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All Catalina does is take things away. It is also about as polished as a rock quarry.

After 15 years of downloading things in Safari, you now get the "feature" of having to approve access to your Downloads folder, manually, for every single website.

You also now "get to" approve access to every single directory any app might request access to. That will go over real well. Since users have no idea why an App needs access to what it needs to access to, users will deny it, and the app will not function. Real smart Apple.

I guess Apple really wants developers to move to web apps. They are much more attractive these days than making native Mac apps. Much, much more.

foregoneconclusion said:

Apple spent $80 billion on stock buybacks last year, so I'm not sure why anyone would worry about the cost/budgeting for Apple TV+ in the near future.

No one is worrying about Apple coming up with the cash to blow.

What people worry about is more nuanced than that. It is worrisome to see Apple spending a lot of money to produce junk content that no one asked for, and then turning around and pretending that it is a huge success because they're counting every hardware purchase as a $60 year of TV. Despite the fact that no one has paid for it directly, and no one has willingly subscribed to it. After the first year when none of those people continue using it, they can hide all the dropoff by only reporting "new" subs, which will be in the tens of millions thanks to new hardware sales. This pollutes the entire industry with fraud. 

What people actually want, we can't have, because Apple has failed under Eddy Cue to negotiate anything groundbreaking in the way of TV licensing:
- No subscription to iTunes Movies or TV Shows...of any kind. Fail.
- Apple TV Channels includes only small-time content providers and none of the top 3. Not even their own licensed catalog.

Because of these abject failures, Apple changed course and dumped the cash into this new plan, that no one wants, no one asked, no one will subscribe to, but will still be heralded as a major success, paving the way for more such delusions.

All of this to get around having a little bit of bezel. Really, really stupid. lkrupp said:

GeorgeBMac said:

But, but, but...   What then will the NotcHeads have to complain about?

The notch keeps them busy and out of trouble.

#KeepTheNotch!

In the real world no one cares

I wouldn't go that far. Every single developer cares. The notch is the stupidest thing to ever come to the concept of the computer display. And only arrogant Apple could get away with it.

This camera is not as much of a leap forward as they pretend it is. As I review the actual camera specs closely, it’s less flowery:

- Ultra wide camera has no optical image stabilization, so basically forget using it on this generation. 

None of this is necessary at all.

Download Steam. Drag to Applications. Replace existing. Done.