ElCapitan

Mike Wuerthele said:

ElCapitan said:

There is another alternative: Redesign the damned thing with parts that both can be sourced in the US, and at the same time make the machine more flexible in terms of entry configs (that many have requested), and to use standard memory, disk and graphics cards more readily available. That would also broaden the market for it.

It does use standard memory and can use standard graphics cards. Additionally, the machine and macOS support PCI-E NVME cards (if not the drives directly in a slot), and has two SATA 3.0 ports internal.

I'm not sure how much more standard part support you want.

You and I both know that there is no US manufacturing on this scale to speak of, and there will be no redesign.

There won't, so from now on it is Linux on completely different boxes for everything we used to use Apple kit for. 

There is another alternative: Redesign the damned thing with parts that both can be sourced in the US, and at the same time make the machine more flexible in terms of entry configs (that many have requested), and to use standard memory, disk and graphics cards more readily available. That would also broaden the market for it.

eumaeus said:

Ah, Apple-haters...

It has noting at all to do with Apple hating, but the false virtue signaling they also are on to in the area of "clean" energy.

The UK, with a population comparable to CA, have made serious calculations of the effect on global climate if they replaced ALL (that is their entire) energy production by solar and wind. The effort, which would cost trillions of dollars, would have an effect of 0.01 deg C per century. In other words ZERO effect whatsoever. That offset the significant negative environmental impact on land use, noise pollution, access roads, visual degradation of the landscape, insects, birds and other wildlife.
As a matter of fact, the production of batteries for undertaking such an enterprise would have multiple times the emission of CO2 compared to going on as they currently do, in addition to very significant environmental damage for strip mining rare earth metals needed for the batteries.

So, yes, it is completely virtue signaling! 

The display is a design only an ex-Compaq employee could love! It is hideous. 

It is not a traditional monopoly in the overall market, but it is a monopoly for distribution of apps in the iOS, tvOS and watchOS ecosystems.

Actually I would not even care if the monopoly gave equal access to all interested parties, but it don't. 

What is much worse is that Apple also upholds a cultural monopoly for their ecosystem, not only in the US but also across the other countries in which they market their products. 
Apple tries to police an oddball mix of US CA political correctness, their management's personal political viewpoints (which often is completely irrelevant outside the US), Apple human policies, the typical left leaning slant of Silicon Valley and US legislation, many times at direct odds with legislation and culture in the country they market their product in. 

This do not hold water over time for a company wanting to be global, but is unfortunately typical for US companies operating outside the US.
I don't think this particular case with the Supreme Court in the US will change it much. What I do expect is that Apple will have a much harder time in a European court and with the EU on the issue of the App store.