Why can't "cool new thing X" ever be discussed on its own merits, without insanely hyperbolic comparisons to "sci-fi trope Y" that it's entirely different from?

"3D printer - it's a Replicator!"
"VR headset - Holodeck!"
"Shitty voice input - Artificial Intelligence!"

It gets pretty silly.

You mean driven the price of "legitimately worth $350" headphones to $500?

Have you seen the Denon line post-AHD2000? I attribute that abomination entirely to the "Us too! Let's be Beats!!!" syndrome.

Beats owns the "high-end fashion accessory" segment of a technology-oriented market - seems like a perfect fit with Apple.

They're making money hand-over-fist (I assume?) selling shitty headphones at silly prices, why should it mean anything more than that to Apple?

No one expects you to take anything as fact.

Those numbers do, on the other hand, sound plausible for a project of that type and size. Including the breakdown between different languages.

Whereas the 500m number is absurd on its face. You're not expected to take away more than that.

One of the experts they hired to fix it, rewrote the entire front end Perl.

So, what's the other 500 lines, then?

I can see how the organization is limited, but yeah, I usually just have a queue of 3-5 unread books. I've only had it for 3 years, though, and that's not a long-enough time frame for me to re-read something.

I haven't found the Kindle to be of much use for tech books and journals: it would need to be at least A4-sized and much sharper (and probably color) for that.

What I would appreciate is better within-book search, and more functional "X-Ray" (that's actually available for more than 1 book in 10).

Not sure what that glitch refers to, I don't think I've ever experienced it on the touch (4th gen). At most, I hit the menu area instead of turning the page every once in a while.

Odd, I read a lot of non-Amazon content on my Kindle. Must be using it wrong...

It's a book reader, only two things matter: screen quality and the ease of getting books on it.

I would've included battery life, but that's been a solved issue with the Kindle from the beginning.

None of the "killer" features listed would do a damn to improve the reading experience, and some of them would be very annoying. Didn't the whole Siri debacle finally demonstrate that no one wants to yell at their devices?

Isn't the incidence of new cases in Africa something like over 5,000 a day?

Docs and Sheets definitely doesn't sound like a store you would find between Staples and Linens & Things.

Bought these speakers when they came out in 1999, still in use, doesn't seem like I'll ever need a new set.

And another vote for Cowon - the X5 was built like a damn tank!

Up next: do you really need source control?

Is transmission speed an issue with long distance electrical cables?

Oh good, this shit.