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Clipboard History is said to only retain items for 8 hours.

Those expecting to recall history items from the morning before might be a little disappointed.

I'm not totally in agreement with how the EU regulators act, but this sounds like the kind of crap that they would not tolerate, and consumers should not.

But it's part of the legacy of the American Telco Monopoly, now cartel.

Those of a certain age will remember when Ma Bell would only allow devices it provided, leased or sold, to be connected to the phone network.  The notion of buying your own phone, answering machine, or whatever was completely foreign.

Apple's stubborn refusal to make reasonable, measured concessions in the way it does business has had the predictable effect -- regulators around the world who have had Apple in their sights have now pulled their triggers, with both barrels from the EU and US the latest and largest.

Cook strikes me as an adaptable guy, shown by the way he's able to navigate the fraught geopolitical waters that the company navigates, and mostly avoid the criticism that would easily come from being so invested in China.

But if he is indeed the one who has left Schiller to mind the App Store, and allowed him to maintain the hard line stance with regard its policies, then I think that may have been a mistake.  Taking the same all-or-nothing, take-it-or-leave-it stance in how it deals with developers, large and small, has now brought consequences, where Apple might be forced to take steps beyond what it could have voluntarily taken, because it, or he in particular, felt that the company was too and powerful to have anyone push it around.

Worse, it has come at the result of the lobbying from hypocrites like Sweeney and Ek, who bear no admirable qualities of their own; they're sharks on their own accords.

A marketing guy, no matter how tenured, should not be the one making overall strategic decisions like that.  That's the CEO's job.

I've been an Apple user all my life, and the way the company exerts its market power should disconcerting to anyone who recalls what Microsoft did in the past, and how Mac users vehemently railed against them and their conduct.  That shoe is now on the proverbial other foot.

First, it's important to note that in general CUPS printer drivers have been deprecated in favor of IPP, and for Apple in particular that means AirPrint.

However, CUPS is still present in Sonoma, and hasn't been removed.  Yet.  It is still possible to install CUPS drivers from older OSes in Sonoma, and they will still function.  I just verified this with my Brother AIO laser printer, for which I installed the CUPS drivers meant for Catalina, which was the last version of Mac OS supported by Brother for my printer model.  It does not support AirPrint.

The "core CUPS software" has not been removed, at least from my 14.4 installation, and my printer still functions, albeit in unsupported fashion.

It would be a d!ck move for Apple to completely remove a framework in a point release.  That said, I wouldn't bet against that happening in Mac OS 15.x, or another future version, so users should be prepared for that inevitability.  Personally, I will rue that move because my decade+ old printer would become obsolete for no reason other than OS support.  It has been dependable, durable, and economical to operate.  And I have little desire to buy a new printer just to accommodate a new OS.

Whatever issues those users are having probably result from a cocktail of MDM, MS software, and a deprecated framework, but, they are not universal.

Am I the only one who wishes Apple would move the power button back to the top edge of the phone?  Like it was on past phones, and how it has remained on the iPads?

I curse Apple every time I unintentionally take a screenshot after trying to put the phone to sleep.

Putting the power button directly opposite the volume buttons in an invitation to make such mistakes, if one need to grasp both sides to gain some leverage.