Wall Street got used to Intel having literally no competition for any kind of workstation CPU. AMD was being propped up by Microsoft and frankly Intel too for the longest time. It wasn't until the Ryzens that they started to catch up.

Landing the contracts for the PlayStation and Xbox really helped on the gaming front because they put an underpowered CPU in both forcing developers to finally switch to multicore programming in order to get the kind of performance they needed out of the consoles. Until then the CPU and the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 were so much more powerful than the gpus that everything was just single threaded and maybe occasionally they'd use a core to decompress audio

these days until has serious competition in their main space. And it's been like that for years. Neither company has been able to compete with the mobile processor manufacturers on power efficiency.

The only problem here is that we have to worry about Wall Street plundering and gutting Intel for short-term gains similar to what's happening to Tesla right now. If that happens they'll fall massively behind because they won't have the capital to keep up with AMD and we'll be back to one CPU manufacturer

Apple is the undisputed leader in tablets. Their phones are on par with the best of their competitors...and it's a very active sector. IMO, their laptops are far better than their competitors. So while there are no earth-shattering innovations in tablets or laptops in the last 3 years, there are subtle refinements and as a leader, they have different pressures. Stuff has to work...it has to work for a broad base of people. If Samsung screws up a folding phone...no one cares. Only early adopters bought it. If Apple screws up the iPhone 16, they will get sued. There will be a massive cost. I've worked for a tiny startup and now I work for a massive software company...the dynamics are much different...a small mistake is no big deal when you have no paying customers. When you have billions on the line, your innovation will be measured, but I view it as equally innovative. Also, I view innovation as relative. I will complain about my iPad when the competitors release a noticeably better version. Same with the laptop or phone. So subtle things like wireless charging adapters that actually work for laptops, like magsafe, are both innovative and HUGE...I wish I could get one on a lenovo...the only remotely close laptop I've seen in the last 10 years are the Surface tablet/laptop hybrids....from Microsoft.

You're welcome to hipster this and claim Apple & MS aren't "innovative"...but MS is holding up well against the competition and they have some really fierce competitors. Apple is way ahead of the market in most categories. Very few companies of their size innovate better. I will still grade Apple as quite good in the innovation category...mostly because I've recently used products from their competitors: laptops, tablets, and phones. You're welcome to complain, but until theri competition clearly beats them, I'm going to have to push back on that one.

No. Nintendo switch sales and even PS5 sales have been strong. There just isn't a lot of reason to buy an Xbox.

Microsoft has bought up tons and tons of developers so they could lock the games to their platforms but the problem with that is modern games are so incredibly expensive they can't really afford to let the PlayStation 5 platform go unless they want to massively subsidize their gaming division and their CEO doesn't like that. Hell even Sony is talking about putting their games out on the Xbox.

For multiplayer games that are focused on moving DLC yeah you want to keep it in your ecosystem so you can take that cut of the DLC revenue but for single player games the money is paid on the sale of the game itself so you need it on every single platform you can manage to squeeze it on. Especially when you consider every one of these consoles except the switch is just a PC.

the word you were looking for is "smarter". They smell your bullshit and they're not buying it.

As a kid I could be tricked into working *really* fucking hard for *really* low pay. Took a long time to grow out of that. My kid fell into it too, really pissed me off.

As an American you're taught from day 1 that your life isn't valuable and the only thing that makes it valuable is hard work.

so that we can start a cold war. Russia has dropped off as a threat now that they can't take a nation the size of California and the GDP of Mississippi. EVs will gradually make the middle east irrelevant too.

Without a threat they'll be a winding down our military spending, so China's on tap. For their part I'm sure they could use a little of the old MIC to keep their economy going. Not the best way to do socialism but I guess it works after a fashion.

Microsoft does this periodically to drive sales for their OEMs. It's why Vista was so dog slow. It was literally meant to sell more hardware. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Apple is a darling of financial performance and innovation. Microsoft is doing amazing lately on similar fronts, especially in gaming and cloud services. Your list is not meaningful. Apple & MS don't have a lot in common with Oracle, IBM, and HP in regards to industry perception or performance in their sectors. Most perceive Oracle, IBM, and HP to be legacy players at this point, especially in their core offerings.

I personally wish more tech companies offered dividends...so everyday consumers can hold on to the stock and make money...so all the gains don't go to day traders or those who are exceptional at long-term planning.

It means that whoever has the most coins gets to make the rules and that's going to be whoever set up the blockchain. If you want to throw your money away there are plenty of better ways to do it.

The other side of the bad guys because they use violence against left wing protesters at three times the rate of right wing protesters. Also go look up some videos on unite the right in particular the one from YouTuber Shaun. This is very much a left right thing because the left wing is on the right side of History.

Remember the words left and right in a political context come from the left and right wings of the French assembly during their revolution. The right wing were monarchists and the left wing were in favor of democracy. In other words the right wing is and always has been about obedience to the people in power instead of self-rule.

And that's exactly what the protests in question were about. In particular the 93% peaceful protests I talked about earlier what about people being told to sit down, shut up and obey. I hear a lot of talk about not being told what to do from people on the right wing but my experience is they're not upset about being told what to do they're upset about being told what to do by voters instead of by somebody higher up the totem pole than they are

Thanks I should have thought of that it seems so obvious when somebody says it. I'm actually surprised that hasn't shown up as a risk in Apple's stock reports. The iMessage Mafia is that big a deal.

Also hilariously I wonder if iMessage is gradually going to become associated with old people like regular SMS messaging is. I think it definitely will if Apple doesn't do something to stop it and I just wonder what that something might be

For their kids iPhone they absolutely do not keep their phones longer. After 2 years like clockwork and iPhone starts to have weird behavior. Most commonly this is because the battery is wearing out and the software is doing all sorts of weird tricks to hide that from the user. Those weird tricks cause all sorts of headaches most notably you'll start to get messages late because the phone isn't driving the radio is hard in an effort to spare battery life.

Meanwhile I'm at three and a half years and I'm just now thinking of replacing my Android battery because it doesn't last as long through the day. But the phone's performance hasn't degraded I just have to charge it halfway through the day.

iPhone users yeah they can just get a new battery but I speak from experience they don't want a new battery they want a new phone. And with the way cell phones are sold through carriers most of the time they're just going to get one and pay an extra 20 or 30 a month to have it rather than the 60 or 70 it costs to replace the battery. Not very economical but I can hardly complain if they're not buying a bunch of new computer hardware every few years like I do. Never did get the kid into PC gaming.

in an effort to get the people who make a living off tik toks to lobby congress. Which is silly. If they were going to do this they should've done it months ago.

They also did something *really* dumb. If you've got the app installed they sent a noticed to call your congress critter about the "ban". Which a lot of people did. Which sounds great, but if you're trying to convince a Congressman that your app can't influence American politics that's probably not the best way to do it...

None of this matters since as others have pointed out they can just buy all our data from x.com and Facebook (mostly Facebook, does anyone really still use x.com?) and use that for election interference.

93% of the recent protests were peaceful. Of that 7% it was almost entirely counter protestors. Google "autozone window guy", or look up who started those fires at the 2 police stations (hint, it was right wing provocateurs). I guess there was that one girl who got run over at the "Unite the Right" protest, but while terrible that was one murder. I don't think even they turned over any cars.

That's protests. There were some minor riots and burned cars after the last super bowl, if that's what you mean. But those are football hooligans (or Soccer if you're a Yank like me).

I mean, if you're on the left wing you need to keep it *very* buttoned up. For one thing cops are 3 times more likely to use violence against you and for another the Supreme Court just shut down pretty much all left wing protests since if literally *anything* goes south the organizes can be held liable, even if it's just some rando counter protestor causing trouble... which of course they will now.

This isn't about viewpoints. One side is about objective reality and the other side isn't. it's up to you to pick a side.

USDC has missed it "peg" (e.g. it's dropped to a value of below a dollar) more than once, and there's a *lot* of evidence that it's been off it's peg for ages and that market manipulation is hiding it (google it).

It's primarily used to get real money (e.g. fiat currency) into and out of the crypto markets.

We learned from a recent story that minting $1m in crypto costs around $3.5m. We all know what's making crypto run these days is crime of one form or another. Money laundering mostly.

That's all well and good, but integrating that into our main line economy is eventually going to cause a massive crash that'll hit us all. If we let that happen it'll make 2008 look like the .com boom days.

Instead of a cooperative one then or gradually going to see profit go away as an important metric. That's because we're going to gradually become a kind of neo feudal civilization with a very very tiny handful of kings and queens at the top (socially we will probably still call them CEOs or just company owners) a tiny handful of people who serve and protect them and then a massive number of people living in staggeringly abject poverty.

You're kind of assuming that everything is going to stay the way it is socially because it's really hard to think of those kind of massive social changes to completely remake the fabric of our civilization. But with the huge automation pushes going on and more and more and more consolidation every year into the hands of a smaller group of people at some point they're just going to take their ball and go home and they're going to have ai-powered drones and robots that will gun anyone down who tries to fuck with them.

Again this all assumes we stay on the course we're on right to the moment. There are plenty of people who can see this coming and are trying to do something about it. And younger voters are smart enough to know it's coming. It's just a question of whether or not the major world powers are going to be democracies long enough. The older generation is hell-bent on giving up democracy for a variety of stupid reasons and if democracy goes we lose that fight and we become a Neo feudal dystopia.