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Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China
“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.
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Intel app compatibility on Mac is holding you back and will never get better
Hopefully Valve will finally make the effort to port the steam client to Apple Silicon. But, I'll have to work out how to compile YNAB 4 to Apple Silicon. Those are the only Intel apps I have left.
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macOS Tahoe is the last big update for Intel Macs
nubus said:
Apple sold Mac mini with Intel as new in 2023. That is 2 years - not 6.saarek said:6 years is a fair timeline. They haven’t screwed over Intel users like they did with the PPC transition and Snow Leopard.
We had 3 years between Snow Leopard (2009) and the end of PowerPC Mac sales (2006). This transition is worse than the transition from PPC.
And Rosetta 2 won't be part of macOS 28 (2027). There will be no way of running Intel-applications on a new OS just 4 years after the last Intel Mac was sold.
With the previous transformation Apple gave us 5 years.
I'm OK with this. What I would like to see from Apple is a clear promise to keep computers bought in 2023 safe to at least 2030.
They might have sold old stock of Intel Mac Mini's into 2023, however, it was originally released back in 2018. Bearing in mind that one could buy an Apple Silicon Mac Mini in 2020, well, the writing was clearly on the wall for anyone that bought one of the inferior Intel models after that date.
Apple will maintain security updates on Mac OS Sequoia for another 3 years, so, your Intel Mac Mini would be good up to 2028. Not a bad run at all for a machine originally sold in 2018!
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macOS Tahoe is the last big update for Intel Macs
6 years is a fair timeline. They haven’t screwed over Intel users like they did with the PPC transition and Snow Leopard.
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Trump demands 25% tariff on any iPhone not made in the US
No problem, just add 25% to the price in the USA and let customers know why. The Orange one will soon back track.
