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  • Trump claims Tim Cook has committed Apple to massive US investment

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    To the extent Apple does make such investments it will likely be due to Biden administration policies and geopolitical considerations 
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  • 2025 iPad and iPad Air -- what to expect, and when to expect it

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    There’s a lot in apples product naming that isn’t ideal. Most names made some sense at the time they were introduced, but over time marketing cruft builds up. 
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  • Apple joins AI hardware standards consortium to improve server performance

    blastdoorblastdoor
    The reference to 1024 in a pod and "lane" makes me think this is almost nothing like Ultra Fusion and is more analogous to NVLink or PCIe. 

    UltraFusion connects two adjacent dies directly to each other ('fused'). NVLink or PCIe connects cards sitting much further away (relatively speaking). 

    So perhaps Apple would use this in a MacPro as a way to connect multiple AI accelerator cards together (and maybe those accelerator cards have Ultra chips on them). 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook attending Trump inauguration after $1 million donation

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    Xed said:
    darbus69 said:
    slimeball getting my money makes me sick to my stomach, time for him to resign…and yes it’s my money as well as everyone loyal to Apple.
    Look, I don't like this pay-for-play, corrupt government that is led by someone solely driven by personal profit, but it's not your money. It's Tim Cook's money and he has the right to do with it as he chooses.

    Furthermore, it's no longer "our" money once we agree to hand it over to a company in exchange for a good or service. If we don't like what a company or its leaders do, then we can vote agains them by opting not to use them in the future. This has hurt many companies.

    PS: You also have the right to destroy the products you already own, which only seems to be a maneuver by the overly sensitive Far Right and so-called Conservatives, and I'd warn that doing so is incredibly foolish because the company already has your money from that exchange. 
    I agree with all of your post. 

    I'll also add -- Cook is doing what successful leaders living in the real world do to achieve their goals. I suspect that Cook recognizes that Trump cares far less about individual policy issues than he cares about fealty to the king. So by throwing some money at the little tyrant, Cook buys room for Apple to continue operating under their values. Note that Apple isn't abandoning DEI or environmental commitments. And I'll bet Apple avoids tariff damage, too. 

    It sucks that this is the world we live in, but Cook pretending that the world is different than it is won't change it. 
    Xedtiredskillswatto_cobrabyronl

  • Apple Card may get taken over by Barclays, Synchrony

    blastdoorblastdoor
    I'm happy with Barclay's. Not too impressed with Synchrony. 

    Barclay's market cap is about $50 billion. Apple could just buy them. Expanding into more financial services could give Apple another services growth opportunity and increase platform stickiness. 
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