Sure, I get that, but iPad? Laptop? PC?

Is your phone the thing you're going to be doing it on? And if it is, I guess it's nice that they're making $2500 morning news devices, but it still seems a bit crazy for the price.

I like a nice big screen as much as anyone, but after years and years of owning an iPad I'm using it less and less. And I honestly can't figure out why you'd want to tote around something that big all the time. Flights, I guess? A lot of traveling? I don't begrudge anyone buying one if they want it or they actually do have a day to day use for it, but I want my phone to get SMALLER.

The only folding phone I'll consider is the flip style, to reduce the carrying size. That would be handy to me, even if the folded dimensions are much thicker than my current phone. It'll still fit in a lot more pockets than the current form factor.

The project was doomed to fail from the very beginning.

Apple is too privacy focused. To make AI competitive, you have to be willing to share private data with it.

Right now, Gemini Live on Android sucks terribly, but I am more hopeful for it..

Yeah but radio ads are generic and not 2 way conversations. They are not an asking what you are saying and twisting it towards explaining why you need product X.

It will be as reliable as asking a used car salesman for advice. Somehow it's gonna be advice about how a car would for me

I'm not the original poster.

Nexperia, I don't know. But the US did have issues with China having access to the technology from its Dutch sister company ASML.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews...

So it's not far-fetched to think that the US has something to do with this issue with Nexperia as well.

That couldn't possibly happen!

Foreign companies (Tesla excepted) are not allowed to own more than 49% of Chinese-based companies/joint ventures.

To be fair, (with the exception of Tesla), foreign companies are not allowed to own more than 49% of Chinese companies.

So if international law was truly applicable, then there would be parity between nations about foreign majority ownership.

Coming next week to a city near you: Amazon drone kamikazes itself into toddler's bedroom. Film at 11.

They didn't give one damn about the quality of medical care or outcome. This was an urgent care center. The entire thing was part of the corruption during COVID-19 to grift as much money as possible. COVID-19 tests were readily available at the local grocery store, and the government was sending people free ones. But if they went into the urgent care center and saw a "provider" before the test sample was obtained, then had it "interpreted" by the "provider" and explained to them after the result, they could charge something like $150 for an urgent care fee and $150 for the test, which was reimbursed. This was encouraged primarily by the schools that decided that the only acceptable test was a PCR test, when they didn't understand how to use the test or even what the acronym PCR stands for.

So you would have morons who came in and were pissed about the wait time, or the cost of the test, or that someone else was sick in the waiting room, or that they didn't get the answer they wanted, or that they weren't given antibiotics for a virus, or any multitude of other stupid shit. Before they've even hit the parking lot, their cell phone beeps with a solicitation to give a review.

Then we had customers who would deliberately game the system. They would rush in immediately to get a test when they knew that they'd been exposed, so that they could get themselves and their kids negative test results that they would wave around and use as an excuse to get let back into school. They didn't like the fact that the note said on it that even if the test was negative, CDC still recommended that they quarantine until they were symptom free for 7-10 days.

Back when all this rating nonsense started about 20 years ago, there were posters all over the place reminding us that the only acceptable rating was a 5 star rating. Hospitals all over America dinged doctors, particularly in the ER, if they didn't get 4.5-5 star averages. I knew doctors who were fired because of this. This was largely responsible for the over prescription of opioids because if people didn't get their fix, they knew to blast the doctors. Well, that and using "pain" as "the fifth vital sign" where staff had to take patients at their word -- if they said their pain was a "10 out of 10" but were sitting there texting on their cell phone and eating a bag of chips, the nurses were told they had to believe them and give them pain medications.

And here we are.

Jokes aside about Thanksgiving...

The difference is that food is part of(*) rights to an adequate standard of living as per Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Not dying of starvation is a fundamental human right.

So yeah, I get that you're joking about somebody throwing an excessively opulent Thanksgiving party and then complaining that it costs a bit much.

But making sure that every single person has access to sufficient food is a core job that government has to do(**). You can make jokes around what constitutes "sufficient", but you can't deny that nobody should die of starvation.
On the other hand, making sure that your Ponzi scheme doesn't implode before you had time to make it to the bank isn't the government's job. At best government's job would be to regulate in order to make it less likely that unsuspecting idiots get caught up in such scams.

(**): Yes, I understand that from the US' point of view, I am an evil Euro-communist and my country is some socialist hell-hole.

(*): along with "clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."

You do understand that government budgets don't work like balancing your home expenses, right?

I had the misfortune of working for a company that tied their bonuses and employment evaluations based on this five-star record crap. This was in medicine. So my "approval" was based on stupid shit like how satisfied they were with the front desk staff, which I explicitly had no control over. Then a bunch of the senior members in the corporation were gaming the situation, doing things like hijacking the dumbass messages that they sent to patients(*) that most didn't respond to.

* -- The system that they had would keep a log of all text messages sent to patients. As soon as the patient was discharged, it would send a text message to the patient asking them for an evaluation. These clowns would hijack it and give a 5-star review. If the patient actually bothered to respond to it, it would then say something like "Thank you for your review" and not even prompt them. They used this to scam the entire system.

And yes, this place was an utter shithole to work in, and it's the only place in my history that I actually went out of my way to get myself fired. If I'd quit, they had a clause that I had to pay $30,000 if I didn't give a 90 day notice. (I kid you not.) To this day, they are still posting ads trying to snare people for about 50% of the market rate for physicians.

The entire idea of the 5-star system is stupid. By definition, average would be 3-stars. But try explaining this to the legions of dumbass MBAs running things.

Look, it's not just that iOS 26 has bugs. Bugs are fine. All software has bugs.

But iOS 26 is incoherent. It makes the system less intuitive and harder to use. It reneges on design principles laid down in Apple's Human Interface guidelines. I don't even mind how flashy it is--the glass effect really IS cool sometimes. But touch targets are worse, information bleed-through is confusing, and it does the EXACT OPPOSITE of the claimed design intention to show you more of your content. The UI is bigger and more in your way at every turn. You can see less of what you want to see at any given time in a measurable way. (Seriously, people have measured it.)

Try this out: take a screenshot. Go into the screenshot interface. The control to delete the screenshot is under the checkmark, not the X. The X dismisses the screenshot but also deletes it, though it doesn't give any indication that it's going to delete the screenshot. Now if you take a screenshot of THAT screenshot, it adds a second one, fine. But if you go into the checkmark, your option is to delete BOTH. If you tap the X, NOW there's a control to delete just one.

Apple's stuff really did used to be simpler and more usable, based on tested and measurable design principles. Design wasn't just a look, it was also a science that included usability and interaction.

Alan Dye has ruined every interface he's come into contact with. I was on board with the iOS 7 flat-design revolution even with all its flaws, but we're in a whole different, unusable space now. Bring Scott Forestall back.

Gentoo FTW! /s

How many people did they get to harass just because they were having electricity usage, that they are paying for, which was "too high?" Some peoples' usage is going to be higher just because they work from home, enjoy their air conditioning, and maybe have a server farm or something.