Just talk to us a little bit more about what's happening with Indonesia, because this is a big one. And they played hardball. Yeah, that's exactly right. So Apple and Indonesia have been going back and forth for weeks now, since the launch of the iPhone 16.

Right. Obviously, Apple wants to get the device in as many countries as possible. Indonesia is important to Apple because that's a potential growth market for them. They are making a big push across Southeast Asia, and not being able to get

it into one of the biggest countries is a really big deal for them. So they've been making different offers. And what they finally landed on is investing $1 billion into a facility there that would produce essentially 20% of AirTags. AirTags, obviously, is that

fun little device we're all gearing up to include in our luggage for the holidays? Right. It's not Apple's most popular product, but it's an important one, and it sounds like it was enough to get the job done. Apple is gearing up to release a new AirTag in the middle of next year with

much better range and better privacy. So that is going to be a cool thing for Indonesia to be able to produce that product, potentially, or further generations of that device. Let's stay global on the Apple front. When you're looking at the EU news as well, because this compatibility

argument has been going on for a while. Ultimately, whatever the EU forces does become global in nature. The EU wants to crack open the iPhone completely. They want to essentially make it like Android. They want to make it so users can

A bunch of cowboys can do whatever they want to the device, right? Apple, on the other hand, wants this closed ecosystem with a privacy-centric design and a clean user interface. They don't want people to be able to

open up their devices to work with third-party earbuds, watches, and headsets as well as it works with Apple products. And so the EU put out a list of several things it wants Apple to adopt and allow third parties to use.

At a deeper level, things like AirDrop file sharing, things like AirPlay, video beaming from the device to other products, things like opening up underlying Wi-Fi protocols. And, you know, Apple is pushing back on

that by using Meta as an example and showcasing 15 data categories that Meta wants access to. And positioning Meta as this anti-privacy company and trying to show consumers and the European Commission—the regulators in the EU—what could potentially happen to Apple device

customers if these programs are opened up to the extent that they want them to be opened up.

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