That would be good if the changes are to slim it down by 80%.

Much fewer bots on X than Facebook. I think you are completely wrong.

"X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago"

Does anyone believe this?

It comes from X's own metrics, why would they lie about it?

Same as Block booking crypto trades as revenue.

Are the referenced companies referring to their volume as revenue?

Maybe just allow "insider trading".

I'd go further and suggest that metal is a lousy substance for laptop enclosures.

I would say "No keyboard backlighting" is a true show-stopper for a huge portion of the target audience (students).

My experience with students (outside of engineering) is that the most common show stopper for MacBooks is price. They’re not nit picking about keyboard backlighting.

Most people have no problem using a keyboard in the dark or with light from the screen.

Backlit keyboards are a nice-to-have, not a showstopper.

I would say the vast, vast majority of people are completely unable to use a non-lit keyboard in the dark.

Learned touch typing just fine on a non-backlit keyboard. What would you feel would be the issue?

Can't see the keys in a dark classroom or bedroom.

...the skill of touch typing is that you don't need to look at the keyboard.

And the keys are still labeled...

The F and J keys still have bumps, to be able to locate them and position your hands correctly on the keyboard without looking.

"No keyboard backlighting" is a show-stopper. Nuts.

You're not the audience, obviously.

It's a show-stopper for the main audience: students.

Very small percentage of students (the primary audience) are touch typists.

Plenty of people work in dark or dim places, like school classrooms, where backlighting is great and RGB lighting is useless.

That you seem to think everyone shares your needs and goals makes you a far less effective participant in these kinds of discussions. Maybe think for a bit before asserting what people who care about backlighting need it for and don't.

Aren't classrooms usually well lit?

No. And multi-resident dorm rooms much less so.

I think this could stick. The supply chain competence needs to get built in the USA.

Didn't work out well when Malco tried to keep Vice Grip production here in the States:

https://toolguyd.com/malco-eagle-grip-locking-pliers-final-u...

I would say Malco is not Apple and I have no idea what a vice grip is.

Why is this getting downvoted? It's good faith and probably more accurate than not.