The CEO of Malus assures us that AI reimplementing open source projects as closed source is about helping burdened project maintainers. I don't see any reason why he would lie about that. /s

There are three kinds of Mac users. Your points only apply to one of them.

Apple will likely conclude it's a bad situation. Most of these sales are people who would have bought a more expensive Mac if this one wasn't available.

It would be nice to live in a world where justice is decided by the merits of the case, rather than by who can afford a lawyer. But apparently that isn't one of your no-doubt exhaustive list of options.

Other manufacturers have had this feature for a while. You could be right that Apple has more concerns than just GDPR compliance, but that specific example probably isn't it.

I bought two of these. One for my work computer, one for my parents. Both are exclusively under LED lights. Both have worked fine for years.

Why can't complementary products exist? You wouldn't consider a train timetable app parasitic. In fact, my local train network encourages such apps so that they don't have to do it themselves. Businesses can build co-operating products.

In fact, when the Pebble first came out its notification handling was better on iOS than Android because Apple specifically made it easy. Pebble, Fitbit, and Garmin paved the way for smart-watches. Once the hard work was done, then Apple produced their own. And what a coincidence, everything gets locked down for third-party watches.

Nobody is complaining that they don't make things easy. They're complaining that they make it impossible because they compete with Apple.

The Catholic Church only tweaked the calendar months. But they can take credit for switching to a continuous year numbering scheme, which is what is in question with the AD/CE debate. (That's not to say GP was necessarily right.)

"You can't arrest me! You have to prove there was a crime first! I didn't rob the bank; I just made a withdrawal! That's not a crime! It's the bank employee's fault if they got scared and gave me other people's money!"

Where I live is light orange on that map, but we still had a mild summer. Of course, what people mean when they talk about hot weather and what that map shows are two different things. A summer can be "mild" and "above average" if the highs are a bit lower or longer duration and the lows are much higher or shorter duration.

Less, apparently. The summary has an estimate of 7%. But in reality, Epic went with 12.5%. These are much more than the credit-card only 2-3%. But they're much less than 30%.

If one or more companies has the ability to lower the price of a good or service, that's good for consumers.

If one or more companies has the ability to raise the price of a good or service, that's bad for consumers.

The complaint here is that Valve, Apple, and Google have used their position to increase the cost to consumers while reducing the profitability of game makers.

Open just means people can see what happens. Inclusive means they can contribute. No "wokeness" needed to write a sentence like that.

It was a hoax: it all took place on a soundstage on Earth.

I'd be less concerned about bad actors being able to install the software. I would assume that the phones would still verify the installed packages.

But this probably means that if you are concerned about some threat, you can't just assume that a switched-off phone is safe.