OutdoorAppDeveloper

Another way to look at this: The cable lets you create a custom WiFi hotspot for your iPhone, something which Apple and iOS have never allowed a third party developer to do.

Apple should go back to making great hardware and operating systems and leave the customers and developers to make their own decisions. Apple has not done well in the roll of an evil mega-corp trying to control every tiny aspect of how their phones, watches and tablets are used.

A nod to Parallels: Bootcamp is a lot less necessary now you can run DX 12 apps in a VM. I tested Grand Theft Auto V running in Windows 11 via Parallels 17 on an M1 Mac Mini. It is quite playable. There were a few graphics glitches in the far distance but everything else looked fine. The x86 emulation is being done using Windows 11 rather than Rosetta in Mac OS but the performance was acceptable. The TPM 2 requirement is emulated via a hardware setting you add to the Windows 11 VM. As far as Windows is concerned, the Parallels VM is a fully compatible computer.

Let me get this straight. Apple introduced a bug that broke flat bed scanners even though this technology has been well understood for decades. At the same time Apple is planning to scan everyone's private photos and turn over the information to governments without a warrant using extremely sophisticated image recognition software and we should just trust them to get it right and never have a bug that exposes any private information or worse gets someone arrested even though they were innocent? This level of hubris is off the scale. Time for new management at Apple.

iHouse? Apple House?
If Apple made tiny prefab high tech houses with touch screens and upgradeable central computing modules, there would be pretty big demand for that. Heck, I would love one as a home office. Solar panels on the roof. Battery storage. Air conditioning and heat. Starlink for connectivity. You could put one on the back of a truck and put it in the middle of nowhere and work without distractions. Sign me up!