The CPUs aren't cheap, but they don't cost more than the Mac mini.
The Mac mini will definitely draw more than 20W. TDP numbers can also not be compared between manufacturers at all. And last but not least, for a single core test, maximum power consumption is irrelevant.
This marketing is dumb, and if Apple believes that not even they themselves can get access to the information running on the platform, then they could put their money where their mouth is. Increase the max bounty reward from $50 000 to $50 000 000 000 with no other rules than if you can get access to users' request data without having the phone it's sent from, then you get the money, and Apple will not legally pursue the attacker.
Is it as secure as they say? Then it doesn't matter if all the money Apple has is the reward, because nobody can get it. A max bounty of $50 000 for "Accidental or unexpected data disclosure due to deployment or configuration issue" is silly low.
To be fair, Google as done a lot for the web. Google is also the one who has been pushing for the web as an alternative to native apps, while Apple has been the one to actively sabotage. If only everyone used Firefox and Mozilla was the one with the most influence...
You're not the odd one out. BMWs cars generally have less faults that most other brands, but as with all brands, the number of faults varies greatly based on the model.
BMW has not abandoned it. i3 was a cool cheap car, with a carbon fiber cell. It was ugly as hell, but cool tech.
BMW platforms now are both for ICE and EV, but "Neue klasse" that will start to arrive soon is a from-scratch, new, electric only platform. That will really make the cars more spacious. The sportiest platform is supposedly architected for 1350 hp, so it will be interesting to see if BMW will take up the lap time fight with Porsche. That would be interesting.
Can confirm that Paddle support is really bad. Onboarding and calls was very hands on(at least before they opened up for all), but everything after that was terrible and frankly idiotic. At least they can switch to using LLMs now, cause even those would do a better job.
And yeah, VAT and GST is annoying. Terrible for small businesses.
Safari has been holding back web development for many years. In this announcement Apple requires support for X features to allow a browser, but if you look at the page, Safari is worse than Firefox and Chrome/Edge.
The browser is unstable, has had large amounts of bugs and race conditions, refuses to add features that can make the browser a better competitor for apps unless forced to by regulation, and so on... Safari on iOS is garbage, and that's the way Apple wants it to be. It just has to be OK so that iOS users don't understand how bad it really is.
Literally 15 minutes ago a customer asked me if I could add push notification support for iOS, as Apple has refused to do so on iOS for many many years. But Apple did add it when the pressure around competition increased, so now it should work with updated iOS.
Apple is a shit company for consumers, and they are actively sabotaging the web to increase their profits. This is not just something I'm saying. When Apple was forced to allow other browsers in the EU, they announced that they would turn off support for progressive web apps in the EU(apps added to the home screen, push notifications they just added because they were afraid of this and so on). They did go back on it after developer pushback. I haven't looked into this, but I'm pretty sure that Apple has done something to make sure other browsers can't develop PWA features. Cause that is what Apple does.