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Mike Wuerthele said:

I've said it before, I don't want a Navy search radar in my bedroom, but to call this level dangerous or injurious in any way is irresponsible and straight wrong.

It's not just about radiation level, heating up the tissue is least of a concern. It's about the frequency the most, and our DNA vulnerability to certain freqs. It means that some 1.6 watts/kg SAR of 2,4GHz signal is practically harmless, while 5 watts/kg SAR @ 2,4GHz makes you just a headache by heating up your brain. On the other hand some 1 watt/kg SAR or even less @ 10GHz can damage the DNA - not because of the level, but the frequency. Yes, RF more or less causes cancer.

rogifan_new said:

I understand why we don’t have touch screen Macs but the ergonomics argument went out the door with the iPad Pro and the Smart Keyboard. If that’s ergonomically OK then a Mac touch screen is too.

It's ment for lenghty typing, otherwise it's not ergonomically OK.

I don't want to see this ever on the Mac. From design standpoint it truly makes no sense now, nor in the future. The feel using touch-screen input on a laptop is weird, uncomfortable, and (most importantly for me), display hinges would degrade quickly. Who wants to see MacBooks with worn-out dangling, smudged displays?

I can remember running it on 603e, under Mac OS 8.6. IE 5 was great, was faster and looked better than NN. I liked that semi-transparent globe animation.

Similarly, while Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung have worked to "outdo" Siri with expansive voice-first platforms of their own, and have tried to give away WiFi mics as a way to build a voice platform among affluent users, Apple has instead simply made Siri a feature across all of its hardware, from Macs to Apple Watch to iOS devices and Apple TV. Apple now has, far and away, the world's largest voice assistant platform, spread across the most languages and countries, and focused on valuable, affluent buyers of premium hardware.

While I enjoy to read DEDs articles, as I consider them mostly the truth (so many ppl dislike to take on mind), this part seems to me somehow contradictive and forces me to react. If we are talking about *world's largest voice assistant platform*, serving so many people, I must call it a one huge fail there Apple. Siri sucks profoundly! It irritates me on daily basis as long as I'm trying to get this "we design technologies the way we love and use them for ourself.". The only things Siri does well are mostly the same ones that good old Mac OS 9 Speech recognition did, basics. Contextual "thinking" is weak, unusable. I can't imagine Tim crashing with it's stupidity. I would like to hear honest opinion from Apple employees about Siri!