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bobcat62 said:

mikethemartian said:

Except that Apple doesn’t manufacture its own products and it is really companies like Foxconn who have that knowledge.

Apple will force their partners to manufacture here.
There is no India tariff deal.  26 percent starts on August 1st.

Bringing manufacturing to the US will be a decade (-s) long endeavor, if ever. I fail to see how assembly line jobs will EVER appeal to Americans. By the time they get all of the details worked out, dear orange bloated leader will be out of office, if old age hasn't gotten him first and the tariffs will be swiftly removed by the next president. The effort would be worth none of the effort. It will make MUCH more sense for Apple to just pay the tariffs and raise prices globally to compensate. Make no mistake, buyers will pay for this folly. 

Open core simplified and made it possible to extend the lifetime of our old Macs long enough that plenty of new, more practical and less expensive options have become part of the Apple product lineup.

OpenCore kept my MP's going for nearly 12 years. We'll never see that again. It was perfectly long enough for apple to get their act together and the technology to mature to make a decent replacement. Apple saw where the puck was going and maybe jumped the shark, but here we are a decade later and tiny fan-less computers have matured, the devices tat support them and software have also.

I can't be more grateful to the OpenCore team, but new features demand new hardware eventually and frankly it just doesn't make any sense keeping older systems working. The only person I might feel bad for is someone who spent a bunch of money on an intel MP in 2022/ 23. 

I doubt they are entirely giving up on AVP, but if they would just focus on games and entertainment (They should be doing many more exclusive concerts and sports with AVP) then they can bide time while the corporate world finds their uses AND Apple can start working on a more affordable option.

AI could be a useful tool for certain tasks, but trying to cram it into literally everything has turned the otherwise useful tool into hyper advanced spyware.  Overpromising capabilities and features has lead to disappointment for corporate users who rely on accurate information and for the general user, we are now awash in AI slop. AI creativity is dull, boring, predictable and unworthy of interest accept by the dullest and most boring people who lack imagination and standards. 

Apple has the right idea all along about how to approach "AI", as a tool that can streamline tedious tasks, but everyone else has been milked dry of their billions by snake oil salesmen promising the replace humans and human creativity and they're just beginning to see that they will only be met with disappointment. 

entropys said:

Writing by committee is no doubt a key factor in the malaise plaguing Hollywood these days. That and risk averse studios doing remakes, sequels and having series run way beyond their use by date.  

Tell me you’re an ill informed idiot without saying you’re an ill informed idiot.