Source: I have worked for 2 EV companies in the last 14 years, with a significant amount of that time spent aggregating exactly the sort of problem statements claimed by GM to exist. Spoiler: The data doesn't support the claim. Even if you account for new infotainment systems, it's really not going to take more than about 12-24 months to find and fix most or all of the corner cases customers report, and those are mostly from 2nd tier phones that aren't Apple, Google (Pixel), or Samsung. If GM is rational, they are using the same embedded infotainment OS from one vehicle model to the next, drastically cutting down on total R&D.

From personal experience, I have used an old Samsung Galaxy Note 9 for the last several years with multiple vehicles either in pure bluetooth mode or more commonly in Android Auto mode and experience none of the issues this guy from GM is talking about. It's plain to see they have an ulterior motive, so to all you GM buyers out there: caveat emptor.

Google and Apple are both acting as though there's no safe way to spend money in applications without their "protection". Protection in this case means you don't stay in business if you don't do business their way. Can you imagine how much extra money everything would cost if buying anything else from e-tailers like Amazon also had to pass through the protection racket? This cash-cow needs to be slaughtered

Amen, brother. If I could get it to remove the weird gamer app folder that imposes cpu throttling and the like, I'd be all over that.

to pay for the advertising blitz coming to your Sunday NFL games

Agreed. It very much feels like the wealth of the US economy is built on good feelings and not structural soundness.

It's a ponzi scheme. Nothing of material value is created by crypto, people are merely betting they are smarter than the next guy who comes along and buys it at a higher price using actual dollars. Unlike a company that makes CPUs, produces fossil fuels, writes software, provides tangible services, etc., crypto is purely an abstract of greed dressed up like it's a real product. It's not. Nobody should feel sympathy for the greedy folks who lose money "investing" in a money-stealing endeavor.

Wow, looking her up was eye-opening...

against Stephen King

"Meteor Lake processors are expected to ship in late 2023 or early 2024 in new laptops with thinner and lighter designs, better cooling, and much better battery life"

Do they mean that regardless of the chip's features, laptops must have better cooling and battery life? Or do they mean that this new architecture will facilitate thinner laptops that don't need robust levels of cooling seen in current designs, leading to better battery life? I assume it's the latter, but it's actually hard to tell from the wording

All the people snapping up cryptocurrencies aren't investors, they are speculators betting they are less stupid than the people they expect to sell their cryptocurrencies to in some future where arbitrary demand has increased while nothing of material value was produced. It's not just the institutions that are forming the ponzi scheme, it's also the thousands of speculators who expect to profit from this nonsense. I have no sympathy for any of them

But definitely the story we needed

This sure sounds like it was written by a management-friendly author. "The poor, hapless manager had no idea their people would be pissed about returning to long commutes, re-juggling childcare, and losing the extra personal time they had gained in the 2+ prior years", wrote the tone-deaf idiot whose feeble attempts to curry sympathy from the millions of Americans who knew that returning to office was going to suck.

They needed researchers to figure this out? Really?

Time to throw in the towel for hydrogen, guys.

Disney wants to sells streaming, but Iger thinks "too much" original streaming content nukes theater performance. Maybe, but if you aren't creating that content then dropping my Disney+ subscription is a really easy decision.

In my view, the movie theater experience is dying in part because of exorbitant pricing at the theaters. In the SF bay area, seemingly all the mainstream theaters have ripped out the smaller seats and replaced them with much larger, unasked for seats, coupled with outrageous prices. To take my two sons out for a 2 hour movie, we have $14.50 each + popcorn and sodas costing perhaps another $20. Now we're in for about $63.00 which buys me about 4 months of Disney+ with all that lovely original content AND the movie that was in the theater just 3-4 months earlier.

I don't think streaming services are the cause of poor theatrical performance. Rather, they are a response to a fundamentally broken theater industry.

Gassing up may be an inconvenience, but the only real thing to hate about the experience is the price being passed along from the oil industry. Now if it's a contest of hating Comcast vs. Chevron / Exxon-Mobil / Royal Dutch Shell / etc., that's an epic battle for an American's hatred