The difference is testing and warranty.
If you buy it local, it has to adhere to ACCC guidelines.
They will import 50, do local quality control, send back the defective ones and sell what is left at a markup.
Salvo
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I wouldn’t have a problem with Apples message if they had actually unilaterally enforced the restrictions on App Store Apps.
The Facebook app should have been banned dozens of times and still flagrantly violates lots of App Store rules.
If I were in charge of Apple App Store policy right now, I would provide access to a third party apps but also Secure their own App Store. Purge the bad actors and develop a legitimate reputation as the only way to have a secure iPhone.
A few high media profile incidents in the 3rd Party App Stores will vindicate them.
Commissions/Kickbacks from their appliance suppliers.
When the decisions they are making are “Outsource everything to India/China/ChatGTP” and “Fire all the employees doing the work”, they can quite easily be replaced.
When we built out house, we didn’t want gas; we didn’t want mains power either but the only way you can go legally off-grid is if you have a petrol-powered backup power supply (IE Generator).
Due to noise restrictions, you are not allowed to have a generator within a distance of permanent dwelling, which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia, even though modern petrol generators are almost silent.
We planned with the builder for No Gas; that was a shmozzle too! The site supervisors claimed it was “Impossible” and installed a gas line anyway. When all the plumbing and wires were stolen by copper thieves, they reinstalled it! They even claimed that Electric hot water was a stupid idea (until their CEO pointed out that he had Electric Hot Water and didn’t have any problem)
This was only 7 years ago.
Nowadays, heat pumps are ubiquitous in new houses and gasless builds are encouraged.
China has already successfully destroyed manufacturing in most Pacific “first world” countries by undercutting us.
The fact that US, Australian, Japanese, Korean and New Zealand manufacturers were so ready to outsource to China in the first place, just to save a few cents in the dollar is how they got us.
I was just quoting Jim Green, as per the Wikipedia entry for the Lowy Institute.
Some of their “polls” have been very biased, especially the recent one saying that Australians trust the NZ PM, even though no Australian has ever heard of him.
Just an anecdote. I agree with you that it is probably some sort of pinniped (seal or sea-lion)
Especially when it is published by the this "disgraceful propaganda campaign".
One of the tests they have for Palaeontology students is give them a Sea-lion skull, grey wolf skull, red fox skull and cast of a Thylacine skull.
Most of the time, they can differentiate the sea-lion or the Wolf, (both Canids), but cant differentiate the Fox from the Tassie Tiger.
The only workforce that can be reduced by LLMs are those that just send emails back and forth and don’t actually do any real work.
The fact that Executives and Middle-managers are also the highest paid part of the workforce, maybe it can reduce payroll after all.
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Only one? I want to buy in bulk.