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lkrupp said:

alanh said:

To get the best deals on Apple hardware it’s often best to buy from a 3rd party reseller like B&H. You can save a lot more by doing that than the 3% offered by the card! 

Well I come from an era when third party resellers were openly hostile to Apple products and tucked them away in the back corners of their stores. When Apple started opening its own stores those same resellers screamed bloody murder about being pushed out. Because of that experience I always buy my Apple products directly from Apple no matter the price difference. Just me.

I usually do too (although not always, such as getting a spare Airport Express after Apple had discontinued them). 

I've found that there's more "understanding" if you have a problem and take it back to the Apple Store - and you bought it from Apple.

dewme said:

A lot of current computing device users probably don’t appreciate just how far display technology has advanced in the past 40 or so years. Steve Jobs and Apple significantly raised our expectations with Retina for what we should consider to be the standard for comfortable and natural human interaction with computers and displays of every size.

So very true. I remember having a whopping !! 21" color monitor on my desk in about 2000 or so (I was developing code for Macs). It weighed around a hundred pounds and required two people to lift it (it was a Sony Trinitron which was then state-of-the-art). It was an absolute b**** to get the alignment right so that you didn't get shading of the text on the screen. That's why many of the Apple coders I knew used B&W monitors - crisp text.

Fast forward to 2023 and now it's a Studio display with super-crisp text, accurate colors. What a difference !!

The best thing - in this context - about BMWs is that CarPlay is WIRELESS. It has been for a few years now.

I don't take my iPhone (was 12 Pro, now 15 Pro) out of my pocket for charging, or anything else. I just get in and drive. 

Brilliant.

One problem I've had is that "Purchased" does not show any of the recent OS X/macOS installers. The last one that shows up for me is El Capitan, back from 2015. I can't see any way to re-download Sierra or High Sierra. Does anyone else have this problem? Is there any solution?

I can imagine that Apple would move iPhones by ship but NOT at launch time when demand far outstrips supply. Tim Cook just isn't about to allow that to happen. It may well be that standard stock of iPhones in January and later comes by ship. But not now. That is just not credible.

5GB is "greedy"? I fail to see how a company giving away something for free is greedy.

It is if you sell someone a 128 GB phone and then default to iCloud backup. And especially when the product margins are set to accommodate cloud/network usage (mail/photos/etc). If Apple is defaulting ti iCloud backup then it should provide the space for it - because the margins allow for it and common sense demands it. Samsung won't because it's selling phones for cheap and has no infrastructure. Apple needs to avoid that trap and so far it hasn't. Bummer.

Heh - my 2012 Mini shows it as "enabled"

Two comments:-
1. Apple did NOT acquire NeXT. NeXT bought Apple - for minus-four-hundred-million dollars
2. "fully modern OS". Well, yeah. It was sitting on top of BSD. Which wasn't modern then any more than it is now. However it's very solid and reliable, even for something that started life just about the same time as Apple -- which was 1976.