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This really is a wait-and-see scenario, the Mac Pro has looked like a lot of different things over the years, including dual-chip variants.

We’ve heard many similar rumours about Apple Silicon, which haven’t eventuated.

The fact that the pundits can’t tell us a release or announcement date tells you everything you need to know. 

Seems more like the EU not wanting to back down against an American company rather than solve a real problem. The issue of vendors using different plugs was largely addressed back when microUSB became available, prior to that companies, including Apple, had to develop their own plug to suit the functionality of the device.

Shouldn't such a bypass feature be opt-in, rather than opt-out (esp. as history has shown us how effective opt-outs are.)

After all the reason why certain right-wing political messages were getting filtered to spam is because they were imperceivable from actual spam messages. That seems like something the user should have a stronger say in.

I mean it's a wild idea: but if one's political messages look like spam.. maybe make them look not so spammy, it's really not hard. However we've clearly entered a new era where governments are interested in using IT companies as a tool for satisfying political and lobbying-derived agendas.

Lobbying really does make the world turn. Both in the US and the EU we've seen these initiatives being spearheaded by companies that are neither suffering nor even "losing" to Apple in their business endeavours - it's the same story: developers whose only innovation is how they can better squeeze profit or make it harder for customers to unsubscribe. Further more in Australia they're seeing long settled topics such as how Apple Pay functions being dragged up again - despite no changes to the platform.

In every corner it smells the same: the clear motivation is a money grab by large business at the expense of Apple's customers and smaller developers who won't be able to compete on the same footing once the larger players get their way.

The most amusing part of all of this: it's being sold as competition, it's the opposite - the relief proposed reduces competition and favours Epic over all other interests. It also makes a joke of commerce law - enter an agreement willingly, then pester the government to force a favourable change in the terms.

I'm not sure what they were expecting, the bulk of the interior is a large purpose-built cooling system...