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On the bright side, newer Mac models with north of 32 GB of RAM, will also mitigate this problem.
I’m no web developer, and also don’t know if it would make a difference, but I’ve only ever used Safari, and I’m baffled why would people install chrome... even on windows or Linux boxes.

I think John Oliver got to them, with that piece he had run a couple months ago. Smart money says it was the robocal his technical staff set up to call the FCC chair every 90 minutes.

It still baffles me that, at the current pace of technological advancement, some reputable developers hope to make a livelihood over a single piece of software, for decades!

There is no other market where someone expects to live off an idea, without anyone else following on the bandwagon. Unless the concept is under IP protection, which in this case, it wasn’t.

Funny thing though, I’m pretty sure now, that Apple is offering it, some obscure patent will appear, and the lawsuits will fly!

I am also clinging to mine. People often doesn’t give a second thought of how long Apple support its products, to the benefits of its customers. Talk about money well spent.

Despite the fact that I'm an Electronic Engineer, on issues of consumer electronics products, I view myself as a consumer. I'm old enough to remember monthly news of people who have tried to repair their CRT televisions, and died because of it.

Most people, even (somewhat) educated ones, thought it would be like popping open the hood on their cars. Kill the engine and don't touch the hot parts and you'd be safe. Alas, the voltage multiplier charged the tube up to several thousands of volts, and the tube had enough capacitance to hold it after many hours of the plug being disconnected. The electric shock wasn't like touching a live wire, but it was enough to provoke heart fibrillation, which is invariably deadly without specialized medical attention.

Given time, Darwinism kicked in, and people learned that they should never, ever, open their TVs. Now, CRTs are a thing of the past, but people are willing to dick around lithium batteries... the next best thing to a bomb! The lucky ones will have a singed eyebrow to serve as a reminder, and probably will joke about it later. Burnt airways, lungs, and cornea, and/or facial disfigurement are harder to laugh about, though.

I can just see people (and courts) finding manufactures liable for providing the means for "I can do it 'meself'!" people to test their own stupidity. So, while lobbyists are not exactly an ethical/moral bunch, they are less sleazy than some (class-action) lawyers.