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crowley said:

Maybe I missed it, but I haven't heard them say ARM once.  I wonder if that means anything.

Apple CPU = ARM. They never mentioned it in iPhone and iPad since Apple A4. But we all knew it.

heli0s said:

I joined Facebook in 2006, back when it was a completely different experience. Finally left all of their platforms in 2020 and never looked back. My mental health has been significantly better since.

I envy you to be able to do that. Facebook is majority platform in my country and is the major channel to promote and sell things. So if I leave this platform it means the end of my income. Also every friends are on Facebook and even don't communicate via other platform. So unless you move to nowhere and do some agriculture there is no escape (and even so you may even have to use Facebook to find fertiliser vendor).

digital_guy said:

How .. is this any type of reduction. I'd argue by selling separately, it causes more. Unless there's a dramatic decline in number of headsets & power supplies purchased? Will almost gaurantee there will now be sudden, 'increased demand' for AirPods / Beats wireless. 

It is the same as stores that don't give you plastic bags. People don't take it for grant and can/will seek alternative.

Some may have multi-port adaptors like me, using for example 4-port Anker charger which can charge iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and MacBook at the same time. So I basically leave any adapters that come with the box inside the box until it is sold out as second hand, never to touch it. Same as headphone where I'm using AirPods or other brands and leave the default EarPods in the box. I think this is a good way. Only if Apple does offset the price (i.e. minus 2×$19), people will not complain at all. Apple made mistake addressing only environment and overlooked people's pricing perception and that ruins everything they are trying to do.

People are arguing about number, technical, history, etc would miss the most important point: Apple just make it works.
Most users don't care wether it uses ARMs, Intel, AMD, that architecture, this technology, etc. They care only that they can actually use it.
It does not matter that Apple made any technological advancement or anything. If people can buy it at reasonable price and use in everyday life. It's the end of story. The rest are just nerd chat.

I have 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro and 2018 iMac for work use.
I also just built a custom PC with Core i7 Gen10, 64GB 3200 RAM, NVMe Drive, and a 3080.
That PC blue screened me twice in a month - unrecoverable and need to reformat drive. I've never seen my Mac crash at that level in my 10 years in this platform.

If I can play a game at 4K 144Hz in my iMac I would not even bother touch a PC again. I bought that because Apple cannot do that. I don't care if I have integrated Intel graphic or Apple Silicon or nVidia 9090 or whatever inside that I would not even see it.

M68000 said:

Why are people so up in arms about this?  If you have nothing to hide why are you fighting Apple’s attempt to make the world safer from criminals and sick people?   This “ceo” made the amazingly stupid comment about “presumption of guilt”?   Well,  at least in the United States a person is innocent until proven guilty.   

I’m frankly amazed by the feedback in this forum in the last few days,  people who trust and love Apple and now don’t want to help Apple try to make the world safer.  

If you work for any large company I hope you know that any email, chat messages and files on company computers can be looked at and scanned by security and network admins.

if you want total privacy,  get rid of cloud storage and maybe go back to using a typewriter LOL

Apple does not want their products used for crime and is making an attempt to do something about it - what is so hard to understand?

Let’s say if it’s not about child abuse, what if Apple decide to do other things?

For example, if Chinese government wants Apple to match Tian An Men or Hong Kong or Muslim Uighur related photos and report to Chinese government in exactly the same way, what can you do in this situation?

If for anything Apple’s algorithm gone wrong and match your perfectly fine photo as one in the CSAM database, do you want to be suddenly under investigation? Because although the process is hashed, if you are under investigation there will be some officers actually looking at your photos. And algorithm won’t ever be perfect. Didn’t you get Facebook warning about violence when posting a cute dog? Photo matching can’t be this clumsy but if you ever study any algorithm it’s based on confident threshold, which is opposed to 100% accurate.

In summary, this means only one thing - that Apple has a 🔑 key that can and is willing to look into your private data. Saying not to use this and that features is useless as saying don’t buy iPhone or go back to use typewriter.

At the time, Intel also insisted that its chips provided a better experience for consumers.

What? How can a slow and expensive chip provides better experience for us? We just want CPU that is faster and cheaper and less heat. That’s all about CPU experience. We don’t care if it is Intel, Apple, Microsoft or Motorola.