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pianoman1962 said:

Arrogant Apple really think they are so all-powerful they can just ignore the request/demand? Perhaps criminal charges and maybe Cook spending some time behind bars as a result would change his tune.

What’cha talkin’ about?   Did the article say Apple was refusing?  

I’m not saying this is the end of Apple or anything but it’s kind of too bad — one of my two “pro level” audio interfaces is FireWire and I still have an old Sony video camera with FireWire.   I probably should try and get any video of off tapes that I haven’t already transferred.  

At my last job Inhad a Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128gb 1TB.  It was nice.  Unfortunately our work got moved to India and I’m no longer there.  I upgraded my i5 based 2017 iMac to a new Mac Mini M4 Pro with 24GB and 512GB and 4TB TB drive plugged in.  It’s super nice compared to the iMac.  

Apple Pay with all sorts of credit cards and debit cards.  the consumer has choice.    The difference is that Apple controlled the low technical level.   Opening tact up really doesn’t provide more banking choice.   In fact choosing Vipps seems to reduce seems to reduce your choice.  Apple Pay works with all sorts of Visa and MasterCard and Amex and JCB and transit cards from all over the world.   I have  Visa and MasterCard from multiple  different banks and credit unions and Amex and discover as well as Suica, Pasmo, and ICOCA cards in my Apple Wallet.   I have choice.   As long as the banking institution wants to play Apple Pay would work.   

tht said:

If you have ever been in a server room, you want to be in the back, where it would actually be a comfortable temperature. The front? Like 60 °F.

Well 60F is not bad.  But this reminds me of my first job out of high school long long ago.  I had a summer job as a night operator for DEC at their main software engineering facility in S NH.  The job was midnight to 8am and mostly we spent our time in huge computer rooms with row and rows of VAX mini computers, big tape drives, and big rows of disk drives and my job was to do nightly backups, mostly to tape.   The rooms were heavily air conditioned and being a summer job the outside weather was 85-95F or hotter and usually 60-90% humidity.   Hardly sweater or hoodie weather.  But a good many of the night operators brought or wore sweaters or sweat shirts to work as the server rooms were very cold.  Especially late at night when you were tired and your body’s self defense mechanism not working well so you felt extra cold.    It was funny to see people coming in with shorts and t shirts and a sweater.