This will not be a good move for Apple. It might turn out to be the final nail for apple as a computer manufacture.
Apple's cash reserves are considerably bigger than both of Russia's sovereign wealth funds were combined when they still had a respectable amount of money in them back before Putin pissed off everybody except China, North Korea and the Assad regime. So assuming you are right, I think Apple can afford to handle a several major mistakes of this nature and that your hopes of seeing Apple go down in flames over this are excessively optimistic.
> Contrary to popular belief, Apple's macOS is open source:
No, Darwin is open source. macOS != Darwin.
Darwin is an open-source Unix operating system first released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, Mach, and other free software projects. Darwin forms the core set of components upon which macOS (previously OS X and Mac OS X), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and audioOS are based.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The European commission is staffed by people appointed by the democratically elected governments of Europe. The Council of Europe is comprised of ministers from the democratically elected governments of Europe.
There you go again, ruining his opinion with 'facts'.
"With this action, the Commission takes another step to increase high-speed broadband availability and competition in the United States," the FCC said in a statement
Increase competition!?!?! Wasn't Ajit Pai was put in charge of the FCC precisely to prevent such a catastrophe from befalling the existing well established structures of localised telecommunications monopolies? Competition on a nationwide level would seriously impair their ability to shaft the consumer!
What kind of fucking moron cares about the "EU's best interest?"
Well, the extant members of the EU for one.
If you don't like the rules of a club and decide to leave and stop paying your fees, you can't really complain when you can't use the gym any more. Or the pool. and the sauna's off limits too. Yep and the sports massage even though you had to pay extra for it.
Oh and you also don't get the affiliate discounts at the loca supermarket either.
SERIOUSLY HOW THE FUCK IS THAT A SURPRISE TO ANYONE???
Think of Brexiteers as millions of nano-Trumps. The answer to every single one of your very valid point is a slogan shouted out at the top of one's voice, things like:... UNFAIR!!, WITCH HUNT!!, BULLYING!!, PUNISHMENT!!,...
Brexiteers assume all rules were designed to punish the UK. Even the ones we wrote, like Article 50, are just an EU plot to frustrate Brexit.
It's not just ccTLDs either. Today the EU confirmed that we would lose access to the Galileo satellite navigation system. We could negotiate access to some service/manufacturing contacts, but all secrets like military decryption keys would be off limits. As any sensible person would expect.
The EU does not have to punish the UK for leaving, Brexit is a completely self-punishing exercise. Still, it amuses me how the Brexiteers manage to cast every consequence of Brexit as unfair punishment, persecution and dispossession. Just changing the context a bit brings out their irrational entitlement complexes: I'm leaving the golf club and now I'm no longer allowed to make use of club discounts, UNFAIR!!! I'm leaving the golf club and now I'm no longer allowed to get free golf lessons, PUNISHMENT!!! I'm leaving the golf club and now I'm no longer allowed to play their courses for free, BULLYING!! Now for most of us these would be natural and normal consequences of leaving the golf club, to a Brexiteer these are violations of his/her fundamental human rights. The average Brexiteers attitude can be summed up in three words:.... BWAAAAAAH!!!... BABY WANT!!!
The UK just imprisoned a US Traveler for 3 days just because they didn't like his/her political beliefs. Europe is worse, who knows what laws I might break by speaking my mind?
If cost is no object, then yes, it is possible that we can power the country with wind and solar. However, it is not currently cost effective and will not likely be cost effective for a very long time.
Solar electricity generation is highly inefficient.
If it were cost effective, we'd all be doing it. Same goes with electric cars.
That's a load of horse manure. Solar energy and Wind energy are currently cheaper than coal and are about to beat gas for electricity production. With both of these technologies and storage you can guarantee prices for decades, there are no market fluctuations in the price of the solar energy or the wind that powers them.
Throw in some smart grid technology and modern grid planning and we are likely to end up with a grid in places like Germany and China (which at one point installed more wind/solar than the US had online at the time) and we are likely to end up with power mixes that are up to 70% wind/solar with the rest being always-on powerplants. Anybody who thinks there is future in natural gas, oil or (*snicker*) 'Trump digs coal' is quite frankly delusional.
Can a self driving car tell if 2 people on the side of the road are drunk and wobbling all over the place, or if its 2 friends horsing around.
Sure. In either case, the pattern of movement would be different from 2 sober people purposely walking parallel to traffic, and the prudent thing to do is slow down. An ANN should have little problem learning those patterns. Most likely, this is already a solved problem, or considering the millions of miles driven, there would be more than zero avoidable pedestrian deaths by now.
Or as another poster said a stray dor or a dog on a leash.
That also seems like a relatively easy pattern for an ANN to learn.
Do you think the engineers designing these systems are stupid? They have libraries of millions of scenarios, both simulated and real recorded events, which they use for training and testing. It is unlikely that you are going to think of anything new that isn't already handled.
I think he is questioning the state of current AI technology rather than trying to insult you and AI engineers. If all these scenarios were already 'handled' and considering that this car can effectively see in the dark with it's LiDAR and night vision cameras, you'd think that this Uber cab would have spotted that woman, identified the threat she posed, slowed down and then stopped in response rather than running her over. Clearly something is not quite as advanced and 'handled' in the world of self driving cars as you'd have us believe.
Would that was just Ford that finds itself in this position. The German car makers just got a swift ass kicking in the form of the diesel emissions cheating scandal that caused WV just sink EUR 20 billion (that's USD 25 billion) to secure future battery supplies meaning that they are finally getting serious on pluggable hybrids and electrics. Just to keep that in perspective, it's worth keeping in mind that the fine they got for the diesel emissions cheating was also USD 25 billion. It just goes to show these bozos only learn through pain caused by money disappearing from the wallet. I'm assuming that many other car manufacturers in the US, Europe and the rest of the world now find themselves in a similar position as Ford and WV, i.e. playing a game of catch-up. This is basically a race to secure as much of the existing battery production capacity as possible because it is limited and (according to Bloomberg) it will take up to 10 years and a massive investment to expand it significantly so it's first come first serve unless you have the cash to build your own battery factories like Tesla has done and sink your own cash into mining. The companies that are late to the party will go belly-up or disappear in mergers just like all those venerable old camera manufacturers who bet that digital will never surpass the quality of film. We'll probably also see a bunch of companies that make things like electric powered fork lifts or electric engines expanding into car manufacture just like we saw computer manufacturers and then cellphone makers start making digital cameras or camera/gadget hybrids like smartphones. In 10 years some of us might find ourselves driving the new Komatsu or Jungheinric sedan (and if you think that's a weird thought remember that Lamborghini used to make tractors). The really interesting part is that in 2014 we got an oil market crash because of 2 million barrel daily overproduction of oil in a market where daily production is ~90 billion barrels, so what will happen when electric cars have eaten up 10-15% of the car market?... since something like 75% of oil is used for transport and a lot of that is for cars. Then there is the look on Jeremy Clarkson's face when he has to rename his show 'Top foot-pedal accelerator senor value'.
I think this is why Texas is moving toward a toll road approach. It recenters the price back in relationship to the cost, regardless of how you are powering your usage of the road.
Every time I've seen that idea get raised it turned out to boil down to politicians wanting to be able to hand friends, family and/or faithful party donors a piece of public road so they can exorbitantly tax the public whilst sinking the minimal possible amount of money into maintaining the road.
How else would I call a fella who says the following to anyone?
“We made it—we made it specifically for this [drug trafficking] too,”
As he reportedly told undercover agents...
One conclusion: "Moron."
He may be an idiot but looking at this from a SIGINT point of view I have to ask myself: Why the hell did they arrest the guy? If they had a lick of sense they'd have flipped him, spiked the phones with some innovative spyware and then done the same to every single supplier of custom phones to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, and Los Zetas, and Los Templarios,... etc. They could not only be listening in on their comms, they could be tracking thousands of these bozos in real time mapping their smuggling routes, safe houses, factories, labs,...
So you tell me the DNC is centrist liberal. They stand for:
Open borders with no limits on immigration
Protecting felons/murders who are here illegaly so they don't have a chance to be deported
Preventing middle class from getting any possible relief on taxes
Promoting regulation and policies that destroy middle class jobs and lifestyle
Pay rogue nations developing nuclear weapons billions of dollars
Come down hard on nations like Israel who defend themselves from terrorist, while attempting to help the terrorists
Take millions and millions in bribes from countries like Russia to set State Department policy to help Russia
Abuse FISA warrants and intelligence to spy on US citizens illegally
This is what the DNC has stood for over the last few years. They are centerist? I take centerist to mean they have policies that the majority of the country would agree with. I literally don't know a SINGLE PERSON who supports DNC policies as they are enacted.
You are either a really bad troll, a complete idiot or both at the same time.
Apple started the island key bullshit. Flat tops so your fingers can't sense when they are well centred without feeling for the edges. Difficult to clean, very little travel or tactile feel... And more work to replace if it breaks.
Lenovo had better, liquid proof keyboards in the 90s. They still do.
Difficult to clean? I've never had any problems with that, if a vacuum cleaner doesn't do the job get a compressed air bottle, hold the lattop so that the keyboard is vertical and blast the dirt out of the keyboard. So far even the 12" MacBook keyboard hasn't given me any problems and the one time I had to have a keyboard replaced it was done under warranty without any complaint. As for 'travel' and 'tactile feels' Im don't spend my days pining for the legendary IBM Model F so I don't really care.
This problem was 100% solved back in the 80's. C'mon Apple, do the courageous thing and follow suit!
Did you ever actually try to use a ZX81?... You see, I didn't just try a ZX81 out at the computer museum once, I actually owned a ZX81 and those keyboards were awful, just plain bloody awful.
I HOPE it eliminates my job. My job sucks. The only reason I do it is because I get paid. And don't pretend you are any different. Would you go to work if you didn't get paid? No way!
Sure I would. If job's did not pay a salary I'd either be (a) living in a dystopian civilisation where everybody is a slave or (b) I'd be living in some kind of post apocalyptic world where there are no job in which case my job would be: hunting, farming, fishing, spinning, weaving, chasing cattle and crop stealing freeloaders (the human variety) off my fields and when I'd not be doing that I'd be mixing up gunpowder... You have to survive somehow and that goal always leads to some kind of work.
Apple can easily add any format they want to the lightning jack. In fact, it would be pretty typical of Apple to add an "Apple Super HD" format that only worked on Apple devices and a regular lower end format for non-Apple devices. They aren't limited to standardized device classes like USB, they can do what they want because they own the standard from end to end.
So if Apple does this all the time perhaps you'd like to provide us with a list of the last 20 times they did this?... because you should not encounter any shortage of examples if your statement is correct. I've used Apple gadgets for years and even when they introduced Tunderbolt they still provided USB ports. In fact pretty much the only interoperabilty problems I have encountered have been connecting my macOS and iOS gadgets to Microsoft products as well as problems with opening files produced with Microsoft products with the programs from 3rd party vendors that are available on other OS'es than Windows. These are incidentally the same major problems I've had on Linux and Android with SMB servers, Exchange and Microsoft VPN servers leading the list and this is usually because Microsoft has a tendency to drop support for legacy protocols and file formats while the Microsoft product using world seems to be very slow to update their software. Finally, since you mentioned USB, here is a fun fact from the Wikipedia page on USB: Apple Inc.'s iMac was the first mainstream product with USB and the iMac's success popularized USB itself. so try not to feel too violated by the Apple cooties you pick up the next time you use a USB port, they are not life threatening, they'll just make you crave latte and avocado toast and induce an intense fondness for flip-flops and objects with rounded corners but it wears off after about a minute.
Maybe the companies should have thought about that before trying to game the rules against the interests of the people who make the rules.
There's an old saying - "it takes two to tango".
But it's nice to know that enlightened European companies never try to take advantage of loopholes in the various European countries' tax laws.
Plenty of European companies try to do that. If you had bothered to run a few basic web searches you would have found that out inside of five minutes. To cite just one example the German intelligence service obtained bank data detailing tax evasion of German citizens and organisations and a shit-ton of people and companies ended up having to pay up. Speaking as a European: 'Two thumbs up!!' I'd be just fine with every European intelligence service receiving funding for a permanent department who's only job it would be to use cloak and dagger methods to extract data on tax cheaters from tax havens. It's just a lot easier to punish European companies based in Europe for tax evasion in Europe than it is to punish American companies based in the US who are doing business in Europe through European subsidiaries that are often just post office boxes in Ireland or Luxembourg. This has less to do with jurisdictional issues than it has to do with politics since the US uses its diplomats and its '800 pound gorilla' status quite aggressively protect its big corporations. Now that Trump has not only decimated the state department but also created a hostile climate between the US and it's core allies in Europe, this opportunity is now being seized to make US companies pay up who previously enjoyed US political cover. To be fair to the Americans, under a US administration that is (a) competent and (b) rational and (c) not being run by a bunch of corporate lobbyists (and that is a jab at more than just the Trump admin.) there might actually be a chance of creating some reciprocal agreement between the US and EU aimed at cracking down on tax evasion by American and European corporations as well as leaning on the various tax havens both inside the US/EU and outside of their territories. If American corporations are doing business in Europe they should pay taxes there, if Mercedes Benz is building cars in Alabama and selling them to US customers the citizens of Alabama and the wider US should get the tax revenues from that trade. Unfortunately we now have an administration in the White House that is not only incompetent but actually seems to be imploding as we speak and that is downright hostile to the very concept of corporations and rich people paying any taxes at all. Therefore there is no chance of any work on such a project beginning until the day after Trump is impeached at the very earliest and even then the odds are slim until we get a Democrat or a sane Republican in the White House who thinks corporations should not be tax exempt. Unfortunately that seems extremely unlikely to ever happen.
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This will not be a good move for Apple. It might turn out to be the final nail for apple as a computer manufacture.
Apple's cash reserves are considerably bigger than both of Russia's sovereign wealth funds were combined when they still had a respectable amount of money in them back before Putin pissed off everybody except China, North Korea and the Assad regime. So assuming you are right, I think Apple can afford to handle a several major mistakes of this nature and that your hopes of seeing Apple go down in flames over this are excessively optimistic.
> Contrary to popular belief, Apple's macOS is open source:
No, Darwin is open source. macOS != Darwin.
Darwin is an open-source Unix operating system first released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, Mach, and other free software projects. Darwin forms the core set of components upon which macOS (previously OS X and Mac OS X), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and audioOS are based. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The biggest spyware on the planet calls itself "open source".
You must mean Android which, according to that definition, is also not 'open source'.
Mac OS is partially open source. The open source parts are mostly low level stuff, the rest 85+% of GUI / high level parts are closed source.
He said closed source OS, the GUI is not part of the OS, it is user-land software.
Thats weird. You run a closed source OS on your Mac. Freedom doesn't seem very important to you.
Contrary to popular belief, Apple's macOS is open source: https://opensource.apple.com/ right up to and including the lates macOS release.
The European commission is staffed by people appointed by the democratically elected governments of Europe. The Council of Europe is comprised of ministers from the democratically elected governments of Europe.
There you go again, ruining his opinion with 'facts'.
Yes, they call themselves, "Scots" . . .
London also voted remain, and there are somewhat more Londoners than Scots.
Yes, but the Scots are somewhat more scary.
"With this action, the Commission takes another step to increase high-speed broadband availability and competition in the United States," the FCC said in a statement
Increase competition!?!?! Wasn't Ajit Pai was put in charge of the FCC precisely to prevent such a catastrophe from befalling the existing well established structures of localised telecommunications monopolies? Competition on a nationwide level would seriously impair their ability to shaft the consumer!
What kind of fucking moron cares about the "EU's best interest?"
Well, the extant members of the EU for one.
If you don't like the rules of a club and decide to leave and stop paying your fees, you can't really complain when you can't use the gym any more. Or the pool. and the sauna's off limits too. Yep and the sports massage even though you had to pay extra for it.
Oh and you also don't get the affiliate discounts at the loca supermarket either.
SERIOUSLY HOW THE FUCK IS THAT A SURPRISE TO ANYONE???
Think of Brexiteers as millions of nano-Trumps. The answer to every single one of your very valid point is a slogan shouted out at the top of one's voice, things like: ... UNFAIR!!, WITCH HUNT!!, BULLYING!!, PUNISHMENT!!, ...
Brexiteers assume all rules were designed to punish the UK. Even the ones we wrote, like Article 50, are just an EU plot to frustrate Brexit.
It's not just ccTLDs either. Today the EU confirmed that we would lose access to the Galileo satellite navigation system. We could negotiate access to some service/manufacturing contacts, but all secrets like military decryption keys would be off limits. As any sensible person would expect.
The EU does not have to punish the UK for leaving, Brexit is a completely self-punishing exercise. Still, it amuses me how the Brexiteers manage to cast every consequence of Brexit as unfair punishment, persecution and dispossession. Just changing the context a bit brings out their irrational entitlement complexes: I'm leaving the golf club and now I'm no longer allowed to make use of club discounts, UNFAIR!!! I'm leaving the golf club and now I'm no longer allowed to get free golf lessons, PUNISHMENT!!! I'm leaving the golf club and now I'm no longer allowed to play their courses for free, BULLYING!! Now for most of us these would be natural and normal consequences of leaving the golf club, to a Brexiteer these are violations of his/her fundamental human rights. The average Brexiteers attitude can be summed up in three words: .... BWAAAAAAH!!! ... BABY WANT!!!
The UK just imprisoned a US Traveler for 3 days just because they didn't like his/her political beliefs. Europe is worse, who knows what laws I might break by speaking my mind?
[citation needed]
Apple needs to set up a stingray at the factory, filter out 911 calls from unknown devices, allow employee phones to dial through to 911 if needed.
... or repair the damn things in a shielded room.
If cost is no object, then yes, it is possible that we can power the country with wind and solar. However, it is not currently cost effective and will not likely be cost effective for a very long time.
Solar electricity generation is highly inefficient.
If it were cost effective, we'd all be doing it. Same goes with electric cars.
That's a load of horse manure. Solar energy and Wind energy are currently cheaper than coal and are about to beat gas for electricity production. With both of these technologies and storage you can guarantee prices for decades, there are no market fluctuations in the price of the solar energy or the wind that powers them.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
Solar and wind also employ more people in the US than oil, coal and gas combined:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Throw in some smart grid technology and modern grid planning and we are likely to end up with a grid in places like Germany and China (which at one point installed more wind/solar than the US had online at the time) and we are likely to end up with power mixes that are up to 70% wind/solar with the rest being always-on powerplants. Anybody who thinks there is future in natural gas, oil or (*snicker*) 'Trump digs coal' is quite frankly delusional.
Can a self driving car tell if 2 people on the side of the road are drunk and wobbling all over the place, or if its 2 friends horsing around.
Sure. In either case, the pattern of movement would be different from 2 sober people purposely walking parallel to traffic, and the prudent thing to do is slow down. An ANN should have little problem learning those patterns. Most likely, this is already a solved problem, or considering the millions of miles driven, there would be more than zero avoidable pedestrian deaths by now.
Or as another poster said a stray dor or a dog on a leash.
That also seems like a relatively easy pattern for an ANN to learn.
Do you think the engineers designing these systems are stupid? They have libraries of millions of scenarios, both simulated and real recorded events, which they use for training and testing. It is unlikely that you are going to think of anything new that isn't already handled.
I think he is questioning the state of current AI technology rather than trying to insult you and AI engineers. If all these scenarios were already 'handled' and considering that this car can effectively see in the dark with it's LiDAR and night vision cameras, you'd think that this Uber cab would have spotted that woman, identified the threat she posed, slowed down and then stopped in response rather than running her over. Clearly something is not quite as advanced and 'handled' in the world of self driving cars as you'd have us believe.
... and I dealt with it during my career. I'm a retired IT.
I held seminars, talked to employees one-on-one, and damned if we didn't still get hit.
It was a law firm and the staff never fell for phishing.
My problem was the fucking lawyers, especially the managing partner !
That bastard would click on anything.
He got a goddam email that said his UPS package wasn't going anywhere unless he looked at the invoice and corrected the address.
I asked him if he sent anything via UPS and he said, no.
I asked him if he remembered signing an exclusive with FedEx that I negotiated and he did.
I asked him if he, personally, ever sent a package anywhere or if he let his staff do that -- he said staff.
He did that shit over and over again.
--
I'm waiting for AI to step in; predict the outcome of clicking on a link and forbidding forward progress until an IT person concurs.
Was his name Homer?
Would that was just Ford that finds itself in this position. The German car makers just got a swift ass kicking in the form of the diesel emissions cheating scandal that caused WV just sink EUR 20 billion (that's USD 25 billion) to secure future battery supplies meaning that they are finally getting serious on pluggable hybrids and electrics. Just to keep that in perspective, it's worth keeping in mind that the fine they got for the diesel emissions cheating was also USD 25 billion. It just goes to show these bozos only learn through pain caused by money disappearing from the wallet. I'm assuming that many other car manufacturers in the US, Europe and the rest of the world now find themselves in a similar position as Ford and WV, i.e. playing a game of catch-up. This is basically a race to secure as much of the existing battery production capacity as possible because it is limited and (according to Bloomberg) it will take up to 10 years and a massive investment to expand it significantly so it's first come first serve unless you have the cash to build your own battery factories like Tesla has done and sink your own cash into mining. The companies that are late to the party will go belly-up or disappear in mergers just like all those venerable old camera manufacturers who bet that digital will never surpass the quality of film. We'll probably also see a bunch of companies that make things like electric powered fork lifts or electric engines expanding into car manufacture just like we saw computer manufacturers and then cellphone makers start making digital cameras or camera/gadget hybrids like smartphones. In 10 years some of us might find ourselves driving the new Komatsu or Jungheinric sedan (and if you think that's a weird thought remember that Lamborghini used to make tractors). The really interesting part is that in 2014 we got an oil market crash because of 2 million barrel daily overproduction of oil in a market where daily production is ~90 billion barrels, so what will happen when electric cars have eaten up 10-15% of the car market? ... since something like 75% of oil is used for transport and a lot of that is for cars. Then there is the look on Jeremy Clarkson's face when he has to rename his show 'Top foot-pedal accelerator senor value'.
I think this is why Texas is moving toward a toll road approach. It recenters the price back in relationship to the cost, regardless of how you are powering your usage of the road.
Every time I've seen that idea get raised it turned out to boil down to politicians wanting to be able to hand friends, family and/or faithful party donors a piece of public road so they can exorbitantly tax the public whilst sinking the minimal possible amount of money into maintaining the road.
Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police
I say we just crowdfund a blonde katana wielding female assassin and have her kill this Bill character, he seems to be nothing but trouble.
How else would I call a fella who says the following to anyone?
“We made it—we made it specifically for this [drug trafficking] too,”
As he reportedly told undercover agents...
One conclusion: "Moron."
He may be an idiot but looking at this from a SIGINT point of view I have to ask myself: Why the hell did they arrest the guy? If they had a lick of sense they'd have flipped him, spiked the phones with some innovative spyware and then done the same to every single supplier of custom phones to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, and Los Zetas, and Los Templarios, ... etc. They could not only be listening in on their comms, they could be tracking thousands of these bozos in real time mapping their smuggling routes, safe houses, factories, labs, ...
So you tell me the DNC is centrist liberal. They stand for:
Open borders with no limits on immigration
Protecting felons/murders who are here illegaly so they don't have a chance to be deported
Preventing middle class from getting any possible relief on taxes
Promoting regulation and policies that destroy middle class jobs and lifestyle
Pay rogue nations developing nuclear weapons billions of dollars
Come down hard on nations like Israel who defend themselves from terrorist, while attempting to help the terrorists
Take millions and millions in bribes from countries like Russia to set State Department policy to help Russia
Abuse FISA warrants and intelligence to spy on US citizens illegally
This is what the DNC has stood for over the last few years. They are centerist? I take centerist to mean they have policies that the majority of the country would agree with. I literally don't know a SINGLE PERSON who supports DNC policies as they are enacted.
You are either a really bad troll, a complete idiot or both at the same time.
Apple started the island key bullshit. Flat tops so your fingers can't sense when they are well centred without feeling for the edges. Difficult to clean, very little travel or tactile feel... And more work to replace if it breaks.
Lenovo had better, liquid proof keyboards in the 90s. They still do.
Difficult to clean? I've never had any problems with that, if a vacuum cleaner doesn't do the job get a compressed air bottle, hold the lattop so that the keyboard is vertical and blast the dirt out of the keyboard. So far even the 12" MacBook keyboard hasn't given me any problems and the one time I had to have a keyboard replaced it was done under warranty without any complaint. As for 'travel' and 'tactile feels' Im don't spend my days pining for the legendary IBM Model F so I don't really care.
This problem was 100% solved back in the 80's. C'mon Apple, do the courageous thing and follow suit!
Did you ever actually try to use a ZX81? ... You see, I didn't just try a ZX81 out at the computer museum once, I actually owned a ZX81 and those keyboards were awful, just plain bloody awful.
I HOPE it eliminates my job. My job sucks. The only reason I do it is because I get paid. And don't pretend you are any different. Would you go to work if you didn't get paid? No way!
Sure I would. If job's did not pay a salary I'd either be (a) living in a dystopian civilisation where everybody is a slave or (b) I'd be living in some kind of post apocalyptic world where there are no job in which case my job would be: hunting, farming, fishing, spinning, weaving, chasing cattle and crop stealing freeloaders (the human variety) off my fields and when I'd not be doing that I'd be mixing up gunpowder ... You have to survive somehow and that goal always leads to some kind of work.
Apple can easily add any format they want to the lightning jack. In fact, it would be pretty typical of Apple to add an "Apple Super HD" format that only worked on Apple devices and a regular lower end format for non-Apple devices. They aren't limited to standardized device classes like USB, they can do what they want because they own the standard from end to end.
So if Apple does this all the time perhaps you'd like to provide us with a list of the last 20 times they did this? ... because you should not encounter any shortage of examples if your statement is correct. I've used Apple gadgets for years and even when they introduced Tunderbolt they still provided USB ports. In fact pretty much the only interoperabilty problems I have encountered have been connecting my macOS and iOS gadgets to Microsoft products as well as problems with opening files produced with Microsoft products with the programs from 3rd party vendors that are available on other OS'es than Windows. These are incidentally the same major problems I've had on Linux and Android with SMB servers, Exchange and Microsoft VPN servers leading the list and this is usually because Microsoft has a tendency to drop support for legacy protocols and file formats while the Microsoft product using world seems to be very slow to update their software. Finally, since you mentioned USB, here is a fun fact from the Wikipedia page on USB: Apple Inc.'s iMac was the first mainstream product with USB and the iMac's success popularized USB itself. so try not to feel too violated by the Apple cooties you pick up the next time you use a USB port, they are not life threatening, they'll just make you crave latte and avocado toast and induce an intense fondness for flip-flops and objects with rounded corners but it wears off after about a minute.
Maybe the companies should have thought about that before trying to game the rules against the interests of the people who make the rules.
There's an old saying - "it takes two to tango".
But it's nice to know that enlightened European companies never try to take advantage of loopholes in the various European countries' tax laws.
Plenty of European companies try to do that. If you had bothered to run a few basic web searches you would have found that out inside of five minutes. To cite just one example the German intelligence service obtained bank data detailing tax evasion of German citizens and organisations and a shit-ton of people and companies ended up having to pay up. Speaking as a European: 'Two thumbs up!!' I'd be just fine with every European intelligence service receiving funding for a permanent department who's only job it would be to use cloak and dagger methods to extract data on tax cheaters from tax havens. It's just a lot easier to punish European companies based in Europe for tax evasion in Europe than it is to punish American companies based in the US who are doing business in Europe through European subsidiaries that are often just post office boxes in Ireland or Luxembourg. This has less to do with jurisdictional issues than it has to do with politics since the US uses its diplomats and its '800 pound gorilla' status quite aggressively protect its big corporations. Now that Trump has not only decimated the state department but also created a hostile climate between the US and it's core allies in Europe, this opportunity is now being seized to make US companies pay up who previously enjoyed US political cover. To be fair to the Americans, under a US administration that is (a) competent and (b) rational and (c) not being run by a bunch of corporate lobbyists (and that is a jab at more than just the Trump admin.) there might actually be a chance of creating some reciprocal agreement between the US and EU aimed at cracking down on tax evasion by American and European corporations as well as leaning on the various tax havens both inside the US/EU and outside of their territories. If American corporations are doing business in Europe they should pay taxes there, if Mercedes Benz is building cars in Alabama and selling them to US customers the citizens of Alabama and the wider US should get the tax revenues from that trade. Unfortunately we now have an administration in the White House that is not only incompetent but actually seems to be imploding as we speak and that is downright hostile to the very concept of corporations and rich people paying any taxes at all. Therefore there is no chance of any work on such a project beginning until the day after Trump is impeached at the very earliest and even then the odds are slim until we get a Democrat or a sane Republican in the White House who thinks corporations should not be tax exempt. Unfortunately that seems extremely unlikely to ever happen.