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maury markowitz said:

The other is, and I don't know what the name is, the feature that pretends to be my Mac when my Mac is sleeping. This features allows, say, my AppleTV to "see" the content on my machine - movies and shows - and when I select it it wakes up my Mac.

This is/was called Bonjour Sleep Proxy.  In addition to the Time Capsule, it's supported by HomePods and Apple TVs.

As Apple aptly demonstrates, if you create a quality product people will beat a path to your door and throw money at you.

Unfortunately most news sites could use a course in Jim Lehrer's rules of journalism.  Nobody in his right mind is going to pay good money for opinion-presented-as-fact such as "this is about Facebook and Instagram profiting from news publishers as it pays them nothing and drives the industry out of business".

muthuk_vanalingam said:

r_mari said:

Particularly since Apple runs their repair program at a loss.

Any source from Apple to substantiate this claim?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/11/20/apple-says-repairs-cost-more-than-they-earn-in-charges

In 2019 via the BBC:

In response to a question about how much the company earns from repair services, Apple said: "For each year since 2009, the costs of providing repair services has exceeded the revenue generated by repairs."

Given that, it seems optimistic to think that independent repair shops could do better.  They have every right to try, but Apple has no obligation to make their business model profitable. 

retrogusto said:

I wonder if this is a result of internal user prototype feedback.

Or maybe it was simply wrong.

Certain outlets once proclaimed that Apple was killing off the headphone jack.  When it turned out that they were only removing it on platforms that couldn't physically support it, those same outlets claimed that Apple changed direction based on user feedback.  Which is simply bullshit, as Apple was never killing off the headphone jack in the first place and those certain outlets couldn't bring themselves to admit that they made a mistake.