Gmail has its own sync engine.

He specifically said they’d continue to employ all of them.

Then these websites are broken and needs to be fixed. In the end, the most of the people would probably search for it in the first place.

broken according to who, exactly?

It's entirely reasonable to choose to host http/https traffic on a www subdomain and host entirely different services at the non-www domain.

The internet is not just http traffic. Full fucking stop.

There are plenty of systems and industries where the actual web front-end is an after-thought.

This is a stupid argument. Subdomains are part of the standard of the web. They shouldn't be hidden.

But it’s definitely not important for an average user typing “facebook.com” into the address bar. Safari proved that.

If the url isn't important enough to display, then they shouldn't display it. They can display just the domain. They shouldn't display almost the url, but they removed an important thing.

Edit to add: if you type in an almost url from the screen or a screenshot, it's likely to not take you to the same page, and you'll be confused as to why. If you type in the domain only and go to the home page, that's not that confusing.

Currently is saves my “A” and I get almost no double presses. It says it fixed almost 1500 of them in two months.

And? Tons of apps on MacOS aren’t in the AppStore.

Putting together margins on their hardware and software products just can’t be right.

Why?

The profit margin is a number that includes everything. I compare this to the revenue they make from app store fees. If they stop taking that revenue, their revenue decreases by exactly that amount, their expenses stay the same, so their profit also decreases by exactly that amount.

Nobody forces you to use Apple Pay.

That’s different, you’re just getting the same price as the entire world. Purchasing power is different, yes.

So you can stop the subscription then and not worry about a couple of thousands you’d pay as a single purchase cost.

But if you stop a CC subscription, you lose access to the software you did like as well. In contrast, the entirely legal, bought-at-considerable-cost version of Creative Suite that remains installed on one of the PCs at work is still working just fine after all this time.

Also, the alternative we're increasingly using now (the Affinity suite) doesn't cost anything like thousands for a permanent licence, so this idea that it's somehow necessary to charge that kind of money to make software development viable in this market is demonstrably wrong.