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Further photos reveal that the M3 Max Pro Plus includes a shrubbery maze and koi pond.

"If Brexit is a failure it’s not because it is a failure, it would be because people who didn’t want it made it a failure."

What an absolutely horseshit assertion. You have nothing to justify that, since most of the blowback came from outside UK.

rob53 said:

Beeper is hacking a Mac to get access. This is blatantly against Apple’s EULA agreement. People need to quit giving hackers a reason to have any product. 

Obviously wrong. An authorized user of the Mac uses his own credentials. Duh. And who cares what some "policy" says? Grow a nut and think for yourself.

I think Apple is correct about the security threats. But Apple's behavior toward developers, and the shambolic fraud that is App Store "search" has earned Apple a big fat HA-HA.

Hopefully sideloading will allow developers to address longstanding gaps in iPhone functionality. But of course that'll rely on private frameworks, which Apple will pettily alter with every update in order to disable these apps.

Remember when Apple disabled pretty much all third-party headphone dongles? We'll see if sideloaders can actually make use of the I/O on the iPhone. When Apple finally does replace the POS Lightning port with USB-C (if indeed they do), you know "official" developers will still be denied access to it.

More idiotic regressions from Apple. This "thinner" mania has rendered its products nearly useless. Oh, unless you want to bury your "thin, elegant" iPhone in a bulky, tacky battery case. When Apple itself has to introduced a humpbacked silicone sarcophagus to make its own phone useful, you have utter design failure. And that's what the pompous hack Jony Ive brings to the table: no advancement, but rather regressions that cripple Apple's products to the point of uselessness. NO HEADPHONE JACK? You have to be kidding. Nobody but NOBODY should vote for that stupidity with their money. It's as if Apple can't learn. Remember the disastrous Shuffle that had no controls and required special headphones with a button in their cord and a gimped Morse code to control the thing? Even Apple yanked it off the market and replaced it with the previous design. Then there's the idiotic MacBook that has only one port: an outdated USB port. It doesn't even utilize the modern and extremely versatile Thunderbolt port, which Apple championed! Instead, you get a computer that you can't charge while using peripherals, and has no video output for TVs, projectors, or external monitors. Apple is done. Consumers: Send a message. Don't buy stupidity.

Sounds like another "Netflix tax." Pathetic.

This omits the primary speculation about next-gen AirTags: Apple may make it harder to rip out the speaker. If they do, forget it. When someone steals my stuff, I don't want them finding and ditching the AirTag, or be warned that I'm coming to beat their ass.