OutdoorAppDeveloper

In-app purchases for "consumables" in games is a scummy business to be in. Everyone involved knows that they are creating and feeding an addiction including Apple. Especially Apple since they can see what they are doing across thousands of apps. Game developers are the pushers and the street corner sellers. Apple is the supplier.
Apple does not hide in-app purchases but it does not treat them like the problem they are for many people. I have never once seen Apple talking about how it helps addicted gamers break their habit. I do see ads now on my iPhone for Apple's gaming service though.

I am sure Apple has e-reasons for removing the cable (something I grab from every box as they wear out constantly) but this is going to make them look cheap. Not a good look when you are trying to sell thousand dollar luxury phones.

$550 is a lot to pay for a pair of wireless headphones that is not compatible with the PS5 which costs $500.

So Apple is admitting that current iPhones are built in part by forced labor? "Designed in California, built in China by slaves"
Dear Apple, please consider moving all manufacturing to the USA and do it with autonomous robots. Then produce and sell the robots using those same robots.

The first time I heard the term "neural net" was in the late 1980s when it was being used to filter noise out of audio. It did an amazing job even back then turning incomprehensible noise into clearly understood human speech. This story made me think that Apple would use advanced AI to turn crappy AM/FM radio into perfectly clear, distortion free studio quality audio. Perhaps they can even add stereo to AM. Now that really would be worth getting excited about.