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  • Apple execs address Mac mini's hidden power button in 2024 redesign

    Who is the stupid Apple executive who keeps making these stupid design decisions? Must be be of these three. Might as well go the whole way and remove the power switch all together and go with plug and play. That should make the ‘I don’t turn things off’ people rather happy.

    When all the ports are being used, then lifting a mini out of a shelf to reach under for a power button in a dumb location will be really irritating 

    Maybe the Europeans will force a redesign. 
    teaearlegreyhot
  • M4 Mac mini vs M2 Mac mini compared: Leaner and meaner

    Power button underneath? It’s a wonder that Apple didn’t also put the power cord underneath as well. After all that is how to charge the stupid Apple mouse. Function is as important as design and Apple’s fixation on smallness makes for indifferent user experience. 
    nubuswilliamlondon
  • Apple must pay EU $14 billion over Ireland tax arrangement

    Apple should have been paying tax on the earnings it made in each individual nation instead of making its non-US earnings disappear into a tax haven. Apple can say all it likes about paying tax according to local tax laws, but it did its best to hide earnings in each country by using basically a post box in Ireland. 
    ronnmuthuk_vanalingam
  • Third-party App Stores will only work for 30 days if you leave the EU

    sirdir said:
    Thank you so much Apple! You blocking me from re-downloading an app I paid for or even updating it when I move out of EU-land es CLEARLY you looking out for me, not you showing your ugly control-freak face. After 25 years of almost 'Apple only' lifestyle, I'm quickly reaching a point where I had enough… 
    Well piss off then and go Android and save us from having to put up with your nonsense here. 
    kurai_kagewilliamlondondarbus699secondkox2watto_cobra
  • EU officials are not happy with how Apple is handling Progressive Web Apps

    A lot of commenters are looking at this from what's good for Apple.  How about we look at it from what's good for the customer?  It is not good for the customer to lose web apps on the home screen.  Apple is simply continuing its heavy handed approach with iOS/iPadOS for its own financial benefit in the name of security.  All they had to do was implement the same security model the Mac has and this would be over.  Scan and notarize third party apps and allow an option for no notarization apps.  Simple.  Apple should not be in control of what is installed on an iOS/iPadOS device anymore than they control what is installed on the Mac.  It is such an elementary point that is pains me to have to make it.  When you buy an iPhone from Apple it is no longer Apple's phone.  It is your phone.  You can install what you want on your phone.  Apple's heavy handedness simply should not be tolerated by the customer.
    I suggest Mac users and iPhone users are two very different groups when it comes to doing things you suggest. I was at the Genius Bar the other day and I could not believe the number of iPhone users looking for help and who didn’t have their iPhones backed up even to iCloud. These people need protecting from themselves. 
    watto_cobratmay