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kidrock2199 said:

Looks like they’re doing something with iPads and iPhones (though the latter, I don’t know why as they are still new) because on the Apple website, when you click to buy an iPad or iPhone, you get that same “Be Right Back” message. However, you don’t get that message when you click to buy a Mac, Watch or Apple TV. 

chaicka said:

Just perhaps from the most simplistic perspective, the 4 variants with different icons could means multi-users with hot-switching will be the big thing for iOS. And linking it back on how Apple’s directions (every few years) to bring features from iOS back to macOS, it may also means they are now able to reach harmonious across platform, meaning some of iOS apps can run on macOS.

It will be pretty fun and exciting if that’s the case, at least from my perspective. No more waiting for Developers to bring features implemented in its iOS app back to its macOS app. Ease to develop apps for both platforms and ease to bring ‘harmony’ for individual app across both platforms. And on a far fetch vision, pave the way towards a non-Intel Mac in the not too distance future.

dewme said:

I wouldn’t draw any conclusions from what Warren is throwing out there for discussion. There’s always an underlying sentiment that is driving people seeking public office to take what seem like oddball and unpopular positions. We saw this with the wave of resentment that determined the outcome of the 2016 elections. There is a similar undercurrent today that the big tech players have gotten too big and too powerful and are running open loop. 

I welcome these discussions and would would love to see the big tech players participate in the conversations that need to take place. Otherwise everyone is simply going to pick a side based on whatever information source they subscribe to and go on the attack against the other side, I.e., put the brain in neutral and blindly repeat whatever blather “their side” instructs them to spew. These techniques serve the needs of the politicians because they need to divide the vote to tally a winner. But they don’t serve the voters one bit. 

Thinking for oneself and engaging with people with opinions that don’t match your’s is really hard. Politics plays on this weakness by giving you easy choices that you don’t have to think about. They’ll do the thinking for you, if that’s what you want. That’s how they own you. 

coolfactor said:

Reminds me why Apple has wisdoms that much of the industry lacks. They would never do this to their customers. 

Who remembers the Apple Desktop Bus tech? It's an interesting read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus

... and reminds me that Apple didn't invent it entirely from scratch, as it would appear at first glance, but instead incorporates existing technologies into the final solution. Sound familiar?