Make sure you adjust your faucets so they won’t go full hot. Don’t want to scald someone.

I bring my own because scent is an irritant.

Have a 4a. Have never heard of this.

We use our (really mine, but hey...) Mini 5 for reading PDFs, reading ebooks (when I can't find my kindle), a quick terminal session to my server to check stuff, menus at restaurants for take-out, and really just keep it laying around to look stuff up as we need to (recipes, school schedules, etc.). It's pretty handy to just have it easily accessible.

What else are they going to spend $2.5T on?

Making Siri closer to a real A.I.

Making an Apple Watch that can actually download sync with an Audible book.

And since they have this huge fitness push now, I'd like to be able to set custom Run Walk Run intervals when I do an Apple Running workout on my watch.

Being able to set the shutter speed or aperture when taking pictures like Samsung phones can.

A better system of defense for robo calls.

A built in audio program to make my own custom ringtones for people.

An easy way to put the phone in "Minimalist" mode, so that it only had the Apps I absolutely need. Like the "Lite Phone" https://www.thelightphone.com/

Premium Apple News content that isn't just click bait articles.

A way to "permanently" disable Air Tag stalker warnings every time I borrow someone's keys who isn't in my 'family sharing group'.

A couple more seasons of Ted Lasso.

Damn bro, get out of here with this logic. Cue the Ryan from the office nodding and pointing gif right here. Trying to put a ringtone on an iPhone is hilarious. And the airtag alert burned me so good. I have 4 of them and they are all chirping and alerting on my wife's phone. I'm gonna have to sell them at a loss after they made them so much more annoying.

I'd also like to add someone to a group Text and have a way everyone could agree to give them permission to see the old messages from that group chat. That way it isn't as hard to catch people up or bring them into a group conversation.

This looks really good, but my mini 5 is still plenty powerful for what I use it for. I do like the TouchID placement and wish they would bring that to iPhones.

> Housing is anything from a third to 50%

This is way too much. We just finished paying off our current house and our payment was around 14% of our net. We are high earners in a low CoL area so the house is really nice, but wasn't very expensive. I can't imagine being "house poor" after this.

> I think wages (in AU, at least) already render many small businesses unviable.

Probably an unviable business no matter the wage. People cannot be depended on to subsidize someone's business by accepting crappy wages.

> Either wages need to rise or house prices need to fall.

Raising wages in not in the best interest of share holders.

You may be underestimating how significant $20-$30 is to some people.

Edit: wording.

Are you suggesting a stolen cable brings the same sort of premium as a new one from Apple?

Regardless, I'm not suggesting this at all. My point is that there are likely ways to get something worth so little without risking significant jail time.

You may be surprised to learn that the economics of small scale theft are pretty weird. https://priceonomics.com/why-thieves-steal-soap/

This is kind of my point. I guess I underestimated the demand for iphone cables.