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spheric said:

sgordon said:

I remember when the EU wasn’t happy about company computers buying digital equipment because they were worried it would lead to a lack of competition. Anyone remember what’s next ? Compared bought digital, then ho bought company, then he slip into two companies. Oh and many others were bought as well

I have no idea what you are referring to, and I'm having trouble understanding the scenario you are describing. 

He has all kinds of spelling issues or auto correct issues but he is referring to Compaq buying Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) around 1998 and a few years later HP buying Compaq.   And alleged EU misgivings.  

This is clickbait.  This is based in comments from the/an EU competition official.  It is not based on any actual demand — no legislation, court order, or other official demand is mentioned.  So, as of now, the EU has not demanded or is not demanding anything of Apple in this regard.   This is not to say that the officials comments shouldn’t be taken as a “hint” or “clue” as to what future demands might look like.  But as is the headline is misleading. 

MacPro said:

Apple should switch to contracting Amazon for deliveries.

Please no.  Amazon screws up shipments far more often than does UPS.   A somewhat regular occurrence for me is to have to argue with Amazon customer service about some order that is being returned to Amazon and cancelled.   They don’t really tell you why.  Just that you need to reorder (probably at a higher price since what you ordered was on sale or a subscribe and save order) if you want it.  

BTW, US consumers have received jack squat so far.  There was a website you could register at (registration ended in October) and payment will be up to $25 per eligible phone, depending on how many valid  claims are received.  No one has gotten anything yet. 

I applied for my phones -- not for any perceived throttling, but because they used defective batteries in the 6 and may 6s line that would basically be crap after 2 years.   Would jump from 47% to 0% at once and just shut down. Supposedly the supplier for at least some of the batteries supplied batteries that had some sort of chemical contaminant in them that caused them to fail prematurely.  I had several phones from that Era and had trouble trading them in due to battery issues after a couple years that Apple eventually acknowledged after I no longer had most of them.  I figured this settlement would make up for the loss in value due to their faulty batteries.  All my iPhones have lasted much longer with reasonable battery life of years except the two 6 and the 6+ I had.  

In general I agree with the posts that the throttling issue is bogus in terms of being grounds for lawsuits and payments.  

Rayz2016 said:

don. said:

Wow. I have 6 external displays for work via daisy-chained USB-C docks. Whenever I reboot it will occasionally swap them around putting the top on the bottom and swapping left and right. If you mouse to the screen on the right it ends up on the left. That little display changing flicker is worse than you think. There's also the app resize refresh that takes several seconds to work through before finally the buttons on the arrangement tab adjust. If you try to move a screen arrangement before it's done it will immediately cut off your mouse drag and put the screen right back inducing another round of the flicker. It took me a while to figure out the timing of the refresh and the visual changes to know when it's safe to try a screen move. Before that it was an excruciating exercise in try try try again.  

From what I've read it seems the current M1 can't handle this setup. Hopefully when the full sized MBPs come out I might be able to flip my screen layout in under 10 seconds it's currently a over a minute with carefully optimized movements and timing.  2019 MBP 32GB i9.

Six monitors? 

What the f**k are you doing?

Video work?
Music?
Mission Control for SpaceX?
Fact-checking Trump’s tweets?

I am guessing financial trading.