Isn't it slightly easier to use the old, trusty method of highlighting the icon to be used as the source, hitting command-I (get info), clicking on the icon in the Get Info window, hitting command-C to copy the icon, then highlighting the file whose icon you want to change, command-I, click on the old icon, then command-V to copy the icon from the other file? Pretty much muscle memory for me for quite a few years now.

sflagel said:

is their a wedding, they can do whatever they want. Let’s face it, the Apple Watch is ugly, 

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So are Rolexes and even Breguets — depending on your taste, which is absolutely as valid as anyone else’s. If this really is solely the bride’s idea, she needs to understand that from the moment the officiant says, “I now pronounce you [insert your terms here],” neither of the people concerned will ever have sole say about anything for as long as they’re married.

bikertwin said:

Are you a medical insurance industry executive? Use Pages in "Empathetic" mode to make your medical care denial sound more empathetic to the person whose health you're destroying! They'll love you for it.

"Create fun, original images for your document with Image Playground."

"Create fun creepy, original disturbing images for your document with Image Playground."

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That’s OK. Over two million people visit the Prado in Madrid every year, just to see the creepy, disturbing images painted by El Greco.

RG2154 said:

“Apple's iPhone 17 Slim is a wrongheaded approach that ignores what I really want”

Fixed your headline. 

Indeed. The author somehow conflates “What I’d really like” with what “Enough potential buyers to makes this a worthwhile development effort.” Not all that many years ago, tech reporters who were enamored of future phones rather than smart phones, kept harping on the overriding importance of swappable batteries. The marketplace, pretty much everywhere where people had sufficient disposable income, however, decided differently.

Whether the author knows it or not, my experience at least is that Apple never introduces a new class of device without focus and beta testing.

As a former US government employee, I see nothing unusual about this, but it certainly is annoying. But really, an Apple corporate employee who can't afford to buy his own iPhone/iPad/MacBook with his employee discount?

The only concern I had was when my then employer decreed that agency email (run from an Exchange server, so it couldn't be forwarded) should only be read on an Agency-owned device. That became an issue when on foreign travel (you had to have approvals up to the Headquarters level), and standard advice on travel to certain countries (fortunately, ones I didn't have to visit on TDY) included purchasing burner phones/laptops before departing on the trip — and dumping them before returning to the US.

In my case, I was fortunate, that the operational work I was involved in was served by a mail server we were allowed to operate for mission-related communications without the official prohibition, since it was an international mission and we had numerous foreign partners with whom we had to communicate operational information. So I could happily go on foreign travel without a government-owned device and wait until I got back to work to read the stupid management pet tricks (30 or 40 online training notices per year, a dozen or more pointless, non communicative missives from management, notices about jewelry sales at the cafeterias [seriously], &c.). Or, more likely, just can them.