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Apple NEEDS to stop the drumbeat of annual  significant software feature enhancements.  Quality hit the skids when they started that BS. It’s time to recover quality.  

Apple doesn’t need to frame it as a Win. It is a Win for the Consumer. Apple has already adopted it on their chargers, most iPads, and Mac. It was plain stupid to have a partial adoption and continue to have it on the iPhone, AirPods (pro and other) and the bottom end iPad. And not just the connector but multiple interface and charging circuits. Tired of the plethora of cables for different devices including USBC to lightning. At this point I’d pay a battery replacement fee to have my iPhone 13 converted. 

For those saying use the magnetic charger, I want faster charging at times —which necessitates using a USB-C charger and a USB-C to Lightning adapter cable (or adapter on a USB-C double ended cable).

Rayz2016 said:

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razorpit said:

Only problem is the company will pull all the people that made the same bad governmental decisions in CA to TX. Eventually Texas will eventually end up ruined like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc.

THat's exactly what's happening in Colorado. Bail out of California. Come bid up housing in Colorado. Then start re-creating CA at the political level. 

Actually, I can't think of anything good the Republicans have done when CA had a Republican Governor..  Reagan shut down mental hospitals to save money and all it did was put mentally ill patients on the streets.   Way to improve California..  

Mmmmm.  The Conservatives did the same thing here. They called it ‘Care in the Community’.  

As I remember, it led to a number of ex-patients killing people. 

For those that don’t remember (or may not have been adults following the news during the time period—I’m old (: ), the reason for the increase in mentally ill homeless on the streets was not principally a political decision. It was the result of a series of Supreme Court rulings from 1971-1982 that holding that involuntary civil commital and confinement was a violation of the 14th amendment. Those decisions resulted in the release of essentially everyone that wanted to go, was not a danger to themselves, and capable of surviving on their own. See Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_involving_mental_health, under civil commitment, for a nice summary. 

That said, and back to the topic, happy to see companies leaving California irrespective the potential effect on destination political climes. Perhaps CA, and other states, will get the idea that taxation and regulation to death are not good for the economic environment.  Companies are following the manufacturing model. If labor, living, and regulation make it cheaper to operate elsewhere, companies go there especially when there is a available skilled pool of talent or talent can be induced to move. 

Personally, given the humidity and the potential for flooding in a large part of Houston, I’d rather not work there either. 

Looks like a Bobs Burgers knockoff. 

MacPro said:

Just got a new Pioneer AVIC-W8400NEX Wireless Car Play head.  Very happy with it although a trifle pricey.  One question someone here will surely be able to answer I have is ... I assume updates to Car Play software are all iPhone side and the unit is passive in this regard?

Correct. That's one of the attractions about CarPlay compared to built in the apps for the head unit.