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bloggerblog said:

EU is desperate for cash, they're out to sue anyone with a treasure chest, I think this high fine is to prepare for the big one, Apple. I actually don't mind Amazon collecting my data while browsing their site, I already gave them my address, CC info, and I'm there to shop, no big deal if they show me what may interest me. What I do mind however is Google swiping my data across sites and without me knowing, only to build a profile that could be used and sold in many nefarious ways.

I think this is largely true. Good chance it is a regulatory shakedown. As gov regulators don't pay for the pursuit of these fines, taxpayers do. Amazon pays for their own mighty expensive defense (that Amazon can afford it or that some don't like Amazon is irrelevant in application of law or regulation). Ultimately if they can get Amazon to agree to pay something and change an Amazon action on the peripery, the particular gov people/politicians win -- they get their name in the media and a chance to move up the political ladder. 

With that said, little IMHO is actually being done about the massing of private data. On that front the EU has done more -- not a lot but more. But what makes it suspect is they seem overly eager to go after United States companies regarding private data amassing. The reality is EU companies are just as guilty but don't have as big a share of markets. 
Regarding France going after Apple, if France can show Apple has actually gathered private data outside explicit ToS? Apple deserves it. Apple sets the bar, a high one, for data privacy protection, so holding them to the standard is good. But Apple gathers little data, make's very little off monetizing data, and blocking what data they gather is readily available in iPhone(and explains fairly good what is gathered). There can't be much there for France other than headlines for a politician. And if France goes after Google or Facebook? If the fine is commensurate with the amount of data gathered? That's gonna be one massively huge fine (as much as I don't like the surveillance capitalism industry that FB and Google lead, it would be a grossly unfair to them). 

WHATAPP is a surveillance app in its own right -- unless one believes everywhere where you go, what you type, almost everyone you know, almost everything you buy (among others) recorded into a single profile of you isn't surveillance.

With that said, this guy is absolutely right. Apple was wimpy on this, feeble. They put out a media department canned answer. Apple doesn't scour and record everything you do in order to monetize iit and this is their response? Weak...  

darkvader said:

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lkrupp said:

Apple techies, being what they are, will have an absolute hissy fit if the next Mac uses an M1. The M1 is already yesterday’s news, obsolete, deficient, underpowered and overpriced... and it only been around less than a year. 

We’ll, yes and no. The biggest drawbacks are memory and graphics. It’s perfect for a MacBook Air, imac or lower level MacBook Pro, but for people who want more power it does have legitimate limitations. 

 

Seeing how Apple said they would replace the entire Mac lineup in 2 years it’s not unreasonable to expect a more powerful version sometime soon. 

Except they're going to hit the same wall everybody else will. 

The reality is that the M1 is fine for a toy like an iPad, but it's too limited for anything more than a low-end general purpose computer.  16GB RAM in 2021 is a sad joke.

Keep your day job genius. What you know about the M series chips are about as much as your knowledge to post thoughtfully. 
The M series upside is unknown. It may already be near its ceiling but that is extremely unlikely for a large successful company to put big money into development of tech that has near future limitation. In the near future the M series and ARM may be what most personal computing is based off of, or something else may come along to trump it.. But you already know that, right? being the top level thinker your post reveals.