The best move Apple ever made was switching to intel x86, now they repeat the mistakes of the past. Performance specs and "power per watt" don't mean dick if no one wants to write software for you and all your old software/hardware now doesn't work. I've been on the platform for 29 years. I will not be following with this change.

use a piece of electrical tape.

Who in their right mind thinks it's a good idea to store their passwords in an online 3rd party database? Might as well just hand crooks the keys to your house and car and say "here hold these for me, I trust you because I'm too lazy not to"

Absolutely. All these "studies" are either manufactured nonsense pandering to a predetermined point of view and/or cite poorly conducted or incomplete pilot projects. We just just saw the UBI pilot in Ontario, Canada trashed last year before it could be completed. It's not a failure because the politician that supported the corporate detractors cancelled the program prematurely.

In Ontario, Canada, we had a UBI pilot going on. It got several people out of poverty and off the street and many showed progress. One guy went to get further schooling to try and lift himself up to get working like normal. Then Doug Ford got elected in Ontario and killed it. Now the guy who was going to college has to drop out because his support for living was just erased suddenly. Some would also say "let the private sector do it" well Loblaws, a giant grocery store chain here, their board just voted against paying their employees a living wage in favour of just the bare minimum as they have been doing. I refuse to believe that UBI doesn't work because few have tried it and many "studies" have an angle to prove, be it conservative and/or corporate interests or otherwise. I'm saddened that the pilot in Ontario wasn't taken to conclusion because at least we'd have that data. As one person said above - the absence of evidence it doesn't work is NOT proof it doesn't work.

LOL beat me to it. Honestly dubstep has ruined percussion for a decade now, it needs to go away. Far away. I'd rather get mosquito bites.

Once the other party sees those words, they know they saw them. "Taking them back" doesn't work. It's called responsibility for what you say, or in other words - adulthood.

This is why I now refuse to offer Apple repairs as a service. Over the last few years it's become annoying to impossible to do anything to our own machines. Apple has gone down the toilet since Steve Jobs died. Tim Cook - you've ruined Apple.

While its easy enough to say "oh we could live without straws" There's those with physical disabilities who need them in order to drink. So they kinda can't live without it. A non-plastic straw is LONG overdue to be made ubiquitous.

... but lawyers killed it. That was the last time I was interested in Star Trek. I am seriously not interested in CBS' offerings. I refuse to subscribe to their service just to watch it.

Oh goodness yes. The other day i booted up windows 7 in VM to try and get some obscure software working that wasn't quite playing nice in wine. I nearly tore out what was left of my hair in my all too brief experience. A keen reminder of why I am on OSX and would like to remain there. Takes me ten times longer to do ridiculously simple things with windows.

With you, absolutely.

I've been on Apple's platform since 1990, I saw it through the horrid time before Jobs' return. What did Jobs do? He made the mac cool again, sure, but he also made amazing machines with an amazing OS (OSX is the only reason I still am on the platform) and it was embraced by the pros - graphic designers, video editors, music producers... the performance, stability and workflow was unmatched. Now look at it. The only powerful machine they make is well out of the price range of all but the largest companies. The next step down is pathetic to say the least. Design and video professionals leave the platform in droves, why? because Apple made sad, underpowered machines covered in marking wank and focused on their gadgetry. Apple - shape up, or ship out. Unless you make a top end machine for $2500 that can be used in professional 4k video editing, motion graphics, audio production, graphic design, as well as support the huge potential of the mac gaming market (which never has been tapped but always should have been) - then go home and get lost. Make it modular, allow us to customize and upgrade our machines. Be good enough so we can love the mac again. Stop making $2000 facebook machines, make us machines we can be proud of. Unless you do this - my next machine will not be a mac, something I haven't done in 28 years.

I've been a DJ for twenty years, both professionally and just for fun. I listen to music all day long. I have never used any sort of streaming service nor will I. I'm a firm believer that it takes more than an algorithm based on what you have listened to to determine what you will listen to. Sometimes, it takes someone else to give you a selection out of left field, something complementary rather than "more of the same", even an opposite. What it takes is a human to curate and present. For that, we've had disc jockeys for decades. Terrestrial radio pretty much died due to the firing of DJs and replacement by auto-dj machines, Tom Petty even wrote a great song about it called "The Last DJ". A DJs job is to play the songs you didn't know you needed to hear. So Spotify? Apple Music? now this Youtube thing? No. I present an alternative: Radio paradise (https://www.radioparadise.com). 100% listener suppored, music 100% selected and presented by a knowledgeable bunch of human beings who know what they are doing. There's others out there also. We lost something when we lost radio. Bring it back :)