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DAalseth said:

The smartest thing Apple did, and also the most criticized, has been to not use macOS on the iPad. It’s a different device, that needs a different environment and UI. Now I think it could do more, and slowly they are making padOS do more. But if they had just dropped macOS onto the iPad, like Microsoft has done with the Windows on the Surface, it would have languished and died. macOS would not fit on a tablet. The modifications you would need to make it work on a tablet environment would be so extensive that, you’d end up with padOS.

The fact that Apple had the guts to go all in and not try to shoehorn a desktop onto the iPad is to a great extent why it is doing so well.

MacOS would fit on the iPad but that is not the point.
To me, the UI is what makes it different from the Mac.  A UI designed for touch from day 1 rather than grafting touch onto a conventional desktop UI as is the case with Windows.
MS is still faffing around with W11's look and feel. Madness if you ask me.
Like most people, I only use a small part of the PadOS features but it does everything I want from a Tablet. (plays spider solitaire, YouTube Videos, plays my music, and controls my home battery storage). Other people will have a different use case but that's fine. It will do it all.

Maybe it is the old fogey in me but I don't want a touch UI on my Mac unless there is a way to totally disable it.

What a lot of people forget is that in the UK, you can have 100+ TV channels at zero monthly cost by using FreeSat. A smaller number of channels can be had using FreeView which is broadcast like old-style TV. 
All that is needed is a compatible TV (most are FreeView OOTB) or a set-top box that can be had for the price of one month's SKY subscription.
Sure, you don't get all the so-called blockbuster movies and series that are shown on the premium subscription channels but personally, there is more than enough to watch using my PVR.
In periods when money is tight, services like Netflix or Sky will get cut. That is my take on the reduction in subscribers to some services.

As it currently stands, most F1 races are borefest processions with almost zero overtaking. Yes the British GP last weekend was exciting but most of that was down to the weather. (it rained a bit).
I used to watch F1 and even go to the odd race but then it went behind a paywall and going costs an arm and a leg and then some.
F1 today is all about how much money can be fleeced from the fans and now much advertising can be eyeballed by viewers and not the racing.


I hope Apple does not pay good money for the F1 rights. There are better and more exciting sports to broadcast. Tiddlywinks perhaps?

Is there no limit to how low Google will stoop? Don't answer that. They know no limits in their quest to know more about you than you do.

If you use Google for anything, now is the time to stop and ask if you should continue to let them have free access to your phone which for many people IS THEIR LIFE.

NO, NO and thrice no.

It makes sense to me.  Buying T-T will attract a whole new raft of scrutiny from Uncle Sam. Given the changes in Twitter and Facebook as they move to be more Trumpian Friendly, T-T's new owners will be expected to follow suit OR face 'the Spanish Inquisition' from Congress. The Oversight Committee could tie Apple up in lawsuits for years if they owned T-T and didn't start licking No 47's high heels.
As if they didn't have a big enough target on their backs as it is...

The same arguments would apply if Apple started its own search engine.  I am sure that we will soon start seeing Google change its promotion algorithms to put his latest grift subject at the top of all result sets.

IMHO, it is far better for Apple to stay well clear of that part of the DC swamp. There be leopards ready to eat Tim Cook's face. 

Go now. Go now. Go now
Don't you even try telling me
That you don't want me to end this way

From the song 'Go Now' by the Moody Blues.

Go ChatGPT, you won't be missed. Most people don't know who you are and don't care.

Kinda ironic really when Intel are laying off thousands. Perhaps there will be a fab that TI can buy cheap and save a few years and a lot of $$$$$
I guess Intel is wedded to the wrong sort of chip?

Did Apple not learn anything from 'BatteryGate'? I smell a monster class action lawsuit just waiting to be filed as soon as this release hits the street.
AI has its place but ... I just have this feeling that this is not one of them.

I hope that the default is OFF otherwise, I hope Apple has a better class of lawyer on speed dial than they had with the Epic case.

Funny how I've been using a Mac since 2008 and never knew I needed any of these features.

As for this...
Live Activities are an iPhone feature that means important information is displayed on the lock screen, and constantly updated. Flight details. Uber arrival times. Take out food delivery times. Sports scores.

These 'things' are the most annoying things about phones. I certainly don't want them cluttering up my Mac Screen. 
 
IMHO, these features might be useful for some users but not all by a long chalk.

Consumer Robot?
Elon might very well be saying, 'Hold my Beer', I have one of those... somewhere.

As for Siri being useless? I simply don't care about Siri. I'd rejoice loudly if there was a way to totally remove all traces of the thing from my Apple kit.

I just want my iPhone, iPad and MacBook to work. The rest of what they sell? Don't care and think that Apple should concentrate more on their core products and not let itself get distracted by all this other stuff.
That's my own opinion. YMMV