iPhone and iPad apps are technically the same binary - or at least can be. The only real difference is orientation and size support configurations the developer decides to enable.

Which of your concerns about losing access to checks don't apply to processing checks? Every check is tracked. Any check processing can be stopped. And in the event of a banking shutdown, who is going to accept one knowing they can't deposit it? The cost of processing a check is astronomical. People are profiting from the process.

The "Console Wars" started a long time before the internet.

Its not just Mac apps, but the underlying usability of the whole system. If they would just let us run MacOS on the iPad we wouldn't need this.

All Meta search uses AI, so it's hard not to use AI if you actually want to use their apps.

I think you are confusing bookkeeping and accounting.

A legal agreement needs An Offer, Acceptance, Consideration, Capacity, and Legality of Purpose. A signature is a form of written acceptance - which is harder to dispute, but verbal agreement or conduct (accepting and using a good or service) is just as binding. A handshake is also just as binding as a signature.

Except its the other way around (at least in most countries) they have to prove that it was you.

There will most likely be more people reading this article than it actually affects.

I find it extraordinary that Americans still regularly use cheques. And still get paid that way too. Someone should do the math on how much productivity is lost through producing and processing of cheques. Producing, Depositing, Processing, Verifying - easily over an hour per cheque, so over $5b per year before you add in fees and any time wasted travelling to somewhere to deposit it. A quick google shows that $66m in fees was spent to cash the stimulus cheques. Mind-blowing stuff.

They launched the data centres here in 2012. They registered the new trading company in 2021. Obviously two unrelated events.

Amazon has already setup new trading companies in at least the signed up countries to be able to declare income in those countries. So while Ireland will be able to keep the 2.5%, it will be 2.5% of a much smaller revenue pool.

Reading these comments makes you realise how far behind the USA is compared to the rest of the world in some aspects. This conversation seems like it should have happened 10 years ago. I didn't know they still made air-conditioners that weren't reverse cycle any more.

In the system used in the London canals, the larger fish just swim through it. Much like fish swim through the aerator in a fish tank.