That was quick.

The best advertiser for Linux is Microsoft.

You did not misremembered it. They tried to make it difficult, got backlashed, then took a step back. All of it before Win11 was widely distributed, so some people never had to deal with it.

With that said. MS still looking ways to try forcing you to use Edge. Recently, all of your Chrome tabs just got reopen into Edge, “due to a bug”.

We are getting there.

Nevertheless, I will keep my expectation in check, as to see if companies will keep up will the spirit of the law and/or the state will be serious in enforcement it.

I feel sorry for anyone who had to sat through this event. It was the most boring and soulless presentation I have ever seen. It it the definition of “This could have just been an email”.

Apparently, the CAD software Ondsel is also not compatible with the mesa’s implementation; and it would just crash right after the boot.

Microsoft’s game plan seems to be:

1. Sell a cool idea, halfheartedly.
2. Abandon the idea.
3. Wait until someone else done it right.
4. Ripe them off / play catch up.

It was exactly like that for Windows on ARM.

In other words, regardless of whether you like/hate Apple, if the Vision Pro does not success, then there probably won’t be any further investment in the space from MS either.

Yeah. It is on by default for my iPad. And, boi, almost all third-party apps that I use does not work with that.

Damn it. The UK is not in the EU. 😂

Yes. And, I bet this the ban would not be resumed until next version comes out.

Yeah, true… But, this case is not the best example of that, since Apple is getting punished quite serversly here. And, the fact they there was any punishment / lawsuit at all make the US looks like the fairer place to be. The Chinese big brothers would just swept it under rugs in favour of the bigger company from the get go.

Quacomm 5G modem

This is the second times Apple got caught red-handed for stealing, and there is no doubt there were many more cases where they got away with it.

Technologically, Window is great. There is no denying that, and if anything some the dated (+ insecure) things on it is the result of its own success, i.e. the app installation and management process, as it is hard to convince billions of people to do anything different.

On the other hand, the management of the company is the biggest problem with everything in and around Window. First, there is no single business model; MS sells you a 1 time licence for the OS itself, but then constantly try to harvest and sell your data (with ads everywhere in Windows 11), and if you want to do any office work then you have to pay a subscription for MS 365. Last but not least, they keep breaking things every few updates, i.e. I actually failed one of my university course because OneDrive decided that my report don’t need to exist after an update (in 2018).

Neither of them are good, partly due to the design and partly due to iPadOS. Nevertheless, if you are determined to get one, then the Magic Keyboard.

Designed to fail. Both the Magic Keyboard and the Smart Keyboard Folio requires physical connections with the gold contacts on the back of the iPad; to do that, there is a ribbon cable embedded in their hinges. The Magic Keyboard hinge is metal, much like that on a normal laptop; so there is nothing wrong there. On the other hand, then Smart Keyboard Folio hinge is a flexible piece of rubber/fabric. This means that as you open and close the folio, the copper traces in the in the hinge would get folded and eventually fatigued break. My Smart Keyboard Folio start losing connections after 1.5 years and would required me to hold it in certain ways to register. It completely loss all keyboard functionality after the second year.

Magic Keyboard does not have the aforementioned design flaw. However, as the hinge is similar to that as a laptop, you cannot just gently open it to check notification (or something like that) like a normal tablet. It needs to be open with intent. Also, you will also need to decide on how often (or if) you want to use the Apple Pencil. As the iPad needs to be remove from the Magic Keyboard for usages with the pencil. However, the camera bump is huge and it will cause the tablet to rock around as you write on it without a case. My only solution for this, so far, is to flip the iPad upside-down and have the camera bump dangle off the table edge while writing.

The software is not there yet (or it may never be). The key problem is that this is not entirely Apple’s fault, but they are responsible for a lot of it. Most apps are not built with the physical keyboard in mind. Therefore, the UI can sometime glitch-out with the keyboards attached. This goes on both of them. In addition, the spacebar often just acted as “select” rather than a “space”. This means that you would sometime select whatever button on the top left of app (like the “Back” button in a browser), rather than inserting a “space” into whatever text field you are typing in. The work-around here is to use Option+Space instead.

Overall, I had bought into the iPad-as-a-laptop-replacement idea in 2018 (literally), and I am very disappointed. If you want to buy some accessories for an iPad, then I suggest the Apple Pencil and whichever cover on Amazon that fit your taste/needs. The keyboard and cursor experiences on the iPad is usable; but, it does not worth $150/$300. If you need a keyboard, get a real computer.