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Welcome to the AppleInsider Daily for June 9, 2023. I’m William Gallagher, sitting in for Charles Martin, and today is also known as the end of an intensive five day-long conference for developers. And you thought the two-hour keynote was busy.
- As developers make their way home, though, spare a thought for the Apple Park staff who had to host them. There they all were, in that enormous, circular, five billion dollar Apple Park building — and still someone had to put up an extra tent.
- And now Apple is also putting up some money for office space in North Carolina. It wants to build a mere eight-story office block with room for 3,000 workers.
- If you keep track of Apple’s office moves, well, we need to get you a better hobby, but you’ll know that it’s only a couple of months since Apple added 150,000 square feet of offices in Sunnyvale.
- Maybe Apple is strategically spreading its workforce around, but it sounds more like they built Apple Park and didn’t put enough RAM in it.
- Speaking of which, we’ve now had five days to absorb that the Mac Pro is finally here — and to wonder why. Not only is it now three years since Tim Cook announced making the transition from Intel in just two years, but the the fact that the new machine can take up to 192GB of RAM is about the only thing special about it.
- And of course that’s not so special when there is the Mac Studio, the far lower cost Mac Studio, that can do the same.
- Unless you have a burning need to drive six Pro Display XDRs from the same machine, the new Mac Pro looks now to be a bust, it looks to be the weakest part of this year’s WWDC announcements.
- And you thought that would be the headset.
- After only these few days, the jury is out over whether the headset is a success, but while we wait to see if this device changes the world, let’s remember that Apple has done that many times.
- Most recently, AirTags went from zero to practically ubiquitous, and now they have again be used to uncover a plot.
- Spanish journalist Pamela CE-DAIR-A used AirTags to show that items being donated in Mexico for the relief effort in Turkey, were not getting to that country.
- Not only were they not reaching the earthquake relief workers and homeless in Turkey, they weren’t leaving Mexico.
- Instead, the bag of rice and pack of toilet rolls that CE-DAIR-A hid AirTags in, ended up going to two separate markets in Mexico City - where they were going to be resold.
- Two items out of however many donations there were doesn’t prove anything, but the fact that it was both of her donated items is at least a bit of a clue. Mexican officials said they know nothing about it, but would happily investigate.
- Whereas officials in Vietnam know exactly what’s going on, and would please like Apple suppliers including Foxconn to stop it. As big technology companies continue to expand in Vietnam, as firms try to reduce their dependence on China, the country’s electricity infrastructure has not kept up.
- What’s more, at present Vietnam has a severe drought problem as it sees unusually high temperatures. Local authorities have reportedly asked companies from Foxconn to Luxshare and BOE, to at least dial down their power consumption during peak periods.
- The Vietnam Electricity company would rather they went further, and implemented a series of rolling power cuts.
- It’s because at the latest report, local media is saying electricity capacity may fall as far as eight gigawatts below what is needed.
- It’s expected that power concerns will continue until late June. Foxconn, while it hasn’t commented on the news, has reportedly managed to keep its operations working — and plans its own power generators next year.
- In the meantime, if you would like to support the AppleInsider Daily podcast, we are now accepting sponsorships. See the show notes for details of who to talk to, as well as for links to all the stories covered today.
- In the meantime, that’s it for this AppleInsider Daily for June 9, 2023. I’m William Gallagher, thank you very much for listening.