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nunzy said:

Since when did Apple base design decisions on what foreigners want?

Many US nationals travel abroad and would like to have both their US sim and a local sim so they can continue receiving their roaming calls from the US while having the cost savings of a local sim. I know I would take advantage of that since I travel quite often. As it is now if you travel abroad you'll see plenty of people with two phones, me included. That is just a single scenario. Another is that EU customers could really benefit from dual sims because crossing the border to another country happens quite often and they could avoid expensive roaming charges. Apple would be smart to enable that technology. There have been dual sim phones by other manufactures for many years. I would be very happy if Apple followed suit.

Every time I see him on stage he looks either drunk or hung over. Even functional alcoholics sometimes have episodes 

randominternetperson said:

Presumably a lot of labor was involved in building the data center, but long-term jobs?  Not so much.

Based on my experience with data centers, servers, routers, switches, firewalls, electrical upgrades, UPS batteries and software have at most about a 3-4 year lifespan. Not that they couldn't last maybe 10 years but the technology becomes obsolete very quickly. So fairly soon an ongoing replacement cycle will begin which involves many more people than just a couple technicians sitting in the NOC watching a green LED flash. When they say "staffed" by a handful of people I don't think they are counting the numerous contractors that are constantly on site doing maintenance and upgrades to the building mechanicals. Even with a relatively small data center, the parking lot is usually full during the day.

Now if they could only copy the cuisine from the Apple Campus Cafes.

https://www.businessinsider.com/25-amazing-dishes-at-apple-headquarters-2014-10

polymnia said:

While this is certainly useful information, I’d really love to see AppleInsider cover pro-level font management software like Suitcase Fusion or Font Agent Pro. 

I’ve been a Suitcase guy, mostly because it was the first utility I used professionally in the mid 90s. But I see other software when working on-site with different clients. Suitecase now offers a cloud sync so you can keep 2 (or more, if you are willing to pay for more licenses) Macs in sync font-wise. 

Anyone else interested in pro level font managers?

I also used Suitcase in the 90s with System 9. Back then loaded fonts would consume a lot of system resources so you would load and unload them as necessary. Since the introduction of OS X there doesn't seem to be an issue with that anymore. I loaded up the entire Adobe font folio with Font Book and never needed to open the app again. It just works. Since the production workflow is all PDF now days you really don't need to send any fonts to a printer as they are embedded in the document. I do like the way inDesign packages the fonts and reads them directly without having to load them in the system, which makes it convenient when someone sends you the working files for a project.