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mpantone said:

If they attempt to ship new M2 Macs on Monterey, there would likely be little new functionality offered by the current macOS Monterey unless they heavily forked macOS which isn't Apple's modus operandii. It's worth pointing out that there are no developer betas of the next generation macOS right now. Zero, zippo, zilch.

You don't seem to know a lot about OS development. The CPU specific code for in an operating system for a specific CPU model is miniscule, typically a few thousand lines of code across kernel and libraries. If Apple wanted (and they have done this quite often in the past) they could release a minor update to macOS which supports the new CPU model and release a new feature blazing major version a lot later; zero forking needed.

Also a lot of the limitations of the OSes on older devices are totally artificial to boost sales of new hardware; that's todays crux of device manufacturers: Almost anything is done and possible in software and the hardware has been powerful enough to do so for a long time but you simply can't make money with free software optimisations...

If they defer M2 Macs, then most certainly not because of macOS.

gatorguy said:

It can continue to use the camera even after the intended use is done and over. For instance from the Facebook app you take a pic to post. But if Facebook wanted to be evil that allows the app to continue recording images that you would not have explicitly authorized and continue doing so minute by minute with no way for a user to know it was happening. That's what he brought to Apple's attention. The camera permission does not restrict the camera use to only what the user would intend to grant it. 

Err, if the app is in foreground then it is actively used. How would you distinguish between "intended" and "unintended" use?

thanx_al said:

"It was Apple who complicated things by pursuing its silly ‘thin at all costs’ mantra which undermined a generation of Macbooks. Now, with the new MacBook Pro, they are back on track"

There is far from universal consensus on this. I personally liked thin-and-light at all costs. It pushed technologies farther than they would have been if thick-and-fat were the go to standard. Did Apple go too far, maybe? But I remember the old days of thick, fat, and heavy laptops. No thanks. I can fit my 13" MBP into a folio designed for a notepad. That's what I want.  

There pretty much is consensus about that, especially with the Pro models. It's great for you that you have another Mac, for me this would be totally impracticable. There're a lot of different needs amongst pros and Apple has pretty much failed all of them and only catered to the needs of a few photgraphers and musicians. There's a reason why there was a lot of speculation about a completely new design with true Pro genes in a larger form factor.

Making the pros as thin as possible is truly self-inflicted damage and people half rightfully scalded Apple for that; the lack of expendability, the abysmal keyboard, the thermal problems, the lack of escape key, the hard requirement to have a boatload of dongles on you, the unergonomic mirror screen.

Apple is truly lucky that other companies are sucking so much in usability department, that switching is often not a real option: a lot of people are sticking with Apple despite their crappy hardware, not because of it. It makes me sad, that my most usable laptop here is still my 2011 MBP 17"; luckily I still have it here because otherwise the 9d it took to repair the shitty keyboard on my 2017 MBP 15" would have been an even harder hit.

muthuk_vanalingam said:

Looking at the top free iPhone apps from 4 to 10, do the people in this forum still believe that "Privacy" is a feature that is being actively used by the majority of the iPhone users? For those users who do value and use the Privacy feature, iPhone is the only option and there is simply no alterative option available to them.

Those who don't value their privacy (and looking at the top app usage, it seems to be a huge percentage of iPhone users fall into this category) - Wouldn't those users be better off financially by buying an Android phone at a much lower cost if they are NOT going to use the most-important differentiating feature from the other OS (except probably the niche users playing high-end games in their iphones)?

Dunno. I also find the Apple supported trend "free with lofty iAP" absolutely horrendous. Not only do I want to know the real price in advance but it makes those Apps also hard to distinguish from the usual "hybrid" Apps which have iAP and pay with private information in combination and of course those that require a friggin subscription. I'll stay with my motto: If it's free -- it ain't for me. 

I'm still waiting for Apple to be hit with a clue bat that people are waiting for other products going back to the roots, too... Please Apple, take my money for a real MBP with non-glare retina display, replaceable parts and ethernet socket...

Not sure you would actually want to use public transport in São Paulo as a foreigner; it's a rather dangerous city. I'm happy for the Brazilians though...

It's a tough sell at $179-199 with the Watch at $299 because it has no touch interface, poor quality display and it's missing or lacking in some of the big features of the Watch like payments and fitness.

I could not agree any less to what you've said. I've both the old Pebble Steel and the new Pebble Time Steel and they're the best smartwatches money can buy if you put the focus on watch rather than smart, and many people do. Just because Apple managed to get the touch interface halfway right doesn't mean it's a good idea, in fact it's rather terrible but Apple probably had to meet the expectations and speculations to some degree and compromise on that. The display is great because it is always on, again: good for people who like real watches. The killer feature is the runtime without recharching: my Time Steel I'm lasts around 12 days, you have no idea what you're missing if you're not really a watch wearer and/or have never tried it... Features are pretty good, too. Apple Pay on the Watch is pretty useless because it requires an iPhone in reach, too. I might as well wave my wallet (you've heard about contactless payment, right?) or in the near future my Kerv ring... Fitness really depends on what you're looking at; for some even the Watch lacks a lot of sensors other devices have; personally I'm totally fine with just the step counter in my Pebble.

It really sucks that they're failing to properly speed this up worldwide. By the time we receive have Apple Pay in Europe it'll be mostly useless because all credit cards will have been swapped for contactless cards anyway.