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georgie01 said:

Yes, because the major news outlets never run news that is deliberately misleading or absurdly biased...

Painting all media outlets with one brush is rather misleading as well. 

This may be a bit unpopular, but I need to say Diaz has some points. When he says "battery life that lasts for more than a few hours of usage, materials that are truly durable" both are on target. iPhone X's front & back glass is apparently easily damaged by dropping it, and it costs and arm and a leg to get such damage repaired. X also doesn't have any better battery life (unless you play color inversion tricks as AI disclosed) than previous models.

We should not fall over ourselves to claim a critic has no points just because he's shown bias in the past. Yes, he (for some reason) has many axes to grind, but ignore his critiques at your own peril, Apple. The rest of us want durable, long-lasting iPhones too.

GeorgeBMac said:

So, my iPhone 6 is dead?

Yes. This has been rumored for months. The issue is the iPhone 5e and iPhone 6 only have 1Gb of RAM for the OS to use. This isn't enough anymore (as evidenced by how slow my iPhone 6 has gotten lately trying to run some parts of iOS 12). All phones from the iPhone 6S onward have at least 2Gb of RAM.

omasou said:

So happy the EU is getting so involved in technology design /s

I completely understand G.S. not wanting every bill to be due on the 1st of the month. Imagine you're a retailer and all your customers come in on the 1st, leaving you with no customers days 2-30.  It's unreasonable of Apple to have G.S. have to handle an onslaught of bills just one day of the month and not be willing to spread them out.  As an Apple Card customer, I'd be fine having mine not be on the 1st, but Apple has never bothered to ask. 

danox said:

the public (driver) will always lie in an accident.

Not always. I had an Apple Genius claim one of the moisture detectors in one of my iPhones was triggered, and said I must have gotten the iPhone wet. I definitely didn't. It's been 7-8 years now so I have no reason or incentive to lie. Those detectors really could be triggered falsely.  My understanding is that having a phone near steam, such as comes from cooking or a hot shower, is all was needed to turn them from white to pink.  I also heard that living somewhere with persistent high humidity could trigger the ones that got the most airflow. I have no way of knowing either of these for sure; just that my phone did not get wet but one (and only one) of mine was triggered, but just having one was enough for me to be accused by the Genius. 

pscooter63 said:

Also worth noting is that the 17" can only officially support up to High Sierra.

It will run Catalina just fine using dosdude1's patch.

So if I had done a clean install last week on a 4yo Mac, you're saying it wouldn't have installed 10.12.3, but whatever version of 10.8 or 10.9 that it originally shipped with?

Correct. That's why this news of the new function is awesome for those of us in enterprise; it's the new way we'll be wiping and updating Macs as we redeploy them to new users.

SpamSandwich said:

Security checks aren’t uncommon and I’ve never heard of anyone being compensated for waiting in a line to be checked. Don’t like it? Quit and get a job at the Post Office.

SpamSandwich said:

next quarter I will vote in favor of any and every shareholder proposal requiring Apple to divulge these kinds of politically motivated expenditures.

Good luck with that. The rest of us shareholders will vote status quo to keep Apple on track to becoming the first $1 Trillion company.