That was never my intent. My intent was that even if I personally am not an Apple user, I have a good reason to cater to the needs of Apple users, in particular because they make up much of my audience.

What display would be connected to the system receiving the screencast? Remember that we seek to avoid Internet-connected displays, such as Roku TV, because of arbitration clauses and other shenanigans that the publishers of operating systems of Internet-connected displays are pulling.

Last I checked, only Finder and iTunes software could take a backup from an iPhone or iPad, and Finder was exclusive to macOS and iTunes to Windows. This means backing up an iPhone to anything but a MacBook requires rebooting into Windows and waiting for Windows to complete its own updates. Is that still the case in 2024?

Other than the 1000 AUD for buying the Mac in the first place.

I just checked apple.com, and the nearest Apple Store is 90.9 miles away. Not only is this much too far for a bicycle trip, but it'd also be a crime to use a bicycle on an interstate highway. Is there some sort of franchised Appls store, and if so, what is it called so I can use DuckDuckGo to find it?

Others on Slashdot have told me that one such feature that iMessage has and MMS lacks is adequate resolution for photos and videos. Another is being able to enter the chat in the first place to request that it be switched to MMS.

And breathe exhaust from the cars on the highway you walk along for 4 km (2 and a half miles) each way to and from the store. And risk getting hit by a car on the way there or back because sidewalks are inadequate. And risk your frozen veggies and chicken thawing.

I agree with this angle. However, I haven't been able to find living-room-sized dumb displays in stores anymore. It's either a desktop-sized computer monitor or a living-room-sized Internet-connected TV.

My point appears to have missed you; sorry. Once I have given up Google and Apple products, I may no longer buy an Android-powered phone or an iPhone.

It's never been explained to me the difference between the alleged "deep state" and the federal civil service. The Pendleton Act of 1883 shifted the civil service from a "spoils system," where the incoming administration conventionally fires everyone appointed by the opposite party, to one based on merit. This caused the civil service to gain the same sort of institutional memory as any other group of people that survives changes in leadership. Is that all "deep state" means, or is there more than that?

Last I checked, all TVs in living room sizes (as opposed to desktop computer monitors) came with streaming capability. They do this because the kickbacks to preinstall the apps of major subscription video on demand providers outweigh the extra cost of streaming hardware to the point where the manufacturer can actually reduce the sticker price. What name brand dumb TVs are you buying that don't have Roku, Amazon, Google, or some other streaming OS? (Location: USA)

I find many of the steps you list to be much easier said than done.

Once I have placed all major publishers of operating systems for Internet-connected TVs "into a personal perpetual denylist", then from whom should I buy a display sized for a living room? And once I have put both Google and Apple "into a personal perpetual denylist" over Google TV and Apple TV, then from whom should I buy a personal mobile phone?

How does one select a full factory reset without clicking through the full-screen prompt to waive access to the court system?

I thought this was exactly what we were trying to avoid.

I kept the box. My roommate threw it out and compared my objection to those of the characters on A&E's reality TV series Hoarders. How would I go about convincing my roommate not to throw out the box next time?

I tried to sign up to use ChatGPT, and the sign-up process halted on a demand for an SMS number. OpenAI's help page specifically states that landlines and VoIP are ineligible to activate a new account.

Unless you live alone, what would you use to display the output of this cheap eBay laptop? You can't easily fit multiple people around a laptop's built-in monitor, and materially all living-room-sized displays sold in major retailers include Roku or another Internet-connected TV operating system. I'm aware that digital signage displays exist, at a severe price premium compared to Internet-connected TVs of the same size. How would I go about convincing others that forgoing Internet connection is a feature worth the extra cost?

Which 100% open generic display should one choose? Last I checked, HDMI itself was proprietary. See "HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD " from a week ago.

I have owned three Mac computers: a Macintosh Classic, a Performa 5230, and a late 2009 Mac mini. My roommate received an iPhone SE as a gift and replaced it with a third-generation iPhone SE once its battery stopped holding an adequate charge.

Unlike me, many of my audience are Apple users, as are many of Spotify's customers.

In the case of the featured article, the market for subscription music streaming is being disturbed by Apple forbidding Spotify to disclose the features and price of its subscription service to prospective customers.

The real-world benefit to iOS users is availability to stream works that happen to be on a streaming service other than Apple's own. Some albums are on Pandora, Spotify, Tidal, or some other service, and not on Apple Music. The typical revenue split for services like this is 30 percent for the streaming platform and 70 percent for the artist and their record label. Given Apple's requirement to use its in-app purchase system with a 30 percent fee in order to be listed on its App Store, this would leave 0 percent of revenue for any streaming platform other than Apple Music.

Another real-world benefit to iOS users is availability of applications in categories that Apple has forbidden on its App Store. Circa June 2009, one former example of a class of programs unavailable to Apple users was rereleases of Commodore 64 games on iPhone by the games' publisher, which Apple banned solely because the user could reboot the emulated Commodore 64 computer to ROM BASIC and then key in a program not approved by Apple. This ban lasted from June through September of 2009, when the developer worked around the ban by specifically blocking the use of the ROM BASIC prompt. From April to September 2010, Apple was enforcing a ban on transpiling applications written in other programming languages to Objective-C or C++, which made ports of games using Lua or Unity unavailable to iOS users until Apple revoked the ban. Programming languages themselves remained a banned category until the release of Swift Playgrounds in September 2016.

That's not Apple's only category ban of note. One example was strategy games having the Confederate States of America as a faction. It took until June 2019 for Apple to even let developers give their users a free trial, which Apple had banned until then. Another was (and to my knowledge still is) Wi-Fi mapping tools because Apple refuses to provide programs with a way to prompt users to opt into the necessary functionality.

To what other space should someone interested in the topic of ongoing cost of development for Apple targets take discussion of ongoing cost of development for Apple targets?

I was under the impression that compared to a MacBook or iMac, a Mac mini lasted fewer years before becoming no longer able to run the latest version of Xcode.