Probably not, but hey you never know.

Over time, the cost basis for production in China will go down. Chinese industry has been dumping for years.

I don't think I'll go to a concert and see the drummer tapping away furiously at an iPad.

Nope...more likely these days, you'll see the performer(s) miming to a backing track because they can't play or sing live...sadly.

Does a car move at 100 mph the instant you step hard on the accelerator?

A good one does in about 6 seconds or so....

So we likely will stop at the peat stage

Hey, that's cool....

As long as all this "green" movement doesn't endanger our continued manufacturing of good single malt scotch!!!

I avoid a million dollar lawsuit by paying attention when I am driving and not driving like an asshole.

And...don't forget...staying off the fucking phone!!!

Do your tail lights include radar for detection of vehicles in your blind spot...(?)

God I hope NOT...

Current safety inspections do not test these as there are no standard, non-destructive, tests.

You know not all states require "safety inspections", right?

I'd rather have a car that is MORE basic...take out all the stuff I don't need..I don't need 500 sensors outside the car.

I've been driving long enough to not need lane warnings, I really don't need cameras everywhere, I don't use them...I'm old school and actually turn my HEAD to look where I need to look...and use my mirrors.

This stuff not only is $$ in a minor fender bender, but upfront costs...and maintenance cost. I mean God help you if you get electrical system gremlins in your car.

I want my car to accelerate when I want it to...stop when I want it to and go the direction I steer.

I dont' need a lot of other crap to babysit me.

Then China has already achieved its goal despite what ShanghaiBill might say to the contrary. Why raise prices if their margins are already great and their only competition is themselves? Besides, destroying foreign industry has strategic value along with economic value.

Did they destroy the EU solar industry?

We don't always have a choice in the matter.

Best to keep wars on someone else's soil.

I'm not sure what that proves, exactly? 2011 was just 13 years ago. It hasn't been that long. I think most of us here have non-Apple hardware as old and older that's still gets regular use.

Well, we're talking about iPads here...or, tablets in general.

The iPads DO have longevity...my iPad Pro from 2017 (I mistakenly said 2015 earlier) is chugging right along, good battery life still, and has held up on a LOT of traveling.

I use it pretty much daily.

Yes, "only" about 7+ years....but anecdotally, most of my friends have burned through 3-6 Android tablets over this time....

And with the iPads...you could generally in the past get better hardware on them....my Android friend back in the day was blow away that I could get .5 TB onboard storage on a tablet that size...apparently Android didn't have an option back then.

The iPad / Apple Pencil combo, is very hard to beat for creatives....using apps like the Affinity Suite (Photo, Designer, Publisher)...Procreate...FCPX and nowadays...Davinci Resolve.

You can run some VERY powerful art/photo/video apps on the iPad....and while the Android and Windows tablets are catching up, all of these apps pretty much first came out on the Apple tablets.

And the new iPad pro's announced today, with the M4 chips can out spec MANY full blow laptops out there on the market.

They are pricy, but I find in the tablet market, you get what you pay for in many cases.

I can take my art work on the road with me easily with the iPad....I can work on things easily on the plane or pool side....and not have to lug around a laptop to get the same power and apps.

Most of the time, the apps that run on the iPad are not paired down, weaker versions of the desktop version...they are the full blown versions only adapted for non-keyboard use...

That's not the story for these apps on other tablet platforms...at least not from what I've found.

I've seen renders of some pretty difficult things (high megapixel, 15+ shot focus stacking ) render on the iPad quicker than the same job on a laptop...

This is nice to have in such a light, easily transportable package.