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Not bad for a dead platform (as someone here is wont to describe it).

sog35 said:

rfrmac said:

Let me tell you what this shows me.  <snip>

The Mac is a DYING and SHRINKING platform. PERIOD. 

Increased Mac sales (doubled over the past 8 years), $23bn revenue/year, Apple in the top 5 PC vendors and is the most profitable PC vendor - equates to a dying platform?

The ACCC chairman nailed it:

"Other issues in particular stood out, according to Mr Sims:

• Apple and Android compete for consumers with distinct business models. If the banks were successful in obtaining access to tap-and-go smartphone technology, it would affect Apple's integrated hardware-software strategy for mobile payments and operating systems more generally and impact how Apple competed with Google, the consumer watchdog said.
• Digital wallets and mobile payments were in their infancy and subject to rapid change. While consumers were used to making tap-and-go payments with payment cards, there was a range of alternative devices for mobile payments such as using a smartwatch or fitness device. Access to the technology in iPhones for the banks was "likely to hamper the innovations that are currently occurring" for mobile payments and could reduce the competitive tension between the banks in the supply of payment cards, the ACCC found.
• Apple Wallet and other multi-issuer digital wallets could increase competition between the banks by making it easier for consumers to switch between card providers and limiting any "lock-in" effect that bank digital wallets might cause, the watchdog said."

http://www.theage.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/banks-lose-battle-to-band-together-against-apple-20170330-gvaj4i.html

Fatman said:

Pretty simple solution - sell an iMac without the motherboard and storage. Essentially it's now an external monitor. Just need input ports, and display circuitry. AND IT WILL BE THE SAME HEIGHT AS AN IMAC! Come on TIm Cook!

I think it was on Gruber's The Talk Show that it was mentioned that he'd heard that the work that went into a Display was almost the same as a complete system (e.g., iMac), hence that's why they decided to palm this one off to LG (after doing a lot of work on a TB3 display themselves).

Whilst the iMac shell is slightly longer vertically (to accomodate the chin), it would probably be better to have people complaining about a chin on a TB3 display based closely on a 27" iMac than the issues that have accompanied the LG monitor.

I love my 27" Thunderbolt(2) Display, hopefully after all this fuss Apple will decide to get back to it.

Every institution that signs on to Apple pay makes a mockery of the arguments of those that are fighting it in the ACCC.