spliff monkey

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.