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Couple steals back their own car after tracking an AirTag in it
I’m glad the story had a good outcome. There have been several stories of people losing their lives over trying to recover their property. AirTags are great to track where your property is, but, I would caution people to not try to recover lost or stolen property without law enforcement. Nothing is worth losing your life over.
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iPadOS 26 fixes nearly everything wrong with the platform after everyone already left
I think it has to do with two things. One, bad management of the platform and that goes back aways when Apple hired ex EA managers. If you know anything about gaming, you’ll recognize EA, and how bad its management is. They like to monetize everything. The worst of the worst left EA and were hired on to Apple. If you read Fishbowl about 10 years ago, you would have seen a lot of bad comments on how inept and stupid these managers are. They pretty much got promoted to higher managerial roles and a lot of good talent left Apple and has been subsidized with many less talented engineers.The other thing is the fact that now most business run web based apps and those can be run on anything. Add the fact that windows 10 support is ending this October and a lot IT won’t support Mac but will support iOS just shows what Apple expects the web based windows market to do, go iPad and save time and money for not having to continuously push security updates and OS updates and antivirus and malware updates. MDM would be so much easier and would take just a few minutes to re-image a device.
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Bill Atkinson, pioneering early Apple engineer, dies at 74
I also noticed that and was wondering if he was exposed to toxic chemicals like Steve was in the early days. Steve’s oncologist wrote an online piece of how he thinks Steve got sick and why it took so long to metastasize. He believes it happened to him back when he was washing circuit boards over at HP when he was making his own phreak boxes with Woz.Rogue01 said:Very sad that he also died of pancreatic cancer, just like Steve Jobs did. I remember using HyperCard and creating HyperCard stacks on my Mac Plus back in the late 80s.
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How Apple's years-old satellite plan crashed before Starlink launched
Tim is wary about upsetting Apple’s partners when Steve Jobs didn’t give a shit if they got mad. Apple got screwed by Motorola when before Steve came back they made a deal to have them make Mac clones which Apple got screwed by Motorola when, before Steve came back, they made a deal to have them make Mac clones, which cannibalised their customers and after that, Steve screwed them over by making the iPhone while using their help with that piece of shit called a ROKR.byronl said:Seems a lot of Apple's plans have crashed in the past decade lol. That's why they're barely growing anymore.
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iPhone buyers worldwide may see higher prices because of Trump's tariffs
We are in trouble because Congress is dumber than our president. They will gladly ride his bus off a cliff.badmonk said:Actually the absurdity of this is that the final assembly of an iPhone has little value. I have read analyses that put this at much less than 10% (maybe as low as 5%) of the final value of the phone. Most of the value of the phone are in the components that can only be sourced by a very few manufacturers, usually located in Asia (it’s called high tech manufacturing for a reason). iPhone assembly is not going to be a middle class single wage earner job (unless you want to engage in a soviet-style jobs program). And note these phones will not be able to be sold outside the USA because they will be too expensive, so again it will be an expensive jobs program.
The question is whether Americans want to do this work in enough numbers and whether this investment makes sense. Apple makes 600 thousand phones a day and they are made largely by hand. Not to mention around a 1/3 of equipment needed to make a factory will need to be imported and hence subjected to tariffs. Not to mention the personnel needed to get a factory up and running will need to be imported. The Trump administration is too ideologically blinded to make this happen in a cost effective intelligent fashion.
Tariffing Apple is a tax on an American company that will lead to higher prices, lay-offs and make our country poorer. And repeat the same for every American company taxed as a result. Shooting the legs off the American economy is not going to lower our debt. Honestly, congress should take the power of tariffs out of Trump’s hands. Or impeach him.
And the fact that the source of the tariff was not some intellectual stance but because Tim Cook didn’t go to the middle east for a circle jerk is galling.
