Appleinsider on Apple and it’s Chinese productions lines

Appleinsider has a great article on Apple and its production pipelines in China., and why Apple will likely never build iPhones in the US.

And automation just isn’t there yet. Tesla tried the whole automation route and it really didn’t work. So making automation to make factories would cost a huge amount and likely take a lot of skill the US doesn’t really have.

And all the estimations of Apple iPhones costing so much if made here, what about Teslas which are completely assembled here, but almost 100% manufactured in China. How much would that cost to make here? A lot more than an iPhone, but presumably Elon Musk will be given an exemption that Apple will not.

And with Trump’s insane 125% on goods coming from China, which is and will harm American companies and boost foreign companies! With iPhones made in China costing as much as $3000 or more and only 10% tariffs on Korean products like Samsung. Meaning Trumps anti China policies will hurt American companies and boost foreign companies. How is that America First?

Of course the Tariff’s were meant to bring manufacturing back to the US but have been used instead to make new trade deals, so it was never about bringing manufacturing back here.

The choices of the newest Mac Studio M4 Max or M3 Ultra a strange choice

So Apple updated the Mac Studio for the first time since the M2 version, but they certainly made a strange choice with the base model being an M4 Max, but the high end being an M3 Ultra. Making the lower end model actually faster than the high end model for single core operations. And the M3 Ultra is upgraded from the M3 Max with Thunderbolt 5, and GPU numbers that match the m4 max at least in core count.

It seems that Apple is going to skip the Ultra connector in some series, but then maybe they should think about skipping every other generation so they can match Max and Ultra to the same generation so the higher end chip isn’t slower in single processor operations. Nor have less possible memory or memory bandwidth.

I run video and with memory and videos sharing RAM I need as much as I can get, and $1600 for 256 GB is about all I could swing, as $4000 for 512 GB is insane. Damn Apple charges allot for RAM. And $4600 for 16 TB’s of hard drive space, OMG!

My last Mac Studio was over 7K and the next one will likely be more, just hope it lasts over 7 years!

Oh no Mozilla, ads and AI?

From Mark Surman at the Mozilla blog:

Growing Mozilla — and evolving our leadership

I know that losing Google’s paid search money is basically all of Mozilla’s income, but ads and AI aren’t the answer. I would guess that anyone using Mozilla is blocking ads, and AI in a browser is just not worth paying for? I mean Mozilla’s current AI summarizes web pages, but is that a money maker? I mean really? AI costs money to run so you have to pay for it, and I just haven’t seen where AI in a web browser is going to make Mozilla enough money to survive.

And Mozilla needs to survive as there is Chrome/Chromium which you can’t trust cause it is Google, Safari, which is Apple so they will never allow Mozilla’s level of customization, and Mozilla, which makes no money.

PVC on LumaFusion v5.2 doubles video/audio track support

LumaFusion v5.2 doubles video/audio track support

Awesome, great news. LumaFusion is a real editor for iPad that works with a timeline like Premiere or Avid and not Final Cut. And it gets better all the time.

Still it also makes me wish that BlackMagic would just release all the DaVinci Resolve pages on the iPad app, instead of having to use keyboard shortcuts to launch them, because then the iPad would have a real editor.

Making me feel really old, MacRumors on today being the 41st anniversary of the Mac

From Hartley Charlton at MacRumors, Apple’s Macintosh Turns 41 Today.

Holy Cow, does this make me feel old. I has an Apple IIc with Green only monitor before I had a Macintosh (in fact I didn’t have a Mac until the Mac Classic, which I still have), but I do remember using the Mac + in School. OMG it was so amazing. It just changed everything.

And of course I still use one today (with a little use of a Microsoft surface, though I still had a Mac too).

Macworld on that the iOS App Store needs to become more like the Mac

Jason Snell at Macworld has this interesting article.

And it is also right that they are going too far against non-notarized apps on the Mac! Even worse are permissions in so apps that you must re-up every month!

And yes I can see some shields around NFC on the phone, but yes you need to be able to bypass Apple if you want to, and just install what you want.

Apple though doesn’t want to give up its cut, so this won’t happen unless they are forced and I don’t see them being forced in the US.

They don’t see the iPhones as ours but as theirs and all the software and only regulation could help stop this.

Apple has moved Final Cut Pto to version 11 with AI features but no text editing

Apple has moved Final Cut Pro to version 11 (it has been at 10 since the new version came out), and it is strangely a free upgrade (since the iPad is a subscription i figure the desktop will be moving that way too).

The new AI tools are Magnetic Mask which is a quick AI selection tool. Awesome to have a fast AI selection tool built in.

And Transcribe to Captions sounds great but it isn’t text based editing which every competitor already has.

And Spacial Video Editing is necessary, though pretty Niche and will likely remain so (though i am sure DaVinci will do it as well or better because of their camera).

It sounds great, but this doesn’t really sound like it needed the version number upgrade here, but still nice new features.

YouTube on Apple TV has started playing when the Apple screensaver activates

Thanks to Creative Video Tips which I was watching, they have some amazing DaVinci Videos!

After Google tried putting it’s own adds/screensaver into it’s YouTube app on Apple TV it seems something broke, because of late if I pause YouTube and leave the room when the screens, I have my screensaver set for 2 minutes, well if I have a YouTube video paused the video starts playing behind the screensaver EVERY TIME!

This is super frustrating! And maybe it is because I have the screensaver set to come up so quickly but I have a Sony OLED Bravia so I don’t want burn in!

THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING GOOGLE!

And it still is happening!