Sure, they're so far up in Germans automakers asses, they don't know it any other way.
One of the reasons i quit my 20 year+ membership with them.
I mean - have some bias? Fine with me, i can read between the lines. Come up with ridiculous crap and reasons to favour domestic brands? There is a line, at least for me and many others that do know when they're intentionally ignoring, downrating, downplaying etc. etc. etc.
Another example? German IT magazine "c't" by heise recently featured a test (4/2026, page 16ff.), in cooperation with ADAC, about subscriptions in electric vehicles - actually one thing where Tesla shines (it's a flat 10€ per month, other countries get a 99$ a year deal) - others don't even bother listing prices until you order, for example.
With no single word that test mentioned Tesla (yet, priding themselves having queried 16 brands for information) - only in the final table overview, there indeed is one column for them.
The bias is showing, it's ridiculous and they can, as far as i'm concerned, go the way of the dodo.
Having added Hisense to my shitlist of TV manufacturers a long time ago - did they ever make a model that haven’t had its power supply die after about 4 years? I don’t think so…
Totally reminded me of the old meme "i accidentally a coca cola bottle, is that bad?" :D
To be more on topic: yup, Casio fx-85ES - still going strong, needs basically no maintenance at all and having tactile buttons you can mash while sitting over a piece of paper just has no comparison.
Must be that way - watching "an evening" (yes, i just made up a time unit) of Netflix consumes 1/4 to 1/3 of the bandwidth "an evening" of consuming content on AppleTV+.
So, about 10GB or less on Netflix to 30GB or more on AppleTV+, dissected by DPI on my TP-Link Omada Gateway.
And indeed, i think it shows - i can't notice any banding or moire effect on pretty much any AppleTV+ content, while it is as clear as night and day that Netflix compresses the hell out of their content.
I kinda agree in the way that having synced notes (a good feature in itself, also available on iPhone/Mac) would probably suffice.
Still, being able to copy and paste not only text but also images between devices seamlessly is really nice, not to mention i can open an open browser-tab (Safari, iOS) in Brave on the Mac by just clicking the icon that has a "mobile device icon" next to it and it opens the same tab on the Mac...
And yes - as i said - i agree that having a synced note app would probably enable the same usecases, but with distinctly more friction (at least in my books).
I definitely agree that it's nice but not useful enough that you could consider it a required feature. The point I'm trying to make is that Apple markets it as something that is essential and much better than what is out there, when it's really not the case.
The truth is that this is perfectly possible to do on other platforms; you just have to set it up. But most people don't since this is not needed often enough to be worth the hassle, or they just don't use computers that much. And the only reason it has to be provided by Apple is because they lock everything down.
Windows has had Clipboard Sync for a while with "Link to Windows," and there are many third-party solutions, from KDE Connect to third-party keyboards offering clipboard sharing.
Nobody really cares, and in a world where you have to use the cloud to get stuff in and out of devices, it doesn't even matter. Chances are, the stuff you are trying to copy is also available on the computer.
Apple would have a lot more to stand on if they didn't go full retard with the cloud as well in order to increase service revenue.
Those kinds of Apple technologies would make a lot more sense and have a lot more value if they didn't require using their cloud offering anyway.
I wish Apple would go back to making personal computers with software that stands on its own and can work independently of any cloud. But they have been unable, or more likely unwilling, to figure out proper local syncing without going through their cloud, so the marketing is largely moot.
We end up with the worst combination possible: expensive hardware storage to promote cloud subscription and expensive cloud storage with weak interoperability/capacities (sharing with iCloud is a joke).
For this reason, I'm unwilling to consider any gimmicky "Continuity" feature as something inherently valuable.
One of the reasons i quit my 20 year+ membership with them.
I mean - have some bias? Fine with me, i can read between the lines. Come up with ridiculous crap and reasons to favour domestic brands? There is a line, at least for me and many others that do know when they're intentionally ignoring, downrating, downplaying etc. etc. etc.
Another example? German IT magazine "c't" by heise recently featured a test (4/2026, page 16ff.), in cooperation with ADAC, about subscriptions in electric vehicles - actually one thing where Tesla shines (it's a flat 10€ per month, other countries get a 99$ a year deal) - others don't even bother listing prices until you order, for example.
With no single word that test mentioned Tesla (yet, priding themselves having queried 16 brands for information) - only in the final table overview, there indeed is one column for them.
The bias is showing, it's ridiculous and they can, as far as i'm concerned, go the way of the dodo.
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