Maybe its because I haven't destroyed my hearing, or maybe its because I use decent speakers but I've never had an issue understanding dialogue including in Tenet which many people complain about. (Don't worry, you didn't miss anything interesting in that one)

Without all the extra crap, who is going to pay for the developers? Last year Google contributed 94% of the commits to Chrome, the downstream players use Chromium as their base because someone else is paying for it.

Apple makes money off Safari the exact same way - by selling access to Google.

I'm pretty sure they mean A One.

This is revisionist, the left has been protesting globalization since the 80s. The right has only recently been complaining about it, largely driven by xenophobia, racism, and conspiracy theories.

Car traffic from Canada is down 30%, air traffic is down 15% year-over-year.

I'm sure they know what's up

More like Indian Business Machines. I remember when i worked for IBM they had the idea companies should have employees where they do business, now is probably only a sales team.

Get even 8-years later?

Thats a crime now?

I read the article earlier and it also provides no definition or explanation as to what XR was.

Meanwhile Trump pardoned a number of people convicted of corruption and ended the corruption investigation into the NY mayor....

Apple also ships phones to customers directly and would either self-insure or pay fedex in who might raise rates

Even if the carrier is shipping they may reduce the offers on iphones to cover the loss, and that money from the customer's pocket is money that apple can no longer bilk out of them.

Apple would know though