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The biggest issue is apps requiring the mobile phone number to log in, verify accounts, etc. since the can attribute things with a specific phone number.

Apple/the Industry needs to come up with disposable/scrambled phone numbers, that can be used like Apple’s e-Mail hiding scheme with sign-in-with-Apple.

Otherwise data brokers will collect and aggregate user data based on phone numbers. And once SIM-jacking gets even more widespread, identity theft will become rampant.

tmonline said:

Not true at all.

Sadly, that’s not how software development works with other companies that uses Apples’ platform to build apps.

Third part developers are not just sitting/standing idle dwindling their thumbs and can jump on any new shiny OS or API released by Apple right away. It will be in pipeline and supported but not now, like how Americans (most first world people who open wallet for any new gadget by Apple) are entitled to think - I want it NOW! 

Software features are not a small thing and changes have to be well thought out and various edge case considerations are made before release, unless you understand how it can fit in existing workflow or architecture, tested and pushed out without causing other areas to be affected then may be.

just saying your NOW thinking is a problem. But trust me it’s no fun with broken software that support all functions of new OS.

my 2c.

mobird said:
TV (hardware) streaming platform apps will skirt API's to disrupt the experience that Apple wants for their users even something as small as a scrubbing feature.

The issue isn’t the “NOW thinking”, it’s that companies that USED TO USE Apple’s APIs (which save them a lot of developer time) for reasons of trying to sabotage the experience on AppleTV, the false idea of keeping their own app consistent across platforms (even as they ruin the user experience on each platform) or worse for nefarious reasons by programmers (creating their own job security by making software more complicated and dependent on their own proprietary code), SWITCH from Apple’s well established, well tested, and consistent APIs to some crap developed in-house by people with less experience and less knowledge.

Would bitcoin just please get up and die a quick miserable death? 

LeftyLisa said:

Is it possible for anyone to asses the life of the SSD inside all M1?   I have already bought the IPadPro M1 and the new MacMini M1 and sure would like to find life expectancy…..or when the hard drive fails you just toss the whole kit?

Pretty much you toss the whole thing.

Modern hardware is optimized globally, to last longer than the normal useful service life, at the cost of repairability.

Say the normal use case for a widget X is three years. But making it repairable introduces failure points (like a moving battery, corroding contacts in component sockets, etc..
Soldering and gluing things into place reduces the potential for premature failure, makes things lighter, reduces weight and component counts, support incidents, shipping to/from service, etc. in short in aggregate it’s a massive win in terms of sustainability. The product now easily lasts five years, even though the vast majority gets rid of it after three (to stick with the example).
The exceptions is what you hear about: the few people who want to use it for more than five years, and the unlucky few who have an unexpected failure well before the five years, but after warranty runs out.
Then of course, it’s obnoxious, if repairs are difficult, impossible, expensive. But these are the exceptions, and overall, everyone is better off with the “difficult to repair” product: users who have fewer incidents and higher reliability, manufacturers who have less warranty expenses, less support expenses, and higher customer satisfaction, and the environment through lower energy and resource usage and less waste though longer service life of products.

Amateurs trying to be better than Apple in user experience, trying to lock people into their app… 🤦🏻‍♂️ 

…bound to miserably fail. Obviously some business school nitwit consulting, thinking he knows it better than Apple which has been at it for decades.