No matter your feelings about the BSDs, especially OpenBSD, they are often at the forefront of new features that eventually make it to Linux... Linux still treats ext4 and xfs as the new hotness, when FreeBSD has the best ZFS implementation around... And without OpenBSD we wouldn't have LibreSSL or OpenSSH.

What Apple has tended to do is pick up tiny companies with a vision but limited reach, to uplift the ideas... Think FingerWorks, who once upon a time was a tiny Slashdot darling for their TouchStream input devices but not reaching much commercial success. Apple snapped them up and worked their gesture tech into their devices, and pretty much launched multitouch gestures into the mainstream.

Remember how pre-iPhone, every handset maker was basically riffing on the "square screen plus chicklet keyboard" form factor in some way or another? We're at that phase of VR tech. The lowest bar to say they're doing the thing... With no real inspiration of what to do with it. GUIs were in the same place in 1984. Portable computers in 1991. PDAs in 1993 Phones in 2007. Tablets in 2010 (and to be fair most of the industry they still are). Each of these categories were in a basic pre-historic state until a single company taught the industries how they're supposed to work. Check back in a year to see if most headset manufacturers are redesigning their kit to match a fruity version.

Aren't they and Gurman the ones who said we were getting slab-sided Apple Watch for certain? Grain of salt folks.

.. It's well known that science and reality have a well-known liberal bias.

One of the problems the VR/AR market has felt so far is a lack of guidance - Meta and others don't really know what to DO with one, because Apple hasn't told them what people want yet. Maybe the market will change when Samsung and others have a real product to copy again.

This just in - billionaire tech-bro liars who often lie lied about a project.

1. This deal makes Sony look like a petulant hold-out, with little to defend their recalcitrance on the Activision merger.
2. I have no doubt that MS would like very much to have a Switch client for Xbox Live that would open up a huge audience to their subscriptions when their other markers are pretty much saturated, and would make Apple look like a hold-out against that "progress"

What I want from the deal? Bethesda back catalog ports. Skyrim on Switch means there should be no reason Fallout 4 can't run there, and I'd pay well for Fallout 3 and NV to come over. Dishonored series, Prey, any other Arkane titles... Mostly insta-buys.

For all the whining out there...

Apple is offering the exact same parts, documentation and tools their engineers specced into the design process for repairs, to do service to the same standard as an authorized repair would be done. This should help ensure the same kind of long-term reliability Apple customers have come to expect from their products, which has not been the case when I have personally had third-party part repairs done to reduce costs on out-of-warranty devices over the years.

Every time I've had a repair done with a non-authorized part, it's been a joke. iPad screens that develop dead-touch zones or color-drift most notably, or premature-death batteries across devices. With Genuine Apple repairs I've never had anything like that.

Past performance is not indicative of future results

Every re-infection has a new chance of Long Covid symptoms, and there's evidence of cumulative damage between infections. Covid isn't like the flu, the cold, or any other virus we've learned to live with in the modern era of vaccination and herd immunity (which in itself has all suffered with idiots refusing to get vaccinated leading to reemergence of diseases we'd eradicated from community transmission eg polio.)

Friendly reminder that Apple HomeKit Security video is end-to-end encrypted, so Apple couldn't give the video to law enforcement even if they wanted to... It's almost like they care about security/privacy (or understand that both go hand in hand).

By existing on every existing M1/2 or recent A-series chip without adding a new video card? By being on a billion devices that already exist and cost less than a geforce card itself?

Who's started the pool for how long it takes for Windows 11 and Gnome to "be inspired" by the new Ventura features?

Oooh numbers! Here's some...
In perfect contiditions:
Safe stopping distance from 60mph on most cars is roughly 250ft
Average headlight coverage for most cars is 180ft
60mph works out to 88fps.
Unless there's supplemental light, at 60mph you can't react to something coming into your view with enough time to safely react. Same kinds of problems if the road is curving and you can't see around it. 90% of drivers can't math to save their lives, or have any real sense of how those kinds of risks affect them or anyone else on the road, which is why we have speed limits in the first place.

If people don't like the speed limit, they should legislate better ones. The problem with chronic speeding is it leads to lax enforcement when people are driving stupidly/dangerously. Calibrate sane speed limits, enforce them when they're actually broken, and make the fines progressive so they're more than a nuisance tax to wealthy drivers who currently treat them as an expense for driving however they want.