> EU probe found that iMessage falls outside the legislation because it is not widely used by businesses.
Proving once more EU loyalties lie not with the people.
Proving once more EU loyalties lie not with the people.
Similar with people. In EU nobody I know defaults to iMessages so it's not a big issue here.
Part of the issue is that here in the US we think Apple is bigger than it is. Maybe it's an important messaging network here in the US, but everywhere else, it's just a phone. A nice one. But still just a phone.
It's just as much part of the Apple ecosystem everywhere in the world, even if you don't use iMessage. You're not getting anything like that if you're using Android and a PC. Which may be fine depending on your needs. But iMessage isn't the only differentiator here.
Because of this, entry-level Macs are often actually cheaper in the long run -- and with the M chips they're faster too. And of course generally provide a much higher-quality experience, like trackpad quality, screen quality, etc.
And how do you know you're not seeing many old MacBooks? The MBA was launched over a decade and a half ago and it still looks almost identical to a casual observer.
There are huge noticeable differences between a 10 year MBA and a recent one
Also the M1 has only been around for a little over 3 years. They can't be dying after 4 years because they're not that old.
Where are you getting all this misinformation from? And why are you motivated to be repeating it?
And as long as you have the Silver color option, a MacBook Air from 2023 looks very much like a MacBook Air from 2014 if you're not stopping and looking closely at it.
If you have one of the colored ones, those date back to 2018 with, again, a very similar design to today's.
You also forgot "still holds resale value until they drop support for your model in macOS, and then software stops supporting the macOS version you're able to run"
Ask me how I know!
KDE Connect also lets me use my phone as a remote for my Windows machine.