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The whole 'USB-C connector for charging on everything' makes a lot of sense. I can travel with one charger and one cable to charge iPhone, iPad, earPods, MBP, camera (Canon), power bank, Kindle etc.

Change always comes with pain and that's what we're currently (!) seeing.

tht said:

While most smartphones have their RAM on the same package as the processor, Apple is looking to go against the norm. In order to allow for more RAM and also speed up memory access for Apple Intelligence tasks, it now wants to put the RAM and processor on separate chips.

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Apple already has multiple ways to increase RAM quantities and RAM bandwidth. In the M4 (or M3, M2, M1, A12X, etc), they don't stack the RAM on top of the logic chip. They placed them adjacent to the logic chip. ...

 Thanks for that explanation. My first thought was of the M-series (Mac/iPad) packages, the bus interface (electrical) seems the obvious way to go and all that work has already been done. Putting the devices adjacent rather than stacked also has an obvious advantage on thermals in a phone-shaped device (and presumably a larger Pro phone can more easily tolerate the increased footprint).

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dewme said:

I wish there was a way to turn off or disable all the Apple-generated folders that are now shoved in our faces with the latest generation of Photos on all devices. 

Agreed. Finding the library or a particular album can take some time and then you have to convince Photos to let you see the photos full screen (ie one at a time).

Call me a Luddite but I've taken to using the Files app for some photos. I generally use a 'proper' camera but load selected batches of photos onto my iPhone/iPad for sharing. Putting these into folders in Files named after the various events makes them easy to find and easy to flick through when sharing. In Photos, it's too easy for me, or the person holding my phone to look at the photos, to accidentally invoke editing or the Info panel.

The bonus is that those photos don't appear in the main photos list in Photos, leaving that as an easy reference for all those casual and unrelated photos I take on the phone.

jdw said:
…"Apple Car"… would have made the company "too diverse."  I think it would have harmed Apple in the end, so good riddance.  No doubt they'll glean money off all the patents they filed in the years to come.  That's enough.

I agree that a car would likely have heavily diluted management focus because there are few synergies with core business once you start looking at all the physical systems.

Probably more seriously, the car market is very difficult. There are many competitors and low margins: Apple could conceivably compete with these but the market is also heavily regulated (it’s the opposite of a green field) and uncertain. The market for EVs (and it’s far too late to enter the internal combustion market) is subject to volatile government regulation (which year do other fuels get banned from sales = it just keeps changing), user doubt (range anxiety) and dumping from China (at least in the UK, the new government still thinks that’s a good thing). However good your product, these things will cause big variations in the sale of very expensive products. 

I think the camera is upside down, having turned towards us on the axis next to the letter 'C'. Imagine it turning 180° on that axis away from us. The letter 'C' would then be up the right way as would the 'L' and 'R' (which would be Left and Right...). The little red attachment would then be underneath.