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quakerotis said:

blastdoor said:

My personal grading of EU decisions involving Apple:

Apple Music $2 billion: F
USBC: D
App Store: C
Ireland: A

Apple Music $2 billion: A
USBC: A+
App Store: A
Ireland: F

Sorry, but any attempt to dictate engineering decisions on political grounds is just wrong-headed. As it stands, no progress with interfaces and device support on mobile devices is possible unless it’s physically compatible and protocol backwards compatible with USB-C. A governmental body rightly concerned with the environmental effects of too many cables and too many mains adapters could have legislated limits to those effects, and let the manufacturers come up with solutions to meet those requirements. Instead, they decided to engineer by committee. Literally insane, as well as a clear example of Dunning-Kruger at its most egregious.

CloudTalkin said:

rob53 said:

I have to laugh about the ad revenue generated from Safari search result advertising. Raise your hand if you AREN'T using some kind of advertisement blocking on Safari. Wait, I'm not seeing any hands so at least the commenters on this forum aren't bothered by Google's (and other's) advertising. Apple knows this and they got $20B along with 36% of ad revenue. I use DuckDuckGo and there's very little advertising except for those ads buried in websites that aren't from Google. 

Why laugh? I'm pretty sure you, me, and most people on tech forums are in an extreme minority.  Most people simply don't care. People tend to want what they want and if its free, all the better it seems.  Evidence of that can be found in App Store metrics.  The top downloads are littered with Google and Facebook apps. 

Apple has no desire to drop Google because they make a crap ton of ad revenue and don't have to do any work.  They simply offer up their users and collect the check.  For those suggesting Apple use DDG... when DDG can stroke checks like Google they might become an option.  'Til then... 

Well, enough people opted out of sharing details with Google as soon as Apple gave them the chance, that Google claimed they’d lost $10B in the first year as a result. Within a factor of two of what Google pays Apple every year for allowing their personal information-sucking pond scum of a search engine the honor of being the default in Safari. And those $B are I believe are really at the root of Mr. Cue’s trepidation. The whole”Apple can’t be in the search engine business” business is pure misdirection.

If Apple wants to optimize Apple Intelligence servers it builds with its own chips, I can see the attraction to a roadmap that includes both "pure" CPU chips with the new packaging and chipsets that are tuned for maximum GPU performance on AI tasks. But for laptops/desktops.... that new packaging would have to be really nice to make such major design changes.

Calvinator said:

Speaking as someone who owns the latest or else very recent version of every Apple product known to man, I am still happily using my AirPort Extreme. Speeds are plenty fast, and every inch of my 2,400 sq. ft. home is covered, as are the front and back yards. I have the guest network set up, and am one happy camper.

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    And I'm still using my "last model" Airport Extreme "802.11ac" from ~ 10 years ago. No, it doesn't support WiFi 6 or 7, no, it doesn't support mesh systems, it doesn't have fourteen antennas, and no, the eminently human interface of the Airport Utility isn't as abstruse, convoluted, or insecure as many current offerings' are. It just sits there and makes using my iPhone and iPad Pro pleasant in the house. I have to guess Apple felt they couldn't achieve the same profit margin as they could in most of their hardware products in a more competitive sector. A shame.

baconstang said:

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Sonic, AT&T and others are available a block or 2 away.

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Sounds like time for some midnight cable management....