Apple would not have existed w/o Jobs or Woz. It would have existed w/o Cook - someone else would have run the thing. How successfully is anyone's guess, but it would have been hard to go wrong after Jobs designed you a winning formula

How exactly would they serve us the ads?

Okay, I read the South Korean law requirements, but what has Singapore been asking, for Apple to make that a requirement?

Yeah, once South Korea knows someone's age, why can't they automatically calculate the future age from the age that's inputted and the time lapsed since?

Besides, why do they need anyone's age? All they need is whether somebody is or isn't an adult, which would simply be a "yes/no" flag

Fight the good fight. Despite being early adopter of Gmail, I moved away from everything Google after they demanded I perform age verification. Thankfully I've seen it coming and they were unable to hold my data hostage.

I don't trust Google, therefore I suspect this is about loading ads and claiming they were displayed even if user never got to see them.

If one has Windows 11, one should look at converting it into Tiny11, and then only installing the software one's really going to use. And only allow Windows Defender updates, and security updates on Windows update

I disagree. Windows 7 was a quality OS. If one wants to go under the hood, even the Windows 8 kernel was great, even if the Metro UI sucked. Problem is that from that point, Microsoft didn't know how to leave well enough alone

They could have done a few things:

1. 1. For the traditional desktop Windows, take the 8 kernel, put the Windows 7 Aero interface on top of it, maybe change the start button from a flag to the 8 Window, but other than that, leave it alone!
2. 2. For touch PCs, have Metro if mouse is disabled, but otherwise, stay w/ the Windows 7 UI.
3. 3. For Windows Phone, have the Metro interface

From that point, the main work Microsoft should have done should have been on the phones - porting as many apps as possible to Windows Phone 8, so that that would have had a better showing in the market. Instead of acquiring Nokia

If there was a way of only doing the security updates, but preventing any other updates, such as the removal of Wordpad, or the alteration of Notepad and Paint, I'd be fine w/ it. One security practices is to always have the latest security patches, so I'm fine w/ that. However, I don't want them pushing an alternate Outlook version on me every release, or mucking around w/ the user interface of a package just so that their programmers aren't just twiddling their thumbs

Yeah, that one is asinine

I don't know about #5, but definitely not #2 - that I would have given to Woz, one of the co-founders. Cook did do things like morphing Apple into a media company, which was a part of the formula that made it incredibly rich, after decades of mediocre financials. But that's more of a corporate achievement than a revolution in computing, such as the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Watch that Jobs oversaw

True! I believe that the "Apple" that remained once "Computers" was dropped from the company name was a very different company from the original. Just like the SCO that existed after the acquisition of Caldera was completely different from Santa Cruz Operations

Only thing one missed about the old Apple Computer Macs was the lack of pre-emptive multitasking. But in exchange for gaining that, the modularity of the Mac OS was lost: NEXTSTEP, great as it was, was nothing like System 7, and couldn't be, since Unix isn't architected that way. It's too bad Copland wasn't reined in and released w/ incremental features like todays various OS updates are

Problem is that Aqua, or whatever the macOS UI is now called, is not FOSS. If it were, one could just take it and install it on top of FreeBSD or NetBSD and then be off to the races w/ non-Apple hardware or especially retired Apple hardware. Even if it has Linux-specific problems installing on Linux

The CLI is FreeBSD, definitely not Linux or Windows

I could live w/ Apple not being open, as long as they were properly customer-centric. Like Bryan Lunduke once pointed out, the old Apple computers were a joy to have, where one could configure any system any which way, and have all sorts of add-ons inside the computer, right upto a 486 add-on on which one could run Wintel programs from System 7

Problem started after Jobs' return to Apple, where he did succeed in making the company profitable, which is important! However, he also did a lot of things like erode upgradability, right to repair, and having fixed configurations that no one could change (since that would mean more trouble for Apple technicians at Apple stores). NEXTSTEP & OS-X were great, but they were not System 9: one could no longer swap in and out cards or other peripherals. Yeah, pre-emptive multitasking finally arrived by having a Unix operating system on Macs, but on the flip side, the flexibility that Apple users then had (and which Wintel PC users still have, became a thing of the past

In either case, if one only has 4GB of RAM, just stick w/ the 32-bit version of the OS