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Hopefully these are using a newer chipset than the Realtek RTL8125 based ones that have been out for several years.  The RTL8125 family powers 95% of the 2.5Gbe dongle adaptors on the market today and they are prone to overheating very quickly during sustained transfers (which is what you want 2.5Gbe or higher ethernet for).  When they overheat they throttle down below even 1Gbe speeds, making them WORSE than just using an old school legacy gigabit adaptor that can sustain full speed without ever overheating.  I have several 2.5Gbe dongles that I experimented with over the years and most of them work ok if you tear into the packaging and add your own larger heatsinks on the chips.  Looks ugly as hell but at least you can sustain 2.5Gbe speeds for more than 30 seconds with the beefier heatsinks.  Stock all these dongles are terrible.

You won't notice anything different if you need these for just web browsing, but if you are using them to speed up your local network, spend the extra cash and get a proper 10Gbe ethernet adaptor.  Yes they cost more, but they don't overheat.

Fun fact, you can get fast wired networking/internet on iPad if you use these dongles as iPadOS has built in drivers for them.

jdiamond said:

The biggest apparent technical issue seems to be the failure of the quad-die Apple Silicon chip. 

I don't know if it was a failure so to speak, the quad Ultra chip just didn't make financial sense to Apple.  It would have been an incredibly niche product, the top tier. It cost a lot of money to design, and when they considered sales projections for the product it apparently wasn't going to break even when you factor the development cost.  I mean it probably would have broken even, but "even" to Apple really means 50% margin which meant it would have been crazy expensive.

Also I'm not sure if they knew where to slot that product into the roadmap, what to name it?  Pro, Max, Ultra and..... Crazy?  Tesla already took "Insane" and "Ludicrous" and "Plaid"

Silo is the number 1 show on Apple TV at the moment, so it will most certainly return.

Foundation is only coming back because it has a three season commitment.  Rating are so low and the cost to produce so high that Apple would love to kill it off sooner if possible though.

To al those commenting, the headline was changed shortly after AppleZulu commented to what it currently reads.  Earlier the headline said something to the effect of "Helicopter crash caused by iPad".  Adding the word "dropped" changed the tone dramatically.

Wow lots of jerks here.