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  • Chip maker TSMC confirms plan to open $12 billion factory in Arizona

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    - The policy to only source products from within the US is wrong. Certain products of course, but not everything. 
    - The choice of Taiwan is fantastic. Wonderful place, not part of China despite what some here might thing, democratic and quality products. Under Mao China lost much of its historical treasures and culture. Fortunately his opponents were able to save a lot when they escaped, and took over Formosa ( now Taiwan).
    - Getting away from the CCP is good. Taiwan can help.
    - It is unfortunate that the US, amongst others, threw Taiwan under the bus in order in a gambit to change Communist China. That failed.
    - Taiwan is not Hong Kong and not at all in the same unfortunate predicament.

    tmaywatto_cobra

  • Apple purchases carbon-free aluminum from Quebec-based Elysis

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    mknelson said:
    realistic said:
    It would be nice to see the Pittsburg USA facility continue to manufacture this aluminum versus building a new plant in Quebec.
    Quebec produces 99% of its electricity from nominally carbon free sources. In Pennsylvania it's about 4%.
    https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/nrg/ntgrtd/mrkt/nrgsstmprfls/qc-eng.html
    https://compareelectricity.com/energy-sources/PA

    How nice, after they ruined a good chunk of the northern part of the province with its James Bay project, which produces a great deal of its “clean” energy. Not to mention the sleazy treatment of a neighboring province involving Churchill Falls, another huge source of its hydro capabilities.

    After wrecking a large chunk of northern geography, buying off people who could no longer live there and accepting billions of dollars in transfer payments from “dirty oil” I don’t think that place is in any position to keep bragging about its low CO2 footprint. It’s all a darned pr campaign to make money.
    SpamSandwichcat52

  • Absent an Apple Siri alternative, Alexa hardware family tops Amazon holiday sales charts

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    zone said:
    I think the real issue is who cares? Amazon makes almost not profit on these sales. Since there is no real eco system not sure if it really matters. I cheeped out and bought a fire tablet for my son who is 5 and it broke within 4 months, Never dropped, never mistreated. Got a refund and Amazon didn't even want the tablet back? Guess they are not really worth anything...
    A lot of people care. Amazon's Echo is interesting and fun, something that seems lost in the Apple world which has become very staid and boring. I don't know when it happened but somewhere along the way Apple lost its soul. It's just a big one product boring company obsessed with the thinness of that product. 

    My Amazon tablet has been every bit as rugged as my iPad although I do partially agree with you regarding the lack of an eco system.

    Amazon has been making neat products, really interesting original video content and has developed a far more interesting media store than iTunes. Apple needs a complete change in direction in order to avoid becoming irrelevant.

    Were the iPhone to become uncool the company would be in serious trouble.
    calibrucemcAI_lias

  • Mac losing focus of Jony Ive, others in Apple management - report

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    This has overtones of the shift from the Apple // to the Mac. The reliance on the iPhone has become very risky. Phones are a bit like fashion and can quickly go out of style and you then have a huge company with no significant products.
    dysamorianetmage

  • Apple SVP Eddy Cue sells $37.5M in AAPL stock

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    lkrupp said:
    SpamSandwich said:
    Now he needs to leave. He's had his day in the sun and so many poor decisions have been made under his stewardship. Get some new people in there who can move the needle on Apple Music, Maps and more!
    No, you need to leave this forum. You have no idea how to run Apple and never will.  All you do is bitch.

    Many loyal Apple supporters are questioning the moves of the company. No real imaginative leader willing to take chances, executives involved in Apple TV and networking that have delivered ho hum products and on and on. The reliance of Apple on the iPhone is beginning to resemble Microsoft's reliance on Windows and Office. 

    It's hard to get excited by many of Apple's moves. They are predictable and incremental improvements of their cash cow, minimal improvements to Macs in order to prevent a stampede away from their old base. Think of OSX/Mac as the ProDOS/Apple II and iOS/iPad as the MacOS/Mac way back.

    Apple Music, Maps and iTunes have not been the greatest. Apple Music ( perhaps the new one is better?) is unappealing and complicated, iCloud confusing while being stingy, OS upgrades every other day to fix whatever.

    There are still a lot of great things about Apple but those who think nothing is wrong seem to be living in the past. 

    Criticism is needed so I really don't understand your invitation to the original poster to leave the forum. One misstep with the iPhone and Apple would be in serious trouble. They need to lower their reliance on that product and they need to come out with exciting products. They are becoming the old Microsoft and IBM.
    aaarrrgggh