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I don't know if I could get any work done if I was employed there.  I'd be staring out the windows all day and in nice weather, wanting to sit outside.  Does look beautiful though.  The scene where you could see people walking on various levels of the building in the background looked fake (even though it wasn't).   If that scene was in a movie, I would have said that the background figures were CGI.  

Wonder which camera they used for capture.  

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tyler82 said:

Am I the only one that likes the butterfly keyboard? I liked it from the first moment I typed on it. I've never been a keyboard snob though. I like the chiclet keys in the apple wireless keyboard, and the super heavy clicky keys of mechanical keyboards. I loved the old ADB Extended Keyboard/ Keyboard II. Guess there's never really a keyboard I've never liked on a Mac.

I love my MacBook Pro 2018 butterfly keyboard. Especially the smaller travel distance!

Millions of users bought 2016-2019 MAC laptop models; they have no issue with keyboard and many like it. Recently bought 15" and didn't see issue. The problem is minority(probably heavy users of keyboard) who complain lot and loud is heard the most. I tried 16" magic keyboard and has bit better typing experience than butterfly.because most of us grew up want feeling key travel. and 16" provides best of both(scissor,butterfly)

My daughter and son-in-law bought MBP's in the last year and the keyboards are already problematic and have to go back to Apple for replacement.  Keys either don't work or repeat.   I have a late-2016 MBP and while the keyboard itself has worked fine, the center of the key has worn away on the A, S, L and N keys revealing the light below.    (And my machine also needs a new battery, for which one Apple store has quoted $450, which is making me really angry).  

I don't get it.  You can already have other payment services in your iPhone wallet (at least in the U.S. you can).  Several of my credit cards are there as is my ATM card.   The only time I use a physical card are in the places where they don't have touchless payments set up yet.  Home Depot, for example, doesn't take Apple Pay (or any other such service).

By the way, my Apple Credit Card seems to have been hacked.  One fraudulent charge showed up on my bill from a local retailer who I've never once visited or bought anything from.   I don't quite get how this could have happened.   They took the charge off pending investigation.   

larryjw said:

The issue I raised to myself as I was requesting the Apple Card:

First, don't know the information credit agencies get. I'm pretty sure they don't get any tax information, or have any idea of our net worth. I'm not sure they have access to investment accounts. 

In any case, except for a few special accounts, my wife and I have joint accounts. 

So, when credit worthiness is determined, they are determining that decision based on our joint financial interests. I got the Apple Card. 

Now, if my wife requests the Apple Card, they cannot determine her credit worthiness independent from the determination of our credit worthiness when I signed up, otherwise they would be, in some sense, doubling the estimate of our credit worthiness. 

Because the Apple Card account is not issued to spouses jointly, it makes sense that the first to get the Apple Card, gets the max, while the second spouse might get denied or a minimal limit. 

The solution for Apple-GS is to tie both cards together into one account by default. 

If you would look at your credit reports what you'll see is that it's mostly based on loans, debt and payment history, not on income or assets.  If the female spouse has credit cards in her own name, she's going to be judged on that.   If she has more credit cards than he does, that can negatively impact her score.   If she has a lesser credit history, that can negatively impact your score.   If she didn't pay the minimum payment on time each month, that affects your score.   Total balances affect your score.   The fact that they have joint bank accounts is not relevant.   What is relevant is whose names the credit cards and loans are in.

The first thing this guy should have done was to check the credit score of himself and his wife.   If they're radically different, even for not good reasons and even for discriminatory reasons, that's the reason she got a lower credit card line on the Apple Card.    Also, there's frequently wrong information on credit reports.   I saw lots of bad info on mine - addresses I had never lived or decades old former addresses indicated as current,  credit cards I never had, etc. 

And GS did check my credit report.  Whenever someone checks your credit report, it's reported in the credit report.   

Of course they spent twice as much on the iPhone as on AppleTV+. The iPhone took in $142 billion this past fiscal.   At $60 per year, it would take 2.3 billion TV+ subscriptions to equal that revenue.   That's basically the number of households on the planet.   AppleTV+  revenue will NEVER equal iPhone revenue.   One could argue that they've already spent too much promoting AppleTV+ based on the potential revenue stream.

Nielsen says there's about 120 million TV homes in the U.S.   If Apple got 20% of them, which would be huge, that's 24 million homes = $1.4 billion once everyone starts paying the full $60 per year.  AppleTV+ is not there to make a lot of money.   It's to keep people in the Apple eco-system.   IMO, the only thing it has going for it is that it's only $5 a month which might get over the usual objection of "I don't want another subscription bill every month".