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"Dan Ives told CNN that it would take about $30 billion and three years for Apple to move its global supply chain back to American soil."

You have misquoted Ives. He said it would take $30billion and three years for Apple to move 10% of iPhone production to the US.

“Apple has already announced a $500 billion investment in the U.S. along with Trump in February,” Ives noted. “The reality is it would take 3 years and $30 billion dollars in our estimation to move even 10% of its supply chain from Asia to the U.S. with major disruption in the process."

Quoted from: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-faces-complete-disaster-analyst-145000336.html

Rogue01 said:

The Toyota Supra is actually a re-branded BMW Z4.  The engine and all electronics are made by BMW.

Wireless charging is kind of ridiculous in a car.  Go over a bump and the phone moves slightly and no more wireless charging.  It is not that hard to plug it in, and the audio quality on a wired connection is far better than Bluetooth.

My iPhone never moves once placed on the charging mat and placement isn't critical. CarPlay uses Bluetooth only to achieve pairing. After that, everything is transferred via wi-fi.

Siri-HomeKit has been a dumpster fire for our family since inception. Since iOS 17, our Siri capable devices are erroneously waking more often than ever before, even though we've not removed the requirement for "Hey". I can issue a command in the kitchen, and hear the response in the garage, 50 feet away on the other side of a closed door. I can ask Siri what time it is and get "Sorry, I'm having trouble connecting to the Internet". Two seconds later, I can ask for tomorrow's weather, and get it.

I understand that distributed databases are difficult to manage, but Apple should have understood that too and implemented a layer of checks to prevent Siri from looking like an idiot.

eriamjh said:

There is no 3D printing process that can handle the volume for the production of Apple Watch.    

This article is bogus.  3D printing is only used for prototypes.   

Don't be so quick to judge. People thought that machining unibody chassis was a bogus idea when everybody else was stamping parts out of sheet metal, but that's precisely what Apple does. Selective laser sintering can be faster than CNC machining if the parts are small and multiple lasers are employed over the powder bed.

I don't see how Apple's 30% would apply to Tesla's $10/mo. Tesla charges that fee through their own payment system, for a service that runs independently of Apple. That's entirely as it should be. Amazon doesn't give Apple a slice of Prime membership fees, even though my phone's Amazon app accesses Prime services.