mbenz1962

I for one would be happy for this.  I hate PayPal and the massive fees they charge to process payments, especially for eBay auctions.  If I can set my auction to only accept ApplePay, I'd gladly trade to pool of buyers that don't have it for reduced fees for payment processing.

I don't do commercial "work" from my personal computer at home, but nun the less I have some data that I consider critical.  Now this is mostly limited to Photos, but to a lesser extent it includes Media and a few odd files.  I have Time Machine backing up in rotation to two external HDD which covers all data types.  This prevents a backup's loss due to simple HDD failure (with or without cat sabotage).  Additionally, I have iCloud Photo Library serving as a quasi off-site back up of that specific data.  Additionally about 4 times a year I will copy the Photo's database as a whole onto my RAID 1 array (distinct hardware from the Time Machine back ups).  In case my iMac crashes, I should be able to restore from one of the external HDDs.  If not I can set up the replacement computer and iCloud should sync all of my photos.  If this some how fails, I can copy over the Photos library from the RAID array.  I realize this redundancy is only for the Photos data, but that is all I have that is really critical. 

The less important category of Media follows a similar plan except that instead of using iCloud Photo Library for the "off-site", I have Apple Music and iTunes in the Cloud; new purchases are downloaded and stored on the RAID immediately after purchase.  The few odd important data files I have (tax records, scans of Passports and other hard documents, etc.) are also saved to the RAID and "off-site" with iCloud, dropbox, and google docs (except tax records).  Since they are static documents, once they are saved, there is no need to worry about incremental backups "off-site" or to the RAID.

I only wanted to share this so that "normal" users can see that even they have some critical data and that a relatively easy back up plan can be made with little or no added cost that would protect their personal critical data.  This plan is in no way a replacement for more professional solutions for critical commercial data, however this particular plan has the advantage in using only built in software or services.  I could make my solution even more robust with CCC or SuperDuper added, but in my specific case the only two important data sets that I have that are not static (Photos and Media) are backed up in an easily recoverable way.  For me the computer is just a terminal and if it dies, it will be replaced and the important data reloaded or attached in a few hours (in the best case automatically from the time machine backup).

I took the plunge last night.  I haven't used my 8 much this morning, but so far no problems other than the annoying cellular data bug.

Soli said:

kingofsomewherehot said:

Soli said:

I’m what regard? I doubt I could give a more than a rudimentary, layman’s definition of the term, and I certainly don’t have a clue of the equation used to determine the terminal velocity of a given object’s mass in a given orientation.

But you've shown a good understanding of it, simply by your ability to point out those variables.  You don't have to know the equations to understand the concept.
(Though I'm not certain that "most" people understand the concept. )

Thanks, but I honestly can't be sure my definition would've sounded as perspicuous if I hadn't earlier did a bit a research into the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow terminal velocity of an iPhone.

African or European?  You have to be precise with calculations such as these as all of the airmchair engineers already pointed out.
/s

ascii said:

If the Chinese people ever overthrow the CCP and establish a democracy, what are they going to think of the American companies who helped censor them when the communists were in power? Would Apple ever sell an iPhone there again?

History has an unfortunately short memory.  Most Americans or citizens of other western countries don't have a moral objection to buying products from VW, BMW, Hugo Boss, Siemens, or other multinational companies who were 100% complicit in the Holocaust by benefiting form slave labor provided by concentration camps or even outright support of the 3rd Reich.  There are lots of other companies who benefitted from the war effort in Germany (government contracts and reduction of comeptition) that weren't so culpable as well, but I guess there is no need to go further with the point.  So, I would not expect that most Chinese consumers would boycott American products if communism were ever to fall in China.