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Who is the Apple equivalent of theSecretary of Education?

Speaking for myself, I love Windows and I ain't planning on moving off of Android, but the M1/M2/M3 Macbooks are setting a higher sexier bar, with a battery life nowhere to be found in the Windows ecosystem and also very light, which is always nice.

I'm also very tempted by the ARM based Macbooks but

1. MacOS is still neglected platform for gaming
2. Windows actually gives me a curated Ubuntu to run under Windows Subsystem for Linux and WSL integrates beautifully with Windows. Brew is nice an all but it is amateur time compared to a proper linux distro

I guess I have this on my iPhone 14 but I haven't needed it so it is invisible.

It might be more visible if I could use it to send iMsg (perhaps text only) via satellite when I'm off the cell grid for extended periods (which is rarely these days)

These fines for apple is less than a speeding ticket for us

I remember hearing that one of the Scandinavian countries has speeding tickets denominated as a fraction of your annual income so a billionaire speeding ticket still hurts. I could be hallucinating though -- too lazy to google it.

so yes, the problem is Apple are being greedy.

Apple does not have a monopoly on laptops. You can always buy an intel laptop with windows or linux if Apple's value proposition does not work for you. E.g. one of my work laptops is a Dell with 32GB of RAM.