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Structural remedies were in play for the Microsoft DOJ case as well. And that ended up not happening and got partially overturned on appeal or whatever. I don't know how this is going to go down. The environment in the U.S. and I guess worldwide, the environment for these big tech companies is currently pretty negative. You know, the view of how much power they have and what they're doing with it.

Structural remedies were in play for the Microsoft DOJ case as well. And that ended up not happening and got partially overturned on appeal or whatever. I don't know how this is going to go down. The environment in the U.S. and I guess worldwide, the environment for these big tech companies is currently pretty negative. You know, the view of how much power they have and what they're doing with it.

is pretty negative right now. And so they are, they're facing cases and laws and regulation and many cases they are losing. And the people who are on the other side of it are making noises about like, we might break you up. We might say Chrome has to be a separate company or Android has to be separate or whatever.

is pretty negative right now. And so they are, they're facing cases and laws and regulation and many cases they are losing. And the people who are on the other side of it are making noises about like, we might break you up. We might say Chrome has to be a separate company or Android has to be separate or whatever.

It's hard to even think about what that world will be like because we're so used to the status quo. Everybody is, right? It's just like, how could that ever happen? What would happen if you did that? And Google will gladly tell you all the bad things that would happen.

It's hard to even think about what that world will be like because we're so used to the status quo. Everybody is, right? It's just like, how could that ever happen? What would happen if you did that? And Google will gladly tell you all the bad things that would happen.

But it's kind of like the flip side is all the good things that would happen that we've been denied for so long because we just accept the status quo and we don't even think about what we're missing out on and the competition that we're missing out on. But it is notoriously difficult to...

But it's kind of like the flip side is all the good things that would happen that we've been denied for so long because we just accept the status quo and we don't even think about what we're missing out on and the competition that we're missing out on. But it is notoriously difficult to...

to do anything effective or good after you win any trust case right you can look at all the ones that have happened there's lots of good things that have happened lots of also terrible things and lots of backsliding and finding us back at the same place again so i don't know how this is going to turn out but uh it's interesting to see uh the rumblings revolving around google here it'll be amazing if like google gets broken up but apple gets to stay together i'm sure they would love that

to do anything effective or good after you win any trust case right you can look at all the ones that have happened there's lots of good things that have happened lots of also terrible things and lots of backsliding and finding us back at the same place again so i don't know how this is going to turn out but uh it's interesting to see uh the rumblings revolving around google here it'll be amazing if like google gets broken up but apple gets to stay together i'm sure they would love that

Let's pause right here on this. This is the name of this new iPad Mini. The previous one, I believe, was iPad Mini, like fifth generation or sixth generation in parentheses, like with the Apple naming thing.

Let's pause right here on this. This is the name of this new iPad Mini. The previous one, I believe, was iPad Mini, like fifth generation or sixth generation in parentheses, like with the Apple naming thing.

i believe the name of this one is ipad mini parentheses a17 pro so they went fifth generation what sixth generation a17 pro go look at the comparator go look at the like uh apple.com slash ipad slash compare it's called the ipad mini parentheses a17 pro so first of all that's weird but second of all It's the A17 Pro. That is weird.

i believe the name of this one is ipad mini parentheses a17 pro so they went fifth generation what sixth generation a17 pro go look at the comparator go look at the like uh apple.com slash ipad slash compare it's called the ipad mini parentheses a17 pro so first of all that's weird but second of all It's the A17 Pro. That is weird.

As a reminder, this is the chip they put in the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max that was made on TSMC's N3B process, which was super expensive and only Apple was paying for it. And they, you know, immediately wanted to stop and move everything to N3E. And we're like, they're never going to use that A17 Pro chip in a phone again. The Pro chips never go anywhere.

As a reminder, this is the chip they put in the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max that was made on TSMC's N3B process, which was super expensive and only Apple was paying for it. And they, you know, immediately wanted to stop and move everything to N3E. And we're like, they're never going to use that A17 Pro chip in a phone again. The Pro chips never go anywhere.

They put them in the 15 Pro because they had to. and the Pro Max, but we're not going to see it next year in the iPhone 16, and lo and behold, the iPhone 16 has processors that use TSMC's N3E process, which is newer and cheaper than the N3B process. We're never going to see that A17 Pro again. Guess what?

They put them in the 15 Pro because they had to. and the Pro Max, but we're not going to see it next year in the iPhone 16, and lo and behold, the iPhone 16 has processors that use TSMC's N3E process, which is newer and cheaper than the N3B process. We're never going to see that A17 Pro again. Guess what?

It looks like they had a lot of leftover A17 Pros where one of the GPU cores didn't work because the A17 Pros in last year's phones had six GPU cores and these A17 Pros in the iPad Mini have five. So maybe they just saved every single A17 Pro where one of the GPU cores didn't work and they saved them all up for what?

It looks like they had a lot of leftover A17 Pros where one of the GPU cores didn't work because the A17 Pros in last year's phones had six GPU cores and these A17 Pros in the iPad Mini have five. So maybe they just saved every single A17 Pro where one of the GPU cores didn't work and they saved them all up for what?