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Apple looks to India for

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more iPhones. Tom Hanks

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.com. If

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things

1:06

go as Apple hopes, your

1:08

next iPhone 18 will

1:10

be made in India. That

1:13

is the word from the Financial

1:15

Times. According to the

1:17

piece, Apple plans to shift the

1:19

assembly of all U .S. sold iPhones to

1:21

India as soon as next year, according

1:23

to people familiar with the matter, as

1:26

President Donald Trump's trade war

1:28

forces the tech giant to pivot

1:30

away from China. That

1:32

would see the subcontinent exporting about

1:34

60 million iPhones to the US

1:36

by the end of 2026, roughly

1:39

double what India is producing

1:41

for export today. And

1:44

it doesn't sound crazy

1:46

to onlookers. The company

1:48

has been ramping up iPhone

1:50

production in India for the

1:52

past few years, with increased

1:55

activity from Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn

1:57

and Indian conglomerate Tata. On

2:00

the back of that, the Financial Times

2:02

has the CEO of Market Researcher

2:04

Futurum Group saying the shift to India

2:06

for US iPhones is going to

2:08

be an important move for Apple to

2:10

be able to maintain its growth

2:12

and momentum. We are

2:15

seeing in real time how a

2:17

company with these resources is moving

2:19

at relative light speed to address

2:21

the tariff risk. So

2:23

Apple is looking to India

2:25

to avoid the worst of the

2:27

US -China trade war. There

2:30

is a problem though. It

2:32

is a trade war

2:34

between two nations with companies

2:36

and consumers conceivably caught

2:38

in the middle. China

2:40

has reportedly worked to

2:43

stymie Apple's iPhone moves in

2:45

India. Daring Fireball

2:47

highlights a report from the

2:49

information on that front. According

2:51

to that, China stopped

2:53

a Chinese equipment maker

2:55

from exporting to India machines

2:57

Apple needs for Indian

2:59

iPhone production. To

3:01

get what it needed, Apple reportedly set

3:03

up a dummy company in the

3:06

Southeast Asian country to buy the needed

3:08

machinery. Once it

3:10

got there, the machinery was

3:12

shipped onto India, so Foxconn

3:14

could start testing and prepping

3:16

iPhone 17 production. Maybe

3:19

because of that chicanery,

3:21

or maybe just because, again,

3:24

trade war, China's

3:26

throwing up blocks where and

3:28

when it can. According

3:30

to the information, in many

3:32

cases, Chinese authorities are delaying or

3:35

blocking shipments of iPhone -making equipment

3:37

to India without explanation, according

3:39

to multiple people involved

3:41

in iPhone production. Foxconn

3:44

has seen approval times from

3:46

Chinese authorities for exporting iPhone -making

3:48

equipment from its China factories to

3:50

those in India rise from

3:52

two weeks to as long as

3:54

four months, one of the

3:56

people said. They are

3:58

also rejecting some export

4:00

applications without explanation, the

4:02

person added. But

4:05

machines are not the

4:07

only issue. There's also

4:09

the expertise to install, run,

4:12

and train others on them. Just

4:15

as the TSMC plant in Arizona

4:17

requires Taiwanese workers to get the

4:19

bowl rolling in the Grand Canyon

4:21

State, a piece from Wired says

4:23

plants in India will rely heavily

4:26

on Chinese workers. An

4:28

exec with IDC India tells

4:30

that site that the trio

4:32

of Apple, Foxconn, and Tata

4:35

needs the expertise from China

4:38

Chinese engineers and other people,

4:40

they have to come and

4:42

set up the production lines. But

4:46

if China is intent on

4:48

winning the trade war, or at

4:50

the very least not losing

4:52

it, the country could

4:54

keep its experts from

4:56

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The actor, producer, writer,

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and occasional director is

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working on a sequel

7:04

to Greyhound. That film

7:06

was a huge get for Apple in

7:08

the summer of 2020. Back

7:10

then, a piece from Variety

7:12

said Sony had originally scheduled Greyhound

7:14

to be theatrically released in

7:16

the US on the 12th of

7:18

June, but the release was

7:20

delayed due to the COVID -19

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pandemic. Greyhound is

7:24

set in the early days

7:26

of World War II as

7:28

an international convoy of 37

7:30

Allied ships led by Hanks

7:32

Captain Ernest Krause crosses the

7:35

treacherous North Atlantic while being

7:37

hotly pursued by wolf packs

7:39

of Nazi submarines. I'll

7:41

tell you, I haven't watched that

7:43

movie since the summer of 2020, but

7:46

I still get a pit in

7:48

my stomach when I think about it.

7:50

The tension was just so palpable. I

7:53

remember it as kind of a quiet movie, which

7:56

made the action, when it did hit, hit

7:59

so hard. Anyway,

8:01

that was then. Now

8:04

a piece from Deadline says Hanks is

8:06

back as Krause in a script he wrote.

8:09

Greyhound director Aaron Schneider is

8:11

also back as his playtone

8:13

producer Gary Getzman. From

8:15

what deadlines heard, the next chapter

8:18

in the Greyhound saga will follow

8:20

Kraus and the Greyhound crew from

8:22

the beaches of Normandy to the

8:24

ocean in the Pacific as they

8:26

help turn the tide of the

8:28

war. Producers are

8:30

said to be at work getting key

8:33

cast members back on board. Production

8:35

is expected to

8:37

start in January of

8:39

2026. And

8:42

finally today. I

8:44

don't usually talk about games here, unless

8:46

they're games being added to Apple Arcade

8:48

and even then I only talk about

8:50

them about a third of the time,

8:52

maybe. But I

8:55

came across an article in 9 to 5

8:57

mag that seemed worth telling you about. It

9:00

is a game strictly for

9:02

Apple Watch. Seriously,

9:04

I thought all of that ended

9:06

like 9 years ago. And

9:09

yet. The piece put the game

9:11

Pixel Pause in its indie app

9:13

Spotlight. According to the

9:15

report, with Pixel Pause you start off with

9:17

one pet, but over time you can

9:19

earn additional coins by taking care of and

9:21

playing with your pet. Actions

9:24

have a cooldown period, so you

9:26

have to play periodically. As

9:28

you spend more time checking in with your pet,

9:31

you can earn additional coins, which

9:33

can be used to unlock

9:35

different backgrounds, weather effects, environments, and

9:37

more. You can also

9:39

buy additional pets to take

9:41

care of with those coins. Now,

9:45

I never gotten to Neopets or

9:47

Tamagotchi, so I can't say how much

9:49

this is like that. I

9:51

told my special lady friend about the

9:53

game, though, and her eyes kind of

9:55

lit up. Though

9:57

I don't think I'll be playing, there

9:59

are two things I love about Pixel

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a one -time cost of

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earn and gain currency

10:14

by playing more, not

10:16

paying more. The

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10:21

the fact that it exists, it

10:24

is really cool that sometimes people

10:26

are still thinking about Apple Watch

10:28

as a platform of its own.

10:31

rather than just a health device

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or an extension of iPhone. If

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