What can go wrong? Denver Omelets are more popular in Denver? Canadians like maple syrup more? I live near the thousand islands - I like that dressing more? Give me deals on Philadelphia cream cheese if I live in Philadelphia or root for the Eagles? Texas loves their Texas Toast! . I wonder how this will work.

Can it figure out that I didn't shovel my driveway in the winter, and there's 3 feet of snow, and the robot will get stuck?

A big no. I visited Austin many times. The only unique thing there is their bats. Then I hear that the Texas freeze killed many of them. Not sure if going to the Congress Avenue Bridge will be the same. In the late 90s, the up and coming tech hubs were advertised to be Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, Raleigh Triangle and Austin. My friends and I had reasons to like and love each one of these locations. But the most dislike was for Austin. Here are our reasons: 1. No seasons. Austin (and Texas in general) is barren landscape-wise compared to the other locations. 2. Too far from everything. Dallas is over 3 hours away, and that's the only real city anywhere near Austin (San Antonio, yeah right). 3. Nothing unique there. Except bats. Every other city on the list has very unique things to do. Silicon Valley? San Francisco, Wine country, Redwood trees, LOTS of companies, Boston? Near NY and tons of historic things to do, Seattle? Canada, mountains, ocean. Raleigh/Durham Triangle? Tall trees, best weather, lots of hiking, mountains, ocean 4. Sports? None. Raleigh had no professional sports back then (now it has NFL in Charlotte and NHL), but also a HUGE college atmosphere with Duke, UNC, NC State and Wake Forest. 5. Texas culture. Too much boasting how great they are. As a software developer, I lived in both Silicon Valley and Raleigh. I knew friends who went everywhere except for Austin. I knew many people who were born in Houston or Dallas. Nobody liked Austin. I visited Austin many times on business trips. Nope. Still not a place I'd like to be. It might work for some people, but not most people.

That's MUCH easier said than done. It might take you 20 years to be able to work 8-4 instead 9-5 if your business place in in a mall, for example, which has opening hours of 9am to 9pm. You have to convince your job, then the mall, then the city and county to allow malls to open earlier. Lots of other situations it's really complicated.

By your comments, you obviously don't know the difference between MacOS, Windows and Linux. The entire paradigm behind MacOS is different. For example, a program in Windows is a WINDOW. A program on a Mac can have 0,1,2,... etc. windows. There is no need for a menu inside a window because the top-bar changes depending on which program you're in. More screen real-estate. I close down a program on a Mac, my work is automatically saved, not so on Windows. Just attaching an external hard-drive starts hourly and daily backups on a Mac, and getting to those backups is super easy unlike on Linux or Windows. An Apple Watch unlocks and locks a Mac. You can cut-and-paste between a Mac and an iPhone. You were reading something on a Mac - go to your web browser on your iPhone, it's there. Respond to text-messages on either device. There are hundreds of other MacOS differences. The entire ecosystem is so well done, I'm sorry that you're still stuck on Linux.

The only problem I've run into with MagSafe, is that after a 2 years or so (or actually depending on the environment you have it in), it seems to stop working. What is happening is that there is just enough dust and lint in the MagSafe connector in the MacBook that it won't charge. Sometimes the light won't turn green. My employer bought a few replacement MagSafe plugs and they worked just a few weeks and failed. Then we noticed the dust, we used one of those air blowers used to clean keyboards on the MagSafe hole in the MacBook. Worked perfectly. The old and new cables both worked fine.

We are talking about DESKTOP COMPUTERS not PHONES. I do not see how a 'PinePhone' has any relevance to anything here. We are NOT talking about iPhones.

Are you serious? The OS X terminal is a default bash shell. You can add any bells and whistles you want. You can also choose tcsh, ksh, zsh, whatever you want. It's full UNIX. Yes, there are command completions. You can install a package manager in 2 minutes. And choose the one you like. Just because Apple didn't customize the experience like RedHat, Ubuntu, etc. did, doesn't mean you can't be up and running exactly the same way in a few hours.

There are plenty of decent IDEs. Just no perfect IDE for everyone.

If you've got this type of job, where you can leave the office and not be bugged until you arrive the next morning, then I agree. But so many people have become accustomed (i.e. forced) to be on-call or work extra hours at home (most without pay). Home is then not recognized as your place, it's the company's as well. I worked at a company where I could either stay in the office until 9-10pm to get my work done, or I could leave at 5pm and see my family, then work 8pm-midnight at home to get the work done. Working at home all day was much nicer as my breaks happened as I wanted them to happen, my commute was gone, saving an hour (and more if there was traffic or snow to snowplow in the morning). And none of the co-worker interruptions during the day, and nobody glaring over your desk constantly, less impromptu meetings. I could actually get work done in 6-8 hours WFH, instead of the previous working 12-15 hours a day hybrid and getting burned out. (I left that company years ago as they wouldn't allow WFH more than 1 day a week)

Apple Pay charges merchants 0.15% which is right in line with MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover. https://www.cardfellow.com/cre...

Why? You don't like competition?

Why do trolls always write crap in Apple articles that (1) have nothing to do with the article and (2) aren't even remotely true?

No, Apple is NOT guilty of the same thing. You do NOT have to rely on carrier updates if you own an iPhone. The phones can be updated without worry who your carrier is. Google has failed in their update method.

Why is Belinda Gates referred to as Bill's 'better half'? That's so wrong on so many levels. You can say that as a 'joke', but written in an article, it's very wrong.