While good for privacy, this sounds like an awful UX change for the average person. Some sort of nice toggle to disable it would be good, but removing it all together would probably annoy more people than it benefits.

You’re still using itunes and not apple music?

… they already have your emails. Not only that, but just about everything else they could possibly want to know about you.

Unless you plan on moving to a more private provider I wouldn’t worry about that.

Any time I want to watch my emails I just go to the web ui for it. I doubt any 3rd party client will ever come close to what google and Microsoft offer for their own email accounts.

They’re absolutely not crawling it every time they nee to access the data. That’s an incredible waste of processing power on their end as well.

In the case of code though that does change somewhat often. They’d still need to check if the code has been updated at the bare minimum.

That’s cool. Performance per dollar isn’t the only factor for a laptop.

Size

Weight

Durability

Battery life

I/O and other features.

A not dogshit network card

An actually usuable trackpad

I’m sure I could list more. But those are all things that are important on a laptop and you can’t change after you buy it.