Until Apple or Samsung put their efforts into AR, I don't see anyone else being able to go to market with a VR solution. Even Google tried and failed with the Google Glass a decade ago. While I love the idea, I don't think the market is there for this yet (and might not be for a long time outside of large cities).

There are different and distinct uses for tablets and laptops. Until we get full power-user options for tablets such as shell access and the ability to install arbitrary files, its hard to do all workflows through a tablet. Even being able to ssh into a remote service and do tests, its still not completely viable for many of my workflows. The one advantage the Microsoft Surface has is that its a full Win10 operating system on standard processors, giving me a lot of flexibility without having to root the device.

I'd love to see VSCode or similar programs take this on as a challenge and provide the ability for me to work with my git repos, and provide some remote shells to test my code in. With Azure its all within their ecosystem if they are willing to spend the time / energy.

so I'm glad I'm here not there?

How much of this is the vast technical resources Alphabet / Google have accumulated over the years needing something to do. Everyone wants to make their mark and instead of incremental improvements, they rely on massive change to stake out a claim. Youtube's problem is largely chasing dollars and wanting to rebrand themselves as TV instead fo what made Youtube great.

I tend to build them. I'm building a Ryzen 2700x right now.

First off, I love my Macs. I have a couple MacBook Pros and the system is one of the best I've used. Unfortunately, its the Operating System that really seals it for me. The hardware on my MacBooks is terrible for the generation. The keyboards are terrible, they're extremely un-servicable and un-expandable. - the most redeeming qualities are the battery life and the touchpad. I appreciate the qualities of the walled garden atmosphere of the iPad, but sometimes I just need a real system.

Go díreach! Más é do thoil é...

You must be REALLY naive then. People stopped paying attention to the road as soon as they had anyone else around, or lipstick or razors or a crossword or a billboard... arguably the biggest lesson cars can teach us is that people are really distractible when doing incredibly dangerous activities that have become mundane.

Yeah, like the whole being out of touch in emergency situations thing...

I do think astroturfing is a real and pervasive problem, but it's awfully convenient to assume without evidence that any given post *is* astroturfing. You can assume all you want, but your "teaching example" is a just-so-story at its core.