego and doing what he likes doing best — bullying. Well that and self-aggrandizing. And making money at the expense of others.
Cook could just say Fk it and pay the 25% (or additional 25%) indefinitely. It would take years for building a plant to satisfy Trump's whim. No, decades. And that's only if Trump doesn't raise the vig. Cook says Apple can live with 25% and makes no plans to build. Trump would be triggered and probably raise the tariff again if somebody doesn't keep him in check.
What's the answer or is there more than one? I have no idea. Even when he leaves office there will still be a huge mess to clean up and correct. There's no telling how much infamy will live on in the Red Party and celebrated as legacy. I think we're going to see Apple prices get somewhat painful though not impossible (ha!) for most to afford. -
Trump demands 25% tariff on any iPhone not made in the US
AppleZulu said:Watch instead for some bluster followed by a reversal. Watch for Trump and his inner circle to buy Apple stock this afternoon and sell after the reversal. -
Camera-equipped AirPods coming in 2026, lighter AirPods Max in 2027
"Frequently-reliable" is far from laudatory or an accolade. It's an observation as would be batshitcrazy for some of the quoted "leakers" of dubious inside information. Referring to someone as frequently-reliable could be an insult to someone who is very reliable. I don't know if Quo ranks above or below .500 nor the stat of any other analyst or leaker. Some have done poorly. Have any done very well?
That said, cameras in AirPods seem unlikely to me. So did AirPods, at one time. There'd be no problem with believing that Apple is working on cameras in AirPods, just for drill. But I can't see any practical value in them.
Unless maybe the infra-red deal is to give Daredevil navigation ability to the sight-impaired. In the sci-fi world, this would have AI describing the environment to the user to guide their steps. A self-contained version of the visual guide Sunny in the bad Sight Unseen TV show. Now that could be too cool.
In a more practical application it might be to provide whistles and clicks to objects surrounding the user's head on a swivel.
Or combine a LASER (!) in each AirPod with an H12 chip to scan the area and feed the info to Apple Vision Pro v7 for a picture superior to Gen 1 NVGs (NODs to the youngsters) !
Though I seriously doubt that's the purpose. If an actual thing, I'd say it would be a proof of concept more than a potential actual product. Like an SPO2 sensor in a Watch. Ok one of those things is not like the other. But it would be so cool.