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Post by ronsor »

testfrequency wrote: post #193
perihelions wrote: post #171

> "Greater China" Irredentist pro-war language, Tim Cook? I am so done with Apple. They knew what they did when they chose the words; they certainly spent thousands of hours deliberating them. This is Lebensraum with Chinese Characteristics. > "The term is often used to avoid invoking sensitivities over the political status of Taiwan.[16] Contrastingly, it has been used in reference to Chinese irredentism in national…

Just like how they removed all the gay dating apps in China yesterday (by request of the government of course). So sad to watch a gay CEO just sit comfortably and allow his company quietly destroy his own “community”. Don’t get me started on SA either…

> Just like how they removed all the gay dating apps in China yesterday (by request of the government of course).

Those apps have always been illegal in China. Of course, one could say Apple should not operate in China (and this is perhaps true), but they cannot both operate there and break the law.

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

testfrequency wrote: post #193
perihelions wrote: post #171

> "Greater China" Irredentist pro-war language, Tim Cook? I am so done with Apple. They knew what they did when they chose the words; they certainly spent thousands of hours deliberating them. This is Lebensraum with Chinese Characteristics. > "The term is often used to avoid invoking sensitivities over the political status of Taiwan.[16] Contrastingly, it has been used in reference to Chinese irredentism in national…

Just like how they removed all the gay dating apps in China yesterday (by request of the government of course). So sad to watch a gay CEO just sit comfortably and allow his company quietly destroy his own “community”. Don’t get me started on SA either…

He did give a tour of Apple HQ to MBS. But maybe they think they can do more good than harm by selling products in Saudi.

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Post by blahgeek »

perihelions wrote: post #171

> "Greater China" Irredentist pro-war language, Tim Cook? I am so done with Apple. They knew what they did when they chose the words; they certainly spent thousands of hours deliberating them. This is Lebensraum with Chinese Characteristics. > "The term is often used to avoid invoking sensitivities over the political status of Taiwan.[16] Contrastingly, it has been used in reference to Chinese irredentism in national…

I think it's a common term used to loosely describe the geographical region. It's used by many other companies like Microsoft [1] and Google [2]

[1] https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/locations/gcr.htm...

[2] https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-apac/collections/gre...

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by acedTrex »

crazygringo wrote: post #110

It's kind of hilarious to me when the tech world collides with the high-end fashion world. On the one hand, I get how absurd this seems from a tech perspective. On the other hand, dropping a couple hundred dollars on a fashion item that will be trendy for a season among a certain group... it's no different from any other high-end fashion accessory. It's just that the two worlds so rarely overlap.

You can see just from this thread how the tech world reacts to the fashion world.

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Post by gibspaulding »

fxtentacle wrote: post #164
mattgreenrocks wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What “the market wants” is a maximally addictive device. It’s a really low bar even if highly profitable. Bigger screens make it more exciting and addictive. Just profoundly weird to me that small manufacturers can’t make small phones because they’re small and can’t pay for it, and large manufacturers can’t make it because…(checks notes)…they’re large and don’t want to pay for it even if there’s demand.

My guess would be that all those people that wanted small phones had an iPhone SE and now all their data is locked into Apple's walled garden and that's why they will begrudgingly buy a larger phone, even though they would have preferred a smaller one. In short: Apple can get away with ignoring what those customers want.

I mean, I would assume most folks who liked the SE still have one. The SE 3 just stopped production this year and should have several years of software updates left (the SE 1 just ended software support this year, 7 years after it was discontinued.

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Post by booleanbetrayal »

The next product Apple will unveil will be an iPhone case made of human fingernails from those who have tried to climb this K-shaped economic ladder and failed. It'll be a steal at only $500 a pop.

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Post by sd9 »

I do not mean to be crass, but some of the ones that are carrying an iPhone bear more than a passing resemblance to a human vagina.

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Post by craftkiller »

parsimo2010 wrote: post #178

I’m so glad there are some people willing to pay over $200 for “a piece of cloth” which I assume is a translation issue but it sounds uninspired- who knew your inspiration for a bag could be the material that most bags are made of? I especially like how it’s sized to fit almost any iPhone ever made. So not only are you getting a bag made of cloth, for over $200 it’s not even custom fitted! Anyway, this product isn’t…

I bought my current phone for $94 brand new. It can communicate with other devices over the air through literal magic. It has 2.5 million tiny lights, each independently controlled to be any color I want. It knows where I am anywhere on the planet. Through it, I can access an essentially infinite pool of entertainment, hail life-saving emergency services, perform monetary transactions, acquire food, etc.

This piece of cloth is twice the price and it can't even make phone calls.

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