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Curious that you are saying the travel eSIMs are a scam.

I've used them quite a lot around Europe and once or twice in Africa (and even locally, when I didn't have an unlimited data plan and used all of my allotted data by my carrier and it was easier to just buy an eSIM), and my experience has always been pretty good.

Works for me both under rosetta and native arm64 (macOS 12.2.1, M1 Max) - both by double-clicking the executable and using zsh.

Only thing I had to do was rename the file to open it in Finder first because of gatekeeper requirements.

  arch -x86_64 ./hello2 
  hello world
  
  ./hello2                      
  hello world

There is actually! I was told about it over the phone with an App Review rep a few weeks ago. I didn't write it down unfortunately, but I think it was appreview@apple.com - googling for that e-mail address returns some results, so I am pretty positive that was it.

Some of your facts are wrong. The basic 16-inch MacBook Pro has also an i7-9750H, not a years-old processor like you said. Additionally... the screen on the MacBook Pro is leaps above gaming laptops for working with photos and video - I know that, since I actually recommended one of those to a friend who wanted a laptop for some photo editing, and he ended up returning it because the colors on the screen were all wrong, and it didn't appear to be fixable.

That's not to say that the MSI may not be a better deal... But you can't just compare the specs you said, there's more at stake.

I don't see anything good coming out of this law, honestly. I've read some other commenters saying that Apple doesn't want to talk to small banks, but I find that to be the complete opposite of my experience.

Here in Portugal, only one bank supports Apple Pay, and it's a small one (apart from N26/Revolut, the online ones). None of the bigger banks support it. Instead, they all support a national app that uses QR codes on iOS and NFC/QR on Android for payments (but its UX is much worse, even on Android where it uses NFC, and has a load of other problems - since it's properietary it doesn't work internationally, etc.). Of course, there is no Google Pay support at all here, and I blame the fact that NFC payments are supported on their own app. There's even less incentive for them to support Google Pay at all, and that's exactly what happened. I'm afraid that Apple Pay would be dropped if Apple was forced to open up NFC for payments.