Taiwan is at least one generation ahead of the USA in manufacturing.

I was being charitable, and you are probably close than I was.

/sarcasm.

Taiwan, who is 2-3 years ahead of the USA in chip manufacturing technology.

BUT... on the plus side, the 96% of the worlds population who don't live in the USA are not subject to the tariffs

There will be probably be a good market smuggling iPhones from Canada to the USA soon, guess that's one way to stop fentanyl from being smuggled, make iPhone snuggling more profitable.

As a guess, they probably recycle it in China.
Now if the USA would do they same....

I am sure he is going to end up in Trumps inner circle so that he can "legally steal" millions so long as her profit shares with Trump.

Sick of all the BS that Apple does with its UI and UX.
I spend ages every update turning all of the wank features off.

My iPhone is a tool, not a fashion statement

Yeah I am still on an iPhone 11, it works, does everything I need, and I have zero need for a hardware upgrade, nor IOS 26 upgrade.

100% price for me, they are simply not worth it, they are a tool for me, not a fashion item.
So here I am still happy with my iPhone 11.
I have other more interesting things planned for my money, such as a nice home milling machine and some steam stationary engines to build, one for each of my grandkids.

Oh, and also I and many others around the world are boycotting US goods and services because of Adolf Sh!tler
I DO get to vote in the USA...with my wallet, and other countries are seeing my $$.

One way to control 'Roid Rage ????

One of the most fascinating aspects of H2O is the sheer number of forms it can take under different conditions.

Other countries have had these rules for decades.
Whenever I have been to the USA I feel the whole country is just one giant con-job with all the hidden fees, taxes, etc etc etc.
Why do Americans put up with hidden fees ?
I see goods and services aimed at consumers in New Zealand, Australia, and others and the price I see is the price I pay.
"Too hard" is absolute BS, I hear there are these things called computers that can do this quickly and easily, in fact that is just what they are doing at the checkout.

...that there's a LOT of minerals and other nutrients in food, only a fraction of which are produced from chemicals in fertilisers, O2, and CO2. If you produce too much with too little consideration of the impact on the soil, you can produce marvellous dust bowls but eventually that's ALL you will produce.

There's a lot of stuff that is on the Internet that doesn't end up in AIs, either because the guys designing the training sets don't consider it a particular priority or because it's paywalled to death.

So the imbalance isn't just in languages and broader cultures, it's also in knowledge domains.

However, AI developers are very unlikely to see any of this as a problem, for one very very important reason --- it means they can sell the extremely expensive licenses to those who actually need that information, who can then train their own custom AIs on it. Why fix a problem where the fix means your major customers pay you $20 a month rather than $200 or $2000? They're really not going to sell ten times, certainly not a hundred times, as many $20 doing so, so there's no way they can skim off the corps if they program their AIs properly.

Let's take a look at software sizes, for a moment.

UNIX started at around 8k, and the entire Linux kernel could happily sit in the lower 1 megabyte of RAM for a long time, even with capabilities that terrified Microsoft and Apple.

The original game of Elite occuped maybe three quarters of a 100k floppy disk and used swapping and extensive use of data files to create a massive universe that could be loaded into 8k of RAM.

On a 80386SX with 5 megabytes of RAM (Viglens were weird but fun) and a 20 megabyte hard drive, running Linux, I could simultaneously run 7 MMORGs, X11R4, a mail server, a list server, an FTP server, a software router, a web server, a web cache, a web search engine, a web browser, and stil have memory left over to play Netrek, without slowing anything down.

These days, that wouldn't be enough to load the FTP server, let alone anything else.

On the one hand, not everything can be coded to SEL4 standards (although SEL4, by using Haskell as an initial language to develop the core and the proofs, was able to cut the cost of formal programming to around 1% of the normal value). On the other hand, a LOT of space is gratuitously wasted.

Yes, multiple levels of abstraction are a part of the problem. Nothing wrong with abstraction, OpenLook is great, but modern abstraction is mostly there due to incompetent architecture on previous levels and truly dreadful APIs. And, yes, APIs are truly truly dreadful if OpenLook is the paragon of beauty by comparison.