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  • Apple hampered its Siri ambitions by penny-pinching

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    Other salient info here: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/10/wayne-ma-the-information-apple-siri-fumble

    taken altogether, this brings me to the conclusion that Cook needs to go. Apple needs a “product guy” in charge again.




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  • AAPL crumble: stock hit again, as White House clarifies 145% China tariff rate

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    “On Black Monday, October 28, 1929, the Dow declined nearly 13 percent. On the following day, Black Tuesday, the market dropped nearly 12 percent. By mid-November, the Dow had lost almost half of its value. The slide continued through the summer of 1932, when the Dow closed at 41.22, its lowest value of the twentieth century, 89 percent below its peak. The Dow did not return to its pre-crash heights until November 1954.“
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  • Instagram may finally be coming to iPad after 15 years

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    Yawn. 

    The world would be better off without Meta, ergo this is bad news for iPad users. 
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  • Trump blinks: Floats suggestion that Apple might get a tariff exemption

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    radarthekat said:
    Here’s something the MAGA crowd doesn’t seem to  know is coming.  This 90-day delay… they think countries will use this time to kiss the ring.  Yes, they will send their emissaries to Washington, but back home they will be working feverishly to cut trade deals and form alliances to reduce their dependence on America and find new sources of needed goods and new markets for theirs.  
    100% agree. Also, China sees what causes Trump to blink -- crashing stock markets and rising yields on the 10 year treasury. 

    Trump has greatly weakened the US. We might be starting to see that in the 10 year yield and the dollar. 

    We might also see it in a national security crisis. I'll say again -- Taiwan is in extreme danger now. I seriously doubt the US will be able to rally countries to break a blockade or defend Taiwan. I'm not even sure that the idiots running national security can competently lead an effort to break a blockade or defend Taiwan. 

    All US assets are now much riskier than they were before November of 2024. And there's no quick/easy fix, because it's not just Trump -- it's that the US is a country that would elect Trump, twice. We have revealed ourselves to be far less stable than what was conventionally believed. We need serious systematic reforms that will greatly reduce the probability of another Trump-like president running amok. The best shot at such reform today is Dems taking over 60 seats in the senate (along with House + WH) and pushing through a deluge of reforms with the same speed that DOGE burned everything down. Or to use another analogy, it would need to be something like FDR's first 100 days. 

    Dems should be working on a "Project 2029" so that they have their playbook ready to run. 

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  • Trump blinks: Floats suggestion that Apple might get a tariff exemption

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    9secondkox2 said:
    Smart people do smart things. It’s why cook preemptively met with the president prior to the election and why the admin is letting some of the fine tuning show now. 

    This is a point I agree with. Cook was smart to meet with Trump and do what he has to in the interests of Apple. That's what a CEO is supposed to do. 

    I don't like Trump. I didn't vote for him and I think he's the worst president in history. But it's counterproductive to demand people like Cook cut off their own nose to spite Trump's face. People who oppose Trump need to be smarter than that. They need to focus on taking steps that actually advance their goals, not steps that are just cathartic or symbolic. 
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