I've tried to make this point several times to folks in the industry. I work in AI, and yet every time I approach some people with "you know it ultimately just repeats patterns", I'm met with scoffs and those people telling me I'm just not "seeing the big picture".
But I am, and the truth is that there are limits. This tech is not the digital singularity the marketers and business goons want everyone to think it is.
The windscreen is made from high-tech Apple SpaceGlass, and the integrated HUD (*Pro car only) presents all non-Apple cars as green bubbles in real time
My sentiments exactly. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, as annoying as they can be. Now that I'm not using reddit I wish them the best of luck wreaking havoc.
Apple isn't necessarily doing anything specifically innovative
I don't think they have really innovated for quite some time. But that said, they do know their market. They've got tons of people in the ecosystem and simply have to maintain them. It's a lot easier than courting new users.
I'm hanging on to a 20-year-old compact for dear life because I really cannot replace it. Everything is comparatively giant and very expensive. Plus it all sucks. I don't want a subscription car. And please give me real buttons.
As a renter, I have no way to charge an electric car nightly. The availability of charging infrastructure outside of private homes will be more and more of an issue, unless battery tech significantly improves to be at parity with gas (e.g. I spend 10 minutes at a public charger as if I were filling a gas car).
The whole damn system exists to place the burden of a living wage on the customer while the company paying peanuts can claim no wrongdoing. And the really sad part is: it has worked.
Edit: and there are many, many businesses that wouldn't be in business if they actually had to pay competitive wages on their own. The invisible hand can fix nothing if tipping culture says to throw more and more arbitrary amounts of money at people to subsidize their wages yourself. At some point (I'd argue we're past it already), the band-aid needs to get ripped off. Only then will we see self-correction. The almost immediate loss of many businesses will likely trigger other actions. It's already a no-win scenario.
Apparently LUnix was originally designed for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128. I didn't know such a thing existed for 6502-based systems.
Sounds like it's time for me to raid the closet. The Commodore 128 is a strange beast (considering the Z80 coprocessor that effectively does nothing, unless you boot CP/M) but playing with a tiny Unix-like OS on it seems like a fun project.
I mean, you're debating the meaning of "accurate representation". We may as well debate the meaning of perception, too, but I don't think it changes the point of my original argument.
I've tried to make this point several times to folks in the industry. I work in AI, and yet every time I approach some people with "you know it ultimately just repeats patterns", I'm met with scoffs and those people telling me I'm just not "seeing the big picture".
But I am, and the truth is that there are limits. This tech is not the digital singularity the marketers and business goons want everyone to think it is.