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bobolicious said:

How and why does this happen...? 

It happens because the iMac Pro was developed and shipped when Alpine Ridge was the only TB3 controller Intel offered. The Titan Ridge controller used on the Macs that can drive the XDR display at 6K did not ship until the year after the iMac Pro was released. And before folks ask, there were no new CPUs or GPUs for the iMac Pro until the last couple of months. So now Apple has a reason to upgrade the iMac Pro and when they do, it will add Titan Ridge.

When Apple says "we don't know what you read", they are almost certainly stating it literally - they do not know what I, personally, read because they are not tracking personally-identifiable data. In other words, they know someone clicked on an LA Times article (as an example), but they do not know that my AppleID was the one who did that even though I am logged in with said AppleID. If Apple literally did not track that an article was accessed, they could not pay the publisher for it. And Apple has said payments will be made based on the number of accesses. But all Apple is collecting is that the article was accessed and nothing else. They are not collecting data that would allow them to begin to form a "portfolio" of me based on the publications and articles I access.