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mfryd said:

However, this is not a reason to prohibit running Mac OSX on an iPad.   Users should have a choice as to which OS they run.

I have nothing against the iPad OS.   It's a great solution for many (but not all) users.   Why not allow users to choose which OS they are running?    

The iPad OS can be the default, but please allow power users to install OSX.  iPad apps already work inside of Mac OSX, so no functionality is lost.  

An iPad with an M4 processor, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, Thunderbolt 3, and a Magic Keyboard Folio (Keyboard and trackpad) would make a damn fine portable Mac.

Please, just buy a MacBook if you want a “damn fine portable Mac”, it’s already here. I for one do not want my iPad running macOS - I’ll leave that to my Mac thanks.

imwishing said:

I want to read the story that says Tim Cook dragged the Siri team into a room and tore into them for a decade of weak leadership and failure to push Siri forward or for failing to keep abreast of the fast changes happening with LLMs.  The normal approach of Apple taking years to perfect a concept will leave Apple in the dust if it continues the same old development strategy in this current environment. And don't get me started on the  Apple Car team. The one that burned through billions and delivered nothing. No product. No plan. Just hype.

If those two disasters don’t spell executive failure, what does?

I want to see executives who are a lot less rockstar and hair (I'm looking at you Craig) and a lot more "look at this amazing new product with crazy new capabilities.  I'm bored with the updated set of tinker toys now with a new glass effect.

I am glad to see WWDC contained next to no promises of features "coming soon". That lazy approach to engineering and marketing deserves to stay in the vaporware land that is Windows and Honeywell's residential building services group.

I missed Apple’s car hype and announcement- what did they say it could/would do?

I’ve been pretty much all-in on IPad Pro since 2018 and I’m really thrilled with this update. Maybe they’ve even fixed a couple of other annoyances but not mentioned them yet. Either way, a very positive move.

rob53 said:

Apple owns its products not the EU. The EU has no right to dictate to Apple how its products operate. As I’ve said before, the EU has every right to build their own platforms but it’s obvious they don’t have the ability or talent to design and manufacture anything people, including those in EU countries, want. It’s time to boycott everything made in the EU but I’m not so sure there’s actually anything they make I really want. 

The EU absolutely can dictate to Apple how aspects of its products operate, that's what EU law is for. If you want to sell tech, fruit, cars, aeroplanes, clothes or whatever to members states of the EU then those products must abide by the rules that the EU sets. This will be in just the same way that the USA dictates the standards products sold there must meet (unless the USA is content to have dog meat sold as beef and TVs sold with totally unsafe wiring and cars made of old bits of rusty tin). They can be challenged, as Apple is doing and depending on the result Apple can either comply or withdraw from the market. In this case, I think the EU is overreaching and Apple is in the right (in what I know of the issue) but what is relevant is what the lawyers say.

To say that "they [EU member countries] don’t have the ability or talent to design and manufacture anything people, including those in EU countries, want" is just ridiculous and verifiably so. So, nobody wants cars from BMW, Ferrari, or Mercedes? Nobody wants British HiFi or ARM's tech? Not even in Europe? Are you seriously suggesting that?

Boycotting everything made in the EU? So no more French cheese or Champagne? No Italian clothing or wine? No Belgian chocolates? No IKEA or Lego? No Airbus? You seem to be using the same playbook as Trump! Hilariously, given his "Made in the USA" obsession, none of the merch in his Trump shop is made in the USA - most is from his evil enemy, China. You can't make up this kind of blinkered economic foolishness.

sighting said:

Oh no what would one of the richest most profile companies in the world do? How about stop using cheaper labor and move manufacturing back to the country that buys 40% of your products and oh wait makes 12% less profits..   I don't know how people are not pressuring companies like Apple to focus on the people instead of the profits.. I blame the Stockmarket. I t made us forget why we do what we do.

You don’t have any grasp of what is required to make millions of iPhones in a way that makes business sense for Apple, do you?