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abracadabra said:

There is nothing to "justify". Twitter is a free speech platform (with an asterisk) so why bother with censored Threads or Facebook?

Plenty of censorship going on over at Xhitter.
 
"Last night when the clock struck midnight, nearly 13,000 workers at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis went on strike after the so-called "Big Three" car companies failed to reach an agreement with United Auto Workers (UAW). By Friday morning, UAW discovered that X, the platform formerly known as Twitter—in what appeared to be a petty move by platform owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk—had stripped their account's verified status, The Intercept reported.

The move seemingly makes it harder for UAW to maximize reach for its posts on X, just as workers have begun striking, demanding better wages and other benefits.

On top of the backlash over Musk's union-busting tweet, Tesla has a history of violating labor laws."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-x-revokes-paid-blue-check-from-united-auto-workers-after-strike-called/

Xhitter   Sums it up nicely.

daveflash said:

this to me points to only one thing: Apple finally taking the EU seriously for once and also taking their previous letter of complaint that "any artificial (software) limitations the common port" are "not in line with the regulation" to heart. thus acting accordingly, so my suspicion is that all iPhone 15's will have fast data transfer and fast charging / power delivery / quick charge etc.

In the end this is better for the user, and in the long run better for the planet.
If only USA could catch up to the laws and regulations of the EU on these things....

While I prefer everything to be USB-C the EU completely misfired on this. The problem is less about the cable which was already consolidated around two standards, USB-C and Lighting (which is USB-C already), than the power brick. The biggest waste is the "power brick" not the cable probably by a factor of 100x. A problem Apple has already solve by making the power brick USB-C, which means the "brick" can power or charge any USB device regardless of if it's USB-A, USB-B, USB-C or any other flavor of USB connector. Technically, I could use an iPhone power brick to charge a MacBook Pro. No, it won't charge fast or even be enough to keep the computer charged under moderate use, but it's universal, that's the key. All these old "folks" run government are so stupid and lost when it comes to technology. I'm in my late 50's so by "old folks" I mean 70, 80 and 90 year olds.

I think they should abandon the Mac Pro  and revive the Mac Server with drive trays, slots for IO and redundancy. That would sell considering the power efficiency of the M series chips.

The bottomline line is that this feature was meant to protect the phone and the user (period). But hey, I guess the shills would prefer the phone to just unexpectedly turn off or explode.