I think you may be on to something here with that. Not sure when it'll happen, but it's definitely not a matter of "if" in my opinion. And that worries me. Buy

I think you may be on to something here with that. Not sure when it'll happen, but it's definitely not a matter of "if" in my opinion. And that worries me. Buying a computing device without the ability to truly disconnect it from the internet when I choose is a MAJOR red flag. "You can just click the wifi icon to turn off internet access" is not at all satisfactory, especially when there's a 5G connectable radio in the thing's firmware. Nice feature if your regular internet stops working, but because of the closed nature of Apple devices, we have zero way to audit whether or not it really IS disconnected from the internet when we're _told_ that it is. And to my mind that not only justifies the assumption that we're being lied to about this (and if discovered it'll conveniently be "fixed" in an "update") and other such things, but requires that assumption as well. Just another in a long line of signals that all point to more remote monitoring and surveillance. We all know Apple's supposed commitment to "privacy" is just marketing designed to trick those who don't know any better. I'm already exploring a complete abandonment of all Apple devices in favor of self-built and maintained Linux systems for personal and professional computing day-to-day. It'll be a long transition, and I'll have to virtualize a hackintosh (somehow) to use a few "must-have", employer/client-mandated apps. It's not going to be easy, but I'm pissed off enough with Apple's dragging their heels on implementing basic *nix features that allow for things like containers via kernel namespaces for so damn long, that I'm willing to climb that mountain no matter how tough it gets.