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I never understood the motivation behind such a huge undertaking as building a passenger vehicle.  Even though Apple has more wealth than Elon Musk, and could more easily finance the development of such a vehicle, the target market is just too small to make it viable.  Ten years ago there were very few EVs on the market, the technology was developing in leaps and bounds, and the early products were quickly outdated.

Now, the EV market is currently at a stage where most of the early adopters have owned an EV or two, and some have owned succeeding generations of EVs.  And there are many more players in the EV industry, with China pushing to dominate the market, at least outside the USA.

But the EV market is suffering from huge value depreciation, and flattening or declining sales.  It is definitely not the time for a novice automotive startup company like Apple to bring a $100k+ EV to a stagnant market, especially since the technology development cycle means they need to freeze a design in order to produce it.  The biggest changes coming in the next few years relate to battery composition and capacity, so coming out with an expensive vehicle using “old” lithium ion battery technology, just prior to new designed vehicles with solid state batteries (or something else more advanced) would really kill most sales potential for an Apple Car.

And don’t ignore all of the safety standards, environmental standards, sales, service, support, etc., associated with any passenger vehicle.  They would be starting from ground zero here as well.

I really can’t justify an iPad Air or Pro based on my uses for a tablet, and I desperately need to replace my iPad Gen 5.  But the Gen 9 and Gen 10 iPads are just deficient in enough areas to not be desirable to me.  Apple seems to limit some features on these basic iPads (no USB-C, or compatible with Apple Pencil 1, keyboard limitations, display resolution, etc.) that I am really hoping that the Gen 11 iPad will have all of the essentials that I seek in order to replace my Gen 5 iPad and last me for another 5-6 years.

nzmac said:

Why does this dude have is watch upside down on his left wrist.  Makes it hard for the right hand to use the controls. 
#fail

I use my watch the same way.  With the crown and button facing my wrist, I accidentally engage the buttons when I am wearing gloves and working out in the gym.  Having the controls on the other side prevents this from happening.

I am right handed and have no trouble using the controls in this way.  It took a few times to get used to it, and then it became completely normal for me.

Isn’t one HUGE difference between iMessage and SMS, or RCS, that iMessage communications are end-to-end encrypted, between iOS/MacOS devices, where the carrier is only involved in providing Data Transport?  Whereas SMS, or RCS, is a messaging system that involves mobile carriers.  I would be concerned that the carriers can build backdoors into their RCS deployments, so your ‘encrypted’ communications would still be vulnerable to interception and decryption.  To my knowledge, iMessage doesn’t have that potential vulnerability.

I switched from the Apple Mail client to Microsoft’s Outlook client on my iOS devices. It’s a better email client than Apple’s Mail is.