humbug1873

... and still no Mac OS client 

The part that i totally not understand: Essentially the EU ruled that Ireland is guilty of charging a too low tax rate. It certainly raked in all of the benefits (i.e. moving lot's of money through Ireland, without much costs to Ireland).

So as a punishment for Ireland it get's 13 Billion $.

Please EU can I be punished as well?

(Much fairer would have been that Ireland - not Apple - get's to pay 13 BiIllion$ to the rest of the EU member states)

So it is supposedly 'better' do have a program, that collects plastic separately, transport it, store it, treat it with some new thingamagic and then burn the vast majority of it, then just burn it with all the other trash!? Better for the economy maybe (it generates a more work/jobs) but for the environment definitely not.

nubus said:

Why limit memory to large displays? On iPad Pro the memory is linked to storage. Apple could do the same on iPhone.
Based on this it seems 16 is about the base model (3nm, 8 GB) while 17 will focus on Pro (16 Pro will get Wifi 7 and Advanced 5G of no current use).

Simple: "Money" the Jumbo-Phones have the highest profit margins and Tim's Apple is all about money over insanely great products. Good in the short/medium Term for shareholders, bad for longterm viability as John Scully (and by extension Michael Spindler) so wonderfully demonstrated  in the 90's with Apple.

"Layoffs at Apple are rare"!? Must be a new thing. I can remember an Apple where hire&fire was the norm. People got literally celebrated in the comm meeting for their excellent work, only to be layed off a week later etc. That was quite normal in the 00's at least.