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mazda 3s said:

All I want is a multi-user support for the iPad in iOS 12. I share an iPad (2018) with our son. He uses it for school stuff and games; I use it for reading eBooks, surfing the web etc. I have no interest in buying a separate tablet because one works fine. But it sure would be nice if I could enable iMessages without him seeing my information, and for us to have our own home pages/Safari bookmarks/history, etc.

It seems like such a no-brainer thing to add and I don't know what has taken so long. 

This is available on the education side already and works quite well...we'll see if it happens on the consumer side. 

kudu said:

I get that 5GB seems a little frugal on Apple’s part. On the other hand, when you pay you’re not the product (as opposed to free GDrive and free Facebook and you’re definitely the product) You get privacy and encryption and stability and peace of mind and convenience. Surely worth 99c or $2.99/month?

This is what people are getting...sure its FREE on Google, but is it really free in the end? Is the free price tag really worth it your privacy?

nunzy said:

Consumer Reports hates Apple. They have been completely wrong in every single one of their reviews.

I don't know if they "hate" Apple so much as sometimes they just have bad practices and testing methods which can throw off their results. Apple for quite some time was almost always recommended by them. Were just remembering the time or two where they screwed up with their testing methods. 

We also have to understand that not every single Apple product automatically is the best thing out there just because there's an Apple logo on it. So when it gets a bad review, or something negative is said about it, we should take that as not they're just being an Apple hater, but rather yeah this product sucks, or this should be improved to make it a better product. If everything was perfect then Apple wouldn't be releasing updated products with new features, fixed bugs, etc. 

YP101 said:

Now Apple can update Mac mini with TB3 and we can use external GPU.

Problem with that is the CPU will be the bottleneck now. You're not going to get a top of the line CPU in any kind of new Mac mini. 

ivanh said:

None of the mentioned NAS is also a router/wireless-router as an Airport Time Capsule (ATC) does. Most of the NAS processors are too slow for Time Machine sparse files structure.
ATC, being a router/wireless router, provide internal storage (2TB/3TB) giving SATA read-write speed of reliability to the Time Machine backup sparse files.  NAS mentioned can’t do that. None of them can. Sooner or later, NAS users will hit the verification error and TM backup will be scrapped and needs to be rebuilt.
Conclusion: don’t use NAS to do TM backup. Use USB external drive, if ATC is no more available, or USB-C/Thunderbolt-x external drives are not affordable.

Bullshit! I've been using Synology NAS servers for Time Machine Backups of our Mac servers for years and there's never been an issue with them.