This is exactly what I like to point out when people do that "But everyone needs space! And cities suck!"
Just like there are people who want their 100 acres and to never see another person, there are also family's like mine where we adore the city. We've lived in suburbs, we've lived rural, and we've lived big city, and I will take the city every single time over anything else. In fact when we look at maybe moving we only even look at cities larger than our current one.

Which is fine, choices are fantastic, and it's wonderful if everyone is able to find a place that works for them. This desperation to force everyone into one exact living style is ridiculous.

On the flip side, people who like quieter places forget that there are actually those of us who prefer them. I cannot **stand** some little town place and am absolutely happier the larger the city environment. We really just need to recognize that one person's ideal living situation is not another person's.

I expect the same treatment Dark Sky got when it got turned into Weather. Apple has a tendency to pick up very good Mac/iOS first apps, and then let their internal UX attack it and remove every feature that people actually use because they're "simplifying". Which results in it being simplified into nothingness.
Which is unfortunate, Pixelmator is a top notch set of tools.

I'd be much more impressed if they were specifically saying they'd be like Claris, owned by Apple but left independent as a company to continue making their tool.

If you're on a Mac you'll get a notification when it's getting low and that you should charge. *DAYS* in advance.
You're not going to be surprised.

As people have said elsewhere, there are actual things to complain about with these mice for most people. Comfort (for instance, it's not great for my carpal tunnel, I much prefer the trackpads personally), the way the alternate buttons work, all sorts of things. But the charging thing? It's overblown.

Charge it at night. Use it for months. Charge it one night.
Of all the massive things to complain about when it comes to Apple, this has to be the most ridiculous overblown one.

I don't know what state you live in, so. maybe your state has no way for citizens to get things on the ballot (are there any?), but half of my ballot was specifically direct issues to vote on, that had gotten on to the ballot based on normal people getting out and getting the signatures to get them there.

If you feel strong enough about this, well, go get it on the ballot **to** restrict the government in your area.

This is so true. If we actually funded NASA, and just gave them a budget of appropriate amounts and **kept the budget there year after year** then they'd absolutely be making progress on things. But every year we redo their budget and what they're tasked with doing randomly based on who has a point to prove in congress this year, and are then surprised that nothing gets to the end? Well of course nothing gets completed.

I have unlimited on Xfinity, pay for it, because I don't want to end up in those situations. And good thing too. Awhile back my family's cell phone provider messed up their WiFi calling configuration, which caused our various phones to burn through a TB+ each *in a day*. Only stopping when I figured out what devices were making things slow and turned all the default wifi calling stuff off.

All that to say that it should straight up be criminal for these companies like Comcast to charge overages like that, since there's a good chance that if people do go over that it'll be because of something that most people likely don't even have the equipment to detect until they've been slammed with the bill.

Speak for yourself. I've been working from home for most of the last 25 years. This whole thing isn't actually a new thing for tech, it's how those of us who worked on call got things done.

As a dev, supporting back before the most recent OS and hardware creates progressively more work with each additional version. That's engineering time. Combined with Apple wanting to push people to their new devices, there's zero reason for them to support back.

But as Engadget says, older devices can probably manage it, so looks like there's a great opportunity for a third party to step in and provide it. Of course the catch there in my experience is that people who won't pay to upgrade their devices, also won't pay for software for their older device. So whether it's worth it to a third party to develop the software is likely up in the air.

My local telco has fiber to many places. Unfortunately not to my house, which they still after 5 years, don't know exists. For the life of me I can't get them to come out and look at the building either to realize that the building they think is here isn't any longer.

If they need more hours covered, hire more.
Oh, you just want cheaper labor? Fuck off.

Right? The only time I'll answer an unknown number is if a call comes in at a pre-scheduled time.
In any other instance it's spam. 100% of the time.
If it's someone I actually know they're either in my contacts at the least and that's if they haven't also straight up texted first to ask if it was a good time to talk.
Sometimes I genuinely consider that I could do without the phone number part of the cell phone and have a data only plan. I don't think it would impact my ability to communicate with anyone I actually want to be reached by at all.

The thing being of course, that if an app is popular enough, and is pricing appropriately to even manage to be profitable on the App Store, Apple has a tendency to then take whatever is provided by those apps and integrate them into the OS for "free" to the user. Which of course the original popular app cannot compete with because they're already having to price an additional 30% higher to cover the fee that Apple takes. A fee which gives Apple funding to develop competitors to those same apps they're charging a fee on.

Reality is that governments should mandate like we (used to, fuck Trumps DOJ) did with theaters, and not allow the providers of the platforms also make content for them. Apple's role in the software should end at the OS level that makes the hardware "functional". The App Store should very likely be forced to be a third party company, and neither Apple nor the store should be allowed to make software products themselves for the store. Same with Google, Meta, MS, and the others.

Which fine, if that store company charges 30%, well whatever, because they would have competition, because the hardware company wouldn't get to auto install a store or work together in any way with the store company. OS would simply have to provide, and document the APIs needed to build a package manager on the OS (which is effectively all these stores really are when you think about it).

People shouldn't be using these products that cost, without paying for them.\

What will really surprise the companies to find out though, is that people also don't have to use their products or services and that they aren't entitled to the customer and now have to convince these people that their product or service is actually worth what they're charging.

That part always seems to surprise them.