If they have space for a USB C then they have space for a SIM. That said I like e-SIMs for their convenience and don't really care if they disappear. But the iPhone Air itself is clearly a gimped device which will be difficult to repair and so fragile that people will put it in a case negating any reason for it to be thin in the first place. I'm sure some fools will drop cash for this thing, common sense be damned.

Well duh if you just read a little to the end of my comment you'd see an example. There is plenty happening outside of Apple that Apple aren't doing - phones that are repairable, modular, made from sustainable materials etc. or form factors like flip displays, or ruggedized devices. Instead they just crap out more of the same - expensive, highly difficult to repair devices with built in obsolescence.

And btw I'd reserve some of the same criticisms for other manufacturers. But Apple are the flagship for e-waste designs and they should be held to accountable for it.

New models of existing products, zero innovation. As for a thin phone - good luck trying to repair it when it breaks. I bet most people put their phones in cases anyway so it seems monumentally stupid to buy something thin when it'll be stuck in a slab to protect it. I'd be more impressed if Apple produced a ruggedized phone, one with replaceable battery, screen and other components.

IBM has a corporate culture where innovation, free thinking, moving fast etc are alien concepts. It's managers all the way up (and down). Sales and contracts matter more than ideas. Everything is grey. I assume that's why Red Hat has managed to survive semi independently until now because total assimilation would be the kiss of death. Not to mention IBM's penchant for getting rid of people or making their life so intolerable with petty rules they leave of their own accord.

These low earth orbit satellites have very low latency. Probably no different from what you'd get from a terrestrial system. The bigger issue is contention - the more people under the footprint of a single satellite, the slower your speeds will be. Service could start out with brilliant rates and then slowly suck over time as more people start using it.

Just because someone is on the toilet reading news doesn't mean they're straining the whole time or otherwise altering the duration of time they're actually crapping while there.

The Call of Duty series has been liberally stealing movie scenes and plots to produce it's lame pastiches ever since its inception. And now we're going to get a regurgitation in movie form. I'm sure it won't feel like AI generated slop with a lame script, lame plot that manages to beat every trope to death.

Especially Canada but also Mexico, Europe, Australia etc. The Dickhead in Chief has turned a lot of people off America as a destination. Probably doesn't help that tariffs make the USA a TERRIBLE value proposition. People used to go to the US for bargains but tariffs mean there aren't any. Even domestic tourism must be tanking as people see their earnings swallowed up by inflated prices.

A family plan no less. I don't get it unless content providers are compensated and hack out all the bullshit sponsorship segments.

Restaurants must be laughing because they can sell water in a fancy looking bottle for 5x markup. The bottle probably costs more to make than the water in it.

No. You do own the licence, subject to its terms it grants you right to the content. The licence is yours forever. That doesn't mean your access to the content is forever. And since nobody reads what the licence says, they are unaware of the many ways that the provider can screw them over.

You need something to represent ownership of digital content. A signed token with a distributed backend makes sense.

When you "buy" an electronic book, audio, video or software you're actually buying a licence. You don't OWN squat except that licence subject to terms that nobody ever reads.

The only way that will ever change is if a power block like the EU forces laws on digital content that imbue it with similar rights as physical content - to sell, loan, donate, or destroy as you see fit regardless of where the content was purchased. That might need some kind of block chain to represent a token of ownership and mechanism to facilitate these other things but it is eminently achievable.

And the way to incentivize industry is to whack a 20% tax on licence purchases that the digital content token is exempt from so there is an immediate incentive to shift to the common format.

People don't like cameras pointing in their faces. It's a violation of personal privacy and only tolerate it in limited ways, for law enforcement and so on. So anyone filming a conversation or using a camera for facial recognition or anything else is liable to get punched or worse. And honestly they deserve it.

And hostility isn't a new phenomena. I remember some years ago a guy who foolishly had a camera surgically attached to his face received a beating from some French McDonalds employees who took offence to it. Some countries take privacy even more seriously and will resort to violence when it is violated.

This. I do not understand this behavior. Especially when they move their horizontal phone between their mouth and ear, so they can hear the call better.

Why don't people use their phone as it was originally designed? You know, with putting the better speaker right up to their ear? Are people really that stupid?