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Wasn't Parler shutdown because it wasn't doing a good enough job moderating exactly this? But Facebook actually allows it? Really? I don't think it's acceptable anywhere. The Facebook app should be banned from the App Store for exactly the same reasons Parler's app was. Parler reportedly has changed their moderation system in an effort to comply with Apple even though Apple are refusing to let them back on. But Facebook are not even trying to limit this exact same type of content and are explicitly allowing it.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. I don't think Apple has the spine to actually practice what it preaches though.

Let me know when I can "refuel" an EV in less time than it takes to read a novel. It's great technology but impractical for inter city trips or if you don't have charging stations at home. Even with an increase of hundreds of thousands of less slow than before but still really slow fast charging stations, its still impractical due to EV land defining "fast" differently to everyone else that has ever existed on this planet.

There are plenty of games that have not been updated to work with Catalina. And some of them are major label games, not indies. Games with money behind them. Many developers just don't see the value in updating games no the Mac platform after release to keep up with Apple. I don't blame them. They don't get much money to begin with because of the smaller market, and Apple keep requiring a greater and greater investment in the platform to keep up. When the two lines cross over, it stops making business sense to make Mac games. Apple silicon adds a whole extra dimension to that equation, not in either Apple's or the Mac user's favor.

Apple's strategy seems fairly clear, make it easier to port apps from iOS to the Mac. So the Mac is destined to get just dumbed down iOS ports if that is true. And that will be bad for all the same reasons the tablet experience on Android is bad. Android tablets run blown up versions of phone apps for the most part (or at least they used to when I last looked into it). So the experience is far less than what you get on the iPad. It looks like the Mac is headed in the same direction perhaps.

aderutter said:

I remember when Netflix service in the UK was very poor with very little content worth watching; so people simply used VPNs to access the US Netflix. If this bill comes to pass, expect the customer to suffer because it will simply reduce the quantity of material available.

e.g. If Netflix had 5% EU content and 95% non-EU content, they will simply remove non-EU content and not increase EU content. They will go from proportionally 100 programs to 18 programs. How is that a win for consumers?

Or they pay for the mandated EU content (which no one wants otherwise it'd already be there) and pass the cost on to EU customers. A nice little bit of wealth redistribution from the working classes to the rich media folks.

Why does the thought never cross the minds of the European ruling classes to encourage starting a streaming service and compete in a free market where people will choose what they want?

We replaced Netflix with Britbox. Great British content. Love it. Much, much smarter comedy. American comedy by comparison is mostly like still thinking fart jokes are funny. We chose to pay for what we like in a free and open market. Other people who don't want what we want are free to pay for whatever they like. Why can't EU countries offer EUTube or something? People will pay for it if it's any good. And perhaps herein lies the problem.

So EU customers are destined to either pay more, have less content or both. As Reagan said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."

I'd like to see actual benchmark results, especially for graphics performance, including against a mac mini with an egpu with a reasonable card in it, like a vega64 or something. Saying the integrated graphics are 6 times faster than the previous intel one is fine, but that isn't a particularly high bar when you're removing any option of more powerful gpu technology which the previous one had. The new integrated gpu is competing (from a performance perspective) against the fastest gpu you could get in an egpu box that was supported by the previous model. I doubt the new model is actually faster than that, but it may well be fast enough to beat a moderate egpu setup, and without the expense, meaning a win for Apple. Or maybe it isn't and people will wait longer to upgrade until performance catches up to what they're leaving behind. Or switch platforms.