blastdoor

I think the most momentous WWDC by far is the transition to Apple Silicon. I don’t think anything else comes close. The irony is that it made Apple more of a true computer company than ever before. To control the whole stack from silicon to OS to programming language and developer tools made Apple more like IBM than ever before 

I wonder if in China the iPhone is now more a symbol of Donald Trump than of Steve Jobs. 

The difference between a 145% tariff and a 30% tariff is that with 145% shelves would be empty, with 30% the shelves won't be empty but the stuff on them will be a fair bit more expensive than before. Remember, people lost their minds when prices went up 7% over the course of a year under Biden. 

Another reaction to tariffs is to just hold onto your old iPhone for longer, which many folks seem inclined to do anyway. Maybe we will see a surge in battery replacements and new cases. 

loopless said:

Tim Cook has details about when/where every iPhone was sold and access to amazing data analysis tools.

He **can't** lie about this. He has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders and he could be sued for giving false or misleading information.

If nobody outside Apple has the information, how can anyone prove he's lying? 

I'm not saying he's lying, but just pointing out that the threat of a lawsuit that can't possibly have evidence to back it up isn't really a credible threat.