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  • Apple plans low-cost MacBook based on iPhone processor

    saareksaarek
    If they wanted to offer an M1 style MacBook Air with the M4 chip at a couple of hundred dollars less I’m sure it’d be successful.
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  • 'F1' is Apple's biggest hit with $55M+ opening weekend

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    charles1 said:
    I had to laugh at the "controversy" about the Wallet Ad. Gruber said your real wallet is sacrosanct and he never sees advertising in his wallet. He obviously never looked. I examined one credit card in my wallet, it displays four corporate logos advertising their companies. Some cards are one big advertisement. Even the minimalist titanium Apple Card has three logos on it. I have a receipt in my wallet, oh no it has advertising printed on the back! [facepalm]
    Living in the U.K., I didn’t receive the ad. Still, I HATE adverts, can’t stand the things. On a premium device, such as my iPhone, I never, ever, want to see an advert. Especially from Apple itself.

    Windows 11 is horrible because of ads, it’s a slow slippery slope to dropping ads everywhere.
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  • iPhone Fold mass production now expected to start in summer 2026

    saareksaarek
    $2200, for a phone? Insanity.
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  • OpenCore and Hackintosh are sadly dead after Apple ends Intel Mac support

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    sflocal said:
    Is this even a surprise?  Are there people out there expecting Apple to continue making an Intel-compatible MacOS?

    Makes perfect sense.  Time to jettison the old and fully support the new.

    OpenCore may be dead for Intel systems, but perhaps when Apple starts EOL'ing Apple Silicon systems, they can find new life supporting those systems.

    I completely concur. OpenCore is fantastic, I have many Intel Machines happily running Mac OS versions 5 Years+ newer than what they should officially support. It won't be long before Apple decides that the M1 series needs to be retired and I suspect that the clever people behind OpenCore will move their talents in that direction.
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  • Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China

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    Xed said:
    saarek said:
    “designed and built in the United States.”. I think that most people, even Americans, would consider that wording to mean that a company came up with the design in the USA and that said company then manufactured said device in the USA for sale.

    However, I suppose one could say that designing the phone by selecting parts already on the market and then building the phone by having the various parts put together in their final stage in the USA would, technically, qualify.

    I mean, if a person ‘designed’ their own prefab house from, say, Sweden, by using a website that lets them pick and choose parts. And then that person arranged for a local builder to put it all together they could claim that they “designed my own house and had it built by a local builder.”

    To be fair, a lot of the iPhone is not really custom either. From the displays to usb c ports, much of the device is available to other companies from the same manufacturers.
    You're absolutely right. Nothing in the iPhone is original or unique. In fact, every single atom existed long before Apple was a company... and even before actual apples existed. It's all just various combinations of elements. Even the software is just a variation on ones and zeros. Nothing unique there.
    Not one for accurately reading a comment, clearly. How one would translate my comment into "Nothing in the iPhone is original or unique" is beyond me.
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