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M68000 said:

you could cut out a small black piece of cardboard Shaped like a notch and tape to your laptop screen to have an idea of the outcome.  I’m not liking the idea of a notch on laptops.  If you do,  enjoy...

... or simply trim a strip of black electrical tape to replicate Apple’s new Magic Notch™ and even you can start impressing friends and family with your “upgraded“ Mac.

I’ve updated my devices to the macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS versions listed above as well as the latest HomePod and every update installation process worked perfectly. This is the first time in a while that I’ve had zero installation issues. Thank you Apple. 

Re: the "insanity" claims and counterclaims...

Please refer to the statement above "Of course, the San Francisco Bay Area, where Apple Park is located, and the entire state of California are still under government shelter-in-place and stay-at-home mandates. Aside from essential IT and infrastructure personnel, those mandates will override Apple's own policies in affected areas."

Apple has and always will follow the guidance and authority of local/state/national officials. They will do the right thing for their employees, customers, and the people in the communities in which they operate. There is nothing wrong with Apple starting to put smart plans in place to return its stores to operation - in some form and at some capacity. We do not yet know what any of this will look like at this point in time. However, nobody can afford to sit around between now and some arbitrary point in the future before deciding what the next steps might be. Setting calendar checkpoints is perfectly acceptable, but only as long as they are willing to reevaluate the next steps based on the data at those points in time. Not only that, planners better have a hierarchy of conditionally qualified plans queued up to react to the actual conditions at the checkpoints, not just some unconditional or heavy-handed plan. The actual situation two weeks from now may be radically different, good or bad, but most likely the latter. The elapsed time that it took in China to get over the peak, albeit with authoritarian levels of enforcement, is probably a decent clue. It certainly wasn't 15 days.

What's happening today on a scientific and social level is very similar in character, but thankfully not in scale, to the 2018 Flu Pandemic. The following site is very instructional: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22148/  . I think we have progressed significantly as a global society since 1918 and are fortunate to now have a predominantly independent media versus the total puppet/propaganda media that was widely in-place during WW1 (except in Spain who got blamed for the virus because they didn't have the propaganda machinery in place like everyone else did). But the scenarios playing out today in real time are eerily similar to 1918 in terms of trying to deal with health, moral, social, national, local, and economic concerns and trying to impose will over scientific data and observations. One cold hard reality of 1918 that should cause significant concern is that the mortality rate of the second wave of the virus was much, much worse than the first wave. No matter what happens today, we have to be careful not to stay in the quick-fix mindset or pretend that it's over before we have a proven vaccine in place.

Bill has nothing to more to prove. His legacy is firmly established and he needs to spend hie remaining years enjoying the fruits of his labor with an unencumbered mind. 

It does take some time for Apple to get the support training and collateral for new products out into the field and into Apple Stores. I’d assume that they’d always try to prime the support channel ahead of time with enough trained people and support documents/wizards/fixtures/tools to handle the anticipated support needs. If a product is rushed to market to meet a release date there may Very well be a gap if the training labs can’t get enough as-built (or as it will be built) product for hands-on training of support staff. This may be the case with the Mac Pro release. Anecdotally, I found that my local Apple Store was unable to provide any substantive support for HomePod even a year after its release. They simply punted and ordered a replacement unit.