hagar

Expanding a 4 lane highway to 6 lanes? 12 lanes in total? Impressive how the US is still stuck in the previous century. There are other ways to address traffic jams. 

Can we discuss the elephant in the room. If you connect this directly to your Mac, it’s going to slow down things considerably. I have a similar HDD for media files and Time Machine backups. Problem is that the drive spins down after a while and when I access Spotlight it will freeze until the drive spins up again. 

mike54 said:

Its not about child protection, it all about getting US Gov surveillance software framework on Apple devices and Apple's best bet on getting this accepted is to use CSAM as the excuse.  Their multi-million dollar privacy campaign, in the  attempt to distinguish them from Google Android, is washed down the toilet with this single act.

If that were the case, wouldn’t Google also be planning this?

And would the US gov not need to pass a law to make this mandatory? Or keep it a secret so no one knows. 

Three more countries in three years. Apple is on a roll!

How can the Mini ever become a success. They threw out the best part (sound quality) and kept the worse part (Siri) of the original HomePod.