The author holds a Finnish call sign, so it would be more appropriate the Finnish authorities (Traficom). That said, it's still a bad look on Apple's design or production engineering. I would expect a higher level of quality.
What a fantastic perspective from the former Uber BI team. I was on the Vertica team during this time period and the amount of effort was spent on incentives mind boggling. Millions a day lost on downtime, product features, or engineering bandwidth was a common theme.
A director asking for an exact spreadsheet to be the UI would have been par for the course, especially during the Uber China days. Heck, I personally loaded FX prices into Vertica from a spreadsheet emailed every month to the team. That process remained for more than a year as there just wasn't enough bandwidth to invert the control as automated ingestion.
Thanks for digging up these memories, @bastawhiz. I'd love to see more. :)
To add onto some of the great replies, one aspect of the proposal is much higher power with less harmonic attenuation. 23 db less attenuation with a 20x power increase is going to cause interference in the adjacent ham bands.
As a practical matter, interference complaints from hams are not easily or quickly resolved. Interference from power companies is difficult enough, and they want to know when their equipment is throwing sparks!
It's not like polyester resists forever either. Many outdoors folk have experienced "wet out." Resistance only goes so far and I'd rather wear wet wool than wet polyester.
Synthetics are still great though. They have many other benefits and are easy enough to avoid soaking through.
Many synthetics have a PFOA or PFOS treatment to provide the water resistance, which are pretty terrible chemicals when you end up exposed to them all day on your clothing. They also wear off rapidly with normal use, so previously water-resistant clothing loses that property after a few months to a year depending on how often it is worn and washed.
Thinking about it now, I could see how it started on the shoulders, where the straps of my backpack are, and on my back. Basically everywhere where (different) backpack(s) and straps thereof applied load, pressure, friction.
