Apple's iPhone Pro Shipments May Fall 20 Million Units Short of Estimates (reuters.com) 64
Apple's iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max model shipments could miss market expectations by up to 20 million units in the holiday quarter due to labor unrest at a major Chinese factory, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said. Reuters reports: Kuo is the latest to flag a hit to the world's most valuable company from protests over pay and strict COVID-19 curbs at the world's biggest iPhone factory, the Foxconn-operated plant in the central city of Zhengzhou. He trimmed his estimate for quarterly iPhone shipments by about 20% to between 70 million and 75 million units, compared with the market consensus of 80 million to 85 million units.
Kuo, in a blog post on Tuesday, also predicted that the supply shortfall could erase demand for the more popular Pro models, instead of deferring sales, as consumers also grapple with a weakening economy. In contrast, other Apple analysts expect sales to pick up once production constraints ease and more Pro models become available. Some analysts signaled the possibility of the challenges extending into 2023.
Kuo, in a blog post on Tuesday, also predicted that the supply shortfall could erase demand for the more popular Pro models, instead of deferring sales, as consumers also grapple with a weakening economy. In contrast, other Apple analysts expect sales to pick up once production constraints ease and more Pro models become available. Some analysts signaled the possibility of the challenges extending into 2023.
So many yuppies (Score:2)
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Nah...most of these urban hipsters and tech bros have probably been on a waiting list for an electric pickup truck like a Ford Lightning, Rivian, or Tesla Cybertruck for at least the past 18 months.
Hell... they probably just recently got the gaming console or high-end GPU upgrade that they've been waiting since late 2020 for a few months ago.
Welcome to the post-COVID hellscape, where technology manufacturers have apparently forgotten how to build technology products.
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Nobody forgot how, it's just not important any more.
The goal is to enrich oneself, and the best way to do that as a CEO is now by fucking over everyone around you.
The idea behind corporations is that they are supposed to support the public good. If they don't do that, their charters should be terminated. That's the whole excuse for having such an idea as the legal fiction known as the corporation.
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The iPhone's market share is about 50% in the US, and 15% globally.
Based on your comments, it's normal to be a yuppy in the US. Not so much of an insult, if that's what you were intending.
Re:If only there was a way (Score:5, Insightful)
No we didn't. Never in the history of this country have we ever been close to a dictatorship. It would probably be best if you boned up on your history and learn what a real dictatorship is. A dictatorship is not just having someone in office that you do not like.
Correct: a dictatorship is when the person in power rejects the results of an election to stay in power.
Re:If only there was a way (Score:5, Informative)
Correct: a dictatorship is when the person in power rejects the results of an election to stay in power.
Nope, not even close. Any one can reject the results of an election, even the one in power. Your 'opinion' that you won the election doesn't mean you won the election. Just ask Stacy Abrams.
In this case, though, it wasn't merely "an opinion." It was an attempt to declare the election invalid so he could stay in power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/0... [nytimes.com]
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30... [cnn.com]
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/15... [npr.org]
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/p... [pbs.org]
The first thing a dictator does, to cement their power, is declare any election that they didn't win invalid.
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Well first of all we are going to reject your link to cnn since it has been ruled as a unreliable source. Please correct this behavior in the future.
Since the TDS is so strong in you we will humor your issues. It was his 'option' and just his 'option.' If it wasn't just his 'option' then he would still be in power. Again, no matter what your delusion is, the US has never been even close to a dictatorship.
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To anyone reading, it appears you just drowned in evidence.
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4 links from 4 separate outlets were given backing up an assertion.
Parent's reply was to attack one of the sources and say "SEE? NEENER."
That's a classical response from someone who knows they can't win the argument.
Find the low hanging fruit, attack it in bad faith (not to mention fallaciously) and call it a victory.
Lol.
Sources [Re:If only there was a way] (Score:2)
Well first of all we are going to reject your link to cnn since it has been ruled as a unreliable source.
That's why I gave four links, not just one, because the wing nut response to any actual facts is to ignore the facts and just shout "I reject your source!" (without, of course, showing any evidence of reading the source.)
Multiple sources doesn't stop the wing nuts, but at least they have to admit that they're denying anything and everything the doesn't fit their views, not one "unreliable" source.
Here's another good article, laying out all the facets of Trump's election denying starting before the electio
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Thankfully we have the Electoral College system.
Trump lost even more conclusively without it, so there's no reason to be thankful for the boot you're licking.
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Your seething is going to be even more hilarious when he's your president again.
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Correct: a dictatorship is when the person in power rejects the results of an election to stay in power.
Nope, not even close. Any one can reject the results of an election, even the one in power. Your 'opinion' that you won the election doesn't mean you won the election. Just ask Stacy Abrams.
But he didn't say anyone now did he? He was talking about the 'person in power' refusing to acknowledge the fact that he has been voted out of power and attempting to set aside and ignore election result in order to stay in power. That is literally a pretty common way dictatorships have started int he past.
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Yes, exactly [Re:If only there was a way] (Score:3)
That isn't even true. A dictatorship is where the leader (and sometimes the inner circle or "party") have full control of government with few or any limits on what they can do.
Exactly. Like, declaring themselves in power despite losing an election.
It means there are no checks and balances
Exactly. For example, refusing to abide by the check on power produced by an election.
. They do not worry about courts adjudicating the constitutionality of orders, they don't need a congress or parliament to create laws.
Exactly. And they don't need elections, either; they just wave them away.
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Respectfully, you have no fucking clue how close we got to that happening.
What is beyond debate, is that we got closer than we've ever gotten before, and there are a few discrete actions by a few people that pulled us away from turning into a 2 branch government.
Any such threat against the government of the US is a threat against the entire fucking country..
I've always been very sharply critical of fuckwits who go around calling people traitors for being of a political slant they
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You write like if Trump had just sat in the oval office and said "no" everybody would have just gone away and accepted it.
Don't be deliberately ignorant. He made multiple assaults on the electoral system, starting with the simple ones (telling the Republican Secretary of State of Georgia "Just 'find' 11,780 more votes".) When these didn't work, the final approach was a lot more complicated than "sitting in the oval office and saying 'no';" it involved first stopping the electoral count, and then substituting appointed electors for the ones actually elected. But since you don't want to believe that it even happened, it's not g
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They can reject the results as much as they want and for ever reason they want. For it to be a dictatorship they actually have to stay in power irrelevant of what the people want. That was unlikely to happen, its like if I broke into my companies CEO office, sat in their chair and claimed to run the company. Nobody would listen to me, and the most likely outcome is I would get fired, maybe arrested. But at no point was it likely that I would overthrow the CEO. For Trump to be a dictator he would need contro
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They can reject the results as much as they want and for ever reason they want. For it to be a dictatorship they actually have to stay in power irrelevant of what the people want.
He failed. But he tried. You have a belief that oh, he couldn't possibly have succeeded. Maybe you're right. Or maybe not.
Fortunately we didn't find out. Mike Pence-- the person everybody had dismissed as just a lackey-- stood up and said "no, I won't go overturn the election".
That was unlikely to happen, its like if I broke into my companies CEO office, sat in their chair and claimed to run the company.
Irrelevant. Trump didn't "break into" the executive office, "pretend" to be president and "claim" to run the country. He was president.
Nobody would listen to me,
Nobody listens to you, but far too many people listened to Trump.
and the most likely outcome is I would get fired, maybe arrested. But at no point was it likely that I would overthrow the CEO. For Trump to be a dictator he would need control of a large military force, which to the best of my knowledge he did not have.
Well, there is the one he was com
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Oath keeper found guilty of sedition.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world... [bbc.com]
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A dictatorship is not just having someone in office that you do not like.
They obviously weren't implying that.
They were referring to if the Jan 6 events had been successful in installing Trump as the President.
That would be the effective end of an independent legislative branch of the US, and an effective dictatorship.
How close were they to that outcome? I say probably not very. But the leader of the Oath Keepers just went down for Seditious Conspiracy, so still closer than anyone likes to imagine.
Re:If only there was a way (Score:5, Insightful)
A man has been convicted in a court of law of organizing a conspiracy to violently overthrow the government of the United States on January 6.
But let's humor you and say it was. Even if it managed to stop the vote count it was no way even close to overturning the republic. All that would have happened is the "insurrectionists" would have delayed the process for a few hours at most. They would have been removed, and the certification would have continued.
Entirely possible that's the case. I'd even argue likely.
But not certain.
It's easy to imagine that if Trump had just a bit more balls, and could pull himself away from the TV, he could have prevented those around him from trying to prevent the overthrow of the US legislature.
The US legislature has no way to defend itself other than the Capitol police. The defense of the building and governmental organ is the responsibility of the executive branch, which at the time, didn't seem interested in assisting.
Wait! That is exactly what happened.
Thanks to the intervention of a few people with balls. If those few people had instead decided to continue to prevent execution of power that was able to intervene, it would have been a done deal.
Had the National Guard not been ordered to respond by the Secretary of the DoD, who failing to get authorization from the President, managed to get it from the Vice President, who exactly do you think would have re-taken the Capitol?
The Congress, which had been temporarily dissolved?
From bullshit like this arises constitutional crises. Constitutional crises are the cracks from which governments are overthrown.
We were unacceptably close to the Legislature of the US being compromised through Executive inaction, and people pushed forward by the Executive.
Fuck you for trying to belittle how fucking dangerous that is.
Fuck you for trying to pretend like there's fucking precedent for that.
Fuck your naivety for thinking that the fragile web of Federal power is immune to the compromise of the only branch empowered to protect it.
I think we are done here. I see no reason to continue to humor anyone who thinks Trump could have become a dictator, wanted to be dictator, or the republic was in any danger at all.
Be done all you like. The courts disagree with you, and for good reason. Because you're deluded.
You don't want it to be true, so you're willing to sacrifice any intellectual honesty to make it consistent in your head. That level of cognitive dissonance has got to be fucking you up.
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Better luck, next time.
You can generate all the reductionist truths you want to simplify the complex details that make this dangerous. Hell, that's been a Fox trick for years.
The length of my post was to comprehensively prove that your goal is to reduce what happened to something that excludes the truths that are inconvenient to you.
That means you are arguing in bad faith.
With a little practice, maybe some day you could be good at this- but right now, you really suck.
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You lost this argument, slimeball. Better luck, next time.
If you say so rump roast. Don't want to let reality interfere with whatever fantasy you are currently living in.
To our at home audience rump roast here is clearly what happens to people when TDS is untreated for a long period of time. Rump roast is clearly suffering from extreme mental issues brought on by advanced Trump Derangement Syndrome. In this case an irrational fantasy that one Donald Trump attempted and had a chance of installing himself as a dictator. To a normal person not affected by a
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You seem personally invested in trying to muddy the waters.
You seem to think that anyone who stumbles across this particular message of yours isn't going to see how thoroughly you were roasted prior to this.
You're a shitposter, nothing more. Not even one of the more clever ones. It's been irrefutably demonstrated.
Time to go find another host, little tick.
Re:If only there was a way (Score:4, Insightful)
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More poppy cock and delusions. The events on Jan 6 have been blown way out of proportion. There are people out there that actually believe that was some kind of insurrection.
But let's humor you and say it was. Even if it managed to stop the vote count it was no way even close to overturning the republic. All that would have happened is the "insurrectionists" would have delayed the process for a few hours at most. They would have been removed, and the certification would have continued.
Wait! That is ex
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Not to bright, are you?
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I was asking if you were being paid for it.
"Re-posting to avoid mod abuse" is weird behavior.
Why would you care if your message is moderated down? It's very important to you that random people who may come across this site see it?
I think you're a dirty birdy.
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Bright enough to understand the difference between "to", and "too".
Thank you for making my point.
Seek treatment for your TDS, one day you might be cured.
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Thank you for making my point.
What point is that? That you struggle with basic English skills, and that makes you more qualified than others to have opinions?
Seek treatment for your TDS, one day you might be cured.
TDS? lol.
I couldn't give two squirts of piss about Trump. And I didn't really give a shit about you obnoxious little goose steppers either until Jan 6. And maybe that was my mistake.
You've waken up the people of this country who thought you were just a harmless bad joke.
You little slime balls deal in falsehoods and misinformations, spreading your fucking lies, making it as hard
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Damn dude. I've just been poking you and making fun of your dumb ass for shits and giggles. But damn, you really are fucking nuts. I was only kidding when advising you to get some help, but shit, you really do need to need to see someone professionally.
Drop the mouse, step away from the keyboard, and seek some professional help.
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No we didn't. Never in the history of this country have we ever been close to a dictatorship. It would probably be best if you boned up on your history and learn what a real dictatorship is. A dictatorship is not just having someone in office that you do not like.
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Labor unrest? Lol. (Score:2)
You mean people in the streets literally yelling give me or liberty or give me death, fuck the ccp, step down traitor Xi, etc. [youtube.com] Things that are all death sentences. Not in one isolated area either, everywhere.
Whatever. (Score:2)
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That early? i mean, they have an entire 6 months of life before the consumerist owners toss em into the garbage because a slightly faster one is out
But Pinephones are still in stock! (Score:1)
Sure, the quality control isn't quite up to Apple standards, for the price of an iPhone you can afford 6 spares. And yes, they run Linux. :)
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OK, but can you make calls reliably with them, and does the power management keep the battery going for even a day yet?
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Yes, with updated software the regular Pinephone model can reliably send and receive both calls and SMS, and it'll last up to 3 days at idle. Software support for the "Pro" model is still somewhat behind.
Oh, no! (Score:1)
Anyway...
In theory, you would raise the price of the iPhone (Score:2)
Politics Aside... (Score:2)