saarek

cropr said:

scatz said:

chelgrian said:

darkvader said:

I'm assuming they'd still work if you use a VPN to appear out of the country to Apple servers.

I expect Signal would still just work, I can't imagine they'd go to any actual effort to break it, they'd just not "officially" support UK users.

They would be removed from the UK version of the App Store and as they are mostly indexed by telephone number they would disable any account that used a UK phone number.

While you may be able to do some workarounds the loss of critical mass and the fact you'd only be able to communicate with existing international users makes it not worth it.

Sadly I expect the current government in the UK thinks that Apple/Meta and Signal are bluffing, they aren't they are deadly serious and the UK is a small enough market they can that walk away from it.

The UK is largest market in EMEA by quite a margin.

Never heard of Germany???

iOS market share in Germany is around 38% vs 52% in the U.K.

Mac market share is estimated to be 25% in the U.K. vs 16.6% in Germany.

The OP’s comment had nothing to do with the size of economy and everything to do with the number of units sold. The U.K. is the biggest market for Apple’s hardware and software within EMEA.

Sadly the debate is being held by those who do not understand the subject matter.

One cannot simply build a back door and only give the key to the good guys. If you build in a weakness it can be exploited.

Hopefully the message from experts will get through and the bill will be amended.

Appleish said:

From the country that instituted Brexit against popular opinion and had an unelected leader that was only in office for a few weeks, who destroyed hundreds of billions of pounds from their economy.

Either you’re a revisionist or you simple don’t understand how referendums work.

The vote for Brexit was clear, the majority of the population of the United Kingdom voted for it to happen (17.4M to leave vs 16.1M to remain).

Yes, Scotland and, to a lesser degree Northern Ireland, voted to remain. However even nearly 40% of the Scots voted to leave which is a fact that the SNP never recognises as they pretend that all of Scotland voted to remain in the EU.

Was it the right decision? Well, I don’t think we will truly know that for at least another 10 years. None of the  prophetic doom and gloom scenarios ever got close to materialising and the country was always going to be worse off during the initial divorce stage.

Either way the result of the decision is largely irrelevant, what is relevant is that a democratic vote was taken and was then acted upon (albeit poorly).

Until recently I used to join Netflix twice a year on basic, watch anything good and cancel.

Guess it’ll be just once a year now.

lewchenko said:

I guess for many the M1 version of the 24” doesn’t feel slow in the slightest , and an M3 won’t feel that much faster for many use cases. But it’s needed regardless as people don’t like paying the same amount as launch price (or even more in Europe now) for old tech. 

So what else will they add to it to make it worthwhile. A cpu spec bump isn’t enough in my opinion - May as well get a heavily discounted M1 if that’s all that changes. 

I’d be happy with either a spec bump or a discount. As you said, the only reason that I (and others) are now waiting is because the M1 variant is now long in the tooth and way past due a speed bump.