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The only thing missing out of this otherwise comprehensive report on the frauds that are Gartner and IDC is the scandal (a few years back now) where (IIRC) IDC got caught red-handed making up the numbers and having no serious methodology for estimating either shipments or sell-through. Looks like both companies are still employing that pull-numbers-out-of-thin-air strategy, since even between them they can't make their guesstimates match closely, which they would be able to if they had actual channel data.

Six years is at least twice the supported lifetime of any Android phone -- Google's own Pixel (the first model), which came out waaaay back 25 months ago was EOL'd last April and as of today will no longer be serviced.

fastasleep said:

What’s the video out support like on the rMB? Maybe they want the Air to be able to drive whatever displays they’re working on and need TB for that?

According to the product page, the MB line can support an external 4K @60hz via a USB-C adapter.

The MBA can support two 4K displays or one 5K display. Consumers likely to buy an MB or an MBA are unlikely to be using it extensively with such high-rez displays, but even the MB is totally fine for 99 percent of external-display needs.

Reminder: official statements from Intel and it’s executives are by law required to be truthful, as is the case with all publicly traded companies. The SEC fines for official falsehoods that aren’t specifically classified as “forward-looking” or speculative in nature are enormous. Thus, Intel’s unambiguous statement that the report is untrue means the report is untrue.

While I am in fact a 1Password user, I'm not especially sure that most people need these sorts of services anymore. While Keychain is a very slightly less elegant way to work with passwords, its autofill is excellent now in iOS 12 and pretty good on Mac as well. The main advantage the others have over it IMO these days is the menubar quick access (for Mac) that 1P and others have that keychain doesn't.

If you have need of anything more than the most basic level of password generation and autofill, consider a password manager, but if not -- keychain is an adequate substitute for both those functions.