Oh, I misremembered then. Yikes.

Well:

1. They kept existing designs, since even Jobs wasn't so crazy as to demand a complete re-architecture of existing laptop models on a whim; plus they probably also had contractual obligations/pre-purchase arrangements

2. They switched to nvidia, but from everything I know they also hated working with nvidia (IIRC Jobs accused nvidia of stealing Pixar tech)

3. AMD is a different company than ATI (technically), and Apple of that era was different than the Steve Jobs temper tantrum era.

But yes, relevant details.

Also Steve Jobs Apple is probably much different than today's Apple.

For violating an embargo and publishing a press release announcing products of another company that hadn’t been debuted? What “non-dick” response do you think is appropriate against a prospective partner that violated clear guidelines that defined their partnership which basically included “#1: Keep your mouth shut”, exactly?

They unilaterally issued a press release about Apple's upcoming release.

That's kinda a no-no for partnerships.

He was, but this incident wasn't an example. That's a righteous punishment for an infraction like that.

Going scorched earth was kind of Steve’s thing.

One word: "Courage"

I believe that the action does reflect Jobs' ego in the following way.

Namely, his belief that CEO == company.

Jobs would never take the view that the action of the CEO of ATI is actually one bad actor acting alone which doesn't represent what ATI wants as an organization, and is unfair and damaging to that organization and all of its employees.

The reason he would not take that view is because then he would not be able to believe that he is the single most important thing at Apple, overshadowing everything else.

If the leak had been the responsibility of some rank and file employee at ATI, with appropriate action taken against that employee by the ATI CEO, it is likely that Jobs would likely have reacted differently, because it then would not longer be seen as a personal matter between him and the CEO, where the corporations are just pawns in a game of teach-you-a-lesson.

In the US you can use Apple Pay anywhere NFC payments are accepted. It's generally completely open on the acceptance side at this point

Most developed countries I've been to use NFC/Apple Pay. Where you see the use of QR codes is in China, Africa, and other countries that VISA/MC/AMEX hasn't penetrated (for either political or socioeconomic reasons).

I'm in HK, most HKers use ApplePay with NFC, and don't use QR codes. Over in mainland China, however, it's all QR codes (with AliPay, WePay).

I guess the "we" depends strongly on location - I've no problem using Apple Pay basically everywhere except Walmart.

No idea what this is referring to...