analogjack

Daniel, you forgot about possibly the most hilariously poutraged response of the lot and that was the apparent stupidity of Apple for putting... wait for it... the charging port under the new mouse. Why  did everyone's knickers get bunched, because you can't use it for a couple of hours once every two months.

Check out this gizomodo 'journalist' who answers the above complaint by saying 'but what if I forget to charge it and then right in the middle of working it runs out of juice'. Forgetting for a moment that this person charges his phone every day but somehow cannot remember to charge his freaking mouse during a two month period, forgetting that, he then says that he tried charging it for two minutes as Apple said that would get you through a day, but in fact it did not and he had to charge it...wait again... for four 2 minute periods. 

Now I know that a five minute charge will definitely get you through the day, so I wonder, does this imbecile not take a piss all day, let alone have a cup of coffee or even, heaven forfend, a sandwich. And this sort of fucking stupidity is repeated endlessly as an example of Apple's inability to design anything properly. 

at 0.005% that would mean the $400m tax Cook says apple paid that year would mean Apple would've had to have had a taxable income of $8 trillion dollars.

On the positive side, I've got a 2013 rMBP with a dedicated GPU and I'm not in the least tempted to update. In the old days, I'd worry about what was coming out 6 months after purchase.

The only 'innovations' that 'retailers' want to implement are all to do with how to track the customer and how to use any bit of data that are irrelevant to the transaction in order to invade the customers' privacy for the sole purpose of marketing over security and usability.

Brilliant move by ANZ which by a small but significant measure goes against the grain of bank solidarity in greed. Labor will increasingly push for a Royal Commission which is being fiercely resisted by our ex Banker PM.