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You still have to trust the counterparty to deliver whatever the Bitcoin is being exchanged for.

I'm in the same boat. The MacBook I bought in 2013 was mind-blowingly awesome, most notably with the Retina display, and the sheer power of machine.

Almost every difference between that laptop and the MacBook I bought a few months ago is negative (touchbar for volume and brightness, the flimsiness of USB-C connectors against the weight of the cable (though that's not Apple's fault), enormous trackpad, less of a "crumple zone" in the keyboard to absorb the energy of my typing, etc)

I actually like Catalina more-or-less, except for the lack of 32-bit support and the way the fan always runs on my 2013 machine now.

But I think this is the last Apple computer I'll buy. It's too much money for a declining experience.

If the newspapers/sites expect every reader to subscribe, it can add up quickly, if you're reading 2 articles in each of 20 publications every month.

I do wish more people would pay for content, but the market hasn't really adjusted to the way people read 1% of dozens of different publications.

For students who arrive at a university without already knowing these opportunities exist, it's not always apparent that they do exist and may be available to them.

It's surely an indication that the tool should not be available though, assuming the two sides are subject to the same rules.

> Apple is under no obligation to make someone’s ideal business model feasible.

Sure, but if it's in someone's interest for Apple to change their policies, it makes sense for them to try to pressure Apple to do so.

There's no reason to uncritically accept Apple's policies, and it's more feasible to direct public pressure toward Apple than to build a new mobile platform.