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As I keep saying, there's nothing private about most of these "VPN" services. They are proxies which use VPN technologies for the client-to-proxy leg of the connection.

With most, you are exchanging snooping from your telco for snooping from Belarusian companies and telcos. Not exactly an upgrade in privacy.

AppleInsider said:

Wi-Fi routers
Apple sold wireless routers for almost 30 years, starting in 1999, and not stopping until 2018.

That's almost 20 years, not 30. Would definitely be nice to see them make a new Time Capsule.

Separately, I've never had an Apple Lightning cable fail, but I've had quite a few third-party cables fail with exactly the same treatment.

blastdoor said:

Perhaps this already exists and I'm just not aware of it (please enlighten me, somebody!), but I'd love to see more discussion, documentation, tools, APIs, etc focused on making the purported advantages of the CPU and GPU sharing the same memory space as broadly and easily accessible as possible. 

They have had a few sessions on optimizing computations with Metal and unified memory. The one I specifically remember was Create image processing apps powered by Apple Silicon.

They could do more, sure, but a lot of the advantages are only relevant to certain types of program. Even then, only a small subset of the programmers who write what users perceive as that type of program need to care. For example, the people writing the Unity 3D engine would need to care about unified memory, but people writing games using Unity mostly would not.

I wonder if today's Apple Card is the Motorola ROKR, and this stuff they're planning is the iPhone.

Would definitely be one way to use their gigantic cash pile.

All-Purpose Guru said:

The only way I know that would allow interoperability between different encrypted platforms would take a can opener to the encryption and would compromise security.

That's the point. They've been whining about encrypted messaging platforms for years.