normm

avon b7 said:

normm said:

Apple integrates as much as possible onto one chip, for power and performance reasons.  I'm sure they plan to continue this trend.  Requiring separate replaceable components may prevent good design.

They won't integrate the battery, screen, backplate, antenna, speakers, connectors, motors, storage memory, cameras, sensors and many other elements into one chip any time soon. 

There is a lot that can be done to make devices more accessible (less labour time on repair as a result) and easier to repair and upgrade. 

There's always a tradeoff.  Remember when Android people made fun of iPhone for having a sealed battery compartment?  And yes, replaceable and upgradeable storage means more connectors, more power, less reliability, etc.  Sensors can certainly benefit from being more closely integrated with the main processing.

Apple integrates as much as possible onto one chip, for power and performance reasons.  I'm sure they plan to continue this trend.  Requiring separate replaceable components may prevent good design.

jony0 said:

Pages still lacks Find & Replace of special characters

Not true.  You can use menu commands for find and replace special characters from a selection, or directly enter escape codes such as \n \t \i etc.

hmurchison said:

Apple's backbone is as flimsy as any other Globalized corporation that is more than willing to appease Governmental encroachments. 

The only legal way to avoid giving information required by a subpoena is to not have it.  That is what most big companies do, and is why Apple avoids sending a lot of confidential info to their servers.  Apple has pushed back hard against requests by police and FBI to unlock phones, even back when they could have done so by hacking the hardware.  They have certainly strongly resisted adding any back door to their encryption and have been very good on privacy, which also limit what governments can find out.

I think "Pregnant Man" could be used even by heterosexual males, as a whimsical way to say, "We are pregnant".  In any case, most roles in society are now non-gendered, and so making this the general rule for composing elements to form emoji is fine.  There really are no roles that are absolutely gendered in a purely cosmetic way.