5. Multitasking = probably takes a bit more powerful hardware, costing more
Phones and tablets have supported rudimentary multitasking from the beginning. Some 15 years ago both iOS and Android introduced features to keep multiple apps active and running even if they weren't displaying anything. Split screening multiple apps were introduced on Android 7.0 in 2016.
There's nothing in the hardware preventing this. By the way iPadOS 26 introduced a full window manager.
It does what Apple wants it to do.
Yep, that is unrealised potential. Apple being the limiting factor is what the entire story is about.
No a recession is a decline in the economy. You can cut one industry without going into a recession in a country. But yeah China has in part produced less steel and cement. Now do you want to discuss the everloving fuckton of solar, wind, and storage they are building out along with the fact that there are nearly 40million EVs on Chinese roads compared to close to zero in 2014?
But yes one must focus on cement and steel and ignore the words "in part"
And yet the results of the analysis align nicely with the amount of green energy they have brought online. It also is an analysis of all CCP statistics, the same statistics that had no problem pointing out emissions were rising in the past.
I don't know what your point is. Do you have any real criticism other than an ad hominem attack?
the co2 emissions continue to be emitted the SMOG proves that.
CO2 and smog are not related to each other. That much is evident at home where places like LA have *increased* CO2 emissions while eliminated the thick smog that used to blanket the city.
By the way China's air pollution in urban centres peaked back in 2006 but stayed steady for a few years after that while their CO2 emissions skyrocketted. However along with their greening ambitions they launched in a decade ago they also launched a clean air policy, and all pollution metrics have nearly halved in the past decade which is a HUGE DECLINE compared to their emissions.
'Per the 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy, over the past 15 years, the U.S. has experienced the largest decline in carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of any country.
There's lies, damn lies, and statistics. This one falls in the latter. The USA has a wonderful combination of a horrendous starting point, and a large population to distribute the problem across.
Absolute:
They've gone from 5.25bn to 4.62bn tonnes. Kudos. But let's compare them with say a comparable chunk of the western emitters: Europe went from 4.22bn to 3.52bn, bugger they loose to western peers on a similar scale. It's easy to claim wins in absolute emission reduction when you're such a big emitter. But wait, why not look at it in different ways...
Percent change:
The USA has had a -1.3% change in average annual emissions over the past decade. That places them 25th on the list of countries sorted by emission reduction percentage.
Pollution percentage of total:
The USA currently generates 13% of global emissions. That's a lot for a country which represents 4.2% of the population.
Maybe if the USA wasn't one of the abysmal countries who increased natural gas flaring emissions:
0.7% increase average per annum (even China has a -0.6% / annum) is horrendous for emissions that are tired directly to waste due to piss poor regulations and not tied into energy production or consumption.
Anyway not to shit on the USA completely their efforts have meant they are now only the 3rd worst emitter per capita in the west. They have successfully beaten out Canada and Australia. They are still miles ahead of every other western country without a rounding error of a population, but hey you can blame Canada and Australia now.
By the way Per the 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy, the USA achieved close to fuck all reductions last year. They did have a good effort in 2023 I'll give them that though. But I sincerely hope you're not on the start of a trend, but given El Presidente's Drill baby Drill mandate combined with scrapping anything with green in the name, I suspect people will be focused on the 2023 review of world energy like a 50 year old woman is focused on celebrating her 35th birthday for the 15th time.
They could've instead named this thing "Wut is sequential access and why is it bad!?!?"
Wait if it is CVE Slop why not just label WONTFIX and move on? Something doesn't add up here.
The very first paragraph (or VERY FIRST PARAGRAPH) of that reports reads as follows:
“ China’s transport CO2 emissions accounted for 11% of the world’s transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, following only the United States (21%), according to data from Climate Watch. And these numbers have been growing rapidly: The average annual growth rate of China’s transport CO2 emissions 2012- 2019 was 4%, the second-fastest growth rate among the 10 countries producing the most transport emissions in 2019, following only India’s 5%.”
Now, why don’t you explain how this paragraph “ outlines how the numbers we are being given CANNOT be real.
EU here... Housing in the city is so expensive that minorities can't find a home there. Hope that helps.
So they end up living in slums. Cities have slums we just don't like to think about them. Occasionally right wing media will talk about them because there's a lot of Filth and crime like you would expect when everybody is dirt poor and being abused. Although honestly they don't even really bother with that anymore because they found they can just make shit up about actual nice cities and right-wing idiots will believe literally anything.
I mean they had a guy on Fox News pretending to be antifa who literally is the same guy who was pretending to be a violent black lives matter protester a few years ago. That is the level we are at people.
The hilarious thing is that the suburbs aren't sustainable. Even though people in the inner city make very little money and get treated like shit there's a lot of them because of how well, population density works and so the poor people in the inner cities subsidize the well-to-do people in the suburbs. Without the subsidies the suburbs can't pay for their roads in schools and cops.
It's basically an elaborate way to keep some form of slavery going even though we're not technically allowed to do that anymore. But again it's not sustainable because we are gradually breaking down the economy so much that there just isn't enough money to go around anymore. Capitalism is being dismantled in favor of a weird feudal system that benefits the very very top 10,000 or so people on the planet
% "Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work" -- Robert Orben