Lol. Everything is bullshit.
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So the Indian made iPhones serve mainly the US, to avoid the tarifs on china?
The headline might give the wrong impression. Theyâve been doing this for a few months after ramping up output in India in anticipation of the tariffs, is how I read the full story.
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Economistâs European Eco Editor:
Bit sceptical, given complex supply chains and possibility of higher general inflation (OTH oil price) but I suppose itâs logical. Branded companies would probably want to avoid adding to arbitrage/grey market opportunities.
My friend did say they can ramp up sales in Europe quickly and particularly German but that means their margin is wiped out.
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I think they tried to airlift in as much stock as possible to have plenty of supply which is unaffected.
And I mean it is not just Apple, who are restructuring/halting US sales.
- Nintendo Switch 2 (including Canada)
- Framework
- Razer
I am sure that list will get longer and longer.
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The only potential positive I can see is that this may force Xi to more seriously pursue a faster shift to a consumption-led economy. That would rebalance economic gains away from company owners (and their regional state backers and bankers) and toward Chinese workers and their families. The CCP might even acknowledge that it needs to improve the social safety net and health system that increase excess saving.
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And the totally vibes-based thought that U.S. checks and balances may have been bolstered (Iâm using diplomatic language) by, of all things, bond and equity market investors.
My main beef with them is the shady marketing practices of targeting young people, locking them into an ecosystem, ensuring they canât easily communicate with others on different platforms, making sure their users donât need to be techie (or shouldnât be), making it a status symbol, putting a premium price on it, making them damage easily, and ultimately ensuring a whole generation of people grow up only knowing how to use Apple and thinking Apple is the only brand worth considering.
It drives me nuts when I hear my kids talking about tech and how itâs nothing to do with how good the devices are, but what logo is on the front.
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Controversial take. I had a few Apple products back in the day. I enjoyed them very much except⌠the weird thing was the hardware failed me each time, not the software. 
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hm ⌠I have a slight feeling that I may have heard this term before, but I guess that must have been sometime before we got to see the adventure âthe emperor without cluesâ played out live.
Is this term really still in use?
Very much so⌠though the actual checking and balancing that is happening is⌠not enough.
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There was a time when I was a bona fide Apple Fanboi. A time when each new OS update was exciting! A time when Apple hardware seemingly came from different planet, at least design wise. But that was a long time ago. I canât remember the last useful OS update for MacOS. The hardware is still nice, I suppose, but no longer groundbreaking.
These days Iâm a Windows developer in my day job. To my great astonishment, Windows actually got some notable improvements in the last few years, after a long long time of stagnation and enshirtification. Itâs actually kind of good now. Iâm as shocked as you are, hearing those words out of ny mouth. And thereâs some pretty slick hardware available these days, too. I very much like my Surface tablet!
Itâs been a few years since Iâve last used Linux outside of the Steam Deck and various servers. I was never particularly enamoured with KDE or GTK. Not that theyâre bad, but neither did I enjoy them particularly. I think I generally prefer a system with more eye candy.
Since Iâm staring at a Windows box eight hours a day, I need something different in my spare time, hence MacOS. I could run Linux as well, and did for a while, but I hate nothing more than having to debug my computer in what little spare time I have, hence macOS.
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As someone hesitating to upgrade from Windows 10 to 11, can you offer any insight? Should I just do it?
I used to run Linux before Ubuntu was even a thing. Iâm actually wondering whether to dip my toes back in as I try to have less reliance on the Big Tech companies. For no particular reason, I feel like Microsoft is less evil these days than the others, but that might just be totally unfounded. Iâm particularly saddened by Googleâs trajectory. I used to love them when they were innovative, disruptive, exciting and had the motto âdonât be evilâ. But that was a long time ago.
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Three dogs take a dump on your lawn. Your mission is to select the best shit.
Theyâre all horrible.
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uuuuuuuuuuuuhm
you want to read up a bit more about the shit they do.
they just killed another way to install windows 11 without microsoft account. 
Did you know that the latest outlook sends all the login data for your mail accounts to microsoft? I am sure it is for âcustomer can quickly restore their mail settings after reinstallingâ
but ask yourself how comfortable you are with that? 
also âMicrosoft cant do Opsâ based on how often they oops things at azure.
definitely not one of the good ones.
also do you want to know how many more linux users we got from the whole forcing people onto windows 11 and so on?
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Well I did say my feeling might just be unfounded
And I certainly wasnât trying to say that theyâre one of the good ones, just slightly better than the other terrible ones. Maybe they just donât hit my news feed as much as the others.
As @elGordo alluded to, I just had a âfeelingâ that their turds smelled slightly less rank than the others.
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Man, I havenât had breakfast yetâŚ
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Full English with black pudding and fried bread?
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With haggis on the side
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A proper one in a sheepâs stomach 
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