I was super excited about the ROG Phone, until they said it was going to cost more than a grand. This is a market that is *DEFINED* by annual spec upgrades, and they want me to spend what a good laptop used to cost, every year? No thanks.

Old people. My ability to use the always-connected miracle device in my pocket to do quick research on questions, store useless facts, and connect to virtually anyone in the world at at least near-real-time means that I have more grey-matter-space available for flexible thinking and problem solving. Old people are convinced that people spend too much time on their phones and that it has a negative impact on their social lives. Yes, grandpa, no one stretches the phone cord out of the room to have a private conversation anymore...

"Bitcoin is expensive to make, so it's going to go up in price! Idiots!" Someone took off early from Econ 101, only got through the 'Supply' side of the lecture. Might want to go back and freshen up on the 'Demand' notes the smart people took while you were off spending your virtual millions...

We recently upgraded to a newer, high-end 75" 4k HDR blah blah TV in our main multimedia space, which has ~8-10 feet between the seating center point and the screen. I got some fancy, 4k/HiFi content (and the corresponding 1080/HD media) to experiment with, and the difference is impressive. I can legitimately see a difference in my setup between the super-Hi content and the 'traditional' stuff.

Reading about 4k screens on 6" (or less!) phones has been *laughably* ridiculous, because even if I could reliably pump streamed content at max quality worth actually watching, it's physically impossible to tell the difference without shoving the phone in front of my face. Sure, if I were doing some kind of VR-style thing it might make more sense, but there is 0 reason for YouTube to serve me 90% of the videos I watch in 4k without corresponding leaps and bounds in the creation and distribution of that content. Hell, even for gaming, my 'enthusiast' PC gaming rig still can't reliably spit out compromise-free 4k content that I'm rendering locally, and unless I'm showing off, I turn down Ultra specs so I get smoother framerates and cooler temps.

not a few people have been holding off on purchasing any computer from its line in fear of getting stuck with a keyboard that doesn't work

Alternatively, not a few people have decided that overpaying for average-at-best and generation-old-at-worst hardware isn't necessary. I'm not saying they've finally realized that Apple treats non-mobile users as second-class customers, they just have no real reason to upgrade until some arbitrary OS update isn't available for their computer because the sales guys wanted to spike numbers this quarter.

It's also (at least as of 6-8 months ago when we demo'd it) completely unready for Primetime Enterprise use, with flaky mobile implementation and a configuration that feels like the bad old days of setting up stuff like phpBB.

So, Walt Mossberg for a new generation? Shutup!

Fair enough. I shudder whenever I have to support some decades-old business process that sad middle aged white guy conservatives cling to at the expense of efficiency and flexibility in design because every engineer they hired (and god forbid it was a woman) was ignored because they were under 40 and just don't know anything, so I guess it balances out.

Talking about Earnings and Revenue is, by definition, Technicals.

Patently untrue, and has been for years. While many Pot shops do business in cash, it's largely because setting up the merchant services contract for a D-rated service class is a *HUGE* hassle and it's 'easier' to just run cash only. Now that Pot is getting more public acceptance (and regulatory discretion,) you're seeing middle-men shift their risk burden from garbage like 'Adult Services' (ie, escorts) and Vacation Timeshares to Dispensaries. Honestly, most white collar people I know who use (Denver) now don't bother with the cash only places since it's a huge inconvenience.

"As a turbine engineer, I disagree." Vintage Slashdot, an *ACTUAL* expert in the field telling someone they are full of it.

Long, well informed comment with references, jokes, and asides? 5 digit UID? Brings me back to the glory days of /. when I was browsing using my dad's account...