Apple is providing services and tools to sell their hardware. If you haven't noticed, that's their main business. They don't need to make any money on their messages platform as l long as it keeps users tied to their platform and makes new users buy and enjoy their hardware. It's a marketing tool to sell Apple devices, not to sell ads, you tool.

Not merely a possibility, that'ss the end game of startups these days: getting bought out by someone. Nobody is even trying to launch a sustainable business anymore that could run itself. Investors want a quick return on their investment, after all.

As long as you create enough buzz to be relevant for a while, chances are someone will buy you out to get your tech (and bury it maybe) and to get your customer DB.

You'll get a sore neck having to tilt your head every time you see a text smiley!

macOS is a full blown UNIX. How is their CLI an afterthought? There's actually a lot of stuff you can do in Terminal that you can't do via the GUI. Like creating bootable USB stick installers for macOS. Also lots of admin only settings available there.

So Hitler is like Santa, because he's got a list and he's checking it twice. And Trump isn't literally Hitler. See? I always knew Slashdot is the place for stuff that matters!

In Japan mortgage loans comes with a life (actually death) insurance, so if I die before my loan is paid back, my wife gets the house, without paying a penny back. And no, she has no plans of killing me. The house isn't that great.

Maybe it was cosmic rays? Then computers could make mistakes. It had to happen one day...

Itâ(TM)s a bit like husbands and wives. Husbands might do what their wives say, but the wives want them to do what they think...

From all his arguments and analogies, he seems to think that the internet is just like cable TV. Good to know that the Internet is in proficient hands...

It's "waifu" you culturally insensitive clod.

The real issue is the assumption that every pastime must teach you about real life. Well, it doesnâ(TM)t. Sometimes you want that escapism, or you just want to chill and goof around.

I think the author's a hack.

- audio latency
- editing of several 4k video streams, and exporting to h.265
Try those and see macOS winning hands down.

I work for an investment bank. Dudes this is pure PR. Slashdot - news from banks, advertising that pays out. WTF?

Yeah the downside is that they shave the clit away along with it. Can't have women enjoying sex, can we?