douglas bailey

AppleInsider said:

These benefits include "more opportunities for cashbacks and other promotions," as using these alternative wallets would avoid the Apple Pay transaction fee, and in theory would provide an incentive to "share some or all of that saving with the customer,"...

Banks, sharing, with the customer?
Laughable.
Australia has been on its lowest central bank interest rate ever, for many many months and yet banks have only made minuscule reductions in credit card interest rates. 

Short answer: ApplePay. 
How many angles do you have to hold your iPhone when making payment? Try doing that and getting a face read at the same time.

phone-ui-guy said:

The oldest entry is set to become public on 3/19/2017. So if nothing changes we should get to see external photos, internal photos, user manual, and test setup photos on that date.

IF that version was approved. 
Do we know if it was?

cali said:

The reason Apple sales were down is because Apple hasn't updated them.

Yes, but also maybe the reason Apple hasn't updated them because is because sales are down.

Apple realised a couple of years ago that people don't upgrade iPads as often as they do iPhones. Therefore they don't need to upgrade iPads as often.

i also would like to see a new Mini.

Using Time Machine and Backblaze for about 3 years. Haven't had to restore from Backblaze yet.

Many years back my computer crashed while - I presume - a Time Machine back up was in progress, neither my primary drive nor external drive could be recovered. (Sent the external off to a professional service which thankfully doesn't charge if they can't recover data). 

So initially I have two time machine drives, they automatically alternate which drive they back up to each hour. Then eventually picked up Backblaze for off site backup.