Don’t care, never bought any expensive ones

Has helped me lose weight, plus mainly because of it I’ve now been off my ADHD meds for several months (no joke)

“pause”, not “stop”? Do they think X will suddenly become anything else than a Nazi hellhole?

Yup, and they know exactly they won’t be able to deliver this in 2024 - it’ll be years before the GSMA gets its act together and implements end to end encryption in the standard, and before that happens, Apple is very unlikely going to deploy this. But I’m sure antitrust agencies around the globe will drink the kool-aid.

Sure, it could also increase the risk of Apple losing some of their monopoly.

It’s the same for teenagers in many countries. That said: by the time they have to buy their own phones, that number is dramatically less.

Of course, they’ll procrastinate for as long as possible. But in the end, there’s no way they’ll win this one

They’re greedier than ever now. And as Mac sales figures clearly show, they’re heading in the same direction as in the 1990s.

Mostly there’s just a Twint QR code. At our school, it’s the only option to pay other than cash.

It’s absolutely a monopoly and while there are several banks involved, there’s still a common organization behind it. When were you last able to buy apples from a farmer with PayPal?

Wish they’d also launch it in Switzerland - the entire person to person market is currently controlled by a monopoly company called “TWINT”

Who gives a crap. What I need is a device that does the task I need it to at an adequate speed. All current flagship smartphones do that. Same goes for the idiotic discussion on whether to return a brand new M2 Max laptop for an M3. There’s no rationality here but only childish waste of resources.

Why? they already did that with the Macbook 12 and it was a disaster - slow as molasses. Perhaps they should just price the MBP 14 and 16 in a way that they’re still affordable.