Ok this is napkin math, but the average iPhone age to replacement is about four years now, and there are approx. 190 million iPhones in current use. Apple's battery replacement peaked last year at about 10 million batteries. If we double that to account for non-Apple repair shops to 20 million (which is probably way, way higher than normal), we still have only about 40% of iPhone users changing their batteries during the life of the device. So yes, in fact, most people that buy an iPhone don't ever expect to replace the battery. They just replace the phone.

ELIZA: That is interesting. Please continue.

Ah, interesting. Yeah I do understand why Intel would want to do that for corporate customers, but I also understand what a terrible, terrible security issue that is. Thanks!

No trusted CA is going to give you a signed certificate for an Intel domain.

https://xkcd.com/538/

That is... fascinating. Wow.

It's the same thing as the McRib. Just sayin'. No reason we can't have the McRib all year. NO REASON!

The two Starlink satellites were just proof-of-concept test satellites. These six satellites are the first of the fully finished production satellites. I'd say OneWeb is ahead of Starlink, not the other way around.

This should have more upvotes. The difference is that with a fiat currency, the actual âoemoneyâ is an abstract concept that can be fixed as needed, and the register is just something to help keep track of it. With BitCoin, the transaction âoeregisterâ is the âoeactual money valueâ, and thatâ(TM)s why things like this can happen.

Yep and then in both of these cases the evidence will be thrown out of court. The point isn't to stop the police from being physically able to do something, it's to take away the incentive. If using the fingerprints they gathered when they booked you to unlock your phone results in the whole case being thrown out of court for lack of admissible evidence, and a civil counter-suit quickly filed by the person who was arrested, the police are going to stop doing that. Quickly. As someone once said on this board, it's the Judicial version of "Judge Hulk SMASH."

"the report concludes that artificial intelligence will disrupt the industry by allowing early adopters to outmaneuver competitors" Uh, yeah. Like steam engines or telephones. "The dynamics of machine learning create a strong incentive to network the back office" Umm... like the same thing as using a CRM. Or email. Don't get me wrong - AI terrifies me in a lot of ways. But I'm not worried about these kinds of risks. Seem silly.

"Corporate isn't really our target audience, so this is a low priority issue." Yeah, corporate SALES are not their target SALES audience. Guess who is their target audience? Higher-income corporate employees, mostly. Who need to connect to their work accounts. It's amazing how narrow-sighted their approach to playing nicely with ActiveSync is. It makes all of their most valuable individual customers extremely frustrated.

Right to repair doesn't matter when the manufacturer designs them as disposable, and their "warranty" is a "replacement warranty". You'll never be able to force manufacturers to design a crappier product held together by screws and zip ties, when it makes more sense to build one welded together or filled with epoxy. I don't want a phone, frankly, where you can remove the buttons with a screwdriver. I want a phone that is compact and feels really sturdy, like one piece, backed by the manufacturer being willing to just swap it out if it fails.

Lol ok, point taken.

When the median house price in San Francisco is over $1.6m, using the 1/3rds rule, you need to be making $533k in salary to realistically own a home there. People are starting to realize you can live on an acre of horse property, with an eight bedroom mansion, in most of the rest of the country and still have money left over to feed the horses for the same amount. And the startup talent in SF is also mostly becoming kids that think they know how to be successful because they have a cool idea for an app, with no business or technology training or experience...