Good news! No one will be held accountable for the consequences of this.

Sorry, you're wrong. The iPhone came first.

  - The original iPhone: first released June 29, 2007
  - First gen iPod Touch: September 5, 2007

With this design I'm more likely to believe the owners of this site died 20 years before any concerns about Chinese IT products, but the copyright notice is recent and the domain would have long ago expired.

The iPod went away because at that point everyone was carrying an identically-sized device that could do the same job and more -- the iPhone. Having music on a separate portable product was redundant.

How would a customer interact with this AI if they do not even have a smartphone? The Humane Pin? Only useful if you like talking out loud for all interactions -- no privacy composing an email in a public place. Many of the things people do on their iPhones are visual in nature and cannot be done with Star Trek-esque "Computer...." commands. Does he really think brain implants are going to come that far, and that most people would be willing to have major surgery to add one?

Sir, the U.S. doesn't hold a candle to China on this stuff.

  - Does the U.S. have an army of workers watching and censoring the most popular social media platforms?
  - Does the U.S. have a national firewall blocking access to undesirable content?
  - Is the U.S operating "police stations" in other countries to enforce their laws outside their sovereign borders?

I'm not a Spotify user at all now (free or paid). But I do occasionally consider signing up. I have over 200 GB of my own music available both inside and outside my home via a media server just as conveniently as Spotify, but this doesn't give me any opportunity to discover new artists.

But like any subscription service, I'm going to want to know what the value of the recurring monthly fee is vs. my free locally-hosted music now, and a company increasing the price for no reason than to make shareholders happy isn't going to attract my business.

They think "move fast - break stuff" is an idea to be celebrated.

The question you should be asking is "what has changed in Spotify's services that makes it now worth 15% more than it was the previous week?"

Is "Kompakt" in the second sentence supposed to actually link somewhere? Or are we just making it green underline for shits and grins?

Because the moon rock is made of cheese, of course.

Maybe they used Gemini to come up with the figures and it hallucinated the user numbers?

Oh, imagine a future where companies can say whatever they want to their investors, and then claim it was an "AI error" when called out on it later.

The Google Assistant on Android is being replaced with Gemini, too. So soon Google will be able to inflate their user numbers further by claiming every recent Android phone user as a "Gemini user".

From the article you apparently only read the headline of:

Noem’s bag contained roughly $3,000 in cash, which she had withdrawn to treat her family to dinner and Easter gifts and activities, a DHS spokesperson said Monday.

How much does a cocktail napkin with Steve Jobs' signature go for again?

You can see into the future of what a collectable will be worth later on?

No one is arguing the materials that make up the special edition and the IP included are worth $666.