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  • Apple revenue could actually benefit from China tariff war

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    Another “pull forward” that could hurt Apple is China deciding now (or soon) is the time to launch a gambit to take Taiwan. Trump has no credibility with anyone. No country is going to put their soldiers in harms way to support the US under his leadership. That means no country will support the US in defending Taiwan. In fact, Trump might not even try to defend Taiwan.

    But I could see Trump blowing up TSMC fabs so the Chinese don’t get them. 
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  • Apple shifts robotics team away from Giannandrea's AI organization to prioritize hardware

    blastdoorblastdoor
    Also, if they do make a consumer oriented robot, they'll have to do something better than this: 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ9mz-JREiU

    I had one of those as a kid. 
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  • Every Intel Mac mini is now obsolete or vintage, and will be missed

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    The thing I miss is an Intel that designed and manufactured the best chips in the world. After Andy Grove, Intel switched mottos from “only the paranoid survive” to “only the complacent maximize next quarter’s profit and the CEO bonus.” Those CEOs achieved their goal — they got rich by cashing in on previous generations’ investments without making investments of their own. 
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  • Trump confirms he reduced tariffs to help Tim Cook

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    I’ve been moving to the camp of people saying Cook needs to go due to the AI situation, but maybe in this context it’s more important to have a CEO adept at getting what his company needs from the dictator than it is to have a CEO who knows how to make great products.
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  • iPhone & Mac tariff reprieve only temporary

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    anonymouse said:
    Can AI please stop using the word 'reciprocal' in describing these tariffs, or at least put it in scare quotes? There's nothing reciprocal about Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs, it's just another instance of Orwellian language perversion.
    In this case I agree. But I concede it’s a bit tricky for publications to deal with this sort of thing. Take the Inflation Reduction Act as an example. That is the name of the act, and there are things in it that might eventually reduce inflation (maybe), but there was no way it was going to reduce the inflation that existed at the time of its passing. So how should publications handle something like that? Maybe prefacing with “so-called” or using scare quotes is the best feasible option, but it is tough to be consistent with it 
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