temperor

I see in the comments that again most of the people do not understand that this is implemented with way greater privacy in mind. If you use MS, GOOG, FB, ADBE cloud services, all you pictures are scanned and fingerprinted, so all these companies know a lot about you, and if ever there is a data breach a lot can be derived from these hashes, even if you have ZERO CSAM pictures. Apple is pretty simple, if you use iCloud, the picture's hash is calculated on device, no CSAM hit means no hash sent to iCloud, we can assume that most of us have no CSAM pictures, so no one will have hashes in iCloud ... What do you prefer? I know I prefer Apple's method by far. To to be clear, you taking a bath with your 5 year old will NOT result in a hit, and no Apple wil not even know you're sitting in your bath with your 5 year old, it's not image recognition they are doing it's a mathematical hash that is being checked against a known CSAM library. I do see the mis understanding because the iMessage parental control is and is something that works within the family (up to 13 years available and needs to be approved by the child). If you claim Apple is running spyware, I guess you have other motives or just to st ....   

Granted they should protect users, but last time a checked, Apple has a 20% market share world wide and around 50% in the US so far from a monopoly. (Pleas spare us the AppStore “supposed monopoly” ). As a consumer I’m more concerned about security and privacy, that is the reason I choose Apple. So dear politicians if you really mean that protecting the user is at hart, do nothing that will hurt Security amd Privacy and go after real monopolies aka 80% plus market share …

When EU blocked MS to install IE as the default browser, we got another "monopoly" in it's empty spot, Google with Chrome and look who is dominating the Search space ... Our privacy would have probably been better of 10 times under MS, who knows ...

It's clear Apple has no means of measuring output / deliverables and uses buds on seats counting technique to measure productivity.Yes there are groups that need to work onsite, and to be clear even the ones that can work 100% remote should meet each other face to face ones or twice a week. But this rigid 3 days a week rhythm is more a move towards the old usual. It's a missed opportunity, many people will loose 2 to 3 hours in daily commute, eating up both productivity and quality of live. As a side note, I used to drive around 20 000 miles a year work related, last year 2 000 ... so that has a serious impact on the environment ... I guess being green goes only so far ... luckily my Employer has more sense and really did surveys and really has the tools to make fine-grained and well supported decisions.

elijahg said:

Apparently everyone who’s prepared to pay is already in the Mac market, otherwise Mac sales wouldn’t be flat since 2012. Cook gloats that 50% of people buying Macs are new to the platform, which considering flat sales means 50% of existing Mac users are leaving the platform too. He leaves out that not so tasty little nugget. 

While that remark could have been a valid one 9 month's ago, it isn't anymore ... look at Gartner and IDC's market share numbers especially the last 3 month's more than 2% gain to the prior year is nothing short of a miracle. M1 has re-started the Mac momentum and iPhone / iPad users are starting to be interested in the Mac. 90% of tech reviews praise the M1, and it seems people read these articles and also word of mouth is fuelling the Mac moment, every M1 user I speak is super happy ... and it has translated in sales that even surpassed Apple's Q1 level, lust crazy. This is only the first inning, when the Pro models launch expect a second acceleration.