Almost globally: Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Samsung Pay (link to bank account in some countries, particularly ones with advanced banking systems)

China: UnionPay, Alipay.

In USA: Zelle, Paypal, Cash App

In Netherlands: iDeal

In the UK: Faster Payments

In Eurozone, UK, Denmark, etc: SEPA payment (to an IBAN)

In much of Africa: M-Pesa.

etc.

If the iPad is only a service and data consuming device, a very nice display for the remote processing and storage, then why do Apple want to add MacOS features to it?

It's great at being a data terminal - it's why I own one, and just bought another.

But it's bad at being an actual flexible computer.

Is it going to fix the underlying reasons why iPadOS is not a real operating system for real work, though?

The lack of any background processing that you can rely on. The tendency for programs to just stop if you're not using them, so you can't leave them thinking about something while you go to a different task. The relentlessly single-app, single-window view (yes, I know you can have exactly two equal-size windows if you want, that's not an effective counter-argument). The lack of an actual filesystem of data but only interchange of data between apps if the app publisher thought you might want to interchange data between these two apps - tough luck if they didn't. The lack of ability to host and run any programs for any automation or extension uses (except if someone happens to publish an app like that). And so on and on.

Also, $300 for a keyboard and trackpad? Pull the other one, I may as well buy a Macbook Air for the same money as the iPad and keyboard, and that's a real computer.

If you want a tablet to do real general work on, you need to buy an MS Surface tablet. Now that's a useful computer... or as useful as it will ever be, running Windows.

... and therefore Waymo should not be selling me.

If they try, I will not get in their vehicle. It is quite simple.

Have you thought of paying taxes to that government?

or are taxes only for little people?

An interesting plan that will require the agreement of the investors that the technology is worthless, or the investors will want to try to sell it. The company management does not get to choose to do this - that is an owner, investor, decision.

NDAs are a convenient way to kill Open Source: you can't "not disclose" things you are embedding in source code you will release to the public, and if that NDA is required for the Open Source program to be usable, then the Open Source program is not usable any more.

Super convenient if you like to have only a few rich people to deal with instead of a bunch of other people too.

I can't imagine the Washington Post poaching staff who tell any uncomfortable truths about President Trump or Co-President Musk in future, so that's a problem that Disney would not have had in future. The NY Times also isn't going to say anything bad about those two (having ceased to do so well before Trump won the election) so they're not a likely poacher either.

But Disney and ABC are not in the business of broadcasting or publishing anything that the Trump-Musk administration dislikes either, so I guess they don't want to keep the staff either.

I'm not sure that changing from square keys (with room for alternate symbols in the corners of the keys) to round keys is any kind of useful thing.

Mid-century typewriters and keypads had that, but unless you're trying to produce a facsimile of an Enigma machine, why would you do that?

Google Voice is not available to retail customers outside the USA.

You've got the wrong end of the stick, dear boy.

The ambulances are queueing because A&E is full, and A&E is full because there are no ward beds to transfer patients who need to be admitted as in-patients, and that's because the beds are blocked by elderly patients who need residential or home care arranged before they can be discharged but none is available, because local government funding (which pays for this) has been greatly reduced since 2010.

Nothing to do with service time guarantees. Those only applied to GP appointments, not A&E.

That's a whole lot of geolocation data being sold there - personal geolocation data of a lot of people.

It is almost as if children need help and structured learning to gain the skills necessary to handle distracting and even addictive things in the wider world, and to help them deal with life as an independent adult.

It's almost as if life doesn't begin and end at the start and end of the school day, and almost like parents and schools need to teach life skills as well as how to pass academic tests.

It's also quite a lot that people now need mobile Internet access to lead their lives as adults, and the closer they approach adulthood the more they need it, and that you can't suddenly transition people from "infantilised, controlled children" to "independent successful adults" on the day they leave secondary education.

... just like the DMCA.

What? Have these people not heard of IRC networks?

IRC is the original federated real-time communications protocol.

If they want to use something else they can do that, but they can't go claiming IRC isn't federated.