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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Maybe I’m entirely wrong: isn’t this the forced obsolescence that Apple is famous for?

    Apple does not and never has practiced forced obsolescence. In fact, quite the opposite, as iOS is supported in iPhones for much longer than any version of Android ever is.

    The “famous” story is about Apple keeping your phone alive by (necessarily) throttling the CPU when your battery was worn out, so that it wouldn’t shut down due to lack of power.

    If they did anything wrong, it was not explaining this well enough.


  • Sure! I’d be happy to.

    The satellites operate in an extremely low orbit. At the end of their life they are manually de-orbited. If they fail, they will naturally de-orbit themselves in just a few years. They contribute to “space junk” in no way.

    The precise position of all the Starlink satellites is known, and space is much bigger than you appear to be imagining, so the network will in no way impede lauching rockets.

    There is no need to simply make stuff up about Starlink. There are plenty of reasons to hate Elon without inventing things.