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Apple takes another step toward carbon neutrality
What Apple is doing with regard to the environment is big and important. In the absence of meaningful change from many governments, private companies like Apple are stepping up.
Apple is already carbon neutral -- and is fast bringing along its supply chain, which is by far the biggest source of the company's emissions.
Apple just announced that 175 of its suppliers have pledged to be carbon neutral, double the number last year. It is also bringing online more than 9 gigawatts of clean power, the equivalent of taking 4 million cars off the road.
The company plans to be carbon neutral across its entire operations and products by 2030, and this is a big step toward that goal.
-- Lender Kahney, EIC.
The company says 175 of its suppliers will transition to using renewable energy, more than double the number that previously committed to using 100% clean power.
Some of the criticism leveled at the latest 16-inch MacBook Pro should inspire Apple to make a MacBook Air with the same size display. It would be the largest Air ever, but there seems to be a market for a very big, yet very slim, Mac notebook.
The country is reportedly looking into whether Apple’s policy forbidding iPhone developers from telling customers about alternate — and possibly cheaper — payment options is a violation of its antitrust laws.
If you don’t own a drone yet, you’re missing out. Stunning aerial photography and tons of fun both come standard when you get into the drone game. And you might be surprised at how affordable they can be.
iOS 15.2 beta 1 and iPadOS 15.2 beta 1 have been seeded to developers. When available to everyone, the updates will bring an App Privacy Report that will show users each app’s sensor, data and internet usage in a simple chart.
Apple’s M1 Pro and M1 Max processors offer powerful graphics intended for artists rendering video and performing other pro tasks. But all that power also means excellent gaming performance. Of course, that doesn’t remedy the lack of high-end games for Mac.
Aqara’s affordable new USB-powered controller, the Smart Hub E1, makes it easy to control devices and sensors through Apple’s HomeKit and other smart-home systems.
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One more thing ...
"Some people are saying that we ought to put an IBM PC on every desk in America to improve productivity. It won't work. The special incantations you have to learn this time are 'slash q-zs' and things like that. The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel -- one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about." -- Steve Jobs
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