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hmlongco said:
People say they want one. Apple makes one. People don't buy one. Apple stops making one.

Rinse. Repeat.

You're so horribly misguided in your smear piece but one question that keeps on popping up in my head: Why the frog do you even give a shit? Cui bono? As you've said so eloquently yourself: We Europeans have not requested your opinion and are even less looking for you to be our saviour. If Apple decides that the European market is not relevant enough to comply with the DMA; fair game to not serve it or less well then. I'm thinking hard of desirable features which are missing, I can truly live without the (botched!) Apple AI and US people do envy us for the ability to have third party app stores already... If you want to moan and bitch about bonkus laws, try the UK for the back door requirements or the US for their spy laws... oh wait, supposedly doesn't bother you due to being a US citizen: frog the f off!

lotsacaffeine said:

I’m not sure I understand all the fuss. Siri sends contact names to Apple to process requests, at the time of the request. It doesn’t upload your contacts en mass when you toggle Siri on…

Excerpt from Apple’s privacy statement:

When you use Siri and Dictation, your device may send contextual data to Apple, including from third-party apps you allow to integrate with Use with Siri Requests, such as:
• Contact names, nicknames, and relationships (for example, “my dad”), if you set them up in your contacts
• Form of address, if set in language and region settings
• Music and podcasts you enjoy
• Names of your and your Family Sharing members’ devices
• Names of accessories, homes, scenes, shared home members in the Home app, and Apple TV user profiles
• Labels for items, such as people names in Photos, Alarm names, and names of Reminders lists
• Names of apps installed on your device and shortcuts you added through Siri

I'd also be very surprised if they'd just send the data once when enabling the feature, that doesn't make sense at all. And with most people using crap services like WhatsApp, the data is out in the wild anyway; it's not like sending it also to Apple would make much of a difference... if anything I'd prefer Apple to have it rather than Meta. I use neither, so ho hum...

I have got iPhones with MagSafe and without MagSafe and I couldn't care less about the feature. There're very few use cases where MagSafe represents an actually useful feature and a whole lot more where it is actually an anti-feature, for instance to mount it in a car in a place where one can actually use it while driving -- which is a big no-no! In the car(s) I have native Qi charging and at home I prefer a cable despite having actual Qi chargers at hand, which is much more efficient anyway... I guess I'd even take the few grams of weight savings on the 16e...

In reality, I think a solar hat or blanket would make more sense and would be much more practical.

You know that's actually a thing?!? thttps://us.ecoflow.com/products/solar-power-hat

About glasses: With (prescription) glasses being way too expensive already I really don't see any point making them more complicated and thus more expensive. Glasses which can be electrically tinted would be interesting but only if they're cheap to manufacture AND reliable; phototropic glasses are the bane of my life and I'm so happy that there are much cheaper and actually reliable working solutions on the market (actually again; I first had glasses with that technology 20 years ago before opticians stopped selling those frames for 10+ years): Magnetically attached shades...