Very glad to read this. I’m terrible at keeping on top of email with just webmail, but since I’ve been using Windows all the alternatives have felt pretty abysmal. You never realise how spoiled you are for good software on macOS, albeit at a cost.
(Linux has some very cool stuff too of course, but most of it will likely never be at home on Windows.)
Signing up is just having an instagram account and opting to check it out, so I’m not sure the numbers are very meaningful yet.
Right to repair is a thing in Europe now (https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2022/12/apple-launches-self-service-repair-in-europe/), though I’ve heard complaints about how it’s conducted.
I understand people’s attachment to their community, but if even a significant minority of those who went dark mass resigned on the 30th, it would’ve had so much bigger an impact than any of the ongoing attempts at protest.
It really is hard to fathom how that got through any internal discussion.
Another executive-driven decision by people who clearly don’t use their own product (kinda impressive really when it’s YT).
I can’t help wonder if they saw an uptick in adblocking as a result of their absurd increases in ad-time recently and somehow thought this was a reasonable solution.
I love X! (not that one) and I love reading this!