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22july2013 said:

Pixelmator is made in a country that's designated "flawed democracy" on the democracy index, so I was always hesitant to buy or trust it. This purchase by Apple may help a bit.

Lithuania is a "flawed democracy" at 7.31/10 for 2023. The United States are a "flawed democracy" at 7.85/10. 

Lithuania is 34/180 on the corruption index. The United States are 24/180. 

I wonder if Lithuania should be doing business with Americans. 

suomy said:

Unfortunately, us wee little enthusiast rack-mounters and our obsessions with 1U is just not their target market. :-)

Rack-mounted Mac minis have been the de-facto standard for touring musicians for a decade now — well, for all of us not using MacBooks of some kind. 

The smaller footprint will lead to interesting designs, for sure, but throwing two minis in a custom 1U tray was a really elegant solution. 

JamesCude said:

Catch and kill…

What would be the advantage of taking the technology off the market? 

9secondkox2 said:

Not going to lie. A bit disappointed that the m4 pro added cores and the Max did not. 

It didn't. They just returned from the castrated M3 Pro to the original market position for the "Pro" CPUs — as basically identical to the Max, except with less graphics power. 

bonikingofnowhere said:

No usb-c Magic Keyboard with TouchID and without numeric keypad. Full stop.  No matter what color of keys. 

Huh? I can order one right now on the German Apple Store. It’s 50€ more than the variant without TouchID.