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Plunderkind said:

Hey everybody, what would you rather own: Apple’s slimmest iPhone EVER, or an iPhone 2mm thicker that has much longer battery life?

I thought Apple had gotten over the fixation on the thinnest phone…

mac_dog said:

I can’t imagine a use case for a foldable phone.

nubus said:

When MS agreed to this, the wording was very, very positive towards EU. Read the part about "Amendments to Security Features":

https://news.microsoft.com/2006/10/13/brad-smith-press-conference-transcript-announcement-regarding-release-of-windows-vista-in-europe-and-korea/

MS PR could have been professional and stayed silent. Now they say that the core of Windows is at risk and on a global scale! Add a full attack on authorities for an 18 year old agreement that MS "forgot" to implement. Attacking authorities might work in US. In most other regions this is a 100% PR disaster. MS should be happy that the EU Cyber Resilience Act is not yet in place or the fine would have been 2,5% of global revenue. Stupid PR team.

cg27 said:

charlesn said:

cg27 said:

And they spent ten years spinning their wheels on a vehicle program to no avail.

To no avail? Hardly. They spent years trying to develop an Apple Car and, having learned through that process that there wasn't a sufficiently profitable or successful business to be launched, shut down the project. Sometimes, that's how it goes and it's a helluva lot better fate than becoming another Fiskar, Rivian, Polestar or take your pick of EV also rans that probably aren't going to make it. (In Fiskar's case, It's already out of business.) Sometimes you have to be smart enough to take the loss and move on rather than continuing to throw more money at something that is unlikely to change its ultimate fate. 

No argument about not throwing good money after bad, but it does seem that ten years of effort and $10B was to no avail.  I think they finally realized they weren’t going to outdo Tesla.

IG-apple_vienna said:

I hope everybody downloads the app - but nobody buys anything outside