melgross

The main advantage I see to a Kindle is price. The others are weight and battery life. I can set my iPad screen in any book reader to emulate the look of a Kindle. As we know, the eye and brain can’t distinguish between transmitted light and reflected light, despite what e-book reader advocates state. This has been proven, and a number of biologists have acknowledged that. It’s all about the settings.

as far as blue light goes, again, it’s about the settings. There’s nothing inherently blue about tablets that’s not also true with reflected light on e-book readers. It all depends on the light source and settings.

as long as all you plan to do with these book readers is read basic books, they’re great. If you plan to do anything else, including anything with photos or graphics, they’re not great. I can see some people having both.

byronl said:

probably for antitrust reasons

Definitely not. Nothing that Apple buys falls under that category. Microsoft buying Blizzard could. Apple buys small technology companies that give them some tech they don’t have, or are already working on.

hackintoisier said:

Any option to format empty/un-initialized media into HFS, APFS, or exFAT? If not, then before you can use an empty disk with the iPad and its Files app, you still need a computer first.  What about the option to unmount media, so as to protect from data loss? Android can unmount.. can the iPad safely unmount media?

Apple has said, and continues to say that you should remove the drive.

22july2013 said:

Apple's market penetration of the PC marketplace has been stuck under 10% for over 25 years. One way Apple tried to remedy this in the 1990s was to grant licenses to other companies to build Mac clones.

WIKIPEDIA: From early 1995 through mid-1997, it was possible to buy PowerPC-based clone computers running Mac OS, most notably from Power Computing and UMAX. However, by 1996 Apple executives were worried that high-end clones were cannibalizing sales of their own high-end computers, where profit margins were highest.[18]

A total of 33 companies made Mac clones, fully licensed. Apple could take this approach again if it wants to crack the 10% market penetration of MacOS. There's no need for anyone to ridicule me for suggesting this, as I'm already sure nobody will agree with me that Apple should try this again. However what's different this time around is that many countries are hassling Apple for not allowing competition on their devices, and if Apple licensed other manufacturers to build hardware clones and/or to replace the OS on Apple's devices, that would likely reduce the cries of "monopoly."

This is a very different issue. Even if Apple did this, and they won’t, if they restricted certain types of services to their own, they would still be hit by these charges. In fact, the charges would have more meaning.

pulseimages said:

As an owner of a 2019 MBP 16” Intel do I need to worry about Apple not supporting it anytime soon? 

sunman42 said:

pulseimages said:

As an owner of a 2019 MBP 16” Intel do I need to worry about Apple not supporting it anytime soon? 

It depends on the country (and in the US, the state) in which you live, but the generic Apple policy in the US is that machines move to "Vintage" status (no support from or repair in App Stores or at Apple Authorized repair outfits unless they haven to have parts in stock) five years after Apple stopped selling that particular model (so roughly October 2026 for your model). At seven years, machines are classed "Obsolete," and no hardware service is available from Apple.

All that said, Apple has stated that it's making spare parts and repair hardware available to consumers and repair shops (e.g. the recent iPhone parts and hardware made available in the last several months), so there may still be repair outfits that stock the parts for a year or two after the seven-year deadline.

The law in the US states that parts and service must be provided for seven years after a device is discontinued.