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Lots of cheap office space in NYC now since companies have discovered that employees can effectively work from home and new office space was overbuilt even before the pandemic. 

If Apple can't negotiate cheap space there, no reason why they can't find cheap space elsewhere.   The advantage of that location is that it's directly across the street from Penn Station, so good for employees commuting from Long Island or New Jersey.   But there really aren't any decent restaurants or bars directly in that neighborhood. 

One would think Apple would have wanted to be in a "hipper" place, like Soho or parts of Brooklyn.  

AMC Networks is also in that building. 

The problem with all this, aside from what posters have already mentioned is that until it's absolutely guaranteed universal, you still have to carry a passport, driver's license, credit/debit cards, etc.    For Apple to be able to replace a driver's license, they would have to deal with every jurisdiction in the world.   That's a tall order, even just considering the U.S.    And they'll always be the cop who doesn't know that an electronic driver's license is okay and will give you a big hassle over it and you know they'll want to take the phone back to the police car.   

There are lots of retailers near me that don't take Apple Pay.   In fact, I was in a LensCrafters today and they didn't take it.   Last time I was in Home Depot, they stilll didn't take it.   I got ApplePay to work once at a Chase ATM and it's never worked since.    

I have a photo of my medical insurance ID's on my phone.   But the offices I go to won't accept it.  They want the actual card because they put it on the Xerox machine to make a copy.   

When I first started using ApplePay, I went about a week not carrying a wallet, but had issues.   So now I'm still carrying a wallet, albeit a thinner one, and I think it's going to be many years before I don't have to. 

But it would be great as a backup.    My passport once fell out of my shoulder bag inside the X-ray machine.  I was already on the plane when I was notified of such and I had to get off the plane, go back through Security to retrieve the passport, then go back through security and rush back to the plane.   I almost didn't make it.   if they hadn't found it, I would have entered Europe without a passport.  They probably would have sent me back.  

cpsro said:

Only 50?!  Even if it wasn't FB, I'd still avoid this if my meetings had any potential to go beyond 50 participants, either now or later. Why leave anyone out or have to reorganize everyone around another service that can handle the load?

As a former executive at three major companies as well as an independent consultant to others, I can guarantee you that any meeting with anywhere near that number of people will be an unproductive and useless meeting (as opposed to a presentation where the "audience" doesn't need to be seen).  

I also thought that Apple's car project, at least insofar as Apple building their own car was concerned, was dead.  Didn't they get rid of all the staff?  The patent might just be IP protection so they can license (or sue) someone else.  

And while adjustable tint windows would be great, I'm a bit surprised by the emphasis on privacy.  Most, if not all states have rules about how dark the tint can be at least for the front and driver's side window and they issue tickets if it measures too dark.    I've personally witnessed people getting them who have had their windows custom tinted.  Of course, that wouldn't apply to the moon roof.    I don't know what the rules are in Europe, Asia or elsewhere.  

Apple has had more problems with software in recent releases.  Some years back, I never had an issue with apps that stopped working and while there were some bugs, I never noticed them.   Now, even security updates break things.

I don't think it necessarily has anything to do with not recruiting "fresh blood".   I think it's that Apple's testing is not as rigorous as it once was, that Apple doesn't care if they break older software and that Apple has become too large to effectively manage.  

Back in the day, Apple would test every message presented to an end-user.   I remember an example which I think was in the old Apple User Interface Guidelines from the Apple II days where they needed to know whether the user had a color monitor or not and it took something like seven different versions of the question before all end-users answered it correctly.   But today, Apple's messaging is as bad and cryptic as Microsoft's.  

I'm still on Mojave because I'm using too many 32-bit apps.   It's not that I'm too cheap to buy new apps, it's that I don't want subscriptions.  But I bet within a year, I'm not going to have much choice, but to update.  At some point, Apple will stop supplying security updates for Mojave.