It's a very unique property. Not among image optimizers, but among tools that can be accessed with any web browser simply by typing a domain name in the address bar. Most of those tools are merely frontends for a server doing the work and as such something that wouldn't even be allowed in many lines of work.
I see what irks you, calling it "privacy-aware" and not something more technical like "installation-free client side", but it can be a pretty cool approach to many rarely-encountered problems.
I'm not much into "JPEG optimization" (whatever that is, I just bite the bullet and wait those ten seconds GIMP takes for startup on my otherwise comically fast Ryzen 9 Windows box whenever I feel like tweaking JPEG compression), but https://hexed.it/ has been a friend for many years: i rarely need a hex editor, but even if I happen to run into a "guess it's time for a hex editor!"-situation twice on the same OS installation (unlikely), the last time would be so long ago that I would have forgotten what I installed. hexed.it is a godsend. Jpeg optimziation is perhaps not quite the same level of problem/solution fit, but it doesn't have to be.
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.
Awesome! It seems that most of the references in search results are around interactions between Apple and developers. But it definitely looks like the best place to send violations as well. Thank you!
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.
Must have been an older model - I just googled "macbook i7" or something since Apple's page didn't mention it, but I should've noticed the cores.
I forgot about resolution too but I've done this comparison a few times in the past with different laptops and always found better for the price point.
Colors might be a good point here but I'm sure there are other laptops with good colors too.
This illustrates pretty well one of the main reasons I switched to Apple years ago: I know what I'm getting and at least until keyboard-gate it did "just work".
While it's true that I could get better-specced laptop, phone, bluetooth earbuds, and so one, I consistently run into two issues that I just don't have with Apple: 1) there's almost always something subpar about the product, that reviews didn't warn me against, and/or 2) I hate having to carefully select from a dizzying array of inter- and intra-company options, where often companies actively game the system (reviews) or try to up-sell.
It's honestly somewhat astonishing how consistently I run into these issues when I buy a non-apple product, in particular laptops.
Now of course being 'in' the ecosystem already also has a ton of benefits, and of course I can afford being a little less price-conscious. But it's absolutely not the case that I go for Apple because it's cool. Or because they market well.
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.
Anyway - looks nice and something I'll use from time to time, thanks!